Alien Costume

I had bought some alien glasses on clearance after Halloween last year and my daughter really wanted to be one so, I bought 4 t-shirts from the dollar store and cut and sewed. For her hair, I stuck a small collander on top of her head, then pulled the hair up around it to make her look like she had a big head.

How to Have a Butterfly Party (Games, Crafts and Snacks)

Invites: I found invitations at the dollar store that had the information on the front and was blank on the back. So I printed up this poem taht I found online and glued it to the back:

Butterflies are pretty and fly so free,
Come to Z's 5th birthday partee.
There will be games to play, and wings to make.
We will enjoy a butterfly cake.
So dress up as pretty as you can be,
and join the fun at Z's butterfly partee!

Craft: I don't have very good pics for these so bare with me. While the girls were coming we had them decorate their wings. Earlier I had gone to the dollar store and got white posterboard 2/$1. Then I cut out the wings, leaving enough space between the wings to punch holes and tie ribbon through, so we could tie them around the arms of the girls. I had also made antannae out of pipe cleaners and headbands.
Games:
Butterfly Hunting--I cut out 6 butterflies of different colors (I used my Cricut, but there are lots of templates online,) for each girl. Then I numbered the butterlies so there were 12-1s 12-2s etc. Then they took their butterfly bags, (another dollar store purchase, I just added the ribbon so they could carry them,) and had to find 6 butterflies with their number on them.

Musical Leaves--I cut out several big leaves out of construction paper and numbered them. Then I put them around the room. While the music played they flew around the room and when it stopped they had to find a leaf to land on.

Butterfly Pinata!

**For the prizes I made the butterfly clips, and I also gave out mini butterfliers. (I taped cut out wings to mini butterfingers and crossed out the "ing" and wrote"lie."

**For the food we had sandwiches and jello cut into butterlies. We also had butterflies made out of half a cheese stick, 2 pretzels for wings, and a stick pretzel broke into 2 pieces for antannae.


The Cake! I didn't go all out on this, obviously, but it was really easy. I made the cake in 2 round cake pans and cut the body out of one and the wings out of the other.

**Before the girls left they got to take home a butterfly cookie wrapped in plastic, (that I made before hand.) It had a "thank you for coming" tag attached.

How to have a Butterfly Party (Butterfly Clips)

I wanted to make something to go in the goodie bags so I looked for a tutorial on butterfly clips. I already had everything to make them. This was a good way to get rid of alot of my growing stash of ribbon.

1. Take a piece of ribbon and hold it so there's two loops. One on each side of your fingers. The ribbon can be however long you want it. It depends on the size of butterfly and the thickness of ribbon. You can adjust it when you make all the loops.
2. Pull the middle of each loop into the center to form the wings. These loops can be done different ways. Decide which way is best for your ribbon.

3. I don't have a picture for this, but I glue ribbon on the clip first, before I put the butterfly on. It makes the ribbon or flower or whatever you are using stay on the clip better.

4. Then glue another piece of different color ribbon on top of the wings to form the body. I leave a little extra ribbon at the top to roll down and make the head.

5. Then add eyes (I used plastic gems) and antanae. I just used florist wire, but pipe cleaners or something more stiff can be used.

How to have a Butterfly Party (Butterfly Pinata)

My daughter wanted a butterfly party this year so we came up with some fun things to do for her party. First I decided that, if I could make a disco ball pinata, then a butterfly pinata was MAKEABLE so, I went for it.

1. Draw a butterfly on cardboard and cut out with a craft knife. Make 2.

2. Cut small strips of cardboard and tape around inside edges of butterfly to hold shape.

3. Make a paper mache paste of 1 part flour and 2 parts water. Take small strips of newspaper and dip into paste wiping off excess, and cover entire pinata. I hang the pinata on something while I do this with the paste bowl underneath so it can drip. Let dry. Cover entire pinata again. I only did two layers and it was still pretty hard to brake. Next time I might cut holes or something in the big cardboard parts to make it more fragile. 4. Glue crepe paper over the whole pinata. 5. Glue crepe paper on again, layering evenly around it. Glue only the top of the crepe paper to layer. 6. Use craft paper and pipe cleaners to design the butterfly. Then cut a hole in the top and fill with candy. (You will definitely need something harder than a foam bat.)