Octopus Party

One day, while sitting in Relief Society (a Sunday school class ) with my friend Emily, we were trying to think up some really random activities or ideas for fun party games. 

"An octopus party!" she whispered excitedly

I gasped in agreement, "we could have slippery, sunctiony, watery, purply, octopi games!"

"everyone could wear eight legs!"

"we could eat gold fish!"

our conversation was cut short when the lesson started, but i planned out an octopus party on the back of the program. emily left to school before i could have an octopus party with her, but i still really wanted to have one! So i invited a few friends over for fun.

the decorations looked a LOT cooler in person! i for got to take pictures while i was setting up, and by this point in the day, half of the streamers that were water had floated the the ground. and half of the seaweed wall had fallen down too. I promise it looked oceany in real life, guys!

we blew up ivory soap in the microwave to make "sea coral" and we tried dying them with food coloring but that wasn't effective, and the soap didn't expand nearly as much as i thought it would, so we gave up on making a coral wall because there wasn't enough...

We had lots of fun snacks! but no meal...because i forgot to plan one...

I tried to plan this game where you shove balloons into pantyhose to make octopus tentacles...but I blew up the balloons too big and the panty hose were only knee highs so they only fit like one balloon. and then Dominic and Oscar just ended up putting them on their heads...

 We tried making octopus slime! but it wasn't nearly as fun to watch as i thought it would be. It actually really grossed out Jessica. and the whole thing was messy and it got EVERYwhere and on everything. it washes of skin just fine but uhmm not off clothes. or seashells. or tablecloths... and the recipe i copied off pinterest made a tiny atch so it was really only fun for the two people making it and i wish i had followed my gut and bought more clear glue!

Atleast our drawing game was funny to watch! they all had to draw a picture of me on top of their head. (the original subject was an ocean picture but they said that was too hard. haha.) the winners got cute little prizes.

the winners.

haha i love that i have like, Merida hair in both of these.

all the activities i planned only ended up taking about a half an hour all together. and i spent WAY too much money. and only four people showed up...

the whole party was a failure.

But i still had tons of fun! 

and i love these guys! I'll be missing them come September.

moral of the story:

all the decorations and cute snacks in the world couldn't make a good party.

fun comes from people, not from streamers or pretzels.

focus on people 

and laugh. do lots of that.