Kids Birthday Party Ideas – 4 Ways to Decorate and Use Plain Paper Cups
You can easily cut down on the cost of these party supplies by buying and decorating plain white paper or polystyrene cups in different ways to suit the theme of the birthday party.
Tip: As the cups will actually be used to drink from and not merely be used as table decorations, don’t overdo the decorating.
Here are a few ideas:
Funny faces: These cups are ideal surfaces on which to make funny faces to turn “boring into fun” for the party table.
You can use coloured construction paper cut into different shapes to make animal, people or cartoon character faces. Use coloured stickers for noses, eyes and cheeks. Coloured pipe cleaners can be used for whiskers. I would not recommend adding “hair” to the faces unless you can be sure that the yarn or wool would not interfere with the drinking process…
You can also add feet or shoes cut from construction paper and attach it to the underside of the cups. Tails can be made from string or cotton balls if you make animal faces.
Of course it is not necessary to just use paper or stickers for the eyes and cheeks. Jelly candies come in such a wide variety that you can really construct a whole face on a paper cup – use small dots of icing to “glue” the candies to the paper cup. Bootstring licorice can be used for eyebrows and whiskers.
Ribbon and Flower: Wrap a pretty ribbon around the paper cup and glue a big fake flower on the ribbon to add a festive feeling to a garden or tea party. For a boy’s party, you can cut a strip from coarse fabric like burlap and glue a small plastic toy to it.
Themed Stickers: Buy stickers that suit the theme of the party and let your child decorate the cups with these.
Plain paper cups can also be turned into small buckets that can hold snacks on the party table and even be given as party favours afterwards. Use acrylic paint to paint the cups in the party theme colours or simply decorate with stickers as mentioned above.
Cut strips of cardboard for the handles, punch holes in each end of the handles and also on either side of the paper cups. Attach the handles to the cups with plain split pins or decorative brads used for paper crafts like puppet and windmill making.
Decorating plain paper cups in these ways may mean that you will need more time and do a little bit more work, but your child and the party guests will definitely be delighted and more impressed with these decorated paper cups than with the normal theme-based paper cups bought at party supply stores.
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