We recently did a bollywood themed beading birthday party where the girls made tikka headpieces.  It was such a fun party and it really goes perfectly with the theme of beading.  The party was such a hit, that we are adding this theme to our beading party packages.

Here are some tips and tricks to help you throw your own amazing bollywood beading birthday party.

A cake for a bollywood birthday party should be very colourful with lots of bold colours. 

If possible use edible beads.  The goes well with the theme of beading and the theme of bollywood.  Use lots of gold and silver to make the cake look magical.

Every party needs a few themed crafts to keep the guests busy.  A simple and fun idea with big impact is to use sticker gem beads to decorate around the girls eyes.  Purchase some henna tattoos and have the girls apply the tattoos to each other while you are doing the face stickers.  Finally, another fun use of stickers gems is to buy flip flops for each guest and have them decorate them with the sticker gems.  This also becomes a fun take home loot bag. 

Another craft that we love is to have the girls create a Tikka.  We will soon be offering kits and packages on making your own Tikka, but in the meantime, check out this link for making a diy tikka headpiece click here.

Now that the girls are all blinged out with their eye jewels, henna tattoos, new slippers and tikka headpieces, it is time for the girls to do something active. 

Purchase some glass bangles for each child.  This can also become part of their take home loot bag.  Put on a bollywood music video and let the girls have some fun dancing along.

For  more ideas and bollywood themed birthday party inspiration, check out our pinterest page click here.  We hope you enjoyed this blog post about bollywood birthday parties.  If you have any suggestions of your own, we would love to know about them in the comments below.

We have noticed that many moms booking Beading Buds jewellery making birthday parties often go with a tea party theme.  One of our favourite tea party themes is a Fancy Nancy tea party, because you can go so over the top with this theme.

Invite
Make the invite as fancy as possible using stickers, sticker gems, ribbons and glitter.  There are many websites with Fancy Nancy printables.  The official Fancy Nancy website also has lots of printables for you to use at the party as part of the party entertainment.

Party Decor
Fancy Nancy is all about being fabulous!  So this is your chance for a super girly and fancy party.  Decorate the chairs and tables with pink feather boas, tiaras, big floppy hats, fancy sunglasses and pearl necklaces (this can also double as a party loot bag). 

Hang up big bunches of gold, silver, black and pink balloons and streamers.

Cake
Do a pink cake or cupcake and decorate with pink feather boas, tiaras, big floppy hats, fancy sunglasses and pearl necklaces or any combination of these items.

Party Activities
Go to the Fancy Nancy website to get lots of great printables for the guests to use.  You can provide a box of dressup clothes and have the girls do a fashion show.  This is a great chance for you to get some great photos of the girls.  A Beading Buds jewelry making kit is also a great option, the girls can make beautiful fancy jewelry.

There are so many other great ideas for a Fancy Nancy Party.  Check out our Fancy Nancy pinterest page for more party inspiration.

My 6 soon to be 7 year old daughter has been asking for a slumber party for her 7th birthday.

I don't think that her friends (and their moms) would be ready for that yet, and I don't think I am ready to have 15 7 year olds sleeping at over at our house. 

So I decided this year to throw her a mock slumber birthday party so she can have still have some slumber party fun.

My daughter is really into American Girl and Baby Alive dolls, so to go with the theme of the party, we are asking each guest to arrive in their fanciest pajamas and to bring their favourite doll.

After the guests arrive, our first activity is going to be beading of course.  Each girl is going to make matching necklaces for herself and her doll.  We are going to do our Beading Buds package I.

After that we are going to make and eat our own pizzas.  For some additional fun activity ideas check out our pinterest board here. 

Next we are going to have some slumber party fun.  We are going to make facemasks, paint nails, give the girls and their dolls makeovers using make-up and give the girls all the best hairsyles that we can dream up.   We will also play some sleepover party games.  For ideas click here.

Finally we are going to end off the party with a movie.  Since we are having this party in November, it should be dark early enough for the girls to feel like it is a real slumber party.

I am so excited to start putting all the pieces of this party together.  We will keep you posted to see how it went!  Visit our pinterest board for more mock slumber birthday party fun.

Jewel Sparkles, one of the main characters from Lalaloopsy, is named after her infatuation with the most sparkly jewels she can dazzle herself with, and that is why beading is the perfect activity to have at your Lalaloopsy party.  With all the bight colours and quirky options, this is such a fun theme.

When planning your Lalaloopsy birthday party, buttons are a fun detail to incorporate to tie everything together.  You can make your own paper buttons and attach to straws, you can add fondant buttons to candy apples (click here) or cupcakes, you can make button cookies (click here) and you can draw button holes onto paper plates to turn them into giant buttons.

Jewelry making is a fun craft activity that keeps the children entertained while they make their own lootbag, for more information on our jewelry party kits, click here.  Another fun lootbag idea is to buy Lalaloopsy cups and fill them with treats and other goodies, you can then cellophane wrap them to have a simple but beautiful lootbag.

There are so many fun cakes and cupcakes that you can do for this theme. 

For more DIY Lalaloopsy birthday party ideas, click here to visit our pinterest page.

We hope you have a great Jewel Sparkles Lalaloopsy Beading Birthday Party.

Lately we have been obsessed with pink and gold birthday party decor, cakes, and everything else birthday party. 

We love how girly, luxurious, glam and pretty it is, and can go with so many themes. 

There are so many ways to incorporate pink and gold into a jewelry making birthday party.

For more pink and gold beading jewelry making party ideas, visit our pinterest page click here.

Another way to include pink and gold in your beading birthday party decor is to include pink and gold food in the shapes of beads such as macaroons, cakepops or cookies with sprinkles that look like beads.

One of the ways to use pink and gold in your jewellery making birthday party is to use it in your party decor. 

A great way to do this, is to use pink or gold beads, this helps to tie it in with the theme of beading and jewellery.  We absolutely adore this spray painted gold tree with pink crystals on it.  It adds such a magical and luxurious touch to any birthday party.

We also suggest pink and gold tissue paper flowers, garlands and balloons to complete and pink and gold party look.

Complete the pink and gold party look by using these colours in your loot bags. 

We  absolutely adore these beautiful loot bags.  We love how the polka dots on this tissue paper as well as the decals on the front of the bag look like beads and how they pull the whole pink and gold beading theme together.

Our princess kits are the perfect addition to any  pink and gold theme party.  The kits come packaged individually for each child with a variety of pink and white glass pearls and a stunning heart clasp starting at $6 per child.  The activity takes the girls about 30 minutes to complete is the perfect lootbag.  For more information, click here.

Happy party planning!

Over the past 6 years, as moms have booked parties, we have always suggested that they do a candy kabob making station at their party. 

This activity goes so well with the theme of beading, the kids love doing it, it is such a fun and easy activity and it becomes a inexpensive  and beautiful lootbag for them to bring home.  

Below are instructions for candy kabob making.

YOU WILL NEED:

• Gummy candy
• Ribbon
• Bamboo skewers
• Clear cellophane bags (I used 4×6 bags from michaels.)

Choose a variety of candies, if you are following a colour scheme at your party, this is a good chance for you to continue with that theme.  Each kabob uses  10 to 15 gummies per skewer, depending on candy size.

Place the gummy candies into bowls and place in the middle of the table.  Set up a skewer at each child's spot, have nametags ready so that the kabobs can be labeled with they are completed.

Have each child place the candies onto the skewer, pressing the candies 2/3 down the skewer. Alternate styles, sizes, flavors, and/or colors. 

Make sure that the children are careful with the bamboo skewers.  One of the ends is very sharp and the children may poke themselves if they are not careful.  Keep placing the candies on until the skewer is 2/3 full, all the way to the top on one end.

Place each kabob into a clear cellophane bag and tie with a ribbon.  Place a label with the child's name on the finished kabob.

For more amazing candy kabob inspiration, click here.

We recently did a photoshoot with Babywisp to help promote some of the new packages that we are offering. 

On a beautiful summer day we invited a few girls that love crafts and jewellery making, and we spent a lovely afternoon making jewellery. 

The girls did such a wonderful job and their necklaces were absolutely gorgeous.

One of our little beaders brought her American Girl doll to the photoshoot and decided to make matching Frozen Elsa necklaces for herself and for her doll.   We love how she and her doll are wearing matching Babywisp hairclips.

In the past we have done so many American Girl Beading Buds birthday parties where all the girls made matching necklaces with their dolls, and we are always so happy to offer this service.

Another one of our little beaders loves mermaids and so she made a mermaid themed pearl necklace using purple and teal glass pearls. 

She wanted to wear the necklace right away, and has requested that we come to her birthday party to do our Mermaid Princess Package.  She also loved her beautiful Babywisp aquamarine hairbow and has been wearing it ever since.

We had such a wonderful time with our little models, and we hope that they enjoy their new necklaces.

One of the best parts of having a Beading Buds birthday party is that the jewelry made becomes the lootbag, but sometimes moms like to buy something extra for the girls to take home from the party.  Baby Wisp offers great discounts on bulk purchases so you can fill up lootbags with quality products at a reasonable price! Are you one of those moms who don't want to give out plasticky junk or unhealthy candies? Here's a great alternative!! Baby Wisp now offers bulk discounts on products specifically for lootbag goodies! You can get unique lootbag items for a child's birthday party to give out at your little girl's party that won't get thrown out as soon as you give it out.   To see their newest products click here. 

We have done many American Girl Beading Birthday Parties in the past, and beading really is the perfect complement to an American Girl Birthday Party.  Check out our American Girl Party Package.

At many of our parties, the girls make matching necklaces for themselves and their dolls with a special heart or snowflake charm. 

Here are some tips and tricks to help make your American Girl Beading Birthday Party extra special.

Party Decor:  There are two great options for the party decor.  Option one is to make everything pink.  Option 2 is to go with the American girl colours, red and white and the star shape.  Stack American Girl doll boxes as a centerpiece, put up red and white tissue paper flowers.  Hang red and white stars, cut out star shapes and hang them on the walls.  Make your own American Girl photo booth, click here for some more party decor ideas.  

Party Food:  Cut sandwiches and fruit into star shapes and serve mini hamburgers and mini hotdogs, red punch and red velvet cupcakes.  A fun idea is to have a dessert table with all red candy such as licorice  and gumballs, red candy apples, marshmallows, star shaped cookies and and desserts on it.

Birthday Cake:  Most birthday cakes are red with white stars on them, check out our pinterest page here for some ideas.

Party Activities:  A fun idea is for the girls to make friendship necklaces or bracelets for themselves and then a matching necklace for their doll.  Another idea is for the girls to make their own friendship necklaces, and then for the birthday mom to give each girl a pre-made regular bracelet that they can put on their doll so that the doll have friendship necklaces too.  This can be the party activity and the loot bag.  Click here to see our party packages. 

Once the jewelry is made, other fun activities are American Girl Bingo, click here for a printable.  Another fun idea is to play usual party games (such as freeze dance, duck duck goose, etc) but include the dolls in the games.