What's in a Name....

A birthday party all about names, mainly the guest of honors name!

Invitation

Create an invite based off the child's name
*example for the Name SARA*

Activities

• Name Braclettes-have colorful beads along with alphabet beads for each guest to make a name braclet.
• A word search containing all the guests names. Web sites to creat your own Word Search for free...http://www.armoredpenguin.com/wordsearch/, http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/WordSearchSetupForm.asp, http://www.edcreate.com/wordsearch/wordsearch_create.php
• Name Collage-give each guest a 12x12 piece of card stock with their name across the top. Then have a stack of old magazines and newspapers for them to cut out pictures of things they like that match with the letters of their names. Ex-Sara--sand, sun, stars; air, airplanes, apples, art; running, relaxing, rain, rice.

Gifts

• Have the guests give their gift to the guest of honor in alphabetical order according to their first names

Cake

Easy Option 1- 9in rounds or 9x13 with birthday childs name on it.

Easy Option 2-Cupcakes that spell the childs name over and over

Harder Option-Carve individuale 9in rounds into the letter of each name and decorate with things that the child likes that starts with that letter (like with the collages) Or ice in childs favorite colors.

Goodie Bags

• Name braclettes
• collages
• letter stickers
• personlized item(s)-pencils/pens, book marks, note pades

Coming Soon.....

I have in the works...
The cake, goodie bags, games/activities to go with the Butterfly Birthday

"What's in a Name..." A birthday party all about the childs name!

Trains!

(Easy) Park Playdate Party-good for low budget or large numbers!

Mystery Machine/Scooby Doo Party

A cousin of mine recently did this party for her daughters 6th birthday.

For instructinos on how to make this a pinata at home visit fun4kids.blogspot.com

To start with have someone slyly take the presents while kids are busy doing a starter activity and leave first clue where the presents bin was. We had the kids doing bubble wands. Then say we have so many games to play that we are just going to start by opening presents first. Help kids discover that the presents are gone and find their first clue.

Clue #1: The presents are gone but don't be blue You can have them back by following each clue. I'm The Birthday Phantom and I'll give the gifts back, After you've feed Shaggy and Scooby a little snack.(played a toss game where they threw real scooby snacks into a cardboard cut-outs of Scooby and Shaggy with their mouths open. Once everyone had a turn the next clue was hidden on the back of the game board)

Clue #2:Wow! You did great, take it from me You'll get your next clue when you help Velma see.(played pin the glasses on Velma. Next clue was hidden behind the Velma poster)

Clue #3:To get your next clue and avoid a curse, Help Daphne find the things in her purse(Put a bunch of objects that Daphne would use in a purse and kids had to feel with there hands, without looking in the bag, for a specific object. The next clue was behind the Daphne poster.)

Clue #4:Fred's traps are always so cool and so neat You'll get your next clue when you stomp ghosts with your feet.(Tied white balloons, with ghosts faces drawn on them, to each kid's ankle and they had to stomp their own balloon with their other foot. The next clue was rolled up and put inside one of the balloons so that it was found when someone stomped it.)

Clue #5:Sit down, relax, and take a break You find your next clue after you taste some cake.(Sang Happy Birthday and ate cake and ice cream. The next clue was hidden under the cake in a little ziplock bag so that when we cut the cake the kids would see it.)

Clue #6:You have played many games it's been fun. However there is still one.Can the Birthday girl guess?When the candy drops, it's a mess!(Did the Pinata and the last clue was hidden in the pinata)

Clue #7:With so many friends to help you out You'll solve this mystery with out a doubt.Go to the place where you wash with shampoo and there you'll find your presents in view.(presents found in the bathtub and then we opened presents.)

Butterfly Party--Invitations

Here are some butterfly invites for a 4 yr old Butterfly birthday party.
I am currently working on the party so games, food, and goodie bags to come!

Instructions

1-found butterfly pattern I liked online enlarged to 5 in

and printed onto white card stock; cut out

2-traced onto printed paper/card stock and cut out

3-glued butterfly to a 4x4 piece of coordinating card stock

4-traced body of template butterfly and traced onto brown paper,

cut out and glued to main butterfly

5-glued invite info on back of papers

6-using a straight edge; folded the butterfly wings back and put dimensional adhesive underneath to give more depth to butterfly wings.

7-Hot glued piper cleaners onto heads of butterfly for antennae.

I used 1/2 of a regular length pipe cleaner and twirled around my finger.

The back of the invite said

Flutter on over to **Name** on **Date**

for her 4th Birthday Party!

The butterflies will be captured at 10:00 am

and released at 11:30 am.

Our cocoon is located at

**address**

Please RSVP to her 'MOM'arch at

**phone number & email address**

Because of the shape and dimension of the invite, these are meant to be hand delivered!

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