The year 6 dinner was a few weeks ago, and I'm finally sharing the photos of the school hall that we decorated for the kids. You've probably guessed by now, the theme was CIRCUS.
It was such a great theme to work with, full of colour and happiness for the kids. I had SO much fun working with this theme. I started with the colour scheme; blue, red, yellow, purple, green and orange. Anything that went into the decorations were kept to these colours, which worked to give an overall look to the hall.
The whole dinner event was certainly a group effort with lots of our year 6 parents helping out in many, many ways to bring the whole evening together.
So here's an overview of the evening in photos....
Here is the hall all decorated waiting for the kids to arrive.
Another mum (who was was so much fun to work with) and I made all the bunting for the ceiling space. We sewed triangles of cardboard onto ribbon. These lengths of bunting were then hung from the centre of the hall out to the walls to create the feeling of the inside of a circus tent.
I love the coloured paper lanterns which can be purchased in many stores at the moment. I used them to "flood" the ceiling to hide the centre of the ceiling space where all the bunting and fairy lights were tied.
The walls of the hall were covered with coloured fabric, and a large bunting was hung around the edge to form a border.
Banners and circus go so well together. This big banner was hung on the stage so it could be seen from the hall.
The hall stage with the "farewell banner", the cake stand with cupcakes and a lollies stand (made from a polling booth).
The cupcakes were gorgeous and delicious, made and decorated by a talented group of year 6 mums.
Side show alley filled one corner of the hall. Each "side show alley" attraction is made from a cardboard polling booth.
Laughing clowns made from polystyrene heads. One of the very artistic year 6 students painted the clown faces for us.
Bendy mirrors. I was able to buy two sheets of bendy (perspex) mirror from Reverse Garbage. A year 6 dad took on the task of making the frames for these mirrors. They looked so fantastic and filled another corner of the hall.
The "class of 2010" photo wall. Each child had a photo mounted onto a balloon shape on the wall.
These silhouette carousel horses were on loan to us from Myer Chatswood. I was walking through the shopping centre back in October (obviously the start of spring carnival racing), and these horses were on display in one of Myer's windows. We were very lucky to be able to borrow them for our evening. The horses fitted the theme perfectly, and filled a few large spaces in the hall.
Outside we had a "ticket booth" also made from a polling booth, and lots of balloons.
There was a clown and two stilt-walkers entertaining the kids outside before they entered the dinner.
The night went really well, it seems as though the kids and teachers enjoyed their night at the circus. Another mum was the coordinator for all the food served to the children and teachers. They enjoyed sausages in rolls, corn on a stick, fruit and marshmallow sticks and ice-creams. A popcorn-making machine was hired for the evening which, apart from spreading the smell of freshly popped corn across the playground, gave the kids a snack while they were gathering in the playground prior to the dinner.
To finish off this post I need to include a photo of my gorgeous girls. Big sis with little sis (who isn't that little anymore). I think they might be the same height now. Phoebe looked beautiful going to her dinner.
Thankfully one of the dads at the dinner snapped a photo of Phoebe with mum and dad at the end of the evening....
Well, that's about all for this post. Thanks for visiting.
Cheers
Fiona
