Purple Sky Publishing sent me a copy of a beautiful new children’s book called Unicorn Races by Stephen J. Brooks. Actually they were kind enough to send me two autographed copies, so I could give one copy away here!

Unicorn Races is a wonderful enchanting story with princesses, unicorns, and fairies. Abigail becomes a princes by night, and flies through the sky on the back of a unicorn to a fairy world. The story is every little girls dream. I love the illustrations they’re bright and sparkly (not sure if that’s really a word, but it’s the best way to describe this book). Children really enjoy bright beautiful pictures, and this book is full of them.

Here’s how you can enter to win an autographed copy of Unicorn Races:

To enter leave a comment on this post. You can also earn an additional entry by posting about this contest on your blog (if you post please let me know in the comment section).

Entries will be accepted until Sunday, March 9, 2008 at 11:59pm EST

Entries are open to residents of the U.S. and Canada.

The winner will be drawn from a random drawing.

Good luck to everyone!

If you can’t wait for the contest you can purchase your own copy of Unicorn Races at Amazon.

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Girly Girl Blog Designs (the wonderful person who designed the theme here at Kid’s Birthday Fun) is giving away a free premade Wordpress blog design, you have to hurry though entries close at midnight tonight (Feb 29th). All you have to do to enter is hop on over and leave a comment on the post. Good luck!

I have my own giveway coming later tonight, stay tuned for more details!

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I usually post these on Fridays, but here are a couple giveaways for an early start to the weekend. Good luck!

Casual Keystrokes is giving away Barbie and Hotwheels magazine subscriptions. Leave a comment on the post by Sunday March 9th to enter.

Pennies in My Pocket is giving away Prima Princessa Presents Swan Lake on DVD. This looks really cute! Check out the detais to enter. Entries close March 9th.

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Little girls (and boys) love to play dress up, and it’s a fun party activity that fits into many party themes. You don’t have to purchase expensive outfits to let the kids have a great time playing dress up.

Here are a couple tips for having fun dress up activities at your party without breaking the bank:

1. Accessorize! It’s all about the accessories right? Get some bright colored boas, shoes, gloves, hats, and costume jewelry. They’ll have just as much fun trying on accessories as they would the whole outfits.

2. Check out some local garage sales or thrift shops. You can usually find gently used party dresses, costumes, and fun outfits at bargain prices.

3. Make your own, or better yet let the kids make their own costumes, or accessories at the party. It can be a lot of fun. Oriental Trading Company, Inc. has a bunch of fun kits you can purchase to make your own accessories. They have magic wands, pirate hats, princess crowns, and much more.

4. Don’t forget to raid your own closet, and your friends closet. Go through the closets to see what you can find from fun shoes, to scarves, think of the clothes from a kids point of view. Throw in anything that looks like fun. Scarves make great superhero capes, and my son loves to wear anyone’s shoes but his own around the house.

Let the kids dress up and show off their creations, or act out a skit. They’ll have a ton of fun, and create some great memories. Don’t forget to capture a few shots on camera, or video.

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Here’s a video tutorial to help you and your party guests learn a dance for the Hannah Montana song “See You Again.” It would be fun for a group of kids to learn for a Hannah Montana birthday party activity.

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I’ve been looking forward to the premiere of Horton Hears a Who on March 14th. When I was checking through Birthday Express today I saw the new Horton Hears A Who Party Supplies. New party themes get me excited (so do new animated movies), I think it’s the kid in me.

I wasn’t going to do any theme posts for a while since I’ve done several lately, but I couldn’t resist showing you the new Horton party stuff, it’s too cute, so here it is. Have a great weekend!

Here’s the Horton Hears a Who movie trailer if you want to check it out.

More Horton Hears a Who Party Ideas

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Hope you all have a great weekend! It finally stopped snowing here, so the weekend is looking good. Here are some fun links for you to check out.

Giveaways:

MomGadget is giving away a copy of Kindergarten Super Scholar Software. Leave a comment on the post for a chance to win. Enter before February 28th.

Pennies in My Pocket is giving away a $25 Gift Certificate for Little Piddles, just leave a comment on the post by February 29th to win

Fun Cake Ideas:

Fun Crafts and Recipes has Amish Funnel Cakes

Keeping the Castle has a really cute Dinosaur Cake

HGTV has Terra Cotta Cake Centerpieces

Party Themes:

Seasonal Kid’s Activities has Leap Year Party Ideas

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The new Party Like A Rock Star Party Supplies from Birthday Express is such a great theme for tween boys and girls who are into their music. It’s so hard to find party supplies for this age group, they’ve outgrown the character parties, and they may not always be into sports. This gives another fun alternative.

If your tween is into their mp3 player, loves Guitar Hero, or Rockband this is a great party theme to use. You can add to the theme by making cardboard guitar decorations, or music notes. Either one would also work great for cake decorations to match the Rock Star theme.

The older kids would have a good time playing their favorite game, or rocking out with a karaoke machine for entertainment. It would also be a great contrasting theme for a Hannah Montana, or High School Musical Party, where there will be both girls and boys.

More rock star birthday ideas and supplies.

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Here is my favorite icing recipe for decorating cakes, cookies, or cupcakes.

I got this recipe from my sister, and I’ve had great luck with it.

Ingredients:
1/2 cup butter (softened but not melted)
1/2 cup shortening
4 cups powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
pinch of salt
5-6 tablespoons of warm water

Cream the butter and shortening together until smooth, add the vanilla. Dissolve the salt into the warm water completely. Mix the water/salt mixture into the creamed butter and shortening. Put the mixer on low, and add powdered sugar slowly, mixing constantly.

The amount of water can be increased or decreased to achieve the desired consistency, I usually have the best luck with 6 tablespoons.

Add food coloring to make the color you need, and ice away.

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I absolutely adore the new Glamour Cats Party Supplies at Celebrate Express. They’re soooooo cute! This theme would go really well with the paw print cake I posted about the other day. Just tweak the colors a little and the whole set up would be just adorable.

More cat or kitten birthday party supplies and ideas.

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