Birthday Party Invitations Made by Kids

When Victoria’s 6th birthday got closer I crafted these fairy birthday party invitations with her. They might not look like it, but they’re quite easy to do. In fact Victoria did most of them by herself.

It’s that time of the year when the birthday of your kid is getting closer and it’s time to prepare the birthday party invitations, the birthday countdown and the birthday party. I guess this is becoming a tradition in our house. You can have a look at these other easy to make birthday party invitations that we did last year.

I like to involve the kids as much as possible in the preparations. So this time, I wanted to do some fairy birthday party invitations that Victoria could do herself. That implies that they need to be easy to make and look nice enough for her to be proud to give them to her  friends.

What we used for our birthday party invitations:

• lace paper
• glue
• scissors
• colored paper
• something to draw, like a pen or pencil
• decorating material (glitter glue, stickers….)

This is how to make these fairy birthday party invitations:

I cut the colored paper into the right shape. I made them approximately into what I considered to be the right size for the birthday party invitations (more or less 1/4 of an A4 paper).

I then cut the dresses, faces and crown from the lace paper. If you do this, you need to be a bit inventive here, as the shape of the dress and crown depend a lot on the lace paper you have. You can also leave your child cut the lace paper, but in our case Victoria was not interested in cutting, she just wanted to glue and draw. So I did the cutting 🙂

Next, I made a fairy card as example. I glued the crown, face and dress on the colored paper and drew the hands, face, hair … Victoria just watched me. I made this first card just to show her an example as to what she could do. I also made some different faces and haircuts on some other sheets of paper, so that Victoria could use them as inspiration.  It was however up to her if she wanted to do this or something else. She chose to follow.

The next step is the easiest of all:  I just gave her the space to make her own birthday party invitations.

The only thing left to do was to print all the details of the party on a paper, cut them out and glue them on the back side of the birthday party invitations.

As an extra, we also glued our self made butterflies to the back, to make it even more fairy like 🙂

And of course we can’t make a printable without sharing it.
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These birthday party invitations are very easy to do and even if you’re not planning any party, making these fairies is a really fun craft for kids.

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