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Birthday Party Help; Ideas
Topic Started: Aug 19 2007, 09:38 AM (180 Views)
Deena
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In need of birthday ideas for a 4yr old boy party, the best I have come up with are Sukkah Decorations, Party is in two weeks. but I want them to be waterproof. Anyone have any ideas that won't cost me a ton???

Edited: I have changed my mind, forget about a sukkah idea, I have decided to make challah covers with the boys.
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realeez
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sounds nice - will you do silk screen ones or on velvet?
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Deena
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What ever I find for inexpensive at Walmart, I should go tomorrow and see what I can get my hands on, but how do I do that with the 4 kids??? mabye I will just take the two babies. My hubby would probably prefer me taking the two big ones. We will see.
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npl
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I did challah covers with my Hebrew School class. They were G5, but it is easily adaptable for younger kids.

Here's what I did:

Cut rectangles of plain white cotton fabric.

Printed the letters for "hamotzi lechem min ha-aretz" on the computer, to make paper templates. Used templates to cut letters out of felt.

Kids used white glue to stick letters onto white fabric (it was a reading exercise, as well as a shabbat project). You could give the kids all the correct letters, or even stick them onto another piece of fabric for them, so they are in the correct order. Then, when the letters were all arranged, I took the pieces home and added nice rick-rack trim around the edges to finish them off.

Other options: Let them use fabric markers to decorate the covers (Crayola makes ones that are washable until set with an iron or in a hot dryer, so clothes should be protected from accidents). You can also get fabric crayons, but they need setting with an iron. Fabric paints get very messy and take ages to dry.
Also, you can provide the cloth already finished around the edges, so they can take them home the same day.
Just thought - you could always trace the words onto the fabric, and they could colour them in, or trace a picture. I like to write their names on the piece before handing them out, so they don't get mixed up.

hth

Naomi
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ykmommy
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wow, I didn't know the markers became permanent with a hot dryer!! (explains a lot of colours added from school projects)
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npl
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Actually, I meant that the fabric marker ink is set by heat - either an iron or the dryer.
But, you'll find that any stains are set by the heat of the dryer, which is why you are supposed to rewash stains that did not come out before you dry them. Of course, I often don't find the stains till the clothes come out of the dryer, anyway, but there you go :doh!

Naomi
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