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Beautiful Birthday Butterfly Bash!




Butterflies are beautiful and ethereal - like real world fairies! What better theme for an imaginative, creative kid's birthday party? Here are some awesome finds I ran across while planning my daughter's butterfly party...

DIY & low cost ideas...

Coloring sheets are a great activity, decoration, and favor! String some colored versions on ribbon for a quick inexpensive decoration. This page has a large selection of both more cartoon style and sophisticated zentangle style butterflies! The Butterfly Site has some pages of specific types of butterfly as well as a life cycle page. Mom Junction has a page with a lot of different species of butterfly as well as a color by number.

DIY butterfly mobile!

Amazon finds...






Oriental Trading has some awesome butterfly items as well at great prices- and if you order through Ebates, as of when I'm writing this you can get 2% cash back! (That is my affiliate link - but I use Ebates myself & I share because I think others might like it as well!)

Let's start at the very beginning - invitations! These are really cute and reasonably priced - $2.47 for 8 invitations.

This butterfly hanging door curtain is super adorable and would make a cute decor piece to keep in their room as a reminder of the party - maybe hung in front of a window.

Next find - butterfly design plates! And Truly Fairy paper cups - with a paper butterfly perched on them. These butterfly shaped folding hand fans would make a wonderful favor - and could double as decor! These craft supply 1" butterflies would be great as either a craft project addition or as decor, as well as these realistic butterfly self adhesive shapes. This 9ft butterfly tissue paperchain would really brighten up any party room. Neon Butterfly notepads are another favor option.

This butterfly magnet craft kit might be a good party activity. Another option would be to buy an assortment of beads, including these butterfly beads, and do a bracelet craft.

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