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Flutterby Butterfly Party

A butterfly birthday party is a perfect idea for a little girl. You can create a magical birthday party with a fun butterfly theme that she will never forget with these fun creative ideas.

Get Ready to Flutter
Begin by stocking up on all the necessary birthday party supplies – plates, napkins, balloons – all with a butterfly theme. Check your local dollar store for these supplies at a fraction of the cost of other places. Then get your invitations ready. Cut out butterfly-shaped cards the size of a post card, and let your child decorate them with stickers. Tape the actual party invitation to the back on one side, and then mail it off.

Butterfly Decorations
Draw and cut out large butterflies from poster board. Color and decorate the butterflies and hang them from the ceiling. Make large flowers to tape to the walls. Decorate the tables and walls with pastel-colored crepe paper and balloons. For a table centerpiece, fill a large vase with colorful flowers, and add tiny butterflies to the flowers. Butterfly magnets make great place holders the kids can take home.

Butterfly Party Activities
A fun activity for your butterfly birthday party would be to make coffee filter butterflies. You need a clothespin, coffee filters and markers. Have the kids color sections of the coffee filters. Spritz them with water, and the colors will run together. Let them dry, and then pinch the middle of the flat coffee filter and push it up into the clothespin so that two wings seem to puff out. Add wiggly eyes and chenille stem antennae.

You could also cut out wings that are large enough for the party guests in advance. Use paper bags, and cut wings from the large sides of the bags. Tape them together, and punch holes near where the wings meet so you can tie the wings on the children. Then, the guests can paint designs on the wings, and you can attach the wings to the children’s backs so they can fly around.

Butterfly Birthday Cake – It’s Easy to Do

Bake a round cake according to the directions on the cake mix box. Cut the cake in half. Turn the two halves around on the cookie sheet so that the round sides touch in the middle and the wider, flat edges are pointing out. You can leave it like this, or trim the rounded edges for a more triangular look. Ice the cake in pastel colors, pipe an icing body down the middle, add licorice antennae and you have a beautiful butterfly cake. Pastel-colored ice cream completes the party.

Party Food
Everyday food becomes fun when you give it a new name and add a twist. Try serving these fun foods at your butterfly party.

Butterfly Nector – Combine equal parts apricot nectar (in the juice aisle) and 7-Up. Float rainbow sherbet on top.

Butterfly Jewel Sandwiches – Make jelly sandwiches in a variety of colors. Use flavors such as grape, strawberry and peach. Remove crusts and cut in half on the diagonal. Place sandwiches on a small plate with the wide side facing out like wings. Add a baby carrot in the middle for the wings, raisins for eyes and licorice for wings. “Glue” in place with small dabs of jelly or icing.

Garden Goodies – Celery sticks, baby carrots, mini tomatoes and tiny radishes along with dip are the perfect accompaniment to this part.

Goody Bags to Go
Send the kids home with goody bags decorated with butterflies. Include items in the bag such as butterfly-shaped toys, butterfly and flower stickers or a small book on butterflies. Wrap up your party by having your child send out butterfly-themed thank-you notes.

Above information provided courtesy of Judy M Miller

Springtime School Room Decor

Springtime is on it's way! The sun is coming out to warm the world around us and a myriad of new life is awakening. The birds are beginning to chirp and the flowers will soon be blooming. Children will be watching beautiful butterflies that have emerged from their cocoons, flitting from bloom to bloom performing the tasks that will spread the pollen from flower to flower and bring spring into the full bloom of summer.

We celebrate the new life that blossoms every year and implores us to refocus and start anew. More than any other time of year, we can feel the hope and promise that the future holds. What better way to celebrate a new beginning than to welcome it into our spaces? From the home to the schoolroom, spring decor will bring liveliness and bliss into the atmosphere.

Schoolrooms can be turned into a wonderfully enchanting springtime garden oasis by using various types of easily applied items to invoke the feel of spring. Wonderful touches like sun and cloud wall stickers, flowers painted on the walls or applied with wall stickers, and even beautiful nylon butterflies in magical flight can make the space perfect.

Decorate your walls with butterfly or springtime alphabet wall stickers for the younger grades, to engage their imaginations while still learning the basics. The children can be involved in the decorating by helping to either decide the location of the letters or helping to place the decor for a feeling of accomplishment in creating such blissful elegance.

In the study of springtime happenings, butterflies are perfect. Butterflies are great way to introduce several science lessons, a variety of art projects and even field trips. From simple sparkling wings, to enchanting and brightly colored jewels adorning the wings, you can find a variety of beautiful, elegant and graceful nylon butterflies to use in your classroom. They simply add a magical  and enchanting feel. The children can each make their own nylon butterflies and add them to the decor of the room. Mixing them in with nylon butterflies you've purchased and attaching them to clear fishing line stretched across the room invites ownership from the children as they have assisted and personalized the room.

Bringing spring into the classroom through topic selection and decor, especially with a butterfly theme, will literally transform your learning environment into a fairytale world that that captures young imaginations. Activating the imagination will bring more focus and enhance the learning experience. Children respond to this environment and will learn more freely, as well as remaining happy and enjoying their classroom atmosphere.

Freebie Friday: Bugs-n-Blooms Product Review and Giveaway

A wonderful customer wrote this review about Bugs-n-Blooms and we thought we would pass it along:

"Happy Friday, loveys!!!! Raise your hand if you like free stuff! Oh, you do too? Nice. Nothing better than something for free. Well, here's the deal. Because I love you soooo much, my favorite regular post is going to be Freebie Fridays. All you have to do is click over here for a fun promotion or contest and a chance to win something really awesome....for free. Cool, right?

I am not an artist.  Not at all.  The closest I come to anything remotely creative is writing, and yeah, unfortunately, I can't write up a cutely creatively decorated room for my daughters.  So last year, when I decided I wanted to redo their bedroom, I found the perfect company to help me with my vision.  

Bugs-n-Blooms is a company specializing in little girls' room decor.  They create the most exquisite flowers, butterflies, and other various creations to embellish the boudoir of your little princess.

In addition to wall decor, they also create mobiles, curtain tie-backs, wall stickers, beaded garlands....

.....and my personal favorites, wall alphabet stickers.

The Little One's nursery

The Curly Haired One's room

Some new products from Bugs-n-Blooms are their wearable butterfly wings, tutu skirts, wands, and headbands, which can all be put together into quite the amazing costume for your little one who loves to dress up.

We love the decor that we got from Bugs-n-Blooms.  We've had it for well over a year, and it even withstood a move from our old apartment to our new house!  The butterflies and flowers are incredibly well made, and the stickers came right down with no paint damage whatsoever, and stuck right back up in the new room!  I was personally amazed by that.

And if you're anything like me, which is not creative and a decorating failure, Bugs-n-Blooms has you covered with an entire section on their website filled with decorating ideas, how-to, and step by step instructions on how to hang your decor and bring it to life.

My opinion?  I think Bugs-n-Blooms rocks!  They have so many different colors, styles, and creations that no matter what you are going for in the room you are decorating, you can get it and make it happen with Bugs-n-Blooms.  And wearable butterfly wings?  What little girl wouldn't want a pair?  And I'm not the only one who loves them-they were featured on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition as a provider of room decor!  Because we want you to see how much Bugs-n-Blooms rocks as well,  B-n-B is offering an awesome giveaway to one lucky reader!!!

The Giveaway:  One Small or Medium Sized Butterfly of your choice !! (up to a $6.95 value)

To Enter:

Mandatory Entry:  Head on over to the Bugs-n-Blooms website, and pick out your prize!  Then go to Facebook, Our Blog and/or Twitter and post your favorite and tell us which butterfly you would like if you win!

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Have fun, and good luck!!!  This giveaway will be ending Thursday, March 11th at 10 pm, with one winner chosen by a random number generator, notified by email, and posted shortly thereafter!  Thank you for supporting Bugs-n-Blooms."

Thank you Kisha for your wonderful comments and for being a loyal customer for years!

Bugs-n-Blooms Storewide Sale - Coupon Available

Bugs-n-Blooms is having a store wide sale going on now. Be sure and grab all of your butterfly room decor and fairy princess dress-up costumes now before this special offer ends. What a perfect way to start summer off by decorating her room to make it a special place she can call her own. Or, let her be a princess as she will love to play dress up with our beautiful butterfly wings, fairy wands and princess tutu skirts. These savings won't be around too long and items are selling out fast, so be sure and stock up today! Be sure and join our newsletter or subscribe to our blog for more great coupons.

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Butterfly Decor for Formal Occasions

For those of us with a love of butterflies and garden decor, the perfect time of year is approaching! The imminent arrival of spring energizes the air with happy thoughts of shedding our jackets and starting the spring rituals: opening the windows to feel the fresh air and the planning special events, anticipating the warmth and sunshine, invoking the desire for all things lovely and fresh. 

Spring is the perfect time of year to plan bridal showers and receptions, and, of course, celebrations for the graduate in your life. Whether you are planning to have these celebrations indoors or outdoors, a garden theme or celebration of spring is in order. Using butterflies in your decor will bring these to life. How perfect for the butterfly lover in us all!

For bridal showers and receptions, you can make beautiful centerpieces and attach bejeweled nylon butterflies to the side of a vase. You can also make a nice water feature by filling vases or bowls with water, adding colorful marbles on the bottom, and a beautiful butterfly landing onto the edge of the bowl. Any attendee will love receiving one of these gorgeous signs of spring as part of a door prize arrangement or as a gift for the many games we play.

Any arches or flower decor can instantly achieve another level of elegance and fantasy by slipping in an occasional butterfly in among the petals or wired to the arch. Butterfly decor touches the imagination and allows the mind to achieve sublime enjoyment of your festivities. There are many ways to implement butterflies into your wall decor, from wall stickers to flowered displays, where butterflies are float from one delicate bloom to another.

Your high school or college graduate will be delighted to see her favorite butterfly theme added to her graduation celebration. For an outdoor celebration, attach some clear or sparkled wiring (at a safe height) between trees and allow beautiful, magical butterflies to enhance your garden celebrations. Even in evening, the lighted array of colors sparkling through the night will delight your guests.

Butterfly Themed Nursery Ideas

Decorating your baby's nursery in a butterfly theme is a beautiful way to brighten the room for your baby girl. Butterflies are delicate creatures, each unique in their intricate designs and colors. There are creative ways you can bring the beauty of butterflies into the nursery in an elegant way that looks well put together and enhances the feel of the room.

Choosing Items

Choose a few key butterfly items for your nursery rather than overwhelming the room with everything butterfly-themed. Additional items can be coordinated to match the butterfly's colors. Your colors should be bright, as babies prefer these over pastels. Newborns, however, prefer black and white due to the contrast of shades, which is easier for them to see.

Hanging Butterflies

Take small hooks and screw them into the ceiling. Find large butterflies at Bugs-n-Blooms that can be hung from the hooks using fishing line. They'll fly around as the breeze hits them and delight the baby from her crib.

Wall Decals

Use butterfly wall decals to decorate the walls. Bugs-n-Blooms has vinyl wall decal stickers that are custom in your choice of colors. With a large color palette, you can match the decals to the colors in your baby's nursery. You can pick up other decals that work well with the butterfly theme, such as clouds for the ceiling or flowers for the butterflies to sit on.

Crib and Bedding

Decorate her crib with a few butterfly items and solid colors to coordinate. The bedding should be simple with a few butterfly items standing out from the rest. While the crib sheet can be a solid bold color, the blanket can be a colorful array of butterflies. The mobile is a great way to showcase hanging butterflies. Since butterflies are one of the more popular themes for babies, you'll be able to find several selections of butterfly mobiles available at their store, both online and in-store.

Butterfly Rug

Complete the room with a large butterfly rug or several smaller ones. You can find rugs that have an assortment of butterflies on them to rugs that are in the shape of a large butterfly.

Above information provided courtesy of ehow.com

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Butterfly Birthday Party Ideas

Butterfly Invitations

You can use a large colorful picture of a butterfly for your butterfly birthday party invitations. Make photocopies and cut out the invitations. Include your party details on the butterfly wings.

The wording of your butterfly birthday invitations can say: "Butterflies are pretty and fly so free - come to (name of your child)'s 6th (7th, etc.) birthday tea. There will be games to play and wings to make. We will enjoy a butterfly cake. So dress up as pretty as you can be, and join the fun at (name of your child)'s Butterfly Tea." Then include all your butterfly birthday party details.

You can make butterfly party invitations more personal. Draw (with a help of your child) a butterfly on the front of the invitation card (make sure the butterfly is big enough). Then make color copies of your picture for the rest of the invitations. Write the above wording inside you invitations and mail.

Butterfly Decorations

You can create a special atmosphere with your butterfly party decorations.

Decorate a gate (or any other area in front of your house) with a banner "The Butterfly Birthday Party is Here!" Tie balloons (mylar butterfly balloons are best) to pinwheels, and then stick the pinwheels in the ground by the walkway leading to your house. Have colorful paper streamers everywhere around your backyard.

Hang nylon butterflies on strings from the ceiling inside the house. Place any butterfly related toys (e.g. flowers, bugs, etc.) around the butterfly birthday party area. Attach butterfly posters to the walls for colorful effect.

Cover your table with table cover with mini butterflies on it. You can attach colorful ribbons to flower pots, and have one or two of them for table centerpiece.

Tie a large butterfly mylar balloon to birthday child's seat. Make a huge banner "Happy Birthday (Your child's name)!", and hang it by the table area.

Butterfly Favors

For your butterfly party favors you can have such items as butterfly stickers, bean bags, butterfly hair clips, sunglasses, toy butterflies, flower seeds, gummy caterpillars, and butterfly shaped rings.

If your butterfly birthday party is strictly for the girls - then you can give out butterfly costumes which includes a pair butterfly wings, butterfly tutu, and a butterfly wand.

Butterfly Birthday Cake

Butterfly Cake: Bake 9" round cake and one cupcake.

Cut cake in half. Place curved edges of the cut halves side by side. This should resemble butterfly wings. Frost the cake with white icing and decorate it with candies and gumdrops.

Place the cupcake above "the wings" to resemble butterfly's head. Place licorice for antennae and gumdrops for eyes.

Butterfly Food Ideas

• Butterfly Bagels: Slice bagels in half. Split the halves again in the middle resulting in four half circles per bagel.

• Butterfly Sandwich: Cut bread in the form of butterfly wings. Add a celery stick body, cherry tomato and carrot stick antennae. Put veggie pieces on the bread for "spots".
  

• Butterfly Treats: Cut celery into small pieces. Fill them with peanut butter, cream cheese or other spread. Put a pretzel on each side of the celery to form wings. Use broken pretzel pieces for antennae and raisins for eyes.
  

• Caterpillar Gelatin: Prepare gelatin according to directions on the package. Add gummy worms - so every gelatin cube has a caterpillar. And then refrigerate.

Above information provided courtesy of kids-birthday-party-guide.com

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Butterfly Wedding Cakes Symbol of Love

The butterfly is just a perfect symbol for love, how? The answer is butterfly is the transformative creature. Its life begins as ugly duckling and converts into a very beautiful thing which liked by everyone. So, butterfly is the most preferred one. It is a transformation, passing through dreadful phases to reach at most beautiful end, which concludes in a final commitment Marriage.

Therefore, the butterfly wedding cakes are more perfect for you. It is one of the most exclusive ideas that you can take on. But there is only one challenge to face once you have fixed on to go with this specific kind of wedding cake is to find a capable baker. This is for the reason that you wish for your wedding cake to be the best wedding cake.

Above information provided courtesy of eweddingcake.com

Tutu Skirts - Cultivate Your Daughters Imagination

Nothing is sweeter or more delicate than your little girl and what better way to make her feel special than to dress her up than in a delightful tutu skirt.

If you are like most parents, you probably spend an inordinate amount of time looking for ways to entertain your children. While children are easily amused, they are just as easily bored and need a constant flow of activity to stimulate their imaginations, which we all know is so important in the early years of a child's development.

Too many children today have lost that sense of imagination that children in years past used to display. Blame it on video games and television taking up so much of their time, but kids today have forgotten how to entertain themselves playing make believe.

While little boys spend a large part of their day on their knees trying to put holes in their new pants or playing army in the mud, girls are captivated with frilly tea parties, dolls, and dressing up in mommy’s shoes.

What better way to preserve your daughter's child-like sense of wonder and cultivate her creativity than with a butterfly costume, or helping her throw a princess party for her friends. Make her feel like the special princess that she is when she dons her new tutu skirt. No doubt her friends will want to put on a pink tutu and a pair of butterfly wings as well. They will have countless hours of fun running around in their tutus and butterfly wings while transforming one another with their magic wands.

After they have exhausted themselves running around spreading fairy dust throughout their kingdoms and looking for their prince charmings, they will no doubt enjoy a princess tea party and will be properly dressed for the occasion.

Her tutu can also be worn at birthday parties, ballet recitals, photo shoots, or even holidays. The waist bands are adjustable up to twelve more inches at the waist so your little sweetheart will have the perfect dress up costume for years to come.

You can purchase an individual tutu or as a complete party set, including a matching headband, butterfly wings, and a magic wand. Whichever combination you give her, in no time your daughter will be swept away to a world of make-believe where she is the fairy princess in her imaginary kingdom. 

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Butterfly Bedroom | Nylon Butterflies | Nylon Dragonflies | Nylon Ladybugs | Nylon Daisies | Butterfly Wedding
Fairy Wings | Butterfly Mobiles | Butterfly Nursery | Fairy Costumes | Butterfly Party | Hanging Butterflies