Party games

I had six lists for the party, so that I didn't forget anything; food for kids, food for adults, shopping list, preparation list, order of events and Games.

The Games list featured: Hunt the fishes, What's the time Mr Wolf, Traffic Lights, Pin the Eye on the Alien, Pass Parcel, Whack the piñata and Musical toadstools.

Hunt the fishes. Last year we played Bug Hunt, we drew lots of bugs on stickers and then hid them around the house and garden. The kids then had to run around and find the bugs and stick them in the bug garden.


Bug Stickers

Bug Garden

This year we played the same game, but with finding fishes and sticking them under the sea (I forgot to take a photo).

Stick the eye on the Alien was a variation on last year's Stick the crown on the Princess. I painted a large character and then used white circle stickers for the eyes.


Stick the Eye on the Alien

2009 version, Pin the crown on the Princess

Musical Toadstools is my version of the traditional musical chairs. Last year we played musical spots, which then morphed into musical splats and then toadstools. Using some red craft paper, I drew around some dinner plates to get the shape of a toadstool lid, then with white printer paper cut out stalk shapes and circles for the dots.



The Pink Piñata. We made a piñata for my birthday but this one was definitely superior. The piñata was made with flour, water and newspaper on a balloon and then painted pink, but I think it was the tissue paper fringe gave it the a real Wow factor.

 

We didn't get time to play all the games, as the kids spent a long time playing What's the time Mr Wolf, but they have just been put aside for another occasion.

Monster Party Bags

After I had made the Flower Bags for the girls, I wanted to make some monster style bags for the boys.

Using some orange fabric I put together a couple of drawstring bags. Then using craft foam and embroidery thread I crafted some monster type faces.

The boys at the party were thrilled and my friend told me that she had put the bags away safely so that they can be used again at Halloween.

Colouring sheets for the party

Inspired by suggestions from other blogs about kids parties. I put together a couple of colouring sheets for the Big 4th Birthday party.

Using the same concept as the invitations, there are Monsters and Fairies and a based on the cake a Princess colouring sheet. All three are available as pdfs to print and colour.

Download Monsters pdf
Download Fairy pdf
Download Princess pdf

The colouring table was available for the whole party, for any passing colouring needs. With my empty Nutella jars holding a fresh bunch of crayons.

Fabric party bags

I got an idea in my head that this year I would make fabric party bags, because I don't really like the plastic ones.

Last year we had paper party bags, which were alright, but not wow. My idea is that the bag is part of the gift too, not that the kids ever really care about the party bags, it's just a token.

So bearing all that in mind, I used some gingham that I had left over from a skirt I made last year to make little shopper style party bags.



The flower on the front is made from my huge stack of unused patchwork fabric, that I cut out and tacked together with embroidery thread. I didn't want to take a huge amount of time and effort just in case they were taken home and straight into the bin.

Next, working on a little something different for the boys.