Frozen Fourth Birthday Party

Our youngest daughter recently turned four and requested a Frozen themed birthday. She loves Olaf and thinks it is the most hilarious thing on Earth how he loves summer. Here is how my kids and I created an easy and affordable birthday party to celebrate with her family and little friends. Hoping these ideas and printables may also be helpful and fun for your family! Many of these ideas could also be used for an after school activity or playdate in the winter… or summer as well!

Decorations:

My kids helped me to glue cotton balls onto clear fishing wire to create snow falling in our kitchen. They simply dipped jumbo cottons balls into clear glue (I just dumped it out onto paper plates for them) then they squeezed the cotton balls around the fishing wire, leaving some space in between. This is a great decoration to make with kids because they tend to create more random patterns which will end up looking more realistic. I also made a banner featuring one of the birthday girl’s favorite song from the movie. It is also a motto that I have learned to accept as a mother of four.

This file is best printed out onto white cardstock, cut, hole punched on top at two sides, and strung up with ribbon, yarn, or twine. We used white yarn. This was a very quick and inexpensive way to decorate our kitchen.

We pulled out our artificial tree that we purchased years ago on Christmas clearance and my kids helped me to decorate the tree with shades of blue and silver. We also made large scale snowflakes out of blue and white wrapping paper, adhering them to our wall with painter’s tape. This is also a very easy and pretty way to decorate for a winter wonderland themed party or Christmas.

We made a large ice castle using moving boxes. We cut six windows for each of our family member. My kids helped me to paint it all Caribbean blue. We then added some white foam snowflakes we found at the Dollar Tree. We also taped and painted on two Capri-Sun boxes to hold flowers at the base of two windows. Here is what the castle looked like before the paint. You want to use masking tape as it can be easily painted over.

I used a lot of Christmas decor that we already had like this icicle banner. More white balloons were blown up and just scattered around as more snow for kids to play with. I also used this opportunity to develop and display more pictures of my daughter. As the fourth child, she is quick to notice that she doesn’t have as many pictures as her older siblings.

We like to make larger than life wooden cutouts to coordinate with all of our party themes. They are made from 4 X 8 feet panels of particle board that are purchased from Home Depot. I use a projector to outline their images with a large Sharpie and my kids paint the rest. They are low cost, big impact decorations that my kids always enjoy helping me to make. Shown above is a happy Olaf we made years ago for big sister’s birthday. She also had a Frozen fourth birthday, with more of a focus on Elsa.

We also made Bruni, Grand Pabbie, and transformed a unicorn we painted from sister’s birthday into the Water Nok. They were each used as a party activity (see below) and doubled as fun photo props.

In the living room I hung white balloons from the ceiling using fishing wire to create more snow. More foam snowflakes from the Dollar Tree were hung on the wall with some double sided painter’s tape. I also made my daughter a birthday banner that is available here. I really enjoy creating banners for my kids. They are a vey inexpensive and quick way to help decorate a large space.

Party Activities:

I filled all our shelves up with the kids’ Frozen toys and books. I also added some of my daughter’s favorite open-ended toys and invited kids to make their own ice castles, sleighs, and snowflakes.

I laid out a table of crafts for the kids. Here is a picture of the birthday girl starting on everything before her guests arrive.

I made some personalized coloring pages for the birthday girl. They are available here. I make more personalized coloring pages for kids here.

I projected several pictures of Olaf onto large white poster board to create a coloring wall for the kids. Big sister added some of her own doodles to the posters for the birthday girl.

Here is the birthday girl working on giving Olaf a suntan along with rainbow teeth.

Here is sister starting to color the Snowgies.

Here is big sister dressed up as Elsa, adding more doodles.

The kids colored and decorated party crowns that I made and personalized with my daughter’s name and age. I just printed out a few designs onto white cardstock and included crayons, markers, glue, scissors, glitter glue, adhesive gems, and sequins for the kids to embellish, cut, assemble, and wear. I make more party hats here and crowns here and here.

The birthday girl helped me to paint a bunch of toilet paper rolls white and we set this activity up so her guests could make Olaf in the summer.

The craft template is free to download below and includes instructions and picture. One copy will be enough to make a dozen puppets providing you use additional construction paper.

Here is sister with the Olaf puppet she made. She chose to draw in his eyes instead of giving him sunglasses.

I found these beautiful snowflake tattoos and just laid them out on a table with some baby wipes as another easy activity for the kids. Temporary tattoos are always an inexpensive and fun addition to all my kids’ parties.

I found these snowflake Christmas ornaments at the Dollar Tree and hot glued them to wooden dowels to create simple wands for the kids to decorate. The birthday girl loves dancing around with wands so I knew a wand craft was a must. I just paired them with a tray filled with adhesive sequins, glitter glue, ribbons, and stickers for the kids to use.

I hot glued an orange soccer cone as Olaf’s nose to create this simple ring toss game.

My middle daughter painted Grand Pabbie but accidentally painted over the outlines of his nose so we turned this into a Pin the Nose on Pabbie game for the kids. I just cut a giant troll nose like shape out of brown paper grocery bags as the noses.

I used my projector to make a large Olaf face out of white poster board and propped two white laundry baskets to the wall as Olaf’s body. The kids tossed rolled up black socks as buttons into the baskets as another easy and fun activity.

I made another simple ring toss by projecting an image of Sven onto white poster board, outlining it with a sharpie and painting it with some brownish gray paint. I then inserted two pool noodles (that we had made as flying broomsticks for Halloween) into the slats of a chair to create antlers.

Here are my oldest two testing out this game.

My kids love photo props and I really enjoyed creating these for them. I made some printable Olaf noses that are available to download below. I also made a set of Frozen themed speech bubbles that is free to download below.

There are five speech bubbles that say: Let it go!, Some people are worth melting for!, The cold never bothered me anyway!, I’m just here for the sandwiches, and So Dang Fun! They made for such an easy and fun addition to our party.

We hosted a story time. Story time is always a low cost and welcomed addition to all of our kids’ parties. Daddy read a short story about Olaf’s wish to experience summer. Pictured above is the birthday girl who never tires of stories even when we’ve had a long day and it’s really late at night.

We laid out a simple invitation for kids to make and eat their own Olaf in the summer. The kids frosted some graham crackers with blue buttercream frosting as water and made their own Olaf out of various size marshmallows and chocolate chips. Thin pretzels were used for arms. The kids had a choice between candy eyeballs or mini chocolate chips for eyes and cut up orange flavored Starburst or candy corn as noses. I also laid out some more paper umbrellas for them to use to decorate.

Here is sister laughing at the Olaf she created.

We made a homemade pinata out of a moving box, some priority mailboxes (I like to save them when we get packages), some tissue paper, and crepe paper streamer. My kids helped me to tape and glue everything on. My kids always enjoy helping me to make these larger than life pinatas and filling them with their favorite candy.

Here is the birthday girl having a go at her pinata.

Outside, I added this image of Bruni, that my kids helped me to paint next to some of their play rakes as an invitation to rake leaves and just run around and play. It also created a nice backdrop for more photos.

The birthday girl helped me to dye some rice blue with some icing gel and lemon juice. We filled one water table with this colored rice, some scoopers, and small Frozen toys for some open ended play.

We filled another water table up with water and added a wooden cutout of the Water Nok next to it as another easy activity. The addition of little tea sets and wooden snowflakes purchased from the Dollar Tree, along with scooper, tongs, whisks, and flowers led to another easy and inexpensive invitation to play.

We also laid out some sidewalk chalk to invite kids to decorate more snowflakes as well as to complete the other half of some that I quickly drew.

Food:

We included the birthday girl’s favorite foods as well as a lot of homemade kid friendly favorites. My daughter loves mac and cheese and a good nacho bar.

We made chicken salad sandwiches. There was a huge pile but I forgot to take a proper photo before they were all devoured.

We served chicken pho and called it Pabbie’s Pho. My kids always enjoy helping me to come up with themed names for all of our party food. My parents also came and made their delicious fried rice and noodles which we called Royal Rice and Arendelle’s Special Noodles.

We served these delicious egg rolls that my family helped to roll. We just called them egg roll “wands” to add to the theme.

Growing up, my mom always fried shrimp chips to serve at all of my at home birthday parties, and I love continuing this tradition for my kids. They really enjoy these unique and delicious chips that almost dissolve on their tongues.

I used this recipe to make Kristoff’s ice out of Jell-O. Jello is an easy party favorite that can be made ahead of time, ready to just pull out on party day.

I wanted to make these Olaf string cheese look as happy as Olaf does when he is dreaming of summer so this is what I came up with. So simple to do! All you need is a Sharpie in black, orange, and brown. Make them ahead to pull out on party day as another super low prep and inexpensive treat. These would also be fun to add to kids’ lunches for school.

The birthday girl’s favorite cookies are lemon tea cookies. We used this recipe from Spoonful of Flavor and shaped them into snowballs. She always enjoys helping me to roll them into powdered sugar and they make our kitchen smell so good.

We laid out chopped carrots.

I purchased these cookie cutters years ago for sister’s birthday and just reused them to make Elsa cookies.

I used this recipe to make peanut butter and jelly cookies. I just stamped the dough diagonally twice using the back of a wooden spoon and filled it with strawberry jam to create the heart shapes and called them Frozen hearts.

I filled a pretty dish with one of my daughter’s favorite treats (Hershey kisses), and included a little label that said kisses to melt a frozen heart.

We served a homemade blue punch. This was made by adding blue raspberry Kool-Aid to pineapple juice, ginger ale, and vanilla ice cream.

My daughter requested a blue cake with Olaf. I used this recipe to make a WASC cake and just added blue icing gel to it. I always use Two Sister’s recipe for buttercream frosting. I purchased this mold from Amazon to make the snowflakes out of white Ghirardelli melting wafers. I used this recipe to make Olaf out of marshmallow fondant. He doesn’t look perfect but he received one hundred percent approval from the birthday girl.

I made some simple cupcake toppers, adhered them to toothpicks with some scotch tape, and inserted them into these delicious chocolate cupcakes. The toppers are available here.

Favors:

Each guest received a party bag filled with some of the birthday girl’s favorite sweet treats (Fun Dip and Ring Pops) and party blowers from the Dollar Tree. I included more snowflake tattoos, stampers, stickers, as well as Frozen hair things we found at the Dollar Tree. Her little guests also filled the rest of their bags with pinata candy as well as any crafts they wanted to take home. I create more personalized bag labels here.

My greatest joy in creating these parties for my children is seeing all their excitement and happiness. I also enjoy finding ways to incorporate their current interests into their daily learning. Here are a few examples of activities my daughter really enjoyed in the days preceding and following her birthday.

We made lots of snowflakes out of homemade playdough, using beads and glass gems to decorate. This is a really wonderfuI activity for kids’ fine motor development and can also make for great pattern play as well as exploration of symmetry. I make more playdough mats here.

My daughter loves using her Frozen dolls to skate around her letters. She also enjoys tracing with a blue highlighter and stamping with snowflake stampers. I make more alphabet and number formation workbooks here.

She has really enjoyed recreating her favorite character many times.

We’ve also paired her Frozen dolls with blue kinetic sand and packed them in little pencil boxes for some moments of calm while travelling.

I create more printable activities for kids here with the goal of helping to grow kids who love to learn.

To see my other kids’ parties click here.

If you use these printables or party ideas, I would love to see it! Please use #sodangfun on social media, tag me @sodangfun on Instagram, or post to my Facebook page.

I hope this post can help you to create something fun and memorable with and for your young Frozen fan!