need ideas for crafty 9th birthday party at home.

[ShiftHappens]

DD will turn 9. I can only afford a party at home for 4-5 friends max.

DD asked for something crafty but cool (she is not a girly girl). I am completely ungifted in that department.

Anybody done something similar? The guests will be 9-10 year old girls.

Thanks.

Have a look at crafty crocodiles.

www.craftycrocodiles.co.uk/

My 9 year old loves designing her own t-shirt and bag

Have a look at the Baker Ross or Hobbycraft websites for ideas?

When DD was younger...

I bought some plain cotton bags, fabric pens and sticky "jewels"... they sat round a table and decorated whilst singing along to One Direction (that's how long ago it was). They then all used their bags with pride!

Still one of my favourite memories of her growing up.

Hit send to soon.

We have done cake decorating, tie-dye tops (very messy) and fabric crayons on t-shirts, pillow cases, bags and pencil cases. All the 9 year olds loved it.

On our own we've made decoupage name, jewellery boxes and room decorations.

making t-shirts? get some plain white shirts, some fabric paint, sponges and stencils and let them make custom tshirts x

thanks - I love the bag and pencil case idea!

never heard of Ross Baker. Off to google!

Decorate t-shirts? Source cheap plain white shirts and couple of packs of fabric pens. Stuff shirt onto a sheet of card before they start so it doesn't bleed through.

Wet felting a picture (you tube tutorials)

Decoupatch - buy a cardboard letter for each child's initial and wrapping paper, magazines, tissue paper etc and a big pot of pva glue

Bake and decorate cupcakes or cookies. Least skill involved as long as you can bake, just provide plenty of fun toppings

Making friendship bracelets

Not craft but could have a pizza smash - buy pizza bases (if you can make pizza dough it would be super cheap) and provide lots of chopped toppings. Each child gets their own so hopefully fussiness is out the window! Could do same with ice cream and toppings.

I am considering doing mask making for dd1's 9th birthday with templates from wintercroft.com. We made some at a festival in the summer and they were excellent.

We did a make your own pizza (get names on tin foil trays) then make your own ice cream.

Like the T-shirt idea as it can be the goody bag gift to take home

Get some cheap white mugs from Asda or Argos and let them paint them with ceramic paint.

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