Sunshine Party Vases — Pink Glitter Pumpkins

Jul 22

Jul 22 Sunshine Party Vases

For Melody's second birthday, the theme was "You are my Sunshine". Even before we had to move to the party to Emily's house, I had planned for the party to be primarily inside with only a few things outside. I wanted to find some sort of decor to add throughout the party that would play up the theme but also be fairly inexpensive. I decided to make centerpieces/vases to fulfill this!

First off, all of the vases came from the Dollar Tree. I think they were about 8 inches tall or so. I actually used this same type of vase at our wedding for centerpieces, but I gave them all to my aunt to use for an event. So I did have to go buy more, but I was only out $10.

I wanted the vases to also be filled with something fairly cheap but added color. After Easter, I went to Walmart and found the pink Easter grass on clearance. They were 75% off. I bought about 5 bags, but only paid about $1.50 at most.

I wanted to continue to reuse the sun I designed for her invite, so I decided to make them the "center" of the centerpieces. I made them just as I did for the invites and cupcake toppers, but they were larger. I think they were about 5 inches in diameter. Then I bought wooden skewers from Walmart to attach them too.

The last element were the pinwheels. The pinwheels were probably the first thing I bought. I my mind they would be scattered everywhere, even outside. Of course with the move, that didn't happen, and now I have tons of pinwheels. However, the cheapest place I found them was Oriental Trading.

To assemble, I filled each vase with the pink grass. I tried to fill them without squishing them down. I wanted to make sure I had enough for all the vases.

Next I inserted the "2" sun. Be careful not to squish the grass to far when you insert the stick.

I then assembled the pinwheels (attached the stick to the pinwheel itself), then I placed two in the vase (one on each side of the sun). Again, be careful with the grass.