Hannah Turns Ten 30's Style

Hannah turns ten this coming Monday, August 11th. We celebrated one week early with her friends with an American Girl Kit Mystery Party. I found the mystery party game for half off on the American Girl site. I love bargains! It came with invitations, character cards, name tags, scripts, and clues. We just had to come up with costumes and snacks.

Hannah picked out some green floral material that is similar to Kit's birthday dress from the books. We also found a pattern similar to the dresses they wore in the 1930's at JoAnn's. I found a dress and a pair of shoes at thrift store for $3 that would work well for the part of Mrs. Kittredge, Kit's mom. Probably pretty close to the 1930's price :) I just added a apron that belonged to my grandma. Abby wore a pink flower skirt and white top to be our photographer for the party. Eric played the part of Will, a hobo, so Hannah suggested he wear his denim overalls and a white t-shirt.

The girls and I had fun researching the 1930's to see what was popular. We discovered that Hershey miniature chocolates came out as well at tootsie roll pops, so we included those in the girls treat bags. We also learned that the games of Monopoly, Sorry, and Scrabble were invented.

The game also included some snack ideas as did the American Girl Kit Kittredge website. We had carrot slices, oatmeal cookies, and cream cheese and jam sandwiches set out during the game. After the mystery was solved we had chocolate roll birthday cake filled with vanilla ice cream and fruit fizz (juice from oranges, lemon, maraschino cherries, and pineapple mixed with sparkling grape juice).