Activities

Seasonal Celebrations

By Barbara Rowley, No Source
Spring Garden Party

• Decorate with daffodils.

• Have guests paint and plant garden pots and fly kites.

• Serve strawberries and a flower-shaped cake served with umbrella-decorated drinks.

Summer Cool-Off

• Set up wading pools for puddle jumping and toy boat races.

• Hold a water balloon bowling contest (with other kids' feet as the targets).

• Serve a chocolate cookie ice cream cake

Autumn Pumpkin Party

• Paint pumpkins.

• Make a pumpkin obstacle course and have a pumpkin hunt.

• Serve up harvest food like popcorn and baked apples, plus a jack-o'-lantern cake.

Winter Festival

• Make play-clay snowmen.

• Play board games or dance to party music.

• Serve hot cocoa and snowball cupcakes.



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