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Back To School with MomTrends and NYC Bloggers

August 14, 2018
Life , Parenthood

August for moms means back-to-school season. And that for us means shopping season! Making sure we are fully prepared for the non-stop needs of school season, MomTrends, recently invited me and other NYC mommy bloggers to join them in discussing trends of the season as well as viewing new products from some of the leading family-oriented brands.

It was a great networking event to connect with the brands while being a fun mom’s night out filled with manis, mini-fashion show, and mom-osas. (Thanks Natalie’s for the juice-infused prosecco!)

Did I mention the fashion?

That’s the best part of back to school season, isn’t it? Tea Collection was on-site showcasing their latest fall collection, which of course, is all organic. I can’t wait to show you more of this once we receive our outfit from them! Make sure to follow me on Instagram for our daily style diary and fashionable adventures.

Snapperrock, a swim-based company that offers UPF 50+ in all their swimwear, had some adorable daddy and me and mommy and me options that really caught my eye. ‘Cuz you know, how I just love twinning with my little!

#MomtrendsSchool also promoted beauty treatments, which for any busy mom can really feel like a luxury. I was thrilled to be able to catch up with a mom friend over our complimentary Mani or Pedi.com.

Did you know Mani or Pedi will meet you in the comforts of your own home or office? That’s a game-changer, right? And Vamousse, a company known for their lice treatments, sent their glam squad to help make us over. Thank YOU!

Our back to school education, continued as we made the rounds across the room and discovered Avery who had a fun, colorful collab with Amy Tangerine for rainbow-infused dividers, binders, and planners!

Comedic chef, George Duran represented Jarlsberg and offered tasty twists on the classic grilled cheese sandwich. I spun the wheel and won a truffle grilled cheese sandwich, which happened to be my favorite. And I also got inspired to add bacon, apricot jam or tomato to the traditional lunchtime goodie.

I was happy to see Stonyfield there because it’s such a trusted go-to for organic yogurts and smoothies. And I was thrilled to find they were launching snack packs for hungry kids on the go! Juliet is now seriously obsessed with their latest creations and asked for these everyday of dance camp! Pretzels packed with yogurt? Yes please!

Lastly, I loved seeing Mabels Labels because every mom needs to label their kid’s school items. And these personalized labels for shoes, clothes, water bottles, & lunch boxes are simply the best! Cute and customizable, they’re waterproof and dishwasher and microwave safe! Read our full review on them here!

These were my favorite brands found at the event! I’d love to hear how you are gearing up for this back to school season! What are YOUR favorite products to help you level up and be that supermom you know you wanna be?

Thank you, MomTrends for this fabulous event!

8 Tips To Host the Best Back-To-School Bash

October 3, 2017
Celebrating , Fab Kids Parties

Back-to-school season is exciting for a whole host of reasons: parents get their time back, kids see their school friends again, everyone buys something new, and you look forward to a brand new start. Why not mark the occasion with a back-to-school bash they’ll never forget? That’s what we at Fab Kids did in NYC with our friends and followers! Once families were settled into their new routines, we gathered everyone up at the NY Kids Club which offered their fun padded, play space, arts and crafts room and incredibly helpful staff. And we got GEEKY! Here are 8 tips on how to host the best back-to-school bash that your friends have ever seen!

Send a themed invite. Choose a scholastic image that you want to carry throughout your party. For instance, our rainbow colored pencils from the invite were found as cookies at the event on a rainbow colored dessert table. The rainbow color theme was also found in the photo booth garlands, numbers, alphabets and balloons throughout the space. Invite text included phrases with lots of alliteration such as, “brainiac book swap, dorky dance-a-thon, and NYC nerds.” Make it fun, descriptive, and enticing! It sets the tone! Get your guests excited!
Dress up! Fab Kids events always have a fun fashion theme. For this one, we encouraged everyone to get geeky by posting inspiration photos in our social media and eblasts. (search #fab_nerd on IG if you want to see) And we offered prizes for ‘best dressed.’ I love having dress-up themes for events becomes they become an automatic ice breaker on-site. Plus it encourages creativity and whimsy from all the guests making the event something special to look forward to. Plus the pictures… can we say, ‘Instagram-able?’
Host a book swap. I’m a big fan of re-cycling and re-using what you have. And I believe one person’s trash can be another person’s treasure. We encouraged each Brainiac to bring in a book they’ve outgrown or gotten bored of and swap it for another gently used book. We actually had so many to giveaway from our own bookshelf that each child walked away with 2 new books! The book swap had the additional side effect of adding a fun community feel to the event.
Prepare arts and crafts for the whole family to try. For our themed activity, the little ones created masterpieces on composition books provided by one of our sponsors, Ba Ba Bling. I provided alphabet stickers, scholastic-looking, scrapbook paper, and school stickers for the little hands to decorate with. The older kids enjoyed making bead bracelets and necklaces with colorful string and alphabet beads. Parents created mock certificates, filling in the space for their children’s “most likely to____”award, all of which became fun photo props.
Offer smart snacks and sweets. For desserts think nerds, dum dum lollipops, smarties, gummy brains and cupcakes topped with nerd glasses. For water find the brand Smart Water. And for snacks you could offer alphabet crackers and dip, Smart Food popcorn, pretzels or cereal shaped as letters, or any small snack stuffed into pocket protectors! B Lee Events did a wonderful job providing and presenting creative themed options such as these. And they were such a pleasure to work with -so professional, cheery, and full of amazing ideas! I highly recommend them!
Prepare photo props. With fashions this smart, your guests will be studying each other! Our guests definitely got an A+ when it came to getting dressed to impress! Fab kids and fab parents, for sure! For your party, gather props that you already have around the house and offer them to guests to try on! I brought ties, bow ties, a calculator, a ruler, school bus toys, nerd glasses and a giant inflatable #2 pencil. ..yes I had all of that around the house lol. What can I say? This is the 3rd back-to-school nerdy NY party that I’ve hosted! See here for 2015 and 2014.
Dance the day away! We called ours a “dorky dance-a-thon”, pumped up the music and let everyone shake it out in the colorful, play space that was NY Kids Club. Kids danced on giant trampolines, snapped their suspenders, and busted a move with balloons, in the air waving around like they just don’t care! If you wanted, you could have a leader teach some simple, nerdy dance moves for the kids to follow along to Simon Says style to add to the theme or make that an entirely separate game altogether.
Giveaway goodies. I like to always send my guests home with a little something to remember the event by. This event came fully sponsored so our guests walked away with tons of amazing items worth more than 12x the price of their event ticket. (free event planning consultation from B. Lee Events, $50 off a NY Kids Club new class enrollment and a free PJ party, $42 worth of customized Mabels Labels, exclusive offers to get onto Little Spoon’s organic meal delivery service waitlist, trendy buttons from Kidpik, $50 off new Usborne and More books, Shopkins themed lip balms from Moose Toys, discounted Meisterdish offers, and more)! But for your party it could be as simple as sending guests home with the remaining items from the snack and dessert bar in cute themed bags. My daughter decorated our goody bags with alphabet stickers easily converting it from a plain purple bag to a themed one!

Thank you to everyone who came out and helped make this party such a BLAST! I had so much fun seeing you get down in your geekiest gear. Thank you to all the event sponsors who helped make this happen! See below for details! And see our FB page for the full album of event photos.