My granddaughter has always loved to do art–draw, paint, use play-doh, make things from cardboard, glue “treasures” onto paper (her definition of “treasure” is quite broad). For her 4th birthday party my daughter planned a mural project.
Materials & Supplies
- A looooooooong piece of butcher paper or painter’s paper (hardware store)
- Tempera paint, it’s WASHABLE or Water-color washable markers, several containers to put along the paper
- Brushes, lots – you can use sponge brushes – buy them in packets at hardware stores (they’re cheaper)
- Plastic palettes for them, to use for mixing colors, available at Aaron Brothers, Michael’s and elsewhere
- Baby wipes, rags, paper towels (a hose) for clean-up
Possible Themes to Paint
You can just let the kids loose (meaning paint anything they choose – which they will probably do anyway . . .) or tell them to paint:
- A Happy Birthday picture to the birthday child
- A birthday present they would like to get and/or give
- Self portrait
- Portrait of the birthday child
Where and When
- Garage floor, patio, driveway
- After they have a a chance to run around a while
The kids all had a blast and my granddaughter had a party souvenir.
I might do the same for my own birthday. The only hitch is my friends are too old to sit on the driveway.
Peggy
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What a wonderful birthday party idea! Good old fashioned fun.( I guess one would need to give the parents a heads up for the kids to wear clothes that can get lots of paint on them). It brought back memories for me of my own childhood. My dad as an architect, would bring home rolls and rolls of blueprint plans and they he would give us the back of them to draw and paint on. We always hung them all over the house afterwards and I also liked drawing on the side that had the architectural plans on them.
Peta
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Peta,
What fun for you to have all that paper and fun drawing and painting. Now we are lucky because most of the paints wash out easily.
Peggy
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My 2 younger grandchildren would LOVE this kind of party – what fun! Happy Birthday to your little Lucy.
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Sharon,
She had her party this year yesterday. No painting, but lots of fun in a blow up pool, with squirt guns shaped like crocodiles.
Peggy
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If only all guns were squirt guns shaped like crocodiles. Happy Birthday to Lucy.
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Absolutely!
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