Arty Party

For my daughter's seventh birthday party, we had an arty party. It was a fun and easy party to arrange.

When the kids arrived we had a treasure hunt for them to find their hidden canvasses, pencils and sharpeners in the garden. When everyone had found their supplies, they settled down to designing their masterpieces. I had set up a few still life subjects around the art tables (the usual bowl of fruit/ bunch of flowers), but the kids were very imaginative with ideas of their own!

While they were painting I got everyone to guess how many colourful jellybeans were in a glass jar - the closest guess won the jar to take home.

 

We hired an inflatable slip 'n slide which was the perfect thing for the budding artists to rinse off on once they had finished their paintings.

Before the guests left, I had a large painter's easel set up to display their works of art. Each child had a turn to don a large white painter's smock and beret with their painting and an ENORMOUS paintbrush on display for a photo-op. We used these proud pictures in our thank-you messages sent to all the aspiring artists. Each child took their completed canvas, pencils, sharpeners and party packs home with them.

Jessica - Durbanville