Art Party

My artist pallet cake!

We had an Art Party for Emily's 9th birthday party!  Emily was very excited as she is quite the artsy girl and loves to create!  We needed a larger amount of space than what our home offers and so we held it up at our church and it couldn't have worked out better!  We had one section for food, one for crafts, and one area for eating!

We had an easel set up in one corner.  The first attempt we made at a "group painting" turned out, well, like a huge brown canvas.  Hmmm.  On our second attempt we used markers (not paint) and had the kids all sign their names.  It turned out much less messy.

 Here are some of the treats (bc treats are very important to 9 yr-old girls).  Funny enough, Emily wouldn't try the Rice Crispy "paint brushes" (b/c Rice Crispys are cereal and even at 9 yrs old she won't eat cereal).  Nor does she fancy popcorn.  However, she loved the cake and the Gatorade so all was well.

 We had some "Handy Helpers," of course!  Grandma and Harvey's assistance was invaluable!

 For the main craft I had each of the kids' initials for them to paint and decorate with embellishments.  They all loved doing this!

 All of the kids' old sports t-shirts really came in handy as painting smocks!

Kari was sooo excited to be included in her big sister's party!  (We did the party during Juliana's naptime and had Maggie come over and babysit!)

Christian's finished product!

 As the kids finished up, they were ready for something else to craft and so I got a piece of long paper and brought out the markers!  They all loved drawing on it and writing notes to Emily.

Emily and her good friend, Louisa

Crazy Christian!

Such sweet sisters, Ella and Brooklynn

Paige and Abby

The "drop the crayon in the paint jar" game.

Classic "Duck, Duck, Goose!"

Everyone loved helping Emily open her presents!

Singing "Happy Birthday"...no candles though since we can't light candles in the church :-)

Time to eat!

Mom enjoyed the Rice Crispy paint brush :-)

Harvey says, "Happy Birthday, Em!"

Can you tell which picture was supposed to be the "nice" picture and which one was supposed to be the "goofy" one??  Me either.

This party was a lot of fun to put together!  It's so fun to see kids get creative!