Our Awesome Sarah & Duck Birthday Party

Isabelle’s favorite television show is Sarah & Duck! Quack!  She has loved this show since it aired back in 2013 (in the US)!   If you are a parent or grandparent of small children, you know all the kid’s tv shows, characters, theme songs, and stories.  We love Sarah & Duck- the creativity and problem-solving.

I asked her about four or five months ago, what kind of birthday party she wanted, she said: “I want a Sarah & Duck Party.”  You might be thinking 4 or 5 months ago?  Seriously the time goes by quick as a mom of two and I am in grad school.  Since then, she has told everyone, and I mean everyone about her party.  We are talking about the cashiers at the grocery store, church, MOPs, servers at restaurants, and heck random people in the bathroom.

Well, I looked online for inspiration and found nothing! What was I going to do!  I found toys of Sarah & Duck, but she honestly has enough toys.  I found that CBeebies Magazine, from the UK,  made a Sarah & Duck edition with the Same Bread card game and figures of Sarah and Duck.  I went onto the UK site of eBay and found it!  I emailed the seller if they would ship to the US and saying that I had no problem paying for the shipping and they said “Yes!”.  I was so happy!  The figures of Sarah & Duck would be for her cake as I wasn’t going to try to make little figures out of gum paste or fondant…time consuming and money.

Then Sarah & Duck went to Twitter stating that they just made a duvet cover and pillowcase.  I told my husband about it, and he said that this would be her birthday gift.  I found a company that shipped to the US and bought one for her, right before they sold out! Now you know the months of planning!

SAME BREAD CARD GAME

After I received the magazine from the eBay seller in the UK, I quickly opened it up and saw the Same Bread Card Game was very small.  I went to Staples to have them enlarged, laminated and copied so that I would have 40 cards instead of 20.  IF you don’t know same bread-its kinda like slapjack (watch the episode of “The Big Sleepover”).

DECORATIONS

Some of our favorite episodes from Sarah & Duck is called “Fireworks Dance” and “Stargazing.”  I bought a few rolls of blue wrapping paper and hung up the sheets using blue painter’s tape.   After the paper was hung, I painted “The Dozing Donkey” and wrote out Happy Birthday Isabelle using white paint.  From Gabriella’s Magic Kingdom Birthday Party I saved the tinsel pipe cleaners fireworks.  For Moon, I bought this white paper lantern (affiliate link), and I drew on his eyes, mouth, and arms using a black marker.  Sarah also has some shallot friends simply called the Shallots (say it with a British accent)- I bought four shallots and drew their faces on with a black marker.

For the buffet table, I used a roll of brown paper and a plastic green tablecloth as the backdrop.  Since we were serving various meats and cheeses, I wrote directly on the paper and labeled all the different foods.

For the cake table, I used a cake pedestal to elevate her cake and fluffed and an ivory plastic tablecloth around it.

Since Sarah & Duck is a kids tv show, we download 2 hours of it and continuously played it in the living room so everyone could see the show (Thanks, Mom and Dad).

THE MENU

Assorted Meats

• Capicolla
• Soppresatta
• Mortadella
• Black Forest Ham
• Roasted Turkey

Assorted Cheeses

• Obatzer (Bavarian Cheese Spread)
• Provolone
• Swiss
• Cheddar
• Cambozola

Fresh Bread

Italian Garden Vegetable Quinoa Salad

Macaroni and Cheese

Roasted Chicken

Drinks

• Sangria
• Beer
• Lemon Water (Lemonade) -this is Sarah’s favorite drink

THE CAKE

Isabelle asked for a lemon poppyseed cake, and I added a raspberry cream cheese buttercream to top it all off.  Sarah & Duck go to the park just about every day, hence the pond.  They also have Rainbow that will sometimes appear on the show.  This small rainbow is a small piñata I found a Target for only $3!!!

ISABELLE’S REACTION

Isabelle loved her party!  As I was getting things ready that day and the day before, she kept saying thank you to me and “This is the best birthday ever!  Thank you, Mama, I love it!”  It melts my heart every time- these are special MOMents and times.

Thanks for joining us!

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