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 3, Danielle Peleg Gallery SPECIALIZING IN MODERN FINE ART 4301 Orchard Lake Rd., Crosswinds Mall • West Bloomfield 248•626•5810 Hours: Mon-Sat 10:30-6:00, Sun 12:00-5:00 • " Every Friday Night Adult Dance Parties Private and Group Lessons Wedding Packages 2863 I NAN. Highvita 1999 CO Detroit Jewish News Pre-Bar Mitzvah junior Groups (Ages 1 0- 1 4) (248) 336-5678 Southfield, MI stbafiroorri.corn ,,„ 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.