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This is probably going to be the longest post that anyone has ever posted because I am obsessed with parties and so there are loads of details to document here, if you want the full effect. I am behind . . . so this is from June ’09.<\/p>\n

I just have to share this party because its such a fun theme. Girls and boys love it and there are so many creative ways to tie in logos\/favor tags, etc! www.andersruff.com<\/a> can customize anything you want to help tie your party together as we show in our example here!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

It all started with the deal I found on crayons last fall. I don’t ever remember being able to get a box of crayons for $0.33? Walmart apparently has! I decided at that deal that Jeffrey’s next party (mind you, it was 9 months before his party that I bought these crayons) was going to be an arts and crafts party. I mean, why not? I love art, he does too (or he pretends to!). Plus, what an amazing favor this will be – I could already envision it – a paint can full of art supplies for each child with their name personalized on it. Perfect. That $0.33 box of crayons was just the start to the favor. Over the next 7 months, I found watercolors ($1.99-CRAYOLA, too!), stickers ($0.50), glue sticks ($0.50) to stuff in the most adorable cans (Thanks, Kristin – she found these for me at Target for $0.70 each)!<\/p>\n

Can you already tell how I plan parties? I work backwards. I find the perfect favor and work backwards. Plan backwards. It has panned out for me this far, so I’ll stick with my method.<\/p>\n

Anyhow, lets share this event the right way – invitation first. My parents are interior designers and with my love of paper came a love of paint chip charts. I loved fanning out all the beautiful colors and imagining painting a room each of the colors in the chart. That was it – This “Mommy and Me Arts and Crafts party”<\/span><\/span> just HAD to have a paint chip chart invitation<\/span>.<\/p>\n

In our shop<\/a>, we have a paint chip invitation. If you are interested in multiple pages that you can link together with a brad like the on I did, we can do that, too!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here it was:<\/p>\n

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So that was the beginning impression – the invitation<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n

Then we have the decorations<\/span><\/span>. Most you will see throughout this post in other photos, but a few of note are the “Happy Birthday” sign and the artist easel as you walk in the door.<\/p>\n

The “Happy Birthday” sign was made of, you guessed it, paint chips. I hung them from a string of raffia with little wooden clothes pins.<\/p>\n