This is a great idea for younger kids – especially toddlers who need to be kept busy. Ask the little partygoers to come to the party dressed as bugs or butterflies and turn the party table into an art studio for them to create their own “crawlies”.
Use stickers or cutouts on plastic or disposable plates and cups. Make tablemats out of the pages of colouring books and cover the table with a plastic cloth, wrong side up, so it can be scribbled or drawn on. Cut out large butterfly shapes and organise a butterfly treasure hunt in the garden, and give the kiddies plastic bugs (only if they are old enough) or bug sweeties in their party packs to take home.
Birthday cakes can be in the shape of a butterfly or a ladybird, boys will love worms or caterpillars made from doughnuts covered with icing and coloured coconut and arranged on a tray or cakeboard to form a worm. Use shoe-string liquorice to form legs.
Cover round biscuits with melted chocolate, leave to set and pipe a web on to the biscuit. Place two small sweets on the biscuit to form the body of a spider, pipe a face, legs and feelers with icing. Leave to dry.
Use savoury biscuits, cocktail vienna sausages and crisps to form bugs and butterflies.
Use empty cardboard egg cartons to make decorations or candy holders by cutting off the cups. A single cup can become a spider, paint and attach pipe cleaners for the legs, fill a cup with candy and glue another on top to form a little box, glue the finished boxes together to form wiggly worms, bees and butterflies. The kids can also take these home as party favours.
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