Cocoa Party

Since I just moved to Kansas City what better way to get to know people than by hosting a party, right?!

Of course! So together with a friend that moved here 3 days before we did, we decided to invite the ladies from church over for a Cocoa Party girls night out.  We came up with colors (pink, brown and white) and planned the decorations and the menu.

We decided to make tissue pom poms, have a wall of streamers and involve balloons somehow. We also got some cute candies in pink wrappers, made marshmallow dippers with pink chocolate and chocolate sprinkles, made chocolate peanut butter cookies, made chocolate cake balls and had a variety of toppings for the cocoa. We also decided to throw a couple of games into the mix to try to get to know everyone better.

The first game we had was to have everyone who came to the party bring their own mug. (I didn’t want to go have to buy twenty plus mugs) whoever brought the most unusual or funniest mug would win a prize. We had two prizes. That was fun to hear the stories of everyone’s mugs.

The second game was  a basket full of many cocoa packets of different flavors. We asked everyone to pick a packet that would describe their personality. I picked French Vanilla because I have traveled quite a bit and hope to continue my world travels.

The third game was called “Trading Spaces.” Everyone was sitting in their own chairs in a circle. I would say a phrase such as “You are the baby in your family.” and everyone that statement applied to would stand up and have to switch seats. It was fun to see little facts about  others and to switch up who you were sitting by. By the end of the game everyone had rotated so much they were by someone completely new. I love that we all got to visit with each other and new friends we maybe didn’t know as well before!

Overall it was a fun time! I loved getting to know new people and expand my circle of friends.

Next week I will be putting up a tissue pom pom tutorial. I am no expert but after making about 30 poms poms I feel I can at least offer up how I made them.