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Santa Shop Theme Party
Party
Ideas by Party Consultant Michelle Hylton
Updated: 11/14/2008
www.PartyShelf.com
Gather
your little elves for a fun party at Santa Shop!
Have
them rotate around stations every 20 minutes making a fun gift or gift
accessory.
After
the first hour, take a snack break and play some games.
Then
finish the party with a final station.
Below
you will find several station ideas, pick four ideas for a 2-hour
party.
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INVITATION
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Santa Hat w/note |
Santa
Hat Coasters |
Jingle Bell Invite |
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Attach a note to this hat for the party,
asking all Elves to wear their Santa Work Hat. |
Try using these
Santa Hat Coasters to write
your invitation on and mail or hand out to your guests! |
Tie a tag onto
these cute jingle bells. Calling all Elves! |
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DECORATING
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Table |
Room |
Other |
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Set your party table with
the Jolly table pattern,
mix and match it with
Holiday Solids or use our new fun kids plates.
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Set
up four tables around the room for Santa Workshop
stations. If needed cover the table with solid color table coverings,
alternate green and red.
Use a balloon tied to a
weight and write the table # with permanent black marker on the balloon.
This identifies the station tables.
Make a Santa wall scene
using our
Santa decorama set. Add two balloon
columns on each side. It's a great spot to take a party picture.
You can make balloons
columns using green/white, red/green or red/white balloons. Here
are instructions to follow: balloon
columns
From the ceilings, hang
our Very
Merry dangles of Silver Snowflakes, Red
Santas and Green Trees.
Hang a
Santa door curtain over the entry way into the party room or
hallway.
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SANTA STATION IDEAS |
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Includes a gold glitter pen or provide
additional color glitter pens for personalizing.
Candy
Sleigh
Click
here
for directions.
Stamping
Station
Use
holiday stamps and have children stamp brown paper gift bags to give their
homemade gifts in. Provide them with colorful tissue paper to cover the
gifts in the bag. Gift
Tags
Reuse
your old holiday cards for gift tags. Using craft scissors with different
cut edges, cut out pictures from old cards. Use a single hole puncher to
punch a whole at the top and thread a 6 inch piece of curling ribbon
through the whole for a gift tag. 
Use this To/From Fancy Wood Rubber Stamp
on the backside with
Encore Ultimate Metallic Stamp Pads - In Many Colors!
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Holiday
Crackers
Have
each child make one or two holiday crackers.
Supplies:
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Scissors
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Wrapping
paper (I prefer the shiny ones, but any kind will do.)
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Empty
cardboard tubes (toilet paper rolls or paper towel rolls cut in half)
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Ribbon
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Wrapped
Candy, small favors, min ornaments and fun Christmas trivia or jokes on
small pieces of paper
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Clear
Tape
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Jingle
Bells (optional)
Directions:
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Precut
pieces of wrapping paper twice the width of the tubes and long enough to
wrap around them. If using paper towel rolls, cut them in half before the
party.
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Let
each child pick a piece of wrapping paper. Have them center their tube in
the middle. Wrap one end around the tube and secure with a piece of tape.
roll the remaining side and secure with tape.
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Take
one end of the cracker and gently tie the end with a ribbon.
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Now fill the tube from the open end with
favors.
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Add
a small jingle bell inside or tie it to the ribbon before closing the
second end of the cracker.
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Chocolate
Melting Spoons
Supplies:
Heavy
plastic
spoons (gold or silver)
Milk
chocolate
White
chocolate
Chocolate
sprinkles
Colored
sugar
Wax
paper
Cello
wrap
Ribbon
Directions:
Simply
dip colored plastic
spoons (higher quality) in melted dark, milk
or white chocolate (or candy coating) and top with multicolored ,
glittery sprinkles or other decorative edible miniatures. Place on wax
paper until chocolate has hardened. Wrap in clear or colored
cellophane, tied with ribbon. |
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GAME IDEAS |
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| Pass the snowball -
Play
like Hot Potato, but pass an oversized foam ball to some fun Winter
music. |
Pin
the Carrot on the Snowman - Cut out little carrot shapes from paper or
foam craft using the Snowman Artist plate insert below for a
template. Also, make an enlarge copy of the entire face. You and
your child can color the face. You can then cut out two large white
circles for the rest of the body and put it on a blue poster board. Hang
the poster on a door or wall to play the game. Number the carrot
game pieces or write each guests name on them to easily see who's carrot
is closest. The closest to the original nose outline wins. |
Snowflake
Hunt - Prior to the party make pairs of paper snowflakes, enough pairs
for each guest. Make sure the designs are distinct enough tell
apart. Before your guest arrive, hide snowflakes around the party
room or just hang them on the walls for decorations. Put the
remaining snowflakes in a bag. Have each guest pick a snowflake. After
everyone has a snowflake, tell them they must find their matching
snowflake in the room. The first to find his/her match wins!
Tip: To make it harder for older kids, cut out additional snowflakes
without a matching pair, so there are more to compare against. |
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12
Days of Christmas Hunt
You
will need two sets of objects or photos that represent the 12 days of
Christmas song. Prior to the start of the party, you need to hid all
24 objects or photos around the party room or rooms. Divide guest
into two teams and give them a list of the 12 days of Christmas. Give each
team a sack and let them hunt for the items. The team that has found all
12 items wins!
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Xmas
Trivia
Prior
to the party, write up on index cards Xmas trivia questions. Make enough
for each guest to answer at least 2 questions. Divide guest into 2
or 3 teams. The game goes in a round robin manner, in which each team has
one team member take a turn to answer a trivia question. Points are
awarded for right answers. You may want to make a 10, 20, and 50 point
system, with harder questions worth more points. Or just give each
team 11 pt for each right answer. The team with the most points at
the end of the game wins!
Here
are some Xmas Trivia Sites:
Xmas
Fun - TV, Movie,
Misc.,
Songs
FamilyGames.com |
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