lianas guests make mailbox stickers.
One Man Show
Sunday, May 2-23, 1999 • 2-5 pm
Meet the Artist
Champagne Reception
• With paper-bag dramatics, play-
ers are divided into two teams. Each
team receives a bag filled with various
items from around the house, then
has five minutes to create a play
using all the props and every team
member. "It usually ends up being
really funny and fun.
• "My sister Lee Lee's birthday is
close to Purim. When she turned 3,
we had everyone come in costume.
For the art project we made place-
mats for the Purim seudah [festive
meal] out of construction paper. My
mom had stickers for Purim, and she
cut out little masks, groggers,
hamantashen, etc. Everybody glued
these on the construction paper, then
we covered it with clear contact
paper to take home."
Adina Barth of Oak Park enlisted
the help of everyone in the family
when she had a carnival birthday
party for daughter Miriam, now in
second grade. In fact, Miriam's older
sisters were so excited by the idea that
they did much of the work.
"We set it up in our basement,"
Barth says. "We all made signs, and
we had tickets, and we had the kids
go from one booth to another.
Family members helped man the
booths, including the birthday girl's
aunt, who was in charge of the very
popular face painting.
"It was chaos," Barth admits in
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retrospect. "But we had a blast.
Everybody, from the children to the
adults, really had fun. "
If you're looking for a few quick
and inexpensive projects, consider:
• Fill a blank notebook with pic-
tures from magazines. These could
include a car, a dog, a doll, a sports
hero. Leave a page blank across from
each picture. Fill blank pages with a
list (it will be the same on every blank
page) that asks name, age, and a series
of about five favorites. For example:
favorite song, TV show, book, animal,
food.
Then ask each guest to select a
picture he or she likes, and answer
all questions on the page across from
it. This is a lot of fun for children,
who love to talk about their
favorites, and for the birthday child
who gets to keep the completed
book as a memento.
• Have a penny hunt, and let guests
keep the loot.
• Play old-fashioned games like
kickball, or marbles, or have a ta ffy-
pull, or play telephone, where one per-,_/
son says a word or phrase, then whis-
pers it to another, who whispers it to
another and another until the last per-
son says the phrase aloud, usually quite
different than what it started out to be.
• Write a book together. The birth-
day child begins the story, then each
guest contributes a few lines.