Homemade Easter Party Centerpiece Ideas

Posted on March 29, 2013 by admin
Add a festive touch to your Easter celebrations by using some crafty ideas

A centerpiece is an important aspect of your party décor. It gives a decorative look to your table and therefore, demands serious attention. For your upcoming Easter party, use some homemade springtime theme centerpieces that will reflect the arrival of the blossoming season. Here are some easy and creative ideas that can help you to make your party table the center of attraction. These ideas are so easy that even your tween / teen will be able to make them for you.

Waffle cone carrot

This Easter, make a sweet-filled centerpiece that can quickly double up as a favor and have your guests go home with something sweet to eat. For this project, arrange these supplies:

  • Waffle cones
  • Red and yellow food coloring
  • Cellophane bags in green color
  • Green ribbon
  • Jelly beans
  • Wheatgrass tray

Directions for making

  • Mix the red and yellow color together for making the real carrot like food color. There is no fixed composition to achieve the real carrot-like look; so you have to keep experimenting with the proportions.
  • Paint the waffle cones using this food color and let them dry completely.
  • Place some jelly beans at the center of green cellophane bags and secure them with the help of a green ribbon. Leave a good amount of bag empty so that it pokes out of the cone and resemble like carrot leaves.
  • Insert the jelly beans filled bags inside the carrots and set them inside a wheatgrass tray so that they stand upright.

Easter tree centerpiece

This will be the most thematic centerpiece for your Easter party. For making this elegant centerpiece, visit your nearby craft store and buy these supplies:

  • Faux twigs and branches (this will make your centerpiece last longer so that you can use it for your Thanksgiving party)
  • Tall decorative vase.
  • Faux bird nests
  • Faux tiny sized birds
  • Faux butterflies
  • Plastic eggs
  • Other decorative supplies such as faux flower buds, silk flowers, etc.

Directions for making:

  • Arrange the twigs and branches in the tall vase. Make sure that the setup is stable so that the branches don’t fall out.
  • Use a hot glue gun to attach the decorative supplies such as feathers, butterflies, flowers, leaves, buds, etc. Hang the eggs using fishing wire or white thread.

This centerpiece will perfectly match your party theme and give it an enchanted forest like look.

Flower, Easter bunny, and jelly beans centerpiece

This jelly beans filled centerpiece is sure to be the cutest addition to your child’s birthday party.

Here are the things that you will need:

  • One large sturdy vase
  • One small vase that fits well inside the large vase leaving ample of space for the jelly beans and bunnies
  • Jelly beans
  • Chocolate Easter bunnies
  • Fresh seasonal flower or a bouquet

Directions

  • Place the small vase inside the large vase.
  • Place the flower bouquet inside the smaller vase. In case you feel the smaller pot is quite low, you can place some newspaper below it to slightly raise it up.
  • Pour lots of jelly beans in the empty space to fill up the vase at least slightly beyond the smaller one.
  • Now, place the chocolate Easter bunnies inside the large vase in a way that they face out. That’s it! Your delicious Easter centerpiece is ready.
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Pirate Party Invitations that will ‘Blow them down!’

Posted on December 14, 2012 by admin

Pirate parties are always a big hit among the boys. They love wearing the eye patches, fighting with enemies, and hunting for the treasures. If you are having a sea-dog at your house and planning to throw a Pirate Birthday Party for him, go all out and plan a party that will make your guests as well as guest of honor feel as if they are the real buccaneers. To start with, send out groovy invitations that will excite your guests for your celebrations. If you are hard-pressed for time, the prepackaged invites available with us will be a great option. These invites perfectly complements with the rest of our Pirate Birthday Supplies. You can also make the invites at home by using your creative skills. Here are some ideas that will set the tone of your party.

Message in a bottle
Shiver me timbers! This would be the perfect invitation for your party. Buy some clear glass bottles that come with cork stoppers. Write your party message on a small piece of paper, roll it up into a tube, and secure it using a small piece of tape. Punch a hole at the edge of the invite and tie a string through it. Insert the tube into the bottle with the string hanging outside and seal the bottle with the cork. The string will make it easier for the kids to take out the invite without ripping it. You can also insert some sand, sea shells, grass, etc. in the bottle to look it like an authentic pirate invite. This invite has to be hand-delivered.

Treasure map invites
Such invites are readily available with the stores selling Pirate Birthday Supplies. Either buy them or make them at home using parchment paper, tea bags, clip arts, etc. Take a parchment paper and draw or print a Treasure Island like map on it. Write your party message on reverse side of it. Steep some tea bags in hot water, remove them, and let them cool. Squeeze them to remove the extra water and then dab them on your invites. When dried, your invites will look old, antiqued, and authentic. Either mail them or roll them up, tie a ribbon and hand deliver them.

Poster invite
Download a poster of the movie ‘Pirates of Caribbean’ and use image editing software to write your party invitations on it. Take poster-size color printouts of edited image, roll them, and tie with ribbons. Yo Ho Ho! Your invites are ready to be sent. Kids can stick these posters on the wall of their room or on their cupboards; thereby making these invitations become keepsakes for years to come.
Use calligraphy font to write your party details so that your invitations look authentic. Unleash your creativity and use pirate lingo to word your invites. These witty ways and our adorable collection of Pirate party supplies are sure to get your guests into the party mood.

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How to keep the little mouseketeers busy at your child’s Mickey Mouse theme party

Posted on December 14, 2012 by admin

Your child’s Mickey Mouse birthday party would be incomplete without some fun games that will make the kids laugh, talk, and do a lot of merry making. Some interesting party activities will keep the kids entertained thereby giving them some wonderful memories that they will remember for years to come. Here are some Mickey-oriented party games that will cost you nothing but will keep your party rolling for hours.

Mickey Mickey Mouse
This interesting variation of the old favorite ‘duck, duck, goose’ will be a big hit at your party. Make all the participants sit in a circle, except one who will play the role of ‘it’. Ask this child to walk around the circle calling each participant either as ‘Mickey’ or as ‘Mouse’. Whoever ‘it’ calls as a mouse has to jump up and chase ‘it’ around the circle to compete for his position. If the child catches ‘It’, he will continue in his position, whereas if he fails, he has to become ‘it’. You can customize this game as ‘Minnie Minnie mouse’ for a Minnie theme party.

Pin the ears on Mickey
Twist the popular pin the tail on the donkey and ask your party guests to ‘pin the ears on Mickey’. Draw a Mickey’s face except the ears on the poster paper, cut out lots of Mickey Mouse ears from black construction paper, blindfold the players, and ask your guests to stick the ears to its exact place. For safety, use double-stick tape instead of pins. Instead of making all these, you can buy a prepackaged game available with stores selling Mickey Mouse birthday Supplies.

Guess who
Choose one child to act like Mickey Mouse or any of the clubhouse characters and ask others to guess who he/she is imitating. Kids will surely enjoy this guessing game.

Mickey Mouse dancing activity
Mickey and his friends enjoy dancing and therefore, this will be a good activity for your Mickey Mouse birthday party. Collect some soundtracks from Mickey Mouse shows and play them for the little mouseketeers to dance, laugh, and enjoy. Alternatively, you can show a dancing video clip from any of the Mickey’s show and ask the kids to dance along with them.

Go beyond the decorations, food, and cake and have some Mickey-centered games for the kids to enjoy. Also, visit our online store to buy the required Mickey Mouse supplies that we are offering at a discounted price. Our adorable tableware, Mylar and latex balloons, and other decoration supplies are sure to help you create a festive atmosphere for your party.

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