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Summer Garden
Party
This
is great for a summer birthday party or celerbation!
DECORATIONS:
Hold
the party outside in your backyard. Have picnic tables or gingham blankets.
Decorate with brightly coloured balloons and flowery decorations. If the
party is being held later in the day, use garden lanterns to light the
space.
FOOD
SUGGESTIONS:
Pack
each child a picnic lunch. Use Chinese take-out containers (available at
art supply stores) and fill with a sandwich, carrot and celery sticks and
a juice box.
GAMES
/ ACTIVITIES:
Flower
Power
Prepare
RICE KRISPIES* Flowers (found in the Ideas that Pop section), but do not
decorate. Provide children with decorations, like icing and sparkles. Once
done, poke a hole and string through a rope and tie in a knot to make a
tasty decoration.
Bug
Hunt
Hide
plastic bugs around the yard. Challenge the children to hunt the yard collecting
bugs. The person with the most bugs wins.
Bug
Boogie
Played
like Red Light Green Light, but kids must move like whatever bug name is
called out - worm, butterfly, bee, etc.
GOODY
BAGS:
Let
the kids decorate their own flower pots; then have them plant a flower
in the pot which they can take home.
REMEMBER:
Let
the parents know ahead of time that kids should wear clothes for outside
- they may get dirty.
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