Planning children's birthday parties can be hard because there are so many choices available.
The first thing that usually needs to be done is picking a theme for the party.
If it is for a girl, you may just want to do a few girly crafts such as making a rhinestone shirt.
At your local craft store, you can find blank apparel and at your child's party, the guests can all decorate their own shirts.
How awesome would that be to design your own shirt? The girls would love it and it would be extremely easy to organize and supervise as a parent or if you are just there to help.
Like earlier stated, the first step to planning a party would include picking a theme.
For a girl's party, anything to do with fashion would be great and all the girls there would enjoy themselves.
For boys, something to do with fighting or cars would be a good idea.
Once they start to get older and have more boy and girl parties, picking a theme that suits everyone can be a little difficult.
Any theme that you pick will work out because at the end of the day, all of the kids will have had fun and will not care what the theme was.
After choosing a theme, decorations are the next thing on the to-do list.
Decorations can be found at any local craft shop or party store.
Picking out and buying these items can be very simple once you figure out the theme.
It can also be fun for the birthday boy or girl to invite some friends over and make some of the decorations themselves.
It can give them something to do and it will make the birthday girl or birthday boy feel like he is involved in the planning of his own party.
Picking a guest list is another thing that can be done with you and your child.
Making sure that no one's feelings are hurt is crucial however.
Everyone knows that you cannot invite everyone and that is not your fault.
When choosing who to invite, choose your child's good friends and when it is time to pass out invitations, be careful about not talking about it in front of people that are not invited.
Planning a menu and determining a budget are also things that need to be done but those things do not involve the child.
Creating a shirt at a birthday party can be fun for a boy or a girl.
At a young age especially, doing something on your own as a kid; is great because they feel like a big kid.
After the party is over, the guests can all take their shirts home.
That way, your party craft and your party favors are the same thing and you can spend less money.
When kids get little party favors, parents hate all the little trinkets that they get.
With a fun shirt that they created, they can actually use it.