Homemade Birthday Invitations for Kids' Parties

Birthday party invitations are easy to make if you use your home computer. There is an abundance of free clipart and photos available online to use in your invitations. If you have print software, you may already have the clipart and photos on your computer. You can use print software or photo editing software to design your entire card inside and out. Create a document that's 8 1/2 inches in height and 11 inch in width in your favorite print or image editing software program. Draw a vertical line down the middle to divide it in half. Duplicate the image by saving it with a new file name. The first file will serve as the front of the invitation, and the second file will become the interior of the invitation. All images and text should go in the right side of each document. On the front of the birthday party invitation, create a space for the image, then type your greeting. On the inside of the invitation, type information about the date, time and place of the birthday party. Get some heavy duty printer paper or heavy card stock to print your invitations. Print the front of the birthday party invitation, then turn the paper or card stock over to print the other side. Be careful to position the paper or card stock so that text prints in the right direction on both sides.

Homemade Pool Birthday Party Invitations for Kids' Parties

To save money on your swimming pool birthday party invitations, you can use free clip art. There are some quality clip art drawings of kids swimming in a pool on ArthursClipArt.org. All of the images on this site are free for non-commercial use. There are both free full-color images of kids swimming on the site. There are also black and white clipart images you can color yourself, either on the computer or by hand.

You can also find free clip art images of kids in swimming pools on the TimTim.com website. The images on TimTim.com are also completely free for personal use.

If you prefer to use a photo for your swimming pool birthday party invitation, you may find what you want in the free images on Dreamstime.com. There are also free photos of kids in the swimming pool on the stock.xchng website.

If you want a higher quality photo or clip art illustration for your swimming pool birthday party invitation, choose from among the images on iStockPhoto.com. You will see them at the top and the bottom of the page while browsing the stock.xchng website. You can also search the iStockPhoto.com website directly with a search term such as "swimming pool kids." The "XSmall" or "Small" images should be just the right size for a birthday party invitation. You'll have to pay a small fee for the images on this site. iStockPhoto.com doesn't charge directly for the images, but rather uses a credit system to determine how much an image costs. If you pay as you go, the images will cost more; if you subscribe, you'll get a significant discount. Whatever option you choose, you can get your stock photos or illustrations for $2 or less.

Try using wording in your invitation that matches the theme of the swimming pool birthday party. For example, you could put, "We're having a splash! Come join us for a pool party."

Homemade Pirate Birthday Party Invitations for Kids' Parties

Pirate clipart and photos are easy to find online for free. The Clker.com website has some attractive pirate clipart images that you can use for free in birthday party invitations. There are many skull-and-crossbones clip art images, as well as clip art cartoons of pirates.

You can also find photos and more clip art illustrations of pirates for your birthday party invitations on the stock.xchng website.

You can also try searching for pirate pictures using the CreativeCommons.org search engine. This search engine searches free images under the Creative Commons license on Google and Flickr. For best results, search on Flickr and select "The Getty Images Collection" from the drop-down menu.

Choose wording for your invitation that fits the pirate theme of your child's birthday party. For example, you could write, "Aarrrgggh, we're havin' a birthday bash! Come if ye dare!" or "Ahoy, matey! Capt. (Your Child's Name Here) requests your presence at his birthday celebration."

Homemade Photo Birthday Party Invitations for Kids' Parties

You can easily create birthday party invitations using photos of your kids. Take some photos with your digital or 35 mm camera, then get some professional 4 by 6 inch prints made. Then create the printed portion of your invitations on the computer. Measure within your digital document where the 4 by 6 inch photo will appear on your invitation. Then create a birthday party invitation greeting outside of that space. Carefully glue the photo on the front of the card using rubber cement.

For more birthday party invitation ideas and resources, read The Best Free Printable Birthday Party Invitations Online. For birthday party ideas, read Birthday Party Theme Ideas for Boys and Birthday Party Theme Ideas for Girls.