Friday, January 17

Valentines Day Freebie Printable - Full Owl Party Set!

What a FABULOUS FREEBIE I have to share with you for this VALENTINES DAY!
HAPPY VOWLENTINES DAY
is a printables set packed full (44 files FULL!) of everything you'll need to make your classroom parties and home decorating easy and adorable this year!

Kate Petronis of And Everything Sweet, my amazing talented friend, put together the most detailed, sweet Valentines party for her daughters and their friends using the printables set. You will see so many amazing ideas here and I hope it might even motivate you to host your own little soiree.






































To Download the HAPPY VOWLENTINES FREEBIE
follow the steps below:

1. CLICK ON THE FACEBOOK IMAGE BELOW to go to Amanda's Parties To Go's FACEBOOK PAGE. Once there, find the BLUE "Click Here" button next to the Like button and CLICK

2. A new page will open with a Download button. Click the Download button which will take you to the FREE VOWLENTINES PRINTABLE DOWNLOAD 

(NOTE: Some work places will block the file sending service website so please download from a home computer and not a phone. This FREEBIE IS FOR FACEBOOK USERS ONLY for their fabulous support of my small business. Facebook is a wonderful tool for a small business owner -- join Facebook to receive all of the Amanda's Parties To Go FREEBIES! Thanks everyone! )

Sunday, January 12

FREE Valentines Favor - Lollipop Cover


NEW FREEBIE for my wonderful readers! It's a

With a version for both girls and for boys, you can make simple, 
inexpensive but adorable treats for the whole class!
(Just click the link above to download the files)


INSTRUCTIONS:
Materials Needed: 
Photo paper
Small lollipop (no larger than 2.5" in diameter) - I purchased mine in a pack from Walmart - they were Wilton favor lollipops - similar ones can be found HERE and HERE
Scotch tape, ribbon
Hot glue


STEP 1: Use the back of a butter knife and ruler to score each grey line before folding. Then fold on each crease.
STEP 2: Overlap two bottom flaps lining up punched holes.

STEP 3: Secure flaps closed with a small piece of Scotch tape on each side.
STEP 4: Insert your lollipop through cover and into the hole punched at the bottom of the cover.

STEP 5: After pulling lollipop through secure with a small dot of hot glue at the base of the lollipop and cover to keep lollipop from sliding out.
STEP 6: Tie a small piece of tulle or ribbon around base of lollipop. Write name on back of cover.


Easy! And super cute, too! Enjoy!

Valentines Party (Customer Party)


What a lovely Valentines Party I'm sharing today from the talented Ellen of Ellen Bessette Events. Ellen put together a stunningly sweet party for a little girl given by her grandmother. What a wonderful idea! And best of all, she used Valentines Party printables to embellishment her beautiful party, too.

Ellen says, "I wanted this party to be perfect! Ruffles, pink and lots of sweets!" And then the wind came. Wind can be a party stylists worst nightmare and that day, I think it just might have been for Ellen. She says, "The wind nearly destroyed my setup and blew my handmade heart backdrop into tangles, blew over a flower arrangement and broke the crystal candlestick, name place cards and food labels went flying, etc."

Poor, Ellen! But seriously, you would never know from these gorgeous photos. After the chaos of the wind and quite a bit of reassembling, Ellen says, "But the girls had a great time and at the end of the party that’s really all that matters! The girls enjoyed lots of fun crafts, facepainting, running around the yard with their tutu wands, filling their bags with goodies and a scavenger hunt at the end of the party."











Thank you so much for sharing your hard work and beautiful party styling with us, Ellen! You brought my Valentines Party printables to life!

Thursday, December 12

FREE Reindeer Food Tags!

Reindeer food is certainly not a new idea but my kids have loved it each and every Christmas for about 10 years now. It's become a Christmas tradition to go outside before bed on Christmas Eve and pour the reindeer food out on the lawn.... waiting, waiting, waiting for those reindeer to come!

This year I decided to create a sweet little tag and poem for my kindergartner to make gifts for his classroom friends. And today, I'm going to give the designs away to my readers. I hope it will help you with those last minute treats for your kids' class parties next week.

To make the gifts, you'll need to gather your supplies to make the reindeer food....
no worries... it's easy, peasy!


 REINDEER FOOD SUPPLIES:

- Oatmeal (I used the whole can for 21 kids)
- Bottles of Christmas colored sugars
- Christmas sprinkles
- Glitter


Pour everything together in a big bowl and stir to mix.


Employ your best helpers to spoon the mixture into small plastic bags. I found these in a pack of 100 on the wedding supplies aisle at Walmart. To keep the bag open for my little one, I used a toilet paper roll inside the bag and had him spoon the reindeer food over a plastic bowl. This caught much of the spills so that I won't find glitter and oatmeal under every crevice for the next 3 months.


Once you get your bags filled, punch holes in your printed reindeer food tags and string some ribbon or tulle through to seal off the bags and make them pretty.

The tags will explain to your child's friends just how this reindeer food works....



Here's our basket full and all ready to go.... one class down.
Now to come up with ideas for my older children's friends.

Grab your


Merry Christmas Everyone!