I need ideas please!
Kmquinn2000
Saturday is her party, we are having cake and ice cream but I also want to
serve some other snacks.
There will be 10 adults and 7 children.
Oh... and I am on a tight budget, so nothing expensive please :)
The theme is hippy/flower child/rainbow :)
We will be having a flower cake and rainbow sherbet.
For the craft we will be painting small flowerpots and planting a flower.
Thanks for any help you can give me... I am totally out of ideas for snacks.
~Kat
CANT881
You can bake cookies on a stick and arrange them to look like flowers (stick a
little construction paper leaf on the stem?)
Cut up fruit (strawberries, pineapple, oranges, etc. - arranged to look like a
rainbow) with dip. Or just cut up pineapple in the shape of a sun.
Pretzel rods.
Good luck!
Massachusetts Mama
Nan
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> Today is my daughters 3rd birthday :))
Happy Happy Birthday!!!
How about some salty snacks to offset the sweet? Maybe popcorn and pretzel
sticks?
~Nan~
Monahan
Sorry, I cannot think of a snack idea, but are you doing face painting?
That is the first hippie thought that came to my mind. I love this idea.
Would you send me the other things you are planning for this event? My DD's
party is in three weekends. I have not an idea of what I want to do. She
just turned two....I may do this one. I love this idea!
D~
bimbette
Im a new mum so my imagination for kids parties hasnt kicked in yet.
Some of these other ideas sound great though! I bet you will have a ball.
bimbette
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Jen Cook
This seems like kind of a boring idea, but I think vegis & dip are always a
great snack & something everyone might like.
Jen
Kmquinn2000
>That is the first hippie thought that came to my mind. I love this idea.
>Would you send me the other things you are planning for this event? My DD's
>party is in three weekends. I have not an idea of what I want to do. She
>just turned two....I may do this one. I love this idea!
>D~
with flowers for the kids to take home. (This is cheaper than I thought it
would be, a flat of flowers and a bag of potting soil. What’s left over I
can use in my own garden.) I have a HUGE concrete drive so each child is going
to get a small set of sidewalk chalk so that we can make a mural. (I bought
enough chalk for the adults too :) And I am considering, since I will have the
paints out, to do a memory quilt. Have everyone put there hand prints/foot
prints and names on a white sheet and I will quilt it up on my machine later :)
We also have a big swing set and I’m sure the little ones will have fun
playing on it too. I am going for part time structure and part time free time.
~Kat
Kmquinn2000
>one to each child to use as a Groovy Headband.
>
>Play upbeat 60s music and dance til they drop. Set up a coffee table
>or other small podem so they can each get to dance "on the podium"
>surrounded by the other kiddos.
>
>Sit in a circle and sing Kumbaya &/or Michael Row The Boat Ashore
>
>Is it just me or are pretzles really close to the peace sign? :P
>Maybe you can modify them? Can you make pretzles from scratch to BE
>the peace sign?
>
>Cookies iced into Happy Faces.
>
>Package of white construction paper, some black construction paper,
>tape, gluesticks and watercolors. Fold the white construction paper
>into boxes. Make them into VW Westfalia's: draw on windshield &
>windows w/black marker & tape or glue on 'wheels'. Give kiddoes each
>one Van, and let them transform it into a 'Hippy Van' :-) with
>watercolors (or stickers if you can find some!). Maybe print out some
>pics of them from google searches, so they know what they're supposed
>to be creating LOL.
>
>OK, I'm out of ideas. Turns out the park we were going to have DDs
>bday in is sold out! So I'm frantically running around trying to find
>a new place (wish I had a back yard!).
>
>Good luck! Have fun! Happy Birthday Claire :-)
>
>
>--
>Sherry
WOWZA Sherry... what great ideas. I would love to come to one of your parties
lol
~Kat
Kmquinn2000
>great snack & something everyone might like.
>
>Jen
Thanks Jen,
Not boring at all... your right.. it's a good snack that most everyone will
enjoy!
~Kat
otterb0t
for noah's last birthday party, we had chicken wing pieces (the top bit, the
middle bit, but no pointy bit) and plates of wedges of pineapple, watermelon
& rockmelon, and chips. it was *really* easy, inexpensive & the kids tucked
in like there was no tomorrow.
i hasten to point out that these were 6 year olds... you might be looking
for finger foods *without* grease or juice for 3 year olds :-)
kylie
Fly on the Wall
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Happy birthday to your daughter!
I took my son to a party a couple of years ago and they did something that
might go with your flower theme. Ground up/broken oreo cookies in a pot
with gummy worms in it. Sounds gross, I know, but it was really pretty cool
and the kids loved it.
--
"No, Mommy. I'm not laughing *with* you, I'm laughing *at* you.
DS, age 3
enigma
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> And I am considering, since I will have the paints out,
> to do a memory quilt. Have everyone put there hand prints/foot prints
> and names on a white sheet and I will quilt it up on my machine later
> :)
oooh! that's a GREAT idea! what kind of paints are you using? will they
stand being laundered?
lee
--
you can't grep dead trees.
Kmquinn2000
>stand being laundered?
>lee
I'm not sure yet, we are going to take a trip to the craft store to get paint
and advise :)
I'll let you know later :)
~Kat
Monahan
Monahan
cookie cutters (just the heads of the flowers) stick them on a straw and
stand them in the pot of 'dirt' cake. I made a flower pot cake this way a
few years back.
Bake the cake in a large (1 qt) glass measure cup. After it has cooled,
place it on a plate wide end up. Frost with a terra cotta colored frosting
to make it look like a flower pot. I think I used some chocolate cocoa and
red food coloring to get the right effect. Then place the Rice Krispie
flowers in the 'pot'. My kids loved the cake!
D~
Janet
Sugar cookies sprinkled with different colored sugars. (Use a
flower-shaped cookie cutter if you have one. If you don't, you could
also try painting or piping flowers on.)
Make a rainbow by cutting out different colors of jello and then
assembling them...with maybe some "clouds" of whipped cream or cool
whip. (Or if that seems too difficult, use that flower-shaped cookie
cutter to cut out the jello and put a small dollop of cool whip topped
with a berry in the center.)
Use chunks of fruit like melons, fresh pineapple and strawberries and
arrange them into a rainbow with cool whip clouds (or a yogurt dip).
If you were to mix a tiny bit of food coloring into the melted butter,
you could make rainbow popcorn? Think this might work better if you
sprayed it on tho...
Janet
I used to have a handle on life, but it broke.
Kmquinn2000
>you could make rainbow popcorn? Think this might work better if you
>sprayed it on tho...
>
>Janet
Thanks Janet :)
about the popcorn... I hear that you can sprinkle jello (out of the box :) over
hot popcorn and make it different colors... I plan on doing this.. thanks for
the reminder :)
~Kat