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Invites

• Shape your invitations like a playing card, tea bag, teapot or tea cup. Or make a top hat, and replace the 10/6 card with a card containing the party details
• Visit www.kidspartyinvites.co.za to
  have an invite designed especially for your kid

Games

• Lawn croquet with hedgehog plush toys as balls plush flamingos. Create large cardboard playing cards for the arches.
• Play chess (if the kids are old enough) on a normal sized chessboard, or make a huge chessboard in your garden and have
  your guests play the pieces
• Play "pin the grin on the Cheshire Cat"

Party Snacks:

• Pony birthday cake
• Rainbow cookies
• Jellytots
• Cheesecurls
• Popcorn clouds

Party Ideas and Décor:

• Fill you party area with balloons and streamers.
• Cover the table with a table cloth - you can easily make this by buying cheap cotton with rainbows or even the character on.
• Centerpiece - pink gift bags, balloon bouquet and a few My Little Pony toys (as gifts even). Tie the balloons onto a weight and place them into the gift bag with matching tissue paper. Surround the gift bag with My Little Pony toys.
• Sprinkle silver and pink sequins on the table.

Party Invite Ideas:

• Make your own party invites by using pink cardboard and gel pens (glitter gel pens are perfect). Cut a 3x5 postcard and draw a rainbow on the front using the gel pens.
• Horseshore shaped invite.
• Alternatively we have a brand new advertiser ready to design party invites that won't break the bank.

Walkie talkie

Materials

• Pencil
• Red cardboard
• Grey paper or cardboard
• Black marker
• Glue
• Black straws
• Small boxed juices

Instructions

1. Trace the size of the juice boxes on the red cardboard
2. Cut the shape out and fold
3. Cut a rectangular shaped grey paper to fit on the front of the box
4. Draw the face of a walkie talkie
5. Stick a black straw into the juice container hole
6. Voila! walkie talkies for the fire brigade

Spotted in: Partytjie IDEES vir Kinders Somer 2010

Party Snacks:

• Fire truck birthday cake
• Bar Ones
• Caramelised popcorn balls
• Liquorice
• Chips
• Cookies decorated as wheels or with a fire on
• Cheesy cookies

Party Ideas and Décor:

• Red and blue
• If you have the budget to buy the hats - this will make everyone's day!
• Use plastic spades as plates

Party Invite Ideas:

• Make a badge with the invitee's name and past on a red scroll
• "Certificate" inviting trainee firemen and women to the party

Party Snacks:

• Cookies cut into shell or star shapes – decorate with icing sugar to look like the real thing
• Blue punch with ice cubes in fish shapes
• Sour worms
• The cake can be a rock with a mermaid, a pond with fishies or a smiling starfish… if you have the budget and a great baker then maybe your kid could ride a whale

Party Ideas and Décor:

• Go blue!
• Hang paper sea animals from the roof
• Buy blue material that can flap in the wind – and use it as the roof of the party

Party Invite Ideas:

• Use fish or mermaid print cutouts and paste the party invite on the back.
• Use the shape of a sandal to make the invites with.

• Packet of chicken or beef hotdog sausages
• Mustard
• Tomato sauce

Directions:

1. Cut the sausages in half almost to the halfway mark
2. and then cut it again... and again - until the octopus has 8 legs.
3. Now take the mustard and give it eyes.
4. Use the tomato sauce to give it a smile.
5. Unfold the legs and spread them to keep the head up.

Smart idea:

Make meal times a little more interesting by topping green spaghetti with an octopus or 2. Either use spinach pasta or color normal pasta with a little food coloring.

Party Snacks:

• Corn on cob – cut into miniature pieces.
• Canned food already cut open with sporks (can be found at outdoor shops – it is a fork, knife and spoon combined) or normal cutlery to eat with.
• Marshmallow braai
• Bread on a stick – put raw dough on a (cleaned) stick and let the children bake it over a fire. (Keep this for older children.)
• Hot dogs or sandwiches filled with crisps and lettuce.
• Make toasted sandwiches on a braai / BBQ.

Party Ideas and Décor:

• Put lanterns up high – so the children cannot reach.
• Use empty cans to cut holes in and place candles inside. Paint the cans or leave with the original labels on.
• Use old blankets to make a tent if you don’t have.
• Give each attendee a compass to find their way around the great outdoors (in your garden)!
• Ask each attendee to bring a sleeping bag.
• Remember the Mozzie repellant!
• Use plastic mosquitoes and flies as décor.

Party Invite Ideas:

• Use animal paw print cutouts and paste the party invite on the back.
• Attach a compass to the invite scroll.

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