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This is a great indoor party that helps to chase the winter doldrums away.
INVITATIONS:
Get some miniature garden hats at the craft store. Glue some ribbon or silk flowers around the rim. Roll up an invitation written on parchment paper, tie it with a ribbon, and attach it to the little hat.
An alternative invitation is to get some dollar store gardening gloves, and give your guest a glove filled with a baggie of sunflower seeds, and write your invitation on the glove.
DECORATIONS:
You'll need lots and lots of flower pots. If you have real flowers and plants, it's time to bring them all indoors and set them up all around the party room. If you don't have any plants or real flowers, just get a bunch of inexpensive plastic planting pots. Paint them or cover them with foil or colored paper to brighten them up. Stick a hunk of floral foam or styrofoam inside of them. Then, get or make lots of flowers-- dollar store fake flowers, construction paper stapled to straws, or tissue paper wrapped around pipe cleaners-- whatever your method. Stick the flowers in the pots.
Lay green drop cloth or a roll of inexpensive green indoor/outdoor carpeting on the floor and surround the area with the pots. Put big "clouds" on the wall by cutting out cardboard clouds freehand, spraying them with glue and covering with inexpensive fiber fill or large cotton rolls. Make a sun by painting a paper plate yellow and tacking it to the ceiling.
Hang paper or toy birds from the ceiling with a thread and tack. Tape construction paper lady bugs and honey bees to the walls.
If you have patio or garden furniture, bring it inside and use it for the party. Get an inexpensive plastic garden trellis and tack it to the wall. Hang floral or leafy garland to it.
ACTIVITIES:
Let the kids plant their own little plant. Get seed packets for herbs such as parsley, basil and thyme. Get small seed starter pots and a bag of planting soil. Cover a table with newspaper and provide some small shovels. Let each child plant an herb of their choice. Tape the child's name to their pot, and the name of the herb so they know what they are taking home. They can put their pots on the window sill and, in a few weeks, have a delicious salad herb to cook with that they grew by themselves.
Play "Pin A Rose On Your Nose." This game is much more fun than pin the tale on the donkey. Separate your guests into pairs. Split the pairs up-- one of each team stands in a line on one side of the room, and the other of each team gets a paper die cut flower with a piece of looped tape on the back. Everyone gets blindfolded. Parents shuffle the children in line around. The partners with the flowers have to look for their partner (no talking allowed!), and, when they think they've found them, the put the flower on their partners nose. Then they and the person they pinned can remove their blindfolds to see if they are right. The teams can switch places and try again.
REFRESHMENTS:
Place chips and dips in baskets and clean flower pots. Pretzel sticks smeared with peanut butter and dotted with raisins make great "ants on a log." Gelatin jigglers in colorful colors and cut with butterfly and flower shaped cookie cutters will brighten up a table.
Serve herbal iced tea and fruit punch in large, plastic (new) watering cans. Make sure the watering cans have narrow spouts, and not sprinkle spouts.
Finger sandwiches of tuna salad, cucumbers, cream cheese and chopped wall nuts, or even peanut butter and jelly can be made in flower shapes by cutting the bread with a flower shaped cookie cutter. Arrange on a plate and garnish with mint leaves.
Make a flower pot cake. Bake enough cake mixes to accommodate your guests in a regular pan. Allow the cakes to cool and cut into approximately two-inch cubes. Purchase a very large terra-cotta pot. Wash it well and dry it. Line the bottom with foil to cover the hole. Fill the pot about half way with cake cubes. Spoon a layer of pudding onto it. Sprinkle with gummy worms. Add the remaining cake cubes. Cover with chocolate whipped cream. Sprinkle with chocolate cookie crumbs or chocolate chips. Add a few more gummy worms on top. Stick chocolate flowers made on popsicle sticks into it, or just lay chocolate or candy flowers on top. Scoop it out for guests with a brand new, washed gardening trough.
GOODY BAGS:
Get some miniature tin or terra-cotta flower pots. Fill them with flower and insect stickers, butterfly tattoos, a package of sunflower seeds, some gummy worms, and any other little garden theme party favors you come across at the party or discount stores. Top with a square of plastic wrap or colored cellophane and use a rubber band to secure the wrap to the rim. Paint your guests name on the pot and pass them out as the children are leaving. |
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