It is always fun when you can come up with party food that fits your theme. We came up with lots of Mickey food ideas while planning my daughter's 2nd birthday party and have decided this was one of the easiest party food themes ever! Appetizers and Snacks: Mickey can be found all over the snack world -- fruit snacks, cheese and fruit packages, dried fruit packages, juices and more can be found almost all of the major food stores. My favorite was … [Read more...]
Minnie and Mickey Favor Bags and Mouse Ears
Birthday party week continues! And today is all about celebrating with Minnie and Mickey. First up -- favor bags! We made Minnie and Mickey Mouse bags for each of the kids that came to my daughter's party. Inexpensive and easy and cute! Here's what we did: My oldest helped me paint mouse faces on each of the red bags. We used red bags because that was all we could find enough of, but it would be cute to use buckets and chalkboard paint … [Read more...]
How to Make Easy Minnie Mouse Centerpieces
Welcome to birthday party week at Coffee Cups and Crayons! I'll be featuring fun party ideas all week and am kicking off the Minnie and Mickey party series with an easy Minnie Mouse centerpiece idea I made for my youngest's Minnie and Mickey birthday party. Minnie Centerpiece Supplies: 2 small styrofoam balls 1 medium styrofoam ball black acrylic paint wooden dowel wooden skewer floral block (check the dollar … [Read more...]
Making a Leprechaun Trap
We made a leprechaun trap today! I first heard of the idea from friends and thought it sounded great -- creative, fun, St. Patrick's Day themed -- but my husband was skeptical, "You are going to ask the kids if they want to build something to trap a leprechaun in? Doesn't that seem mean? And a little creepy for little kids?" "No!" I assured him, "It will be fun. They love to use their imaginations and build things!" And I was right they do. … [Read more...]
Make Shamrocks Prints with Peppers
Last week we used green pepper slices and green paint to make shamrock prints! See how a sliced pepper looks just like a shamrock? To make the prints all you need to do is slice some peppers, pour paint into a dish, and let them create! I gave my two year old the top of the pepper with the stem so she would have something to hold onto, but thick slices of pepper work too. As you can see she had a blast! She loved experimenting with the pepper and … [Read more...]
Rainbow Car Paintings
What do you do with two kids who love cars and rainbows? Car painting, of course! Our supplies: Paint in individual containers (in our case old container lids) Small cars that can be cleaned with soap and water Paper in trays (cookie sheets) A dish of water for the car wash Paper towels Then they drove their cars through the paint and then on their papers. In between colors the cars went through the "car wash" to … [Read more...]
Shaving Cream Rainbows
To continue our fun with color we played with shaving cream paint! Not only is it fun on so many levels, it's a perfect medium to use when exploring color mixing. The texture of the shaving cream allows kids to truly see how two primary colors become one. To make shaving cream paint you add a couple drops of food coloring to a mound of shaving cream and stir them together. We mixed ours in a muffin tin so each secondary color was in between its … [Read more...]
Seed Planting
As I've said before we loved The Lorax movie. The book has been a favorite of ours for years and I love how much even little ones take away from the story. But the movie brings it to a whole new level. The message of conservation is now larger than life and set to music. As soon as we left the kids wanted to plant their own seeds and help the earth. Even my 3 1/2 year old was talking about how trees make our air better. Woo hoo! So, this year … [Read more...]
