It is fun for the youngest ones among us to throw a gnome party for their birthday, so invite your friends for a hearty game of gnome fun.
Gnome sweets and drinks
Gnome nibbles:
Find nice pictures of the gnome Plop and his friends on the internet and print them out. Stick them on the front of bags of chips to make real gnome nibbles.
Mushroom cakes:
Bake a pile of small cakes (or buy them at the store) and cover the top with red icing. Take some white marzipan and make a sturdy thin roll from it, cut thin slices from the roll and spread them on the top of the cake on the icing. These are the ,dots, of the mushroom, if you are a little creative you can also make a chimney on the mushrooms with a little marzipan and some icing.
Gnome tea:
Mix 200 ml apple juice, 1 liter of water and three tablespoons of strawberry jam (or another flavor) together in a large jug and place the jug in the refrigerator to cool. Now cut one and a half oranges and one lemon into thin segments and place them in the freezer until the fruit is frozen. Add the fruit to the jug about 5-10 minutes before serving and stir everything together well again.
Popping milk:
No gnome party without pop milk, this one is actually the easiest of them all. Get chocolate milk, strawberry or raspberry milk and shake it in glass jugs. Voila, pop milk.
Decoration:
Celebrationbox.nl is a site where you can order fun items for birthday parties, in all possible themes. This is how you complete a children’s party. Some of the things they have in the gnome plop range are:
- Plates
- Cups
- Napkins
- Tablecloth
- Treat bags
- Balloons
- Party invitations
- Hats (set of 8)
- Rollers
- Flag line
- Letter garland ,hip hip hooray,
- Craft set
- Garland
- Hanging decoration ‘dancing’ Gnome Plop
- Gnome Plop Straws
- Specifications
- Bubble blowing
Of course you can also get started with your craft supplies and decorate the house as creatively as possible. Cover red balloons with white dots and turn the table and chairs into real gnome forest furniture with green paper. If the birthday falls in or around autumn, you can look for pine cones and acorns to decorate the room even more lively.
Face painting
Give each child red gnome cheeks, you can also make gnome hats so that they get into the mood.
Bake pop cakes.
Prepare a large amount of shortbread dough before the party, and when the little ones are there you can give them plastic molds to make their own shortbread cookies. All you have to do is bake this and you can enjoy it together later or let everyone take it home for themselves. This is the recipe for shortbread cookies.
Ingredients:
- 300 grams of flour
- 200 grams of butter
- 150 grams of caster sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
Preparation method:
Place all ingredients in one large bowl and knead by hand into a smooth dough ball, let it rest in a cool place for half an hour. To cut out cookies, use a rolling pin to roll out the dough on a floured surface into a thin sheet of dough, about the thickness of two euros on top of each other. Preheat the oven to 145 °C and place the cut out cookies on a floured baking tray. Bake the cookies in the middle of the oven for about 10 minutes until light brown and done, then carefully remove them from the baking tray with a spatula or flat knife and let them cool flat on the table. As long as the cookies are still warm, you can change their shape if you wish.
Gnome dancing
And don’t forget the music, gnomes and ploppers love to dance and there are a lot of gnome plop songs. Collect as many songs as possible and dance, sing and jump together with the well-known pop songs such as the gnome dance. This goes as follows:
- Spin around once.
- Stamp your feet on the ground.
- Wave your arms in the air.
- Now sit down with a sigh.
- Now step around like a goose.
There are many more fun dances to discover in the songs such as ,the goose pass, or ,gnome polonaise, . Or come up with a dance to one of the other songs with the children. But you can also transform the age-old ,chair dancing, into a mushroom dance. Instead of the well-known ,poke your ass, you can make a gnome face where they have to prick the nose or beard in the right place, with a blindfold of course.
Making mushrooms
Collect a number of empty toilet paper rolls and cover them with white paper, this will become the stem of the mushroom. Draw circles on red cardboard and cut them in half. Make the ,roofs, of the mushroom from this, stick white dots on it to finish and you have a mushroom.