Reel Girl's Animal House: Kid's Craft Table for Birthday Parties!

Hello and welcome! Shelly with you today sharing how to create an easy and fun craft table for a kid's party!

I recently hosted a craft table for a party of 8 year olds (11 of them!). It was crazy, chaotic and a total blast! Make it easy on yourself, "kit" your projects and provide Dew Drops - perfect for any craft project and easy for little hands and fingers to pick up and apply!

The party was Barbie themed, but it is also close to Christmas, so I did a combination Barbie/Christmas ornament craft.

Let's start by looking at my table set up:

GATHER:

Supplies:

Flat wood ornaments (Amazon)
Twine for hanging
Paint (to make a base color)
Dew Drops of all shapes/sizes
sequins
Die Cuts
Colored Markers
Clear Drying Glue (buy 1oz bottles from Dollar Store - 1 bottle for every 2-3 kids!)
Cheap Paper Plates
Cup Cake Liners
Clear Treat Bags

Optional:

Stencils
Inks
Pom Poms
Glitter Glue

SET UP:

Flat wood ornaments purchased from Amazon were given a base color of pink or white.
The birthday party had a Barbie theme - so I wanted to incorporate a Barbie themed Christmas ornament and created some custom Barbie die cuts to use

Wood ornaments were then put into clear treat bags (1 each of pink / white) along with two tied loops of twine for hanging.
*designer's note - the clear treat bag made it easy to distribute ornament "kit" and gave the kids a bag to tote their finished ornaments home.
A six foot table covered with a plastic table cloth accommodated 12 crafters - no chairs - keep them standing and focused!
I placed 6 paper plates on each side of table with the ornament kit bags.
I then poured different colors and shapes of Dew Drops into cupcake liners and placed a Dew Drop filled cupcake liner on each plate.