Party Planning: A Crafty Idea

Wondertime Magazine featured the most darling item that I had to post about: the Leaf Press by Selecta. Although their linked store doesn't appear to carry the item anymore, Wee Festivity found it at Blueberry Forest Toys.

© Selecta/Blueberry Forest Toys

At a fall party, take the kids on a nature walk (even just up and down the street) to collect fall leaves. Once back at the party, each child can take a turn pressing their leaves and then gluing them to a blank card that you provide. Or glue them all on a posterboard and have each guest sign their name and it can be a birthday poster for the guest of honor.

I'm sure you can come up with a million other creative ways to use this product, please leave a comment and share!

Party Planning: Decorate with Wilton

While surfing the web for birthday candles today, I landed up in the decorating section of the Wilton website.

Wilton "has been the industry leader in cake decorating, quality bakeware and food crafting" for 80 years now. You can browse the site for inspiration.

© Wilton

Giant cupcake, anyone?

Back to candle shopping!

Party Planning: Treasure Strings Game

Let's wrap up the week with another tip from the wonderful Birthday Cake book: a variation on a treasure hunt for younger children.

Treasure Strings involves a different color ball of yarn for each little one at your party. Write each child's name on a tag and tie it to one end of the ball of yarn. Now comes the fun part: winding the yarn all through your chosen area (house, yard) being careful to go over and under things and crossing the yarns. Cut the yarn and tie a small treasure to the end of it, then hide the gift under something. During the game, the children follow the trail of their assigned color and are rewarded with the little treasure. Maybe the first person to find their treasure also wins a prize!

How much fun is this? We think this would be great for the preschool & kindergarten set. It would even be a great activity for a playdate on a rainy day.

The Xyron 150: Oxygen for Wee-Tails

© Xyron

The Xyron 150 is to a wee-tail as oxygen is to the body: fundamental. There is no easier way to add a personalized touch to every layer of your party.

This Little Sticker Machine is a must-have in your party planning toolkit. It is so important that next week I will have a tutorial on this subject.

Party Planning: Real Simple's Scoop Ahead Tip

Wee Festivity does not believe in reinventing the wheel and we lean on other resources when practical. We use books and magazines for inspiration and knowledge.

So we were reading the handy dandy book Real Simple: Celebrations and had to share this planning tip from the brilliant minds behind that publication.

Scoop your ice cream ahead of time! Of course! Wee Festivity can admit we hadn't thought of that ourselves. They recommend paper baking cups in a muffin tin and scoop the night before. When it's time to serve the cake, pop those puppies right out of the freezer and cups onto the cake plate.

Wee Festivity would like to offer this modifcation to the idea: use silicon baking cups instead.

MIU Mini Size Silicone-Cupcake Baking-Cups, 24-Pack

They can be reused, they're exremely festive and colorful and you know what? Wee Festivity would just put the cup directly on the cake plate. Why mess around with dropping ice cream onto the plate? That's an extra step you don't need during a hectic party with kids. Or demanding sugar fiends aka adults!

Wee Festivity 101 (or How We Party)

Welcome to the wonderful world of Wee Festivity, a land full of little tips, tricks and things to make any child's party magical and pretty.

The main beliefs that rule this land:

1. The secret is in the wee-tails,

2. Perfection isn't needed,

3. You might grow up, but you can never outgrow a magical, pretty party!