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An artist party is great for almost any child and can be geared to most ages.
Younger children can enjoy coloring, painting, and easy games. Older children can be challenged to draw abstract self portraits and guess famous painters.
An artist party can be held at home (preferably in yard or garage), at a park, at a children's museum, or paint-it-yourself ceramics studio.
Fun Invitation ideas for an Artist Party include:
- Personalized Art Party Invitation
- Incorporate recent or older drawings done by your child
- Attach invitation to a box of crayons or paint set
- write invitation on museum post cards
- ask guests to wear clothes they can get messy or provide "smocks" out of white plastic garbage bags (cut neck and arm holes and tie ribbon around waist)
Fun Decorations for an Artist Party include:
- Brightly colored balloons in your child's favorite colors
- hand painted birthday mural (you paint Happy 10th Birthday Amanda in big letters) and the guests add their artwork and signatures.
- Famous art posters
Fun Games & Activities for an Artist Party include:
- Guess how many beads in a jar (give jar of beads and spool of cord to winner)
- guess the name and artist of famous paintings (check out art books from your local library)
- drawing relay (teams draw a scene, such as a beach, forest, carnival, etc..., with each person drawing just a portion of the picture before passing the marker to his/her team mates)
- pictionary
- face painting
- pinata (filled with art supplies)
More Games & Activities ideas!
Fun Arts & Crafts ideas for an Artist Party include:
- draw outlines of guests bodies on paper and have them cut out and paint to look like them
- non-dominant hand drawing (righties draw with their left hands
- self portraits
- chalk sidewalk mural
- spray paint (graffiti-style) mural on butcher paper
- t-shirt painting or tie dye
- collage
- scratch art
- spin art
- rubber stamp stationary
- modeling clay
- shrinky dink
Fun Foods for an Artist Party include:
- fruit kabobs
- baby carrots with ranch dressing dip
- "decorate" their own mini pizza (provide cheese, olives, mushrooms, pineapple, etc.)
- decorate their own cupcakes in the style of their favorite artist
- parfaits (layers of ice-cream, pudding, candy and cookies in clear plastic cups)
- artist palette cake
Fun Party Favors for an Artist Party include:
- crayons, colored pencils, pens, or markers
- coloring books or sketch pads
- paint sets
- stencils
- stickers
- art post cards
Give guests large paper gift bags to decorate and put all their art projects in.
Special Resources for an Artist Party include:
- Celebrate Express
- Worldwide Museum Listing
- Kids' Party Fun Directory (entertainment, rentals, and places)
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- The Louvre
- The Orsay
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