Kid Friendly Homemade Birthday Party Crafts and Food Ideas

Let the kids make and decorate their own creation that they can take home with them. These fun and easy crafts & foods are all homemade and will add lots of fun to any kid's birthday party.

Crafts:

Salt Dough Letters & Numbers

Let each child make salt dough letters of the alphabet and make numbers too. Each child can then decorate their letters & numbers and then take them home to have fun with. After the letters and numbers have baked & cooled and once the kids have decorated them then they can glue small magnets on the back of each letter and number to place on the refrigerator at home. Here is what you will need to create this fun & easy craft.

Salt Dough Recipe

10 oz water

10 oz salt

½ pint lukewarm water

1 tablespoon vegetable oil

Water-based paints

Glitter (your choice of colors)

Paintbrushes

Elmer's Glue

Small Round Magnets

Non-stick baking sheet

Rolling Pin

Pastry cutters in the shape of letters & numbers

Mixing Bowl

Wooden Spoon

Place the salt into the mixing bowl and then add the water and mix thoroughly until the salt is dissolved completely. Add the flour and the oil and stir until the dough becomes stiff. Knead the dough with your hands until the dough becomes firm and then form the dough into a ball. Dust a kitchen counter with a little flour and then place the ball of dough on to this. Using the rolling pin, roll the dough out to the thickness of ½ inch. Place the letter & number cutters on top of the dough & push down each cutter firmly. Place each letter & number onto the non-stick baking sheet. Bake in the oven at 210 degrees for one hour. Once the letters and numbers become hard turn the oven off but do not remove them from the oven until they are cooled off completely. This will keep the salt from cracking the dough. Once the letters & numbers have cooled off, let the kids paint and decorate their own numbers and letters.

Pin The Bow On The Present

Draw a life size picture of a present and hang on a wall. Use a real bow and to pin the bow on to the present use a piece of tacky stuff.

Gumball Count

Fill a see through plastic bowl up with sugar-free gumballs and let each guest guess how many there are. The guest that is the closest wins the gumballs.

Bowling

Buy a small plastic ball to use for the bowling ball, and use empty 16 ounce water bottles or soda bottles for the bowling pins.

Musical Chairs

Arrange 5 child size plastic chairs in a circle. Each guest stands in a circle around the chairs and start a music cd playing and stop it all of a sudden. The kids grab an empty seat & the ones that are left standing are out of the game. Remove one chair and start the cd playing again. Continue stopping cd, restarting and removing chairs until one chair remains. The child that is sitting in the last chair that remains wins the prize which can be a huge stuffed teddy bear.

Create You Own Cupcake

Bake the cupcakes according to directions and then fill bowls with different colors of icing. Fill small plastic bowls with m&m's, gummy worms, sprinkles, candy corn, licorice strings and set all of this on the table. Let each guest ice their cupcakes & decorate as they wish. Give out little prizes to each child for creating their best cupcakes.

Bucket of Bugs

Fill small plastic toy buckets with plain vanilla yogurt. Add gummy worms and spiders and crumble up oreo cookies on top of the bugs to look like dirt. Mix this all together. Give one to each guest at the party.