Personalized Tote
Kids can decorate a personalized tote for their parents to use at the grocery store. A personalized tote can be reused in the place of plastic bags when shopping. Plain canvas bags can be found at most arts and craft stores. Decorate canvas bags with fabric paint and cookie cutter shapes.
Personalized Tote
Lay the canvas bag flat, place a cookie cutter on the fabric and draw around it. Paint the inside of the cookie-cutter shapes with fabric paint. Use colorful pens to draw designs, handprints, lines, angels, flowers, inspirational sayings, hearts, or even iron-on photos of your family on the bags to create your own personalized canvas tote.
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Safari Party
Hold a safari party for little boys who love zoo animals. Download pictures of lions, giraffes and other jungle animals for early guests to color at the safari party. Many tourists go on safari to watch and photograph wildlife; guests at your child’s safari birthday can search for hidden wildlife with toilet paper binoculars. Decorate animal masks and have teams of “animals” hide while tourists use their binoculars to seek.
Safari Birthday
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Decorations
• Green or brown crepe paper hung from the ceiling for vines
• Decorate walls with cut out palm trees
• Place stuffed animals around the room
• Make binoculars from 2 toilet paper rolls bound together with string
Activities
• Decorate animal masks
• Pin the tail on the monkey
• Tiger toss game – make tiger mouth to toss bean bags through
• Animal cracker safari hunt
Baby Shower Centerpieces
Make baby shower centerpieces to focus the baby shower theme. Baby shower centerpieces are the first thing to catch the eyes of your guests as they enter the room and will be the focal point of your party. Baby shower centerpiece ideas should coincide as a perfect compliment for the theme of your baby shower. Select your baby shower centerpiece ideas from the following list of possibilities:
Baby Shower Centerpieces
- Diaper Cake – A diaper cake is a popular centerpiece that can be decorated to fit any baby shower theme. The diaper cake doubles as a gift of much needed diapers for the expectant mother. Link to other post on make a diaper cake
- Edible Fruit Bouquet – Make an edible fruit bouquet as the centerpiece for a Cravings baby shower or just a unique centerpiece idea.
- Stuffed Animals – Decorate stuffed animals with diapers, bottles, pacifier or other baby accessories. Place the stuffed animal in a baby bathtub and add balloons for an adorable centerpiece idea.
- Baby Sock Rose Bouquet – like the diaper cake this centerpiece doubles as a gift for the mother to be.
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Build a Fort
It’s easy to build a fort indoors as a rainy afternoon adventure. When you build a fort with your child or grandchild you will provide a rich opportunity to unleash your child’s imagination. Begin this fun activity by “scouting” out a place to build a fort: a hiding place under the stars or a fortress in a far off land help to create the imaginative background to build a fort.
Build a Fort
The framework for building a fort can be dining room chairs, sofa cushions, footstools, etc. Drape a blanket or sheet over the top of your framework to create their enclosed fort. Add sleeping bags to simulate camping, add stars to create a spaceship, decorate the fort as a palace for your little princess – the possibilities are as endless as your child’s imagination. Building a fort is a fun activity for rainy days, winter vacations or any time you want to let your child’s imagination soar.
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Golf Birthday Party
With planning, a golf birthday party is a unique outdoor party idea with fun activities. The golf birthday party is entertaining for children age 7 and up as they hold their own miniature golf tournament. Decorate the party with golf themed items: green tablecloths with white (golf ball) tableware, a bucket of golf balls makes for an adorable centerpiece, foam golf visors, scorecards, etc. Golf themed activities include golf ball relays (golf ball on spoon), putting practice or a golf obstacle course.
Golf Birthday Party
Make your own miniature golf course with ordinary items found around the house and garage. Make a sand trap with a baking sheet and play sand. Design your own ramps with croquet wickets and cardboard cutouts for your golf course. Have each hole played a specific way: backwards putt, hopping up and down like a frog, or eyes closed on another putt. Children may decorate their foam visors with letters, stickers and pom poms as another golf themed activity.
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Memory Mobile
Making a memory mobile is a fun and educational family craft. A memory mobile can display family pictures, helping children to understand their family relations and where they fit in the family. Your family tree is the basis for your memory mobile, therefore the mobile can be as large as the information you have on hand.
Further research of your family tree will help the whole family discover if their last name is based on a profession, or if the family name has changed when ancestors came to this country. The memory mobile can be used to display your family history, a special family vacation or other special family event.
Memory Mobile
Materials:
- Colored poster board or construction paper, one color for each branch of the tree
- Individual photos of family members
- Twigs or dowels: One 10”, one 16”, two 8”, and four 5”
- String
- Glue
Memory Mobile Instructions:
- Cut a 3” square of one color, two 2.5” squares of another color, four 2.5” squares of another color and eight 2” squares of the last color.
- Cut photos of family members a half inch smaller than the colored squares. Center the photos and glue in place.
- Poke a small hole 1/8” from the top and bottom of each square.
- Lay out twigs/dowels in rows, largest to smallest
- Position the photo squares with mom’s side of the family on one side and dad’s on the other. Arrange each couple with the men and women each on their own side.
- Cut 22, 6” long pieces of string. Thread one piece through each of the holes in the photo squares. Tie to the twigs above and below each square. Hold up the mobile and adjust the photos until it balances.
- Cut a 24” long piece of string and tie the ends to the top twig, then hang.
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