Party Crafts

Today's topic: Crafts at your Party

At most of my kids birthday parties I try to have a craft for the kids.  A good craft can also double as a favor.  It is always best to have the craft age appropriate.  Have everything ready for easy assembly.  For the Mickey & Minnie party this past weekend I had a table set up to make your own Mickey or Minnie ears.  I had headbands, ears, and bows ready and all the kids had to do was assemble.  My ears were two pieces of scrapbook paper sewed together with a small opening for the headband. 

Next is my craft that I had for Sesame Street party, which was "Make your own Elmo puppet". 

Have you had some fun crafts for your party?

Plates

Today's topic is plates.  I am one that likes to save money anywhere I can.  I would rather put in a little extra time than  money.  You could go out and buy a themed pack of plates for $3-$5 but would only get anywhere from 8-10 plates.  However, if you get plain colored plates you can get 20 for less than $1.  My project today is my Mickey and Minnie Plates.  I started out with just my plane basic black plate.  I cut out several circles and for Minnie I cut out several hair bows. 

All you need is glue or glue dots (my preference) and poof you have instant hit.

Mickey and Minnie Birthday Party

Here are a couple of collages of the twins' 3rd Birthday Party.  For more pics click here or here.  I will be going over all the details in the next few days. 

Happy Birthday Maddie and Zack

Here is a little teaser from today's party.  I can't wait to share!!

Crafting Away

Over the last 24 hours I have been cutting out gobs and gobs of circles.  I am now up to 250 black 4" circles.  I can't wait to show you the projects that I will be doing with these circles.  Hoping by Monday I will be able to at least post one project using some of these circles.

Mickey Birthday Invite

Maddie and Zack are going to be 3 year olds in 2 weeks.  Scarey huh?  I have a VERY small budget for decorating this party because we have spent most of our budget on a bounce house that we are renting for their birthday.  So...first up is invitations.  I have spent $35 on a Mickey Cricut Cartridge which I will be using throughout all the party decor.  I immediately put it to use on our birthday invites.  I had a ton of paper already...all that was needed is black and red paper.  The only additional purchase I made was for buttons.  I spent $2 for a huge bag of white buttons.  I hand made about 30 invites.  Here is my final product.  I think they were a hit!

Sincerest Apologies

I have been a TERRIBLE blogger.  I am so sorry.  It has been one insane summer, but I am now in full birthday party planning mode for Maddie and Zack.  I will be sharing LOTS of fun DIY party things, because this party will be under an extremely tight budget!  So be on the lookout!