FASH*PASS*ION: CRAFTS FOR KIDS

How to organize a birthday party with a little help of a 5-year old!!!

The summer holiday is coming closer and closer. This means birthday-time for Roos - already 5 years old!!!! Finally old enough to help with the preparations for her party. She loved it!!!

We made INVITATIONS, GIFTS FOR HER CLASSMATES, GIFT FOR THE TEACHER, BIRTHDAY CROWN, DECORATION FOR THE HOUSE

We worked around the THEMES; FISH (for the boys) & FLOWER (for the girls).

1) THE INVITATIONS:

- first take colored thick paper - blue for the fish and pink for the flower.

- fold it in half

- cut the fish and flowers

- then take colored, thin origami papers - orange for the fish, pink and yellow for the flower.

- cut the scales out the orange papers

- use the perforator for the pink and yellow papers

- glue the scales on the fish and write the name of the guest on the tail

- draw an eye and cut out the mouth

- write the name of the guest on the flower

- glue the dots on the flower around the name of the guest

2) THE GIFTS FOR THE CLASSMATES

- crocheted fishes on a key ring for the boys

- crocheted bracelets and necklaces for the girls

- for the necklace, you crochet a chain of 52 cm ( for a 5-year old)

- then return with a loop of 10 stitches

- crochet waves:

3 single crochet stitches

then one normal chain stitch

then 1 half double crochet stitch

then one normal chain stitch

then 1 double crochet stitch

then one normal chain stitch

then 1 triple crochet stitch

- And then in reverse order back, but without the normal chain stitch

- Continue this till the end of the chain.

- At the end sew on a button that fits in the loop of the other end

-----> necklace finished!

PRESENTATION OF THE GIFTS:

- Take paper cones, and decorate.

- make a little whole to fix the key ring or the bracelet and the necklace

- Put a muffin in every cone

- Then paint a big cardboard box blue with green seaweed and decorate with foam fishes. Arrange the gifts in the box and you'll have a perfect presentation for your gifts!!!!

3) FLOWERS AS DECORATION

- blow 4 pink balloons and 1 yellow balloon.

- tie them with a rope as a flower

- As you can see on the right picture in the right corner, we made a grab bag for the children to grab a present before going home after the party. They loved it!!!!