Help me with activity ideas please for a party

[Yorkiegirl]

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[FourArms]

How long is the party? Will you be having food too?

Tattoos in addition to facepainting seem popular at the moment.

[NumberFour]

would musical chairs to Christmas Carols be any good? or pass the parcel wrapped in Christmas paper?

[PandaG]

yes of course - are you coming over this way at all? the paints are in strips of 5 like you get in paint it by numbers kits - I got loads of them when our local craft bank shut. get collecting jam jars and get your friends to do so too - or ask attendees to bring one with them. do you have lots of paintbrushes - or could you borrow form school? you'd need quite fine ones to go in the pots.

paint also works on tiles if you have any spare ones knocking around - we've made teapot or pot stands by painting on plain tiles.

make a load of salt dough - cut out with christmas bisc cutters, make hole in before baking. these can then be painted and glittered - cheap to do in bulk but effective, and suits a range of ages.

bulk buy very cheap photo frames (3 for £1 in Ikea) get kids to decorate frames. do a group shot at the party, take laptop and printer and print out copies at party - put photo in frame to take home as memento.

[Tommy]

at out todler group fun day last Christmas they made Christmas cards - they had pre cut stable shapes and had straw to stick on them.

Also did baby Jesus "nests" - chocolate cornflake cakes with a jelly baby on top!

[Yorkiegirl]

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[janeite]

somebody

[janeite]

Some kind of tree decoration? Eg: hama bead stars or angels; or one of those foldy card things that makes a three dimensional star (soembody clever will be able to explain this one more, I'm sure!).

Mixing reindeer food and decorating nice bags to put it in?

[katz]

oh poo poo poo poo poo! thats the only day in Dec i can't do, ahhhhhhhhhhh. I'm at my nieces Christening.

i can talk you through all the stuff we did though. was just thinking how to christmasify it!

[PandaG]

tea light holders - glass paint jam jars, add tea light candle - very easy. I have loads of glass paint, you could have some if you want it...could send it via Katz

[JackieNoHeadJustABloodyStump]

Baker Ross is your friend....

[Yorkiegirl]

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[cheekysealion]

pin the tail on rudolph

pin the beard on santa

[katz]

Yorkie - i know i keep going on about it, but the science stuff we did at dd1's party was fab and would suit a multitude of ages, can also give a Christmas theme. if i can get over to you and i;m free then i'm more than happy to help you do it. As you know WAY means a hell of a lot to me.

[cheekysealion]

chocolate coin hunt

sorry i know my ideas are rubbish

[cheekysealion]

make christmas tree decoration, angel?
decorate a stocking..