Disney FROZEN Winter Party

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Have you seen the new Disney movie, FROZEN, yet? We all loved it and know it will be a classic for years to come! I thought it was the right balance of girl power, sisterly love, and some romance, too. Anyway, besides the music and characters, one of my favorite things about the movie is the magical, beautiful icy wonderland that they animated. It is perfect for this time of year and was the inspiration for this FROZEN-themed party we threw for some of our friends last week. It was a more of a fun wintry Christmas Party than a birthday party, but this post should give you lots of ideas for the FROZEN birthday parties you will throw in the future, because I guarantee, there will be lots of requests for them!

Our journey into FROZEN territory began at Walmart, where we shopped for FROZEN merchandise, both to add to the ambience of our party and to give as favors to our guests. There are some fun, easy-to-find displays in the stores now.I also found lots of other products and paper supplies there to put our fete together.

I decided the stars of the show needed to be the stars of my dessert table, so I got these Anna and Elsa dolls in their ball gowns (The skirts reveal patterns when dampened with accompanying applicator). I also got lots of other books and merchandise to give as favors to our guests (more on that in a minute).

Elsa’s Winter Wonderland

The main focal point of the party was the icy dessert table I designed to try and capture the magic of the winter wonderland Elsa creates in the movie.

I wanted the table to glow so I used lots of lights, like the icicle lights I hung from the front of the table and especially the blue lights (both found at Walmart) I hung in the background to give the effect of The Aurora Borealis that you can see in the movies. In order to do this I had to diffuse the lights quite a bit. I used a couple of my friend’s grey curtain sheers over the top of the lights and in front of that, I used an inexpensive clear plastic shower curtain. It looked a bit like a sheet of ice. I staged the table in front of our sliding glass door so as it got dark outside, the lights really shone. 

I found this blue shimmery fabric I fell in love with at Walmart because it reminded me so much of Elsa’s cape when she is creating her ice castle. I draped it like her cape down the center of the table.

I actually tried to figure out a way to get a real ice sculpture or rather, and ice castle frozen from a mold, but between the lack of a mold and the warmth of Phoenix, the icy ice castle was not meant to be. Still, I created an icy looking edifice without the freezing temperatures. It may not be quite as magnificent as the palace Elsa builds, but it gave the effect we were going for on the table. I just made it from a glass block, a styrofoam cone, icicle ornaments, and hot glue.

The other DIY I did for the table was to create this frosty-looking version of the letters of the FROZEN logo.

I found a logo on-line and enlarged it and printed it out. Of course, the resolution wasn’t good, but it didn’t matter much when I covered all of the letters in hot glue and then cut them out.

I used this lighted branch to resemble the glowing willow branches in the movie.

I also had snowflakes hung against the backdrop and these giant ones hanging from the railing led our guests into the party area.

On the table were a variety of white desserts.

The snowballs were supposed to be powdered donut holes, but I could only find mini-donuts. The snowflake pretzels were perfect for the theme. Anna is hanging out by some Scandinavian chocolates (Remember that part in the movie?). And I found some snowman-shaped marshmallows to serve as Olaf’s friends.

The frosty, sparkly plates, snowflake napkins and cube cups were all from Walmart. I don’t know how I ended up with out a picture, but the cups held “Sven’s Carrots” with dressing in the bottom all served on a tray of ice.

Scandinavian Feast and Frozen Food

This would be a great party for my 6-year-old daughter and her friends but they have had a lot of great parties lately and we decided that since we all loved this movie it would be most fun to invite families of friends so we could all enjoy the event. Since we had adults and kids we chose food that would appeal to both. The inspiration for the setting of FROZEN is Scandinavia (specifically Norway) so we prepared some food that might be found in that part of the world, in addition to the fun desserts and food mentioned in the movie like the chocolate and carrots.

We served Swedish meatballs, mini potatoes, gravy and sauce. Fishing is really important in that part of that world so I had BSB whip up some appetizers out of smoked salmon.

These were really yummy! Little slices of baguette topped with cream cheese and smoked salmon. He made one variety with lingonberry jam, another with capers, and a 3rd that was more of a typical bruschetta with the addition of the salmon and topped with melted mozzarella cheese. We served hot cocoa with the warm foods, as well.

I made snowflake food tags and used the snowflake napkin rings to hold them in place.

So I hope Olaf wasn’t offended that we were drinking him. 🙂

Do You Want to Build a Snowman?

After eating, we made our own marshmallow Olafs.

To make Olaf out of marshmallows I got three different sizes of marshmallows. Minis for the feet, jumbo for the body, normal-sized for the upper body, and for the head, I cut the jumbo marshmallows in half.

I used melted white chocolate and toothpicks to hold the marshmallows together (and for the arms). Black round sprinkles for the eyes, chocolate chips for the buttons. And I found the Jelly Belly candies shaped like carrots that made perfect noses. (Update! You can purchase Jelly Belly Carrots here). I had a couple of edible ink pens for drawing details on the faces.

It was so fun to watch the kids come up with their creations.

FROZEN Elephant {Reindeer?} Game

Since this party was at Christmastime and there were so many fun FROZEN goodies I wanted to share, we had a “FROZEN elephant” gift game. I wrapped up enough gifts for each family to have one and then we drew numbers to see which family would choose first. They could open a new gift or steal one from someone else. We had a lot of fun doing this. Most of the kids didn’t want to steal, but I will say, the Olaf toy was probably the favorite.

Everyone had a blast and loved their presents!

I’d love to hear if you end up throwing a FROZEN party of your own!

UPDATE: I’m now sharing printables from this party! Click here!

To see the cute FROZEN party my sister threw for her daughter click here!