By EK Wills
Every child has a favourite colour, and that generates a fun party theme that is both creative and fun for everyone involved in the making.
Dress to Impress
To really carry off the concept, try to incorporate the chosen colour in as many things as possible.
1. Ask everyone to come in clothes of that colour - parents too!
2. Have all the decorations in that colour – balloons and streamers are easy.
3. Make a simple sign with paper plates – paint each one with a letter of your child’s name. When they are dry, use a hole punch to create a hole in each plate, then thread ribbon through each one and string them up.
4. Make your own table runner using butcher paper or a roll of craft paper (the ones that come with pain easels). This can be a collage of images you and your child do together or with their friends.
5. All table accessories have the same colour – cutlery, crockery, napkins, cups, even crazy straws or swizzlers- easily achieved with disposable plastic sets.
Fabulous Food & Fluid
I remember hearing about a parent that only fed their child food that was the same colour as their child’s outfit they had on that day. This is a great tip for a party.
1. Drinks in poppers or individual bottles are less mess and names can be written on them for each child – plus they can also be colour-themed eg blackcurrent juice for our purple party
2. Try to provide same-coloured food.
a. Fruit sticks with red grapes, fairy plums and blueberries.
b. Blue corn chips, beetroot chips and dips.
c. Purple sushi is just rice with beetroot juice
d. Jam rollups for a sweet option
e. Berry flavoured yoghurt
3. Neutral colours can be used to fill the gap - like popcorn in icecream cones.
Crafty Activities like a Novelty (No Hitting) Piñata
Each activity can be set up while the party-goers are playing between games. It is a technique that helps to focus minds when the game starts as it allows for free time too.
1. Set up a table with items to make maracas with paper plates, textas, stickers, ribbon, staplers and rice to fill them.
2. A Pass-The-Parcel is filled with novelty shop trinkets (in the chosen colour if you can) and each layer wrapped with similar-coloured paper. Remember you will need music or an equivalent (like hand clapping) to facilitate the game.
3. Another pre-party craft activity is to make your piñata from a balloon and paper mache covering it. Then colour it with your child before cutting a flap in the bottom. This is where you fill in the sweets (and craft items like pompoms) and put slits in it for ribbon lengths.
On the day, instead of hitting it, children pull on the ribbon lengths.
If there is no knot at the top, then it comes out but if it is the one with the knot, it opens the flap and the treasure falls out.
The Crowning Cake
Even the cake can be healthily themed. Instead of using food colouring in the icing, try using juice concentrate in a cream cheese frosting and you can create your child’s favourite flavoured cake.
Enjoy your colour filled day!
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