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Amount of Time: 5 to 15 Hours
Budget: $100 – $450
Amount of People: Up to 10 guests
Indoors/Outdoors: Indoors
Special Notes: This is a particularly good party for children aged 7 to 9 years old. If your child loves art, then invitng her friends to an art party filled with arts and crafts will be a lot of fun, and may also be a bit different from other parties as well. This can be done with younger children as well, just make sure to make the arts age appropriate.
This party will also fit a range of budgets. You could set up a table, put out group art supplies and give them different arts and crafts to make with the supplies. The menu can just be simple snacks in bright colors, and a paint set and brush will do for the goody.
If you would like to spend more, you can purchase individual easels, and have the kids decorate at their own stations, etc.
Invitations:
Have the birthday child draw and/or color a pretty picture for the art party invitation. Draw a border around the picture for the front of the invitation. Inside, provide all of the information.
Decorations:
If you have any artwork in your home that you could place on easels, this would give the feel of an art party room.
Fill the party room with your child’s artwork over the past year, including drawings, painting, little play dough sculptures, etc.
Have the birthday child choose his favorite colors and decorate the room with helium balloons tied to paint cans.
Hang a sign on the entrance of the doorway that says “Art Show” or “Art House” Upon each guest arriving, you could have them add to the sign with some of their own artwork and then you could hang it up in the party room.
When the guests arrive, provide each child with their own art smock. You could also have their names on each of the smocks. They could take their art smocks home as part of their goodies.
Crafts:
Have the kids make a mural together. Put a large sheet of butcher paper on the wall and have the kids draw a picture on the sheets of paper ~ preferably with a birthday theme to keep as a remembrance after the party.
Make Life Size Portraits. Outline each child on a large brown sheet of paper. From there, they can color, paint, etc. their own portraits.
Have guests make their own colorful party hat with tissue paper.
Enjoy a Play Dough activity. Provide kids with a bag of Play Dough. Give them plastic cookie cutters, craft sticks for cutting dough, and markers, glitter, etc for the kids to make works of art and decorate them. The kids can take their creations as a goody gift.
Have the guests create birthday cards for the birthday child using all sorts of art supplies, crayons, markers, glue, glitter, sparkles, stickers, etc.
Games/Activities:
Provide cupcakes and have the kids decorate them with whipped soap (cream), colorful goop (sprinkles, candies, frosting), and candles.
Any number of art activities will work well. You could have the kids do any number of drawings, paintings, etc on their own individual easels. As projects are completed, you can hang them on the wall.
Provide melted chocolate and have the kids enjoy fingerpainting chocolate masterpieces.
To take a break from the arts, play “Musical Easels.”
Menu:
Provide colorful veggies and fruits with dips: carrots, bluberries, strawberries. Also string cheese would be a fun snack as well. You could provide these snacks in the form of an artist palette. That would be fun!
Provide juice in bright colors as well.
Cake:
Make an artist palette cake. Kraft has a great recipe!
Goody Bags:
Provide a small satchel and fill it with sidewalk chalk, crayons, coloring books, glue sticks, stickers, little watercolor paints, paint brush, etc.
