My eldest is turning 12 this year (sniff, sniff!) and for this year's party she decided to have an art-themed birthday party. As you can probably tell by my recent posts, I've been all about
Pinterest lately! I wanted to find a creative cake for my daughter's birthday, so I went to Pinterest and found lots of ideas, but this was my favorite! I bought this great artist palette for $4.99 at
Hobby Lobby. I baked cupcakes yesterday (even found paint-splattered cupcake wrappers!) and then this morning I took 1-1/2 tubs of vanilla frosting and in 7 bowls I added different food coloring and mixed up 7 different colors of frosting -- red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple -- and pink for my littlest girl! I arranged the cupcakes on the artist palette to look like paint and put a paintbrush in the middle to finish it off. Then I placed the whole thing on this mirror that I have on my dining room table. It was an inexpensive wall mirror and one day I decided to put it on the dining room table with all white candles on it for a centerpiece -- and I decided I like it better on the table than the wall! Everything looks better on it! Candles reflect on it, flowers in a glass vase look beautiful, and this cupcake palette looks like it's on the frame of a painting - perfect!
And the extra cupcakes are in my new cupcake holder (I've been longing for one and my husband bought it for me for my birthday)!
We found some really cute invitations on Walmart.com, and for $0.28 a
piece, I customized them with a picture of my girl and I ordered 8 cards
-- 1 for each girl and an extra for me! I love getting photo cards --
they are personal, they are a great keepsake for my girls' scrapbooks /
baby books, and you'd pay more for a regular package of invitations!
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| "Bright Circles" card from Walmart.com |
To keep the girls entertained, and of course, to go along with the art party theme, we came up with three craft ideas. My daughter had the idea to use black craft paper and to have the girls dip the end of a toilet paper or paper towel roll into paint and use that to create different designs on the paper. We also bought each girl a little wooden easel and little canvas (3" x 3") from
Joann's so that they could each paint their own little masterpiece. And for the third art project, we bought a wooden letter for each girl's first initial (about 6" tall) and had them paint them with acrylic paints.
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| Tiny canvas & easel - "Sunset" by the birthday girl! |
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| Pink & Orange Polka Dot "M" - by my 6-year-old! |
My girl loves art and this year we cleaned out our basement and rearranged it to make an art studio for our girls. She wanted to host her party down there, and I decided that since I have off-white carpet in the dining room, where the big table is, that the art studio was a better idea with all of the paint!! My husband set up a long folding table next to the little round table in the art studio. My daughter covered both tables with newspapers which made for super easy, super quick clean up after the party!
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| The "Art Studio" |
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We're still working on the art studio -- at some point when we have time, we'd like to paint the concrete wall and the floor. For now though, we are extremely happy with the huge berber remnant that our friend Michael gave us from a job he was doing -- it covers a huge area of the floor!
One of my favorite elements of the art party? My daughter's outfit! Never one to shy away from a theme, I suggested that she take an old pair of jeans and paint them to wear to her party! She had fun doing that on Friday night -- I think she did a pretty good job!
My daughter had a great time -- she had fun with her friends, and I think they had a fun time too. I loved that she is old enough that this year we just set everything up and she took over -- my husband and I relaxed in the living room until they called us for cake and ice cream. Even our 6-year-old was like one of the big girls today -- she hung out with the girls and her sister never came up to complain about her once! (Amazing!)
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