Diva, Glamour Girl, Moxie Girl Party

My daughter wanted a girly party with finger nail polish and a fashion show, but she could not decide what to call it. Here is the digital invite I created.
Her grandma made her this cake and she loved it!!!
The girls with their snap cap necklaces and makeup on!
We repurposed some jungle party hats by spray painting them white and using stickers and Hawaiian leis from another party to decorate them. The kids loved it!
We had pizza and pink lemonade.
The makeup, manicure and tattoo parlor table.
We made our own snap cap necklaces. I bought all the supplies from and online company and had the table set up to do the craft when the girls arrived. The clear glaze we used to put over our designs needed to dry overnight.

It was a blast!

Petroglyph Craft for Older Kids

So I am teaching some art classes to a small group of home schoolers. One class is titled "Global Art" and I am using a book with the same title as well as some lessons I have found online. The class teaches geographical locations and then we do a craft that teaches the students something about that culture. I was looking for a craft on Africa and I found a craft where kids use course sandpaper and crayons to make drawings of petroglyphs. It is a great idea but was too simple for the group of older kids I am working with. So I got some cheap wooden boxes from Oriental Trading and we decoupaged the sandpaper art onto the boxes when we were finished with our petroglyph colorings. The kids were very proud of their creations and I was impressed with their creativity.

Firefly craft

In Daisies there is a lesson that has fireflies in it. My leader asked me to plan a craft where they make fireflies. I saw lots of cute projects online using glow sticks. I had an idea though after I saw a craft in Family Fun magazine where they took ping pong balls and electric tea lights and made Halloween decorations out of them. This is what I came up with.
The girls absolutely loved them and could not stop playing with them. Most said they would use them as night lights.



I think these would be adorable for an insect birthday party. For boys use masculine colors!

To make these you need a battery operated tea light and ping pong ball to start. We found our lights and ping pong balls at Dollar Tree very cheap. Use an xacto knife to cut an X in the ping pong ball. Slide the ping pong ball X over the light of the tea light. I used hot glue to make it permanent. I then hot glued two white pom poms to the ball for a head and tail. The girls chose the colors for their bug and we glued them on together for the tail. They glued eyes on and then traced a template of the wings onto foam paper and cut it out. We used glitter glue to decorate, but self adhesive rhinestones would work well too. Sooooo cute!

Dora and Diego Party

The digital invitation I created. It is really hard to come up with party themes that work for a boy and girl. Luckily this year the twins wanted Dora and Diego!!! My dear friend suggested the train depot and it was an adventure!

A scavenger hunt for animals as we are on the train. The kids were given "spotting scopes." I created this with clipart from the web and a map of the train track.

The location of the party was a miniature train.
Their generous gifts from friends and family.
The beautiful cakes Grandma Pat made for them.
Time to eat.

Christmas Birthday Ideas

These pictures are in a wacky order due to some technical difficulties I am having. But bear with me. This is worth it.

Way before I began blogging we went to an awesome party at a friends house for her 3 year old daughter who is a December birthday. Knowing my friend is very crafty and talented I took my camera along. Lucky for me since I now like to blog. This was the adorable cake she had made.

This is my daughter looking cute!
Santa came and gave each child a stocking (party favor) with toys and candy in it.
Each child had their own house to decorate.
Festive tablescape.


Mother and daughter decorating gingerbread house.

My friend was able to set up one whole room in her house for the houses to be embellished.

Easy Rudolph Craft

Trace around your childs hand and let them cut it out.

About halfway down a 12X24 piece of brown construction paper fold in corners and glue down.
Turn over paper and use the side with no fold flaps.

Glue hands on for antlers.

Glue round circles on for eyes and draw crescents above eyes with a black marker.

Glue on nose.

Make eyelashes for a "girl" reindeer. Nevermind that Rudolph was a boy. My daughter had to make it a girl.

Complete with a bow on antler!

Daisy Cupcakes

I embellished these for my daughters Daisy Investiture. I had no time (pretty typical these days now that I am home schooling). I did not even call ahead to get plain cupcakes so I had to cover up sprinkles that the bakery added. They still turned out really cute and SUPER easy. The girls loved the pink and purple ones. If the icing is room temp the large marshmallows cut in half just stick right on!