Art Party
Paint Pallette Chocolate Invitations: I found small paint pallettes (I purchased them from Oriental Trading) and put six different colored chocolate chips (the melting chocolate bags from Walmart or Michaels) in each spot and threw it in the microwave on half power about 1 min an stired each color with a toothpick to mix it up. They melted just enough to mold into the spot to stay in place. I then put them in plastic party bags with a label of the party information on it and tied with a cute ribbon. These came out super cute but be careful using them or mailing them during the summer! Check out more invitation ideas here: http://www.addcake.com/invite-me.php
Photo Opportunity: I always love to have a photo op at the entrance to the party. This way I have a keepsake picture of everyone who came to celebrate with us. I cut the top off of a box and wrapped it in white paper and then printed out a crayon sign and pasted it on front. I filled it with blow up crayons.
Decorations: Each child got an apron to put on when they arrived. We had a large table covered with brown shipping paper. Each place setting had a small tabletop wooden easel (Ikea $1 each), a 4×6 canvas (Michael’s), a Paint Pallette with washable tempura paint, and Paint Brush. I wrote each kid’s name with crayon on the table and on the back on their canvas so we would know whose painting was whose. I also got 4×6 wooden frames (Ikea 3/$1) that I painted gold so each child would take home their framed artwork.
Rainbow Art Cake: I found the coolest cake idea that was the hit of the party at this website: http://www.omnomicon.com/rainbowcake. I just used my favorite cake recipe and put it in six seperate bowls and colored each bowl seperately. It came out so cool and everyone was blown away as we were passing out cake. Such a fun suprise! I apparently was too excited to get a picture of the cut cake! Here is the cake before we frosted it.
I made one large sheet cake and one small round cake for the paint pallette. I cut a small part out of the round cake and covered it in fondant. I cut colored circles out of fondant for the paint. I also created a paint brush out of fondant. I frosted the large cake in white and put a small easel I found at Michael’s on top. To create the canvas, I cut a rice crispy square and covered it with fondant and let my daughter (3rd Birthday Girl) color on the canvas with edible markers.
Games: Besides the paintings, we also had a search for the missing art collection (a pinata with art pictures on each side).
Favors: Colored Plastic Buckets (Party City $1/each) that I put their name on the front (printing name on clear label paper in a different color). Set of paint, crayons (Paint and Crayon from Orienal Trading), playdough (Michael’s $1/5), paint brush sucker (99Cent Store $.49 each), and framed artwork.
FINAL TAB (Not including paper products and food):
$20.00 Invitations with Chocolates
$60.00 Art Supplies (15 Kids - Aprons, Easels, Canvas, Paint, Brushes, Pallette, and Frames)
$30.00 Favors (15 Buckets with Paint Set, Crayons, Playdough, Sucker)
$8.00 Photo Op (Free Box and Set of 1 Dozen Blow Up Crayons)
$7.00 Pinata (Homemade by me and my daughter - NOT as pretty as store bought ones but fun) $7 for candy and toys
TOTAL = $125