What arts and crafts can you create at a kids’ birthday party?
No matter what age: planning a perfect children’s birthday party is a must. If you want to celebrate it at home, the question is how to keep the kids busy. After all, you would love to ensure that the little guests enjoy themselves even after eating cake and the famous pot hitting. Thanks to the right ideas, crafting at a children’s birthday party is an activity with fun guaranteed – as a mom or dad you will impress the kids with your cool craft ideas for children’s birthday parties.
What craft ideas do children love?
Can you relate? Sometimes you will not hear a peep in your child’s room, it is almost too quiet. And eventually, your little one proudly presents their tinkered masterpiece – and you can’t stop marvelling at the latter. Children are incredibly creative, which is why parents only need to provide them with a few tips for the crafting session at the kids’ party.
There are no limits when it comes to crafting ideas, the only restraint are the materials that are available and the kids’ age:
- Create beautiful origami figures or paper planes.
- With pearls, kids can create jewellery and other amazing things.
- Natural materials are also very popular: painted stones, chestnut figures or collages with leaves.
- With old egg cartons, kids can easily create an ocean with paper boats.
- Empty milk cartons can be turned into bright lanterns.
- If you want to create a colourful masterpiece, then foot and hand prints are a great idea.
With the right painting and crafting equipment almost anything is possible
In our high-quality kids’ assortment, you will find the right painting and crafting materials for all ages that have been adapted to meet their respective needs.
- Coloured pencils
- Wax crayons
- Felt-tip pens
- Finger paint
- Craft kits
- And so much more.
Craft ideas for children’s birthday parties
Craft ideas in advance of the birthday party
Anticipation is half the fun. This also applies to your child as their birthday approaches. Many weeks in advance the main topic discussed at breakfast or dinner is always the same one: whom can I invite? As soon as the guest list is completed, the first preparations for the kids’ party are made. And even now, the little ones can get started with crafting.
A few keywords often suffice. Many children are beyond excited when they can craft their own invitations. Many days or weeks in advance, the birthday child can create beautiful invitation cards with paper or cardboard, coloured pencils or felt-tip pens, sparkling pearls and other similar items, and then hand them out to the invitees. This builds up the anticipation and teaches even toddlers that making preparations for their birthday party can be just as much fun as the party itself.
The big day is approaching: crafting for children’s birthday parties
As the big day is approaching, the birthday child is getting more and more excited! In order to channel their emotions, you can organize a little ‘brainstorming’ with the kids a few days before the kids’ birthday party. What would your child like to experience? For example, one of the classic game ideas. In fact, the above-mentioned pot hitting or blind man’s bluff are popular to this day. If you want to continue the birthday party outside the house, then a treasure hunt in the park around the corner is an easy solution that does not demand a lot of organization.
Tip: craft a piñata
Piñatas are becoming increasingly popular! As part of your children’s birthday party preparations, you can craft a selfmade chest piñata together with your little one. This ensures double the fun: on one hand, your little one can enjoy the process of crafting it for the party, on the other hand, the birthday child will have fun trying to break it open and collecting the ‘treasures’ in it.
When it comes to ideas for the birthday party, children will always mention cakes and sweets. If you want to bake them yourself, you can involve your children – usually, they will join the baking session with a lot of enthusiasm! Or you can discuss ideas for the ‘decoration’, since there are innumerable ways to do it. What is more fun than blowing up balloons or crafting festoons before their own party? With some cardboard, coloured pencils and a cord, your child can start crafting and creating beautiful decorations for their birthday party a few days before the event.
What are nice craft ideas for the kids’ birthday party?
As the big day is coming closer and closer, it is a good idea to create a schedule for the party: 3 PM cake, 4 PM treasure hunt, 5 PM birthday party craft activities until their parents pick them up, dinner in between and so on… As soon as the schedule is set, it is time to collect birthday party crafting ideas: always keep the children’s age in mind, since different craft ideas are suitable for kids of different ages.
Let’s start with younger children. You don’t have to prepare a lot of craft tools and materials in order to keep them busy – a few empty toilet and kitchen rolls will do. What about making toilet paper tube owls? Adults can draw their eyes and beak with a pencil, the little ones can then colour the owl’s face with coloured felt-tip pens. This guarantees variety and a whole lot of fun!
In general, animals are popular craft ideas. Children love animals, and even more so if they can create and craft them on the occasion of a kids’ birthday party. Whether it is a seahorse as a colouring page, funny and colourful butterflies or cute starfishes: for any and all these craft ideas you only need paper or cardboard, glue, coloured pencils and child-friendly scissors (for the butterflies also some pipe cleaner, masking tape as well as a cord).
Flowers are motifs that are just as popular. With paper plates, paper or construction paper, child-safe scissors, adhesive tape or glue sticks, coloured pencils and colourful felt pompoms, children can craft flower decoration made from paper plates as window decoration or colourful scribble flowers that can serve as decorations in your home or that they can take home.
Further craft ideas and templates
Children’s birthday party: craft ideas for older children
For example, older children love flip-books just as much as the little ones! Many kids are interested in the plants that grow on their parents’ balcony. What about painting and embellishing some flower pots with finger paint, school paints or gel pens? Creativity knows no limits.
What giveaways can you craft at a kids’ birthday party?
Giveaways are a very nice gesture – the children invited to the party can bring their tinkered objects home! This motivates them even more when crafting them.
Owls made of toilet rolls are a great idea and the perfect giveaway for younger and older children. Ships made of egg carton are also easy to transport back home. Basically, all the above-mentioned crafts are perfect giveaways for the little guests to bring home after the party. But we have collected even more crafting ideas that would make a wonderful giveaway:
- Magic wands that the birthday guests can create and embellish with glitter as well as adhesive tapes.
- Animal masks made of paper plates that they cut out and decorate with colours, rubber bands and other materials.
- Bookmarks for their favourite book, made of cardboard, carton or paper and embellished with sparkling pearls, colours and other materials.
- Friendship bracelets made of rubber bands and colourful pearls.
When it comes to crafting and giveaways, creativity knows no limits – this applies to your creativity as well as your young guests’. A perfect way to transport the tinkered craft objects and giveaways are small paper bags. The bags can also be decorated, painted and embellished. Therewith, the little party guests go home with a wonderful memory of your little one’s birthday party.
