Arts and Crafts Party

Invitations:
Outside~ Arts & Craft Clip art with a Mardi Gras flair
Come Make a Party with "name"
Inside~
My Studio:
Date:
Time:
RSVP:
Bring an old shirt or apron to wear while crafting

Decorations:
Lots of balloons and streamers in Purple (justice), Green (faith) and Gold (power)
need tables set up for crafts.

Cake:
Serve a Mardi Gras King Cake (or one like it )  Bake it in a Bundt Cake pan and frost.  Decorate with purple, green and gold.  You could bake in small prizes that the kids could fish out before eating.

Goodie Boxes or cans:
Crayons, paints, paint brushes, small school supplies, Mardi Gras beads, and things they make.

Activities:
Need for all decorating Projects:Felt, paint, foam, construction paper, beads, sequins, glitter, jewels, flowers, feathers, stickers, bows, ribbon, wrapping paper, Cotton balls, pasta, beans, pipe cleaers, tissue paper and any other thing you can think of.

Things to Decorate:
Their goodie can or box

Masks -Mardi gras style or other

Visors (plastic)

Flower pots:  Have inexpense bedding plants for them to put in them.

T-Shirts:  purchase inexpense shirts and fabric paints OR pre-print t-shirt transfers.  Use one or two pictures they can use.  Also, use fabric pieces cut into designs, fuse to shirt with 'iron web'

Make Tissue Paper Hats:
Choose two pieces of tissue paper of coordinating colors.  Place them with a piece of newspaper between (use masking tape to hold them together).  Place the pieces on top of the child head and wrap masking tape around the crown of the head over the paper.  then turn the tissue paper up all the way around the hat to form a brim using tape as you go.  Decorate with flowers, stickers etc.

Pony Bead Critters:   Make into keychains or just decorations.  For patterns go see:
Beadie Critters

Compound Clay Critters:   Use Fimo or Sculpey III.  Use small amounts to make tiny animals.

Make Craft Stick Frames:   decorate with markers, 'jewels' etc

Please e-mail me with additional ideas
boardlr@coupeville.net
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