* Rainbow Birthday Party Highlights: Craftivities

As guests arrived, they were invited to the art studio to make their own

Froot Loop Cereal necklaces 

on rainbow yarn.

We taped down one end on the table.

(Remember these from RAINBOW Camp?!)

Built- in snacks to wear  and eat while you work!

Then, we picked out 

paint sample chips

to make our own 

mini notepads

(click here if you need directions from my older post!)

Then, we moved on 

to Color Wheel mixing

with paper towels.

Do you remember this wonderful  activity from my bloggy friend, Anne's

Itty Bitty Blog? 

I downloaded these cute templates

from Mama Jenn's blog here and laminated them

to use for future art classroom activities...

Sadly, I used diluted food coloring in water and the colors 

were too washed out to bleed and mix properly 

so our color wheels were a bit of a flop. 

Then, we moved on to our awesome no mess hankie tie-dyeing 
with permanent markers and  rubbing alcohol!

Followed by some water color painting...

We painted monograms

with watercolors on watercolor paper...

I cut out each child's initial 

from clear contact paper

ahead of time and had them ready to go...

Each of the craftivities could be done by 

guests of all ages 

(including three year old little sisters!)

Happy Birthday sweet girlie!

Before she opened each gift, 

the Frog Princess took a moment

to look at that gift-giving friend 

and tell them something 

she liked about them, 

or that made them special to her...

it was really sweet

(and I wrote down what she said about each friend as well as what gift they gave her)

Taking a quick break from unwrapping gifts to make an impromptu wrapping paper dress!

One of the Frog Princess' friends made her this sweet bracelet -- she loved it!

(home made gifts from the heART are the best!)

When our guests left, 

we asked each one to pick a 

pinwheel from the front yard

to take home, it was fun watching the kids

run around in the front yard with their pin wheels spinning

in the March sunshine.... bring on SPRING!