When my best friend, also named Rachel (but spelled the “wrong” way) told me she was pregnant, my Mom and quickly volunteered to throw her a shower. We knew right away that a traditional shower just would not do and decided to go with a Dr. Seuss themed shower instead. As you can see from here, where I showed off her invitations, my Mom and I were going to go way overboard. I don’t even want to think of the number of hours we spent Pinteresting and Googling Seuss themed parties to borrow ideas from. The day was a huge success, but I must admit we were so frantically busy I barely had time to take any pictures! Would do it again in a heartbeat though 🙂 Beware, this post is epically long. Feel free to just check out the pictures if you aren’t planning on having your own Seuss party.
We welcomed our guests to the party with some red and blue bead. It was nice to give everyone a bit of Seuss flair to wear. The guest of honor of course got to show of the boa and Seuss hat as part of her outfit. While all the details of the party were left a surprise, we gave her the heads up that she might want to wear something that would coordinate well with the theme colors!
On the bar, we had some fun Seuss pinwheels from a kit with our special drinks for the day. I can’t believe I didn’t get pictures! We served “Pink Yink Drink” from One Fish, Two Fish (“This one, I think, Is called a Yink… He likes to wink and drink pink ink.”) It was a mixture of vodka, pink lemonade and beer. Yeah, sounds weird but tastes good! There was also some “Moose Juice” from Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book which we interpreted as iced coffee with a bit of chocolate syrup mixed in.
The quality is pretty poor on these pictures, but they will have to do! For appetizers we served Goldfish in a fish bowl and “Hop on Pop” popcorn. It is seasoned with olive oil, salt and Penzy’s Greek Seasoning. To make them look fancy we wrapped boxes with some fun wrapping paper. We also served homemade Jalapeño “Pebbles” from If I Ran the Circus (“And you’ll now meet the Remarkable Foon, who eats sizzling hot pebbles that fall off the moon! ”), which I of course forgot to take a picture of in all the last-minute madness. My Mom and sister tried about 4 different frozen store-bought jalapeño poppers which were all inedible. We ended up making these instead served with this dipping sauce. If I was looking for a seriously good and fatty appetizer I would definitely make these again. Although I probably wouldn’t use the panko bread crumbs, mine didn’t brown up all nice in the oven and looked like raw flour instead. Regardless, these were a hit and disappeared rather quickly.
For lunch we served an entirely Seuss themed menu (pictures to follow). Thankfully there are so many creative people out there who posted food ideas on the internet for us to steal borrow!
Green deviled eggs with sliced ham rolled and held with toothpicks and green olives from Green Eggs and Ham. (“You do not like them, so you say, Try them, try them and you may.”) We will never try and make deviled eggs again. Not sure what was wrong with our eggs, or us, but we could not get them to peel. Yes, we even tried all the methods that were supposed to do the trick. After going through about 3 dozen we had enough usable ones and served green egg salad with all the duds. Of course a few days after the shower my sister discovered that Trader Joe’s sells already peeled hard-boiled eggs. Go figure. While the ham was nice for display, not too many people ate it.
Roast Beast Roll-ups with cream cheese and veggie strips from The Grinch Who Stole Christmas (“And he, he himself…the Grinch…carvedthe roast beast.”) Can’t find the recipe we used, inside the roll is a mixture of cream and blue cheese with sliced red peppers and watercress.
Three Cheese Trees from Fox In Socks. (“Through three cheese trees three free fleas flew.”) Costco sells already cubed cheese that we put on toothpicks and then stuck into styrofoam cones wrapped in wrapping paper.
Noodle Poodle Salad from Fox In Socks. (“And the bottle’s on a poodle and the poodle’s eating noodles.”) We served a cold peanut noodle salad. Can’t say it was anything special, but people seemed to enjoy it.
Grin-itch Spinach Salad inspired by What Was I Scared Of (“Then one dark night in Grin-itch…I had to do an errand there and fetch some Grin-itch spinach.”) I totally have never heard of this book. In fact as we were researching ideas for the party I came across about a dozen that I missed out on as a kid.
Truffula Tree fruit kabobs from The Lorax (“And I first saw the trees! The bright-colored tufts of the Truffula trees!”) This was fruit on skewers stuck in styrofoam. We served extra fruit in a bowl which everyone ate first. Apparently our “trees” were just too pretty to eat!
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