ART PARTY! - A Socially-Distanced 7th Birthday

This year is definitely different!  To begin with, we usually invite the entire class and entire scout groups....however, in light of being spaced out and more cautious, we had to tone it down this year....well, as much as this pinterest-mommy's heart could stand!  My daughter reached level 7!!  She chose an art party for this year.  Here below is what we did....

The invites.....i only let her invite a small handful of people.  Mostly, family and neighbors.

The set-up...we setup easy-up tents in the driveway with tables.  No one had to walk into the house at all!  And I used some plastic tablecloths to create walls and add color instead of messing with streamers.

  

For activities, we planned for tie-dye, rock painting, and decorating small wooden treasure boxes.  To prep for the party and minimize a lot of touching, i pre-packaged all the supplies each kid would need.  I got each kid an apron (set of 24 from amazon), a shirt, a little box, a paint brush, a bag with gloves and rubber bands, a bag with stick-on jewels, and (because i was at Walmart and they were calling to me) an individual pack of hand wipes.

 

As each kid arrived, they got to pick a supply kit and a gift bag.  The gift bag was to put their crafts in when they were done.  the pic above also shows the fast food boats (we used to have a food truck, so we have a lot of these leftover!) and the pre-painted rocks we prepared.  

Here is the my daughter working on her tie dye and her rocks.  For the tie dye, i limited the possible designs to just a fan fold or bullseye and we used squirt bottles, 1 at a time, to apply color.  For the rocks, i have little paint palettes and each kid got to pick 3 colors.  For some reason, I did not get a picture of her decorating her treasure box, but if they wanted to paint them, they used the same 3 colors they already had and then they had the adhesive jewels.

Once the 3 craft were done, we handed out snacks.  I let E choose crackers, gummy snacks, and a healthy thing (she went with apples).  Then we had hugs and water.  We prepacked snack bags and handed them out while E opened her gifts.

  

And finally, cake and ice-cream.  I let E choose a snack cake and the individual ice cream cups.  

So, there you have it.  A socially distanced (mostly), masked, clean-ish 7th birthday!