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Art Party Decorations |
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Attach large sheets of white butcher block paper
to cover the table(s) where the children will be sitting. On the
white paper scatter pens, pencils, markers and color
crayons around the table and ask them to color where
they will be sitting.
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Use empty paint cans to hold flatware. |
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Set out large artist palettes with a different
colored candy (skittles or M&M’s work great) in each place on the
palette.
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Use artist palettes for plates. |
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Buy several different packages of solid colors
plates, napkins, cups and flatware and mix and match them around the
birthday cake table.
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Tie brightly colored helium balloons on the back of
each chair around the table and tie with several different colors of
curling ribbon. |
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Tie brightly colored helium balloons to the
mailbox. |
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Large crayons (the big plastic
crayola banks), large paint brushes (string mops) and
posters. |
Fun Ideas
Ask Home Depot for aprons or find inexpensive
aprons at the craft store. Use to keep clothes clean and also as a party
favor they can decorate and take home.
Art Party Games
Paint the nose on the clown
Draw or print out a large poster size clown. Place a large round
white circle where his nose is. Assign each party guest a different
color paint. Blindfold them one at a time and them have them try and
paint a nose on the clown in their color. The birthday party guest who
gets the closest to the nose wins a prize.
Play Dough sculptures
Give each child a small can of play dough. Tell
them that they will be sculpting different things that are birthday
related … but they only have 1 minute to make their sculpture. Call out
a birthday item and have all the kids sculpt that item within 1 minute.
Then have them mash their creations into a ball and call out another
birthday item. Some fun birthday items for the kids to sculpt are:
birthday cake, candle, cupcake, number (age of the birthday child),
balloon, ice cream in a bowl, etc.
Hopscotch
Teach them how to draw the hopscotch board and
then give them instructions on the game of hopscotch.
More fun games
Art Party Activities
Art Centers
Set up several Art centers around the room or outside party area.
Some good Art centers are:
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Pin balloons filled with paint on canvases and
let the kids throw darts at the balloons to pop them. These canvases
would be fun to hang up in the birthday child's room or playroom after
the party. Or, have smaller canvases and let each guest make their own
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Sidewalk chalk area - fill with
different pieces of sidewalk chalk, spray bottles and items to
trace around.
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Painting (hang up poster boards on fences or walls for
kids to paint on like easels). |
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Find empty paint cans at your local home improvement
center and let the kids paint them (these can be used as
a goody bag for kids to take home from the party). |
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Face Painting |
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Gather large reproductions of famous paintings
and let the kids make their own rendition of the painting.
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older children let each one contribute to a masterpiece. Color
copy a famous painting - one with lots of color and designs.
Then divide the painting into multiple square and label them 1,
2, 3, 4 … and so on. Cut out an equal number of squares from art
paper … but make the blank squares much larger then the divided
squares. Give each birthday party guest a smaller piece of the
colorful painting and a larger blank square. Write the number on
the back of the larger square and then ask them to re-create the
smaller square onto the larger square using any media they want.
Let them choose from pastels, pencils, paints or even a collage
made from magazine pieces. At the end of the party assemble the
painting and see how close they came to the original
masterpiece.
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Make bracelets out of colorful
beads. Let the kids take them home as a party
favor to remember the Art party.
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Decorate picture frames with foam
stickers and jewels. Take
the kids pictures during the party, print the pictures
out and place them inside their frames before they go
home.
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Cover tables with large sheets of butcher paper -
set out finger paints and let them get messy. |
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Set out cans of Play Doh, small rolling pins and
cookie cutters. |
Food
Set up a cupcake decorating station and let the kids decorate their
own cupcakes. Supply lots of different kinds of frostings, sprinkles,
candies and writing gel.
Masterpiece cupcakes - before the party make
small copies (about 2 x 3 inches) of famous paintings.
Glue them onto toothpicks and place the toothpicks in already
baked cupcakes. Display them on a cupcake stand.
Let the kids make food sculptures with baby
carrots, cheeses, celery, olives, etc. - held together with toothpicks.
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Art Party Favors
Aprons that the kids can decorate at the party.
Art supplies - paint brushes, paper, pastels,
small pads of drawing paper, markers or crayons.
Art shaped candies.
Play Dough mini cans.
Sidewalk Chalk.
Goody Bags
Empty paint cans the kids can decorate.
Buckets or containers that will hold art supplies.
Apron with pockets - fill pockets with art supplies
and fun art shaped candy.
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