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Invitations
(Festival of flowers)
Bee
There
Cut invitation in the shape of a bee OR cut out a flower
with a bee on it. “We’re holding a Spring Party Festival.
Please say you’ll
BEE
THERE!”
The Early Bird
Use a picture of a bird in a nest. “The Early Bird has more
fun at the party. Come to a Spring Fling at Georgia’s
house.”
Decorations
(A spring party fling)
Colors should be
pastels.
Decorate with
strings of
flowers, birds and butterflies
Place small
branches from
blooming trees in a vase for a
centerpiece.
Cakes
(Spring, pop, out of the pan)
| Serve a beautiful Butterfly Cake made with the Provo Craft Cricut Cake machine. |
| Make this Lacy Hat Cake with the Provo Craft Cricut Cake machine. |
Flower
Pot
Cupcakes
Place ice cream cones in muffin tins and fill with cupcake
batter. Bake, cool, frost. In the meantime, cut out flower shapes from
decorated papers and attach to straws. Put a straw flower in each
cupcake.
Rainbow
Cupcake Cake A cake made of cupcakes with a rainbow of smiles
and fun.
Costumes/Dress
up (Bloom where you are)
Flower
and
Bee Head Bands
Cut strips of paper to make a headband. Tape a cut out of a
bee to a pipe cleaner, and a cut out of a flower to a pipe cleaner, and
tape
the pipe cleaners to the headband.
Games
and Activities (Spring has sprung and
so have your guests)
Lily
Leap
(ages 3-7)
Cut large lily pads out of green construction paper and let
the children jump and hop around the room. This can be an activity or
this can
use this as a cake walk game. Click
for this PDF file here.
Duck, Duck Goose (ages
3-7)
Play the traditional game. Everyone sits in a circle, except
the guest who is IT. IT walks around the outside of the circle, tapping
everyone on the head saying, “Duck.” When IT says, “Goose,” the GOOSE
and IT
race around the circle to get in the GOOSE’s place. Whoever is left
standing is
the new IT. Play until the guests are tired of the game.
Egg
and Spoon Race (ages
3-12)
Which came first? For your spring party it may be the egg. Use colored,
hard boiled eggs or plastic eggs. Give each
guest an egg and a spoon—a tablespoon, a wooden spoon or a serving
spoon. Then,
have the guests race by holding their egg and spoon in front of them,
but not touching the egg with their hands. If the egg falls off the
spoon, go back to start
and
begin again.
Sidewalk Chalk (ages 3-12)
Get several packages of sidewalk chalk and let the guests go wild.
You can assign everyone their own square of sidewalk or just let them
have fun
together.
Nature Scavenger Hunt
(ages 3-12)
Enjoy the season at your spring party. Provide each guest with a list
of things to find in
nature—for younger guests this may need to be a picture list. Go on a
nature
scavenger hunt together or send the guests out individually. Give clear
instructions about how far they are allowed to go to find the items on
their
list and decide on a time limit because they might not be able to find
everything. Some ideas for the list include: find 2 different trees,
find an
ant hill, listen for the song of a bird, find a puddle, etc.
Face Painting (age 3-16)
Use acrylic paints to paint simple figures on everyone’s
cheeks. Try painting some of these ahead of time on paper so you know
what you
can do. Keep wet wipes handy in case someone is allergic to the paint
and
complains of it itching.
Mud Pies (ages 3-16)
Include this time tested activity at your spring party. Make mud
pies—really. Make some mud from water and dirt.
Provide pails, pie tins, spoons, cups and pans. If you don’t want to
mess up
the stuff in your kitchen you can purchase some kitchen items from a
thrift store.
Just warn
everyone before they come and provide lots of water and towels for
clean up.
Animal Mime (ages 3-16)
Take turns miming different animals. The first guest to guess
correctly gets to take the next turn. Allow younger children to use
noises.
Guests can pick their own animals or draw the names of animals from a
bag. Click
for this PDF file here.
Slinky Spring Races (ages
5-16)
Give each guest a slinky and race them down the stairs (a
slinky is kind of like a spring). This activity can turn your shindig
into a real spring party.
Tree Planting (age 8-16)
Plant a tree. Provide shovels, or on the invitation ask the
guests to bring a shovel. Ask your local nursery for the best
instructions to
plant a tree in your region. If you plan ahead you may be able to
arrange to get
inexpensive tree starts from your State Forestry and provide them for
each
guest, with a small pot of dirt to temporarily plant them in.
Spring Fever Match (ages
8-16)
Match the names of the moms and their babies from the animal
kingdom—mare and foal, hen and chick, etc. Click
for this PDF file here.
Crafts
(Creative spring party creations)
Paper Plate
Flowers (ages 3-8)
Give each guest a paper plate. Provide markers, colored
paper, scissors and glue sticks. Make the paper plates into flowers.
The flowers can be
taped to a 1 foot dowel rod to be made into a bouquet.
Butterflies Fly (ages 3-8)
Cut butterfly wings from decorated paper. Glue the wings to
one end of a craft popsicle stick—with the other end of the stick to be
used as
a handle. Glue small pompoms down the center of the wings to form a
body. Glue
on googly eyes. Glue in the ends of floral spray for antennae. When the
butterflies
are dry, make them fly (i.e. run around with the butterflies in hand).
Alternative: use clothespins instead of craft popsicle sticks and the
butterflies can be clipped to hats, curtains, etc.
Popcorn Tress (ages 3-8)
Glue pastel colored hole punches to the outline of a tree to
create a blossoming tree.
Coffee Filter Flowers
(ages 3-12)
Drop about 3 drops of food coloring on a new coffee filter
then drip some water on it to make it run. This can be a little messy
with
young children so have extra adult help. Let the coffee filters dry on
paper
plates that have the children’s names on them. Play other games while
the
filters dry. Twist the center of the dry air filter together and attach
a green
pipe cleaner to it to make the flower. You may twist several filters
together
for a fuller flower. Spray with a little perfume. |
Easter Nests
