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Looking for easy, simple, cheap and low mess craft activities for your child’s birthday party? That is a tall order. My friend asked me for ideas this morning so I researched made a round up and am sharing with you! Here are 12 Birthday Party Craft Activities for Kids. At the bottom of this post I am also including some great birthday party theme ideas from one of my favorite bloggers Crafts by Courtney

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1. Decorate Photobooth Props - Kids can decorate these printables cut them out and glue them onto wood dowels. Might be good to do this in the beginning of the party so that the glue can dry during cake and presents. After glue is dry it would be fun to take pictures of the kids with their props and email out to parents

Get PRINTABLE here at Kensiekate

Or purchase some low price photobooth props direct from Amazon https://amzn.to/2WJlt3m

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2. Polk a dot vases using Tissue paper circles- This is a cute idea and I think if you dont have a circle cutter then squares would work just fine! Get vases and tissue at the DOLLAR STORE!! I suggest picking neutral colors so that the lovely parents that have to display the vase are not cringing lol.

Check out the DIY Tissues vase at Meaningful Mama

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3. Tissue Flower Branches- If you make the above vase it might be fun to also make these tissue flower branches to put in them

See the Cherry Blossom Tutorial at Innerchildfun

Purchase the tissue paper on Amazon, already cut! https://amzn.to/2WCgkd4

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4. Make Candy Bracelets- Simple! Just get some round elastic thread,have the kids loop on the bracelets. They can make a few for friends and family as well since these will be made quickly.

Check out the Candy Bracelet Tutorial at Liluna

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5. Make Bracelet/Necklaces - You can use pasta OR regular beads but the idea of this post that i absolutely LOVE is making little “kits” ahead of time (ok ok I know I said no prep work, you can TOTALLY skip this step and just put out bowls of colored pasta OR regular beads). Dezra- I will a make a printable for Leena’s birthday if you decide to make kits 🙂

See tutorial and printable at Innerchildfun

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6. Make Necklace from Clothespins - Kids will LOVE making these necklaces. Either for themselves or for their moms. All you need are clothes pins, string and paint. A little prep work goes into this one if you want to paint the pins yourself first.

Check out the clothespin necklace tutorial at BABBLEDABBLEDO

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7. DIY Ribbon Wands/Lasers - I say lasers because sometimes boys do not want to make wands but lasers…. oh yes they will make those. This tutorial is FABULOUS but it also takes a little work so I am going to suggest that you follow the general idea of making a ribbon wand but I would simply hot glue on a small ring to the tops of the dowels and then you just have to lay out ribbons for the kids and to pick and choose from. They can weave the ribbons through and tie in knots at the top. I would make one ahead of time and work out the kinks!

Get the DIY ribbon tutorial from daydreambelieversdesigns

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8. Decorate Craft Frames - These are only $1-2 dollars at Micheals. There are a million ways you can decorate them. Tissue paper squares mod podged on, cupcake wrappers cut up and glued on to make shapes or flowers. I really liked these frame decorating ideas from makinglemonadeblog

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9. Make Pizzas - Have the kids make pizzas using pita bread as the crust and BBQ them on the grill as well as the oven if you have a lot of kids and not much oven space! You can get this brown craft paper to cover the table at dollar store or you can use a plastic table cover (they also have these at dollar store but they are thin so buy 2!)

This pizza party from hollywoodhousewife

Make your own pizza party

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10. Decorate Cookies or Cupcakes - My mom did this my sister and I many times for birthdays and it was so much fun! Here are a few cool inspiration blog posts from ladies who already did this

Bubble and Sweet How to host a cupcake decorating party Lilli making betty crocker cupcakes

Cookie decorating party from susanscookiestop

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11. Painting Party - This is fun if you can do it outdoors! I think canvases are expensive but consider having the kids paint on those paper mache shapes from Michaels that are only 79cents to $1 and a pretty good size or visit the wood section and see what you can find.

Here is a great rainbow paint theme party from blog.hwtm

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12. Paint Chip Art - Cut out paint chip squares and let the kids make artwork by gluing them onto a craft frame or a paper mache wall mount. Anything that they can display. You could also cut them into circles, butterflys or hearts if you have a craft punch and have the kids fold them making for 3-D artwork.

Square Paint Chip Artwork from abeautifulmess Paint chip kids activity

Etsy Artwork from aboundingtreasures inspiration for 3-D activity

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Special thanks to Redtedart and Meaningfulmama for their suggestions on the Kids Blogging Network today! You ladies have so many GOOD CRAFTING IDEAS on your blogs! You are amazing. For activities and crafts go check out their sites.

Here are some fun theme ideas from Crafts by Courtney

Dinosaur Birthday Party

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Brown Bear, Brown Bear Birthday Party

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  3. Michelle .Daydream Believers Designs says

    Thanks for including my diy ribbon wands in your round up! 🙂
    Happy Crafting!
    Michelle
    http://www.daydreambelieversdesigns.com

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  7. craft for kids says

    Kids craft activities really increases the kids creativity. And helps them to be more active and concentrated on things they do.

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  8. sand party says

    Summer kids craft ideas and summer preschool activities to cure the rainy day and summer boredom blues. Enjoy our collection of creative, fun, engaging activities, games, craft ideas, and learning experiences. Summer allows children to learn in a less structured setting and to have fun, laugh, and play together. Keep your children physically active and mentally challenged during the long, summer days with these fun ideas.

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  9. mossnick says

    Collecting the sand can be a very nice adventure for kids as well, to get them involved in the making of their artwork. Besides, it is much more fun than working from a ready made kit put together in a factory, so look around where you live. I’m sure your findings will surprise you if you start to hunt no matter what part of the world you’re in.

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  10. Arnold says

    Great kids’ parties start with great activities and these great craft ideas area really wonderful to make any party memorable.

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  11. Julieane Hernandez says

    I really liked all these ideas, Unique and artistically made. I’ll definitely try the first and second DIY tips. I love decorating photobooth and polk a dot vases using tissue paper. Thanks for the inspirations.
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  12. Bounce2Adventure says

    Wow! Amazing art by these kids just love enormous amount of creativity these kids have.Kids just loves to party. To make the party more happening people order jumping castle for kids. Bounce2adventure provides you with wide range of jumping castles namely, Dream Castle 2, Disney Plane Jump, Disney Frozen 5 in 1 combo, Disney Plane Jump, Castle 2, Hello Kitty 3 D Jump, Disney Mickey Park Jump, Fun House, 30 Foot Backyard Obstacle Challenge & Disney Cars 5 in 1 combo which available in different shapes, size and colors.
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  19. Elly says

    Wow! Great post. I just love all the ideas. Thanks for sharing. I like the make candy bracelets the most, will surely gonna try it with my daughter.

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  22. Kyle Bloomfield says

    My daughter loves the photo booth props so I make this on every birthday of her. Her birthday is coming and again I am going to make the new props. Thanks for the other ideas also!

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