Handmade Giant Tissue Flowers Birthday Decoration for A Craft Birthday Party of 8 year old Girl

My daughter is now 8 years old and she wanted a CRAFT PARTY for her birthday at our new home.
We had a fantastic time together, planning the details. It was wonderful to see her to be so sure and articulate about what she wanted in her party.

Apart from making cake at home, the must do was to have some handmade birthday decoration. She wanted it to be colorful and unique.After a little research and brain storming we ended up making Giant tissue flowers.

Many of you might remember the tissue paper pom-pom ball we made a while back.
Using the same technique, we came up with these flowers.

Since, she was turning 8 , we made 8 flowers. Different sizes made the wall display more interesting.

Variations in step from the Pom-Pom ball as mentioned above :

-4 sheets of full size of tissue paper and 3 sheets of half size of the tissue paper.
-Once you do the accordion folds together, separate the smaller size and bigger size tissue paper.
-More closer cuts for the smaller size.
-Make the accordion fold again.
-Make set of 2 of this combination.
-Tie them together with Chennile stem aka pipe cleaner.
-Open them carefully.
-Fluff them as shown in picture and they are ready for display.

We were so busy making them, we didn't realize we did not take enough pictures of how to make it.
But, this is all we did. We will post the steps may be later if you think it is still necessary.

We had a Craft party with few of her "Girl friends".
We planned a craft that they did together and made sure they had some craft to make when they reach home with favors.

We tried to be crafty with our food menu too. It was grand success.

Special thanks to my son for posing with the flower so that you get the idea of the relative size of the flower.


p.s. You can hot glue floral tape wrapped thick wire for Giant flower with a stem too.

Fun Balloon Critters Craft for kids

Recently, we had loads of fun making these Fun Balloon Critters. I mean really, this is one of those times when you suddenly come up with an idea and let the on the spot creativity do the rest of the work.

My niece who is about 4.5 yrs old was here at our home and her parents had to go shopping. I was baby sitting her and my daughter who is 3 yrs old. Both of them wanted to do some fun craft. When they want something fun it has to be really fun and that too immediate. I was running out of ideas. I had a lot of balloons in our house, thanks to my daughter's birthday party.
So, in order to make a creative use of these balloons we finally agreed on Fun balloon crafts.



These critters that you see in the picture are purely 100% their imagination. They kept telling me what kind of shapes and features they want and I was cutting them using colored peel and stick foam sheets.



I was so amazed by their imagination. What followed was more and more Fun Balloon Critters and hours of fun. Naming the balloons (eg the ones here are Spongi bobi the one with rectangle eyes, blue witch, teethy girlie monster,bunny rabbity), Balloon fights, critter stories, pretend play. You name it and they were doing it.

Supplies:
- Balloons
- Peel and stick foam sheets
- Scissors

Let your kids use your imagination and have fun doing this easy and unique craft.

Tips:
-This is a wonderful activity for a Playdate or for a Birthday Party.
-Have some extra supplies as when the balloons blow out while playing, you need to motivate them to make new ones and play again.
- You can also used pre-cut foam stickers if you want to avoid use of scissors. Advantage is that you do not have to supervise much but then that limits a child's imagination to the availability of sticker shapes.