Free Thank You Cards For Kids

The holidays are over and now it's time to start thinking about sending those thank you cards out. Here's a round up of some free printables perfect for kids after Christmas and birthdays. I'm sure you'll love them so much you'll put them to good use:

Fill in the blank cards from Little Blue Boo

Fill In The Blanks Postcards from Like A Pretty Petunia

Fill In The Blanks cards from A Little Grace & Mercy

Color your own Thank You cards from Fisher Price

Fill In The Blanks cards from Skip To My Lou

Christmas Fill In The Blank Thank Yous from In Between Laundry

Thank You Card from Positively Splendid via Somewhat Simple

Doodle Coloring Thank You Cards from Givers Log

Moustache Bash: The Costumes

I recently threw a Moustache Bash joint birthday party for my son and partner. Today I'm excited to share the "costumes" from our party!

Honestly, you can't have a Moustache bash without moustaches right? I bought some stick on moustaches that I found on Ebay and handed them out to our guests when they arrived. These were more than I wanted to spend ($16 for 24) but I didn't have time to order from overseas and wait patiently hoping they would arrive. However, considering the rest of the costumes were made of things we already had on hand and were therefore free, they didn't break our budget.

I provided some moustaches on a stick that I had made for the guests who didn't want the stick on kind. They were super easy to make and if you want to make your own you can download the free template from The Inspired Bride.

Face paint was provided to draw moustaches on the toddlers which they LOVED! I also let K draw a moustache on me. It looked silly but he really liked that he got to draw a moustache on mommy. Here's a photo with us and my mom who came all the way from Canada to help us celebrate.

I thought that a moustache theme seemed very grown up for a toddler party so, to balance it out I added ties to the 'costumes'. My son wore a tie t-shirt which we had specially made for the occasion.

I provided tie napkins to all of our guests. They were made by cutting tie shapes out of free printable scrapbook paper and then glueing them onto the napkins. The napkins could be tucked into the top of everyones shirt and also served double duty as toddler "bibs" when cupcakes were served.

Although the napkins and moustaches were a bit time consuming to make they definitely set the theme of the party and gave everyone a good giggle. Here's photos of some of our guests:

Too cute hey? If only I had the camera out and managed to get a photo of everyone! 


If you missed the previous posts of our moustache bash you can read all about the invitation HERE and the decor HERE. I'll be sharing more details of our party in the weeks to come.

Hope the men in your life are rocking the 'stache for Movember!

Moustache Bash: The Decor

Last week I showed you the Invitation for my son and partners Moustache Bash birthday party. Today I am going to show you some of the details that made it a hit!

We live in a small townhouse so having the party at our house was not an option. We had the party at a park near our house that we loved and was perfect for both toddlers and adults to enjoy.  I was very stressed prior to the party worrying that we wouldn't get a covered picnic table so we got to the park  at seven-thirty in the morning and luckily got the last available table. I was also worried about the weather because it was cold and rainy the day before and was forecasted to be quite windy but it turned out to be an absolutely beautiful sunny day. Luck was definitely on our side!


Shuttling people and stuff back and forth from home to the park ment that I didn't have enough time to take photos of everything and eventually just forgot. Next year I will definitely be better prepared and pass the photography stuff onto someone else. 


Anyways, without further adu, here is the decor from our party:

I hung up clusters of red, blue and white balloons on the pillars and then hung string between them. I then attached ties with pegs and cut outs of the numbers two and thirty. Can you believe that we were able to find all of these ties at S's parents house?

The table was covered in an aqua table cloth and red with white polka dotted wrapping paper as the table runner. Both were purchased from the dollar store for two dollars a piece.

I drew moustaches on the cups with a sharpie and attached paper moustaches to red and blue straws. The moustache template was a freebie from The Inspired Bride that I shrunk to fit and the straws and cups were also purchased from the dollar store.

Clear cutlery was rolled in blue napkins and tied in red ribbon.

I attached blue ribbon around the edges of my white cardboard cupcake stand to match the table. I already had a left over birthday hat from last year so I printed some paper that I designed to match the color scheme and glued it over the existing hat. I made the pom pom from left over felt that I already had and attached it to the hat using a glue gun. It was easy to make, free and looked awesome on the top of my cupcake stand!

I framed printable signs that I found from The Hostess Blog and placed them on the table near the food and beverages. I thought they added a nice touch and were perfect considering they matched our colours.

I also framed a photo of different kinds of moustaches that I found from Made In England which also matched our color scheme and people thought was super cute.

The decor really did look amazing and overall was very cheap because it was all things I had around the house already or that I had made on my own. The day was a hit and the many hours spent planning and preparing for this party were definitely worth it, even without much photo evidence :)


In the coming weeks I'll be sharing the costumes, menu and budget, party favors and games.