Jack and Charlie’s Peanuts Party!

Last weekend we celebrated Jack and Charlie’s birthdays, Peanuts style!

Here is the invitation we sent out. Front:

and Back:

Earlier in the week I made the boys some shirts with freezer paper stencils and black fabric paint.

Charlie Brown for Jack

and Linus for Charlie. I decided to go with a little piece of light blue jersey knit in the pocket rather than trying to get him to carry around a blankie.

I bought Josh a Snoopy snowsuit on Ebay (for .99 woot!). Unfortunately, it was almost 80 degrees the day of the party. Oh well- maybe it will be cold at Halloween! So instead I made a hood out of some white jersey, and attached knit ears and a pom pom nose. I sewed the hood into a white onesie. Then I attached felt “paws” to the bottom of white booties and made him some pants out of the fabric I use for my dress…

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which I made using a pattern/tutorial from Running with Scissors.

I even painted my nails to match the occasion. Mike did the zigzags on the right hand.

With lots of ideas from Pinterest, I put together a table of snack foods and goodies. I made and printed little signs from a chevron pattern and a speech bubble.

Sally’s Snack Mix and Snoopy’s Puppy Chow in a (new! clean!) dogbowl

Cupcakes a la Peanuts

“A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving” Popcorn in Peanuts comic snack cones

“Peppermint Patties” (hee hee)

The Great Pumpkin Cookies

The Doctor is In Dip, Lucy’s I Promise Chips and Pigpin’s Piggies (Lil Smokies)

Christmas Time is Here Cider

Spike’s Cactus Water and Lucy’s Lemonade (and Advice)

The décor was pretty simple… first the Charlie Brown stripe food table. The drinks were on my kitchen hutch, with red tablecloths draped to look like Lucy’s Lemonade/ Psychiatry Stand. Forgot to get a picture of that, though!

Treat bags were red paper bags that I glued a Snoopy house top onto for kids to decorate as an activity.

The decoration station

Outside we had a Project Linus table where kids could decorate squares to create a blanket.

In the backyard was also a “football kick” (basically a bunch of toddlers running around with a football)

and lots of swinging.

And now for some shots of the action!