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Invitation Ideas for an Art Party
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Make invitations for an Art Party in black and white
coloring book design and attach a crayon so birthday party
guests can color in the Art invitation.
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Have your child color a picture on the front of blank note
cards, then send through the printer to add the birthday
information on the inside.
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Any brightly colored pre-made invitation.
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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 backs of
chairs around the table and tie with several different colors of
curling ribbon. |
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Tie brightly colored helium balloons outside on 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 and one at a time have them try and
paint a nose on the clown in their color with a round sponge brush. The birthday party guest who
gets their color nearest to the nose wins.
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 everyone how to draw the hopscotch board and
then give them instructions on the game of
hopscotch.
See our BIG list of party games
Art Party Activities
Art Centers
Set up several Art centers around the art party area.
Some fun Art center ideas are:
Dart Paintings
Pin balloons filled with paint on canvases and let the party
guests throw darts at the balloons to pop them. Have one
large canvas that the birthday child can hang up in their room
after the Art party or use smaller canvases and let each party
guest take their masterpiece home as a party favor after the
party.
Sidewalk Chalk
Set out several containers filled with sidewalk chalk on a paved
surface and let the party guests make their own sidewalk art.
For fun you can also set out spray bottles filled with water
(for erasing) and items to trace around.
Painting
Hang up large poster boards on fences or walls. Give each
poster station a set of watercolors, a brush, small container of
water and paintbrushes.
Paint Can Glam
Ask your local paint or home improvement store for empty paint
cans. Let party guests decorate the outside with paint
pens or stickers. Use these as goody bags to hold party
favors after the Art party.
Masterpiece Copy
Choose a famous painting and make a color copy of it. Cut
the copy into different pieces and label them 1, 2, 3, 4 ...
etc. on the back. Buy several canvases and assign each
canvas a number. Give party guests one piece of the
masterpiece art copy and a canvas. Ask them to paint thier
piece of canvas to match the smaller copy piece.. When
they are done put the pieces together and show them the finished
masterpiece.
Bead Bracelets
Make colorful art bracelets from beads. Guests can take
them home as a party favor.
Picture Frames
Decorate picture frames with foam stickers, paint and stick on
jewels.
Finger Paints
Cover tables with large sheets of butcher paper. Set out
different colors of finger paints, brushes and sponges and let
them experiment with the finger paints.
Play Doh
Set out cans of Play Doh, rolling pins and cookie cutters.
Guests can create freely or give them objects to copy such
as a party hat, birthday cake or birthday card.
Sidewalk Chalk Art
Use our sidewalk chalk ideas
page to give little artists some ideas on what to draw with
sidewalk chalk. Have kids work on one large art project
with the chalk or give them each a large section of sidewalk or
driveway.
Food Ideas
Set up a cupcake decorating station
and the kids can decorate their own cupcakes. Supply lots of
different kinds of frostings, sprinkles and candies.
For a fun Art Party experiment mix Sprite or water with a little food
coloring in the primary colors of red, yellow and blue in 3 separate
pitchers. With these colors you can mix drinks for party guests in
any color of the rainbow. Green = yellow + blue, Orange = red +
yellow, Purple = blue + red.
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.
Art
Party Favors
Aprons that the kids can decorate
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
and turn into a goodie bag.
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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