Birthdays
Happy Birthday Apron
For your child's next birthday party, purchase a child-sized apron that can be decorated. Help the party guests to put fabric paint on their hands, and then let them make a handprint on the apron. Write the name of each child next to their handprint. Your child will have a nice keepsake to help them remember their special day and who was there to share it with them.(read more)
Birthday Hat
This year, let your child create his or her own birthday hat! To begin, staple or tape a piece construction paper into the shape of a cone. Then, let your child decorate the hat with glitter glue, ribbons, streamers, pom-poms, foam letters -- whatever your child can dream up. An extra fun touch is to include a big number designating which birthday you and your child are ...(read more)
Blessing Ring/Birthday Ring
Cut thin strips of colored construction paper. Write the name of a blessing on each piece of paper. (Optional - Decorate the paper with stickers, etc.) Link the pieces of paper to form one long chain that you can hang on the fireplace or anywhere in the house. Another variation would be to use this as a Birthday Ring. Write down neat characteristics of the birthday girl/boy ...(read more)
Interactive Wish List
A few months away from your child's birthday or a special holiday like Christmas, let them start looking at the toy ads you receive in the mail. Have them cut out the pictures of the items they like. I keep them all in an envelope until a few weeks away from the big event. Then we'll take them all out and paste or tape them to a ...(read more)
Birthday Memory Book
In honor of your child's birthday, ask every child invited to your child's party to bring a picture of him or herself to put in a memory book. At the party, place the picture in the memory book and ask each person to fill out a brief questionnaire (name, age, favorite food, favorite memory of your child). It is really fun to read what the children's responses are ...(read more)
Ring in the Big Day
When your child is having a hard time waiting for a special day to arrive, use this craft to help him or her mark the time still left until the big day. Create a stack of construction paper strips; each strip should be big enough to staple or tape into a ring. Then, each day, let your child take one strip of paper and create a ring. ...(read more)
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