ART PARTY
- Is your kid a budding artist? One of our favorite DIY party ideas is an art party. All you need is a few canvases, some tabletop easels (they sell cheap, sturdy ones at big box craft stores) a few brushes and some paint. Set the kids lose and let their creative juices flow freely. It’s a double bonus as its serves as the entertainment and activity portion of the party but they also get to take home a handmade favor that they can be proud of. If you’re still hankering to dole out a favor, a simple watercolor set with a brush attached and affixed with a colorful ribbon is a great take home and is super affordable.
- A white iced cake with splatters of food coloring or some abstract drawings made with food coloring pens helps lend to the theme and can easily be accomplished by any baking novice. (Bonus points if you let the birthday kid help!) We’ve also seen adorable rice krispy treat squares dipped into colored white chocolate and turned upside down with a popsicle stick to resemble a paintbrush.
- Décor is easy with a few paint cans wrapped or painted in every color of the rainbow. When filled with colored tissue paper they can act as anchors to tie balloons to that help decorate the “studio space,” you can also use paint color sample strips from your local hardware store to create a bunting for the cake table by simple hot gluing or threading them onto a sturdy ribbon to be draped across the front of the table. Looking to insert more color? Hanging a bunch of bright paper party fans on a wall can create a colorful backdrop that really helps a space to pop with very little effort.
UNDER THE BIG TOP
- Year after year we see the ever popular Circus theme making big splashes with the small set. It’s such a fun theme and can be easily replicated to any scale. Some red tablecloths, spools of tickets, circus inspired games which can be purchased online or at most party stores, a jar of clown noses, red + white candy accents and boxes of animal crackers to send home as favors help to round out a sweet circus theme- no stilt walkers required.
STORYBOOK INSPIRATION
- One of our favorite themes to work off is popular storybooks. They are chock full of great ideas to draw inspiration from as you can draw from several elements.
A simple little girls tea party gets elevated when you pull inspiration from C.S Lewis and create a birthday wonderland that takes little more than a bunch of playing cards, some mismatched teacups, a bundle of pretty flowers and finger sandwiches to pull off.
-A copy of the book of honor can be wrapped in ribbon and given to each child to take home at party’s end. It’s a nice reminder of a fun party and may also introduce them to a story they haven’t heard yet. Cupcakes and teapots decorated with tags displaying popular phrases from the story are a great way to keep the theme cohesive.
