Frozen Ice Skating Party

My youngest daughter, whose birthday happens to fall right after Christmas, wanted to go ice skating for her birthday.  We were lucky enough to stumble across a Groupon deal for a local ice rink for a group of 10 skaters - just enough for our crew, plus the cousins and a few friends. 

Since we were going to have kids there other than just family, I decided we'd do a few treat bags.  And, since the girls had just seen the movie Frozen, and we were ice skating, going with a Frozen theme seemed appropriate.

Since we were going to be doing a physical activity away from home, I thought the kids would probably like some bottles of water.

So, how do you make plain old bottled water interesting to a group of 8 year olds?  Why you give them melted snowflakes, of course! I printed the labels from this blog.    She also has lots of ideas for ice skating party favors and activities.

The next thing we did was make the treat bags. I let the Birthday Girl help decide what went into the bags. She opted for: hot chocolate mix, chocolate covered spoons, lip balm, gloves, and a snack.

Here is where I found all the Frozen printables.  They are free, although it does ask you to "check out."

For the chocolate spoons, we simply used chocolate melts and sprinkles.  Super easy!

All that was left was the birthday cake.  And sense we were having to travel, Birthday Girl decided on snowmen cupcakes.But I wasn't sure how to travel with the cupcakes and have the survive to the destination. 

After some brainstorming, we decided to try the "frost cupcakes with a melted marshmellow" approach. All you do is take a large marshmellow, eat a few of them for quality control purposes, then top each cupcake with one of their own in the last 5 minutes or so of baking.  They puff up pretty big so be prepared for that.  They will flatten out once you take them from the oven and they cool.

 

We used some chocolate chips for the mouth, a caramel piece for the nose and some pearls for the eyes.

 

We had a great time ice skating and didn't suffer any major casualties.  Here's to hoping you don't stay frozen in this wild winter weather we're having!