Category — Party Ideas

From Dollar Store Crafts, a cute & easy to make Halloween party favor.
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This would be a fun game to play with a lot of kids or just a few. You can do it in your home, backyard, a park or anywhere there are places to hide.
To Play Sardines:
The person who is “it” hides while everyone else counts to 30. Each player then tries to find the person who is “it” and quietly hides with that person. The last person to find everyone must be “it” in the next game.

Violets and their leaves are often used in salads and soups and both can be candied. The leaves are mostly used for decoration but the flowers can be eaten.
You’ll Need:
violet flowers and leaves (make sure they are organically grown with no pesticides)
1 egg white
sugar
brush (you can use a pastry brush or a new painting brush)
Waxed paper

Directions:
1. Wash the violets and leaves and let them dry.
2. Separate the egg to get the white.
3. Dip the brush in the egg white and brush on the flowers and leaves covering front and back.
4. Sprinkle sugar covering the flowers and leaves completely.
5. Place on waxed paper to dry.
Use to decorate cakes, cupcakes, fruit, or ice cream

You can make this simple star garland to decorate your table, door or banister for your 4th of July celebration. Your kids and grandkids can help.
You’ll need:
String or yarn
Paper stars of various colors (you can buy them, cut them yourself or use a dye-cut)
Directions:
1. Decide how long you want your garland and cut the string.
2. Arrange the stars on the string.
3. To glue the stars apply glue on 2 stars then put them together like a sandwich with the string in the middle.

These songs are sung to familiar tunes so you don’t need a piano. What a great activity for a family reunion or a neighborhood celebration. Get Songs

Wouldn’t it be fun to make an award for your children or grandchildren. You can do it at AWARD MAKER and it’s free. Maybe your child has been working to achieve a goal in sports, music or reading. You can make them an award to celebrate their accomplishment. You could also make some funny awards to give out at a family gathering or reunions. Let your child make up an award to give to a family member or special friend. Have a weekly or monthly “Awards Night” in your home and invite special people to receive an award. The possibilities are endless, just use your imagination.

I’m always looking for easy and inexpensive ways to create something cute. My granddaughter wanted a princess hat so with crepe paper, wire and beads we came up with this garland. She helped me make it.
You’ll Need: crepe paper, beads and wire
Directions:
1. Measure enough wire to fit the child’s head and a little extra for securing together when finished.
2. Form it into a circle.
3. Weave the crepe paper onto the wire stopping every few weaves to add the beads. Depending on how large the beads are you’ll want to add 3 or 4 together so they’ll show up.
4. Continue until you reach the end and secure together.
This would be an easy activity for a little girls party.

Decorations: Use balloons with swirling, bubble like colors.
Food: Bake a cake in a round mold or a metal mixing bowl. Frost it smoothly with white frosting. Save 3 or 4 tablespoons of frosting to color then swirl the different colors of frosting through the white frosting on the cake, the way colors swirl through a bubble.
Serve punch with round ice cubes floating in it.
Make sandwiches of bread cut in circles.
Activities: Give each guest a large plate covered with bubble mix and a straw. Let them practice blowing bubbles then have a bubble contest.
Give prizes for:
The biggest bubble
The highest pile of bubbles
The pretties bubble
The longest lasting bubble
Blowing a bubble inside a bubble
Favors: Bubble gum, jars of bubbles, candy that looks like bubbles, or balloons.

I found this idea in the book Science Wizardry for Kids by Margaret Kenda and Phyllis S. Williams