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Butterfly Party

This magical theme is full of color, fragrance and wonder.

Invitations

Cut out flowers or butterflies will make beautiful invitations: 

"Fly by our garden for a special afternoon and help CHILD’S NAME celebrate his/her birthday"

Decorations

To make your room comfortable for all those butterflies, fill the room with lots of bright colors – balloons, streamers, plastic or silk flowers, and, of course, butterflies.  Hang ivy and flower garland around the room to turn your house into a garden.  You may even want to sweeten the air with special scents from candles (be sure to keep them out of reach), potpourri or spray/electric air fresheners.

Games and Activities

To keep your butterflies buzzing, try some of these ideas:

Make beautiful butterflies by painting coffee filters (with water colors), pinching them in the middle, and inserting them as "wings" into clothes pins. The old rounded head type or crafting clothes pins work best. 

A stained glass butterfly can easily be made with crayon shavings and wax paper. An adult would need to use a warm iron to melt the wax bits between two pieces of wax paper. Then attach the colorful "mosiac" or "suncatcher" to construction paper cutouts shaped as butterflies. 

A butterfly wand is a great gift for youngsters to take home. Use a butterfly shaped cookie cutter to impress an outline onto crafting foam sheets (found at craft stores or your local discount store) or use any other butterfly outline. Simply cut out the butterfly shape, fold in half, and make two little cuts in the center of the fold. This is to allow a pencil to slide through them. Tie pieces of thin ribbon to the erasure end of the pencil before sliding it onto the butterfly shape cutout. Use glitzy pencils, or ones with flowers on them, for a neat effect.

 Since you have the cookie cutter already it should be a snap to make butterfly sugar cookies! Let children frost and decorate their own to eat or take home. 

You can also play a game such as:

Pin the Butterfly on the Flower

Supply each guest with their own butterfly and let them pin it onto a large cardboard flower.

Cocoon Race 

Split the party guests into 2-person teams. Each team will need to select a caterpillar (doing this by a drawing might be the easiest way). Give each team a couple rolls of toilet paper. When you say go each team must try to wrap their caterpillar in toilet paper from head to toe.  The first team to complete the cocoon wins. 

Food

Offer your guests a piece of butterfly cake, made by cutting a circle cake in half, putting the round sides back to back with a Twinkie in the middle and frosting and decorating with colored gumdrops, sprinkles, and other candy.  Or give your guests Caterpillar Cupcakes.   Make as many cupcakes as you have guests. Frost them green.  Line them up to resemble a wiggly caterpillar.  Giant gum drops can be used for legs and eyes and licorice works well for the antennae.  Serve with a glass of nectar (juice or Kool-Aide) and a flower straw (cut a small whole in the center of a paper or silk flower and insert a straw through it).

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