“Nature is a beautiful thing, why not use your birthday to celebrate it?”
Invitations
- Daisy invites: Cut out 2 daisy’s from construction paper. Glue them together on the right hand side to form a card. The birthday child can decorate them. Use saying such as:
“Roses are Red, Violets are Blue
_________’s turning 8, and wants to celebrate with you!”
Decorations
- Decorate flower pots. You can get little flower pots real cheap at craft stores and or home and garden stores. The kids can paint and glue items (glitter, puffy paint, letters, etc.) to their pots.
- Make you party room into a HUGE flower bed. Get pieces of poster board and turn each piece into a flower and hang on you wall or ceiling. Make the room very bright and cheery!
- Serve dirt dessert – crushed oreo cookies mixed with vanilla pudding and topped with whipped cream. You can also put gummy worms in it for “effect.”
Favors
- give them their own flowers in pots to take home and plant.
- give them a little pail filled with garden gloves, seeds a small shovel, etc.
Games
- Put the plant together
- Who knows the most? Have the children get a piece of paper and name as many different flowers as they can.
- Flower Tag – this game is played just like “TV tag.” One person is IT and has to go around and tag the others. If you are in danger of getting tagged, you may say a FLOWER (example: rose, tulip, daisy, etc) and crouch down. If you do this before you are tagged, you are safe and can continue running around and avoiding the person that it IT. You may not say the same flower in the same game. When you switch IT people, you can start over and use any flowers.
- Smelling contest – have 5 – 10 brown paper bags filled with different smelly items (ex: rose pedals, chocolate, cinnamon, vanilla, strawberries, etc.) Label the bags with numbers 1 – 10. The kids each get an answer sheet and sit in a circle and pass the bags around. For each bag they get, they smell it and try to correctly guess the right scent. They can’t discuss their answers. The child with the most answers correct wins. (if you are handy enough you can go out and find 5 – 10 different flower scents for the bags.)
Crafts
- Finger Print Flower – Have a paper pot, paper stem, paper leaves cut out already. The kids can glue them on a piece of paper. They then dip their fingers in paint and put their finger prints all over the paper (where the flower goes.)
- Flower Leis – One version is, you can have fresh flowers they can string on some fishing line with a needle. Or you can cut out paper flowers and hole punch the middle of each of these. Cut some drinking straws into bits about ½ inch. The kids will have fun stringing the flowers on yarn with bits of a drinking straw between them (see photo.)
- Tissue Paper Flowers – have rectangles of tissue paper and pipe cleaners available for the participants. They can grab 2 – 4 pieces of tissue paper. Layer the paper on top of each other and “fan fold” the paper. Tie the center with a pipe cleaner. Unfold the fan and you have a flower.
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Flower Party