St. Patrick’s Day Party & Kids Craft Ideas

Get Creative with St. Patrick’s Day Crafts

For most, St. Patrick’s Day parties mean a day of fun.   From a young age, children learn that St. Patrick’s Day is about the color green—wearing it, eating green-colored food, and coloring pictures of shamrocks.  Why not have more fun than creating the traditional shamrock picture?

Create a fun, festive St. Patrick’s Day party for the kids in your life and come up with some crafts for the kids to take part in.  Use cute decorations to catch attention and make the kids smile.  Start by decorating the entryway to your St. Patrick’s Day party with a rainbow balloon arch for your kids to walk under.  Line the walkway with a gold or yellow plastic tablecloth and have the kids follow the yellow road.  Then, when they walk under the balloon arch, toss some shamrock-shaped confetti into the air to surprise them.  Give the kids green, gold, and white beads as quick and easy St. Patrick’s Day party favors.  Keep their attention with a leprechaun standee that they can take pictures in!

Crafts & Favors Make St. Patrick’s Day Parties Fun

Rather than simply having your kids color a picture of a shamrock or a picture of a rainbow, make a shamrock-shaped cake and have the kids break into groups to decorate them.  Remember when you plan the party, have the kids ask their parents for old shirts that they can use to protect their St. Patrick’s Day party clothes.

Favors at your St. Patrick’s Day party can range from lollipops to personalized cookie tins to gold coins.  Send your kids home with adorable St. Patrick’s Day favor boxes filled with these goodies and more.  You can also include personalized lip glosses for the girls and personalized gum for the boys.

Include your kids this holiday.  Have fun, be safe, and let them enjoy a party for a reason other than a birthday.

What Can You Put in YOUR Personalized Candy Jars?

Your bustling party or cozy soiree needs party favors.  Give them custom, glass candy jars filled with bright and tempting goodies to remember you, your business, or your cause.

Candy Jar Filler Ideas

Start by ordering candy jars in bulk.  Design their labels during checkout.  Then, simply fill your empty, personalized candy jars with colors and theme items that match your event.  Add these candy jar fillers:

1.  Hershey Miniatures wrapped in personalized mini candy bar wrappers

2. Tootsie Rolls

3. Mint Candy Favors

4.  Dried Fruits

5.  Bulk Candy

6.  Sand Art Supplies

7. Soap Favors

8. Tattoo Party Favors

9. Erasers, Paper Clips, or Sticky Notes

10.  Business Cards

11.  Flash Drives

12.  Gift Cards

13. Ice Cream Toppings

14.  Church Favors

15. Assorted, Dollar or Discount Party Favors

16. Craft Party Supplies

17.  Party Balloons

18.  Adult Items

19.  Beta Fish

20.  Baked Goodies

21. Spices

22.  Make-Up or Hair Bands

Personalized candy jars are cute little containers to give as birthday gifts, holiday gifts, and wedding favors.  One baker we know likes to bake cakes and breads inside her jars to give to friends.  Order your candy jars in bulk and gift them to neighbors, friends, co-workers, teachers, and party-goers throughout the year!

Countdown to Midnight — Party Games & Activities for Each Hour

We’ve put together a collection of party games and activities to keep a group entertained ’til midnight, perfect for a New Year’s party (but not just for New Year’s!).

Though we’re writing today mostly with adults in mind, these ideas can be adapted for teens and even younger party people who get to stay up late.

7 p.m. Guests are arriving. You’ll need some ice-breakers! Start the laughter and conversation right away by displaying a photo stand-in that goes with your theme: hula dancers for a luau theme, red carpet entrance for a Hollywood event, and so on. Station a designated photographer near the stand-in for hilarious keepsakes.

Another party trend that’s gaining traction lately is “Bring Your Own Appetizer.” If you try this, let guests know in advance that you’re going “potluck” in this area and how many servings of a favorite appetizer each person should bring. A natural complement to this is a “Make Your Own” bar for champagne cocktails or martinis. People will naturally share their recipes, concoctions and pleasure at trying something new.

Other must-haves for Hour One: catering party trays, Easy Carry appetizer plates and new Party Time martini glasses from Party Tableware.

8 p.m. Begin a scavenger hunt, road rally or geocaching activity. Arrange for designated drivers or alternative transportation if you’ve served liquor; or if it’s a teen party, set ground rules about traveling in groups.

Scavenger hunts do not need to be outdoors and could take place in a mall or museum. Also, items and landmarks on the list can be photographed instead of captured, which widens the possibilities.

If you do have an outdoor venue for a nighttime hunt, set out small LED lights and glow party favors for participants to find, just for fun.

Other products to consider for Hour Two: New LED Fairy Berries in Themed Lights.

9 p.m. Change the pace a little with cards, mad libs or bingo. Make them theme-related if possible, for example play blackjack or roulette for a casino theme, or create customized bingo cards to match a holiday theme with the help of online resources.

More considerations for Hour Three: Casino dealers’ vests and green visors and personalized photo playing card cases from Casino Party Favors.

10 p.m. Play “Guess the Celebrity.” Write down the names of celebrities on sticky notes, one name per sheet. To play, place a sticky note on a player’s forehead so that he or she cannot read it but everyone else can. The player must ask yes-or-no questions of the rest of the participants. If you like, you could place limits on each person’s time for guessing, or on the number of questions each player can ask. Reward successful players who guess their celebrities with party beads, Hollywood-style trophies or winners’ medals from Party Favors.

11p.m. Many people enjoy ringing in the New Year outdoors around a fireplace or bonfire. If this is not your scene (or it’s not New Year’s) pull out a trivia game for indoor play. From Pirates to Princesses, it is possible to find trivia games, questions and quizzes online for virtually any party theme you can name.

At any rate, we think a winter party nearing midnight calls for a soup buffet and really good bread to top off the night, no matter what the activity!

Other products to check out for Hour Five: Noir mugs from Personalized Party Supplies, party serving sets from Tableware/Catering.

You’re So Sweet Mr. Snowman! Edible Snowman Favors

Edible Marshmallow Snowmen Favors

There’s nothing like a delicious homemade favor to give your party a warm and cozy feel! These cute edible snowman favors also make great projects for school winter parties and all types of gatherings whether your guests are young, old, or in-between. Just follow the directions below to make this yummy sweet treat:

Edible Marshmallow Snowmen Favors:
• Create the sparkly look by wetting 3 large marshmallows with water and rolling them in course sugar. Let dry.
• Once dry, insert a lollipop stick into the center of all 3 marshmallows. The lollipop stick should only be inserted about 75% through the top marshmallow so that it is not sticking out the top.
• Using white cake piping gel (or frosting) as your “glue”, add cake dots or large sprinkles for eyes, nose, mouth, and buttons.
• Add a scarf by using thin red licorice strings.
• A mini Oreo cookie and Rolo create the hats- use piping gel or frosting as “glue.”
• Toothpicks and mini marshmallows complete the arms.

Edible Snowman Favor Ideas:
• To complement your edible snowmen favors, warm up your guests by giving them a winter mug filled with a few snowflakes hot cocoa mix packets inside.
• Entertain your guests with a melted snowman in their drink, sitting right next to their marshmallow snowman favor. Use clear cups, and then add defrosty snowman ice cubes to each beverage.
• Cover your food table(s) with the Nordic flakes plastic tablecover. It features a fun snowflake pattern with the look of a runner down the center of the table cover.
• Add bright color to your party tables with the snowman carols basic kit-n-kaboodle for your tableware. These happy snowmen will look perfect with the snowmen favors.

Delightful, Santa Bucket Favor Pails

Create Santa Buckle Favor Pails

Looking for a creative way to display and contain your Christmas party favors? We have an easy, unique favor holder for you to make, and all you need are some small red pails, black felt, white felt, and hot glue for this project. Even Santa would be impressed by these favor pails. Follow the steps below to make these festive Santa bucket favor pails:

Santa’s Buckle Favor Pails:

• Use the small red pail (item FVRSPL RED).
• Create the Santa favor pail by using FVRSPL RED, black felt, white felt, and hot glue.
• Cut a long strip of black felt for the “belt”. Hot glue the black felt strip to the pail.
• Use white felt to create the buckle, and hot glue it to the black felt.
• For a snowy look, fill the pail with cotton balls and add your favorite favors. (We used our edible marshmallow snowmen favors).

Santa Bucket Favor Pail Ideas:

• These jolly favor pails should be filled with fun
  Christmas party favors like: Christmas yo-yo’s, mini Christmas coloring books, candy cane pencils, snowman playing cards, and holiday sticker strips.
• Transform your party space with a
  cozy Christmas scene setter. Other Christmas scene setters include: the Christmas scene setter kit, the Christmas trees room setter, and windows and the fireplace scene setter.
• Santa may not be at your party (or maybe he will be, that’s up to you) but Santa’s sleigh can be there. Add a beautiful Santa’s bag
  prop next to the sleigh filled with wrapped empty boxes to complete the effect. The Santa’s bag is made out of crushed velvet looking fabric with gold embroidered wording and a gold drawstring rope. Santa’s sleigh is a great photo opportunity, and you may even want to include your photo in your Christmas cards.

Boo! Bags and Party Favor Bags — Ideas for Fun

Can you make Halloween party favor bags that are bloody and completely fa-boo-lous at the same time? Let’s examine this and other Halloween party favor container dilemmas.

Add Your Own Touches to Halloween Favor Bags
The Gift Bags page is a pretty good place to start. Here, you can begin to get a feel for the materials that will best suit your Halloween party style, mood and budget: plain or glossy paper, metallics or clear vinyl.

Select a plain cub tote bag and give it a treatment with your own stencils or stamps

Order a skull or pumpkin design on cake bags

Design a Halloween personalized sticker to place on your party favor bags of choice (the photo at right is an example)

As you widen your search you’ll come across our marvelous paintable canvas mini totes. These totes, in a party-perfect 6”x6” size, come in several colors including orange and purple. We especially like them for kids’ Halloween parties because fabric paint and glitter glue turn them into a craft activity as well as party favor bags.

Use Decorating Fabrics to Make Halloween Favor Bags
Perhaps you’ve used netting to wrap favors for a wedding? Though you may be using a different color, the same principles apply to create Halloween favor bags, including the delightful principles of “no sewing” and “no raveling,” to which many of us are loyal adherents.

Simply cut the netting into squares of your favored size, which will probably fall between 12” and 15” or thereabouts. Fill the center of each square with your Halloween treats or favors, pull up the corners and tie the bag closed with a pretty (or perhaps in this case, ghastly) piece of ribbon.

Another easy decorating fabric to use is gossamer. Cut squares from a solid color or spiderweb patterned gossamer, and use strips cut from the same material or from a contrasting color of gossamer streamer to tie the bags.

If your Halloween party involves a “chop shop” or similar mayhem, cut the squares out of a bloody gauze panel. (You may need two squares layered together for better opacity). In this case, the material will ravel but it’s all part of the effect.

Be sure to include a severed fingers decoration in each bloody favor bag.

By “Bags,” We Also Mean Boxes and Coffins

Party favor bags are fun and easy containers, but they are just one of a range of choices when it comes to holding Halloween party favors. Be sure to check out favor boxes in several Halloween designs that you can personalize, generously-sized orange buckets and black cauldrons, and our cute coffin treat boxes.

Check out more party favor boxes and bags, as well as a huge menu of party favors to stuff them with, in the Party Favors store.