How to Make a Magic Wand 
How to make a magic wand from a few simple materials? Learn how to make a magic wand with these easy instructions. Your fairy princess will love this magic wand for her playtime activities.
Magic Wand Materials:
Foam Star, Dowel, gold ribbon, glitter, glue, peel-and-stick rhinestones or jewels
Directions For Making A Magic Wand:
Use a pencil to poke a hole in the bottom of a six-inch plastic foam star. Insert a generous amount of glue into the hole and then insert a wood dowel. Cover the star with a generous amount of crafts glue and help your child sprinkle glitter onto the front and back of the star. Place the wand in a heavy glass jar to let the top dry.
Decorate by using peel-and-stick sparkly rhinestones and pretty jewels to stick on the star. To finish, cut gold ribbon into three 1-yard pieces, tying the pieces together with a knot at the center. Glue the knot to the bottom of the star and trim the ribbons to different lengths. Add peel-and-stick jewels to the ends of the ribbons, and you’ve just made a beautiful magic wand!
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Have fun making this magic wand for your fairy princess. Have you and your child ever made wizard wands in the past? How did our magic wand instructions compare to the ones you worked with before?
Disney Baby Shower
Why not host a Disney Baby shower?
A Disney Baby shower is versatile because the various Disney characters symbolize so many different themes. For a mother who will give birth to multiple babies hold a 101 Dalmations or a Snow White and 7 Dwarfs baby shower. Aladin, Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast are just a few Disney stories for a Disney Princess baby shower theme. The Little Mermaid provides wonderful ideas for an ocean themed baby shower. A Little Mermaid party is a great summer baby shower theme.
For a 101 Dalmations theme think black and white decorations! Decorate the party room with black, white and red balloons. Decorate the eating area for your Disney baby shower with white and black polka-dotted tablecloths. Use plain red tableware and napkins, as an accent and tie up your cutlery in the napkin using a black and white dotted ribbon.Use new dog bowls to fill with chips or vegetables and dip, candies, etc.
For a Little Mermaid baby shower use sea shells, tissue paper as sea weed and cut outs of little schools of fish on the wall. Create a pregnant fish or mermaid on the wall. The baby shower centerpieces can be decorative with cut out coral, sea anemones, and shells with a Styrofoam base with glued on sand. You can also use treasure chests and fill them with baby shower treasures of diapers, rattles, onesies and other baby shower items that are helpful for the mommy to be. Have cut out shells that people can write their baby advice for the parents to be on. Place aquatic confetti on the tables and serve pasta shells, sushi rolls and blue punch. For candy, get Swedish fish jellies as well as goldfish for snacks. Play sea related music like “Under the Sea” and “Somewhere Under the Sea” to set the mood along with The Little Mermaid movie playing.
Princess Disney Baby Shower
Many girls grew up with the Disney Princesses: Aurora, Jasmine, Ariel, Snow White and Cinderella. These princesses make an ideal inspiration for a Disney baby shower. For a Disney Princess baby shower theme give each guest a tiara to wear as they arrive. Decorate with plenty of pink. Have a red carpet laid out running along sidewalk to the front door. You could use a magic princess wand and a crown as individual centerpieces for each of the tables that could double as party favors.
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Candyland Party
Candyland Party
Hosting a Candyland Party
Hosting a Candyland party is a great gender neutral party for preschool-aged children. A Candyland party is absolutely full of color and sweet fun! Fill colorful vases with old-fashioned swirled lollipops as decorative centerpieces, hang colorful construction paper to create the Candyland trail on the wall, blow up brightly colored balloons and wrap with cellophane to hang as colorful “candies.”
Candyland Party Games and Activities
Playing the Candyland game is an obvious choice for a small group of children. For a larger group of kids, create your own candy walk game by laminating squares of brightly colored construction paper. The idea is to make them look like the squares on the board game. Only use the color one time…if need be, you can use the double squares like the cards! Once you have the laminated pieces, set them up on the floor in a circular, winding pattern. Have the children stand on a square and walk the pathway while you play music. When you stop the music, each child should stand on a square while you pull a Candy Land card from the deck. The child that is standing on that color square gets to pick a “candy” prize from the Candy Bag and sits out. Then the game continues in this way until all the children have completed the walk and won a prize from the Candy Bag!
Another Candyland birthday game can be played with spoons and Hershey kisses. Hold a relay race. Use the winding construction paper path to see how far each child can get without spilling the candy from the spoon.
A fun Candyland craft activity is to create candy crowns for everyone to wear. Cut yellow or gold card stock into thirds and use your child’s head as a guide for creating the crown size. Glue hard candies, lollipops, gumdrops, jelly beans, etc. to crown.
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Bling Baby
Surround mom with baby bling to make her feel special at her baby shower. Baby bling is fast becoming a new favorite baby shower theme at many recent baby showers. How do you create a bling baby shower theme? Adhesive rhinestones and other sparkly plastic gems can be purchased at the craft store and used to decorate vases and flower pots that serve as table decorations. Anything that is brightly colored or glitters and sparkles is a great way to decorate. Colorful candies in jars, strands of inexpensive Mardi Gras beads, tiaras, colorful mylar balloons and confetti…anything shiny is a perfect decoration choice.
Bling Baby Favors
Peel and stick rhinestones can be added to candy tins or most anything to create bling party favors. Add rhinestones to party bags or small bottles of bubbles. Tie colorful ribbons around shimmery lip gloss or glitter pens.
Bling Baby Games
Fill a jar with acrylic diamond vase gems and have guests try to “guess the amount of bling”. Whoever guesses closest to the correct number wins a fun themed prize – such as shimmery body lotion, an oversize diamond shaped crystal paper weight, or a rhinestone-studded compact! Add glitter to standard baby shower bingo cards to upgrade them to your baby bling theme.
The baby bling theme adds sparkle and life to modern baby showers. One family expanded the bling theme to “A Star is Born,” turning the bling baby shower into a sparkling movie event. Let your glamorous imagination go wild with this theme and share with us how it worked for you!
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Polka Dot Birthday
Polka Dot Birthday
A polka dot birthday theme is so versatile that it can be used in many ways. This polka dot birthday is based on the Twister game, making decorating a breeze. A polka dot birthday is as great for 1st birthday themes as it is for older children. The bright colors and fun ideas make this a perfect theme for any age. Make the occasion even more special by having her wear a cute polka dot birthday dress.
Polka Dot Birthday Twister game
The dots used in the Twister game come in primary colors of red, blue, yellow and green. Keep these colors in mind when decorating. Decorate walls with balloons or cut out circles in the primary Twister colors. Colored circles on a white plastic tablecloth, polka dot hats and napkins are a great way to decorate the birthday table. Sprinkle the birthday cake with colored dots or squeeze dots of color all over white frosting. The birthday games are already factored into this theme by playing the Twister game. While some children are playing the Twister game the other children can make these adorable polka dot party pails.
Polka Dot Birthday Party Pail Materials:
• paper cups
• acrylic paint and brushes
• colored construction paper
• hole punch
• split pins (brads)
• polka dot stickers to decorate
Directions:
- Paint paper cups and allow to dry (this can be done ahead of time to minimize the mess)
- Cut strips of construction paper to make handles
- Punch holes in both ends of the handles and on two sides of the painted cups
- Attach handles to cups using split pins
- Decorate with polka dot stickers
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