Hi friends! Last weekend we hosted a fun construction-themed Kids Workshop Party at our house where our kids and their friends built these cute bug houses.
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We often take our kids to the monthly Kids Workshops at The Home Depot so when Houseworks, Ltd. reached out to me about their building kits and party supplies, I thought hosting our own kids workshop at our house would be such a fun way to spend a Saturday afternoon. For the past 19 years, Houseworks, Ltd. has provided the building kits for Home Depot’s kids workshops and they also sell paper goods party supplies at HomeDepot.com so you can host your own kids workshop party! How fun, right?
I ordered a few bug house kits and a party supply kit online, grabbed some supplies to transform my front yard into a construction zone, and invited a few of my kids’ friends over for a fun building party.
Remember the easy DIY sawhorses I just made? They were made for this party and I just love that they’re kid-sized.
Apparently, my construction party decor was a bit too authentic because after I got everything set up, my phone rang. It was the HOA president.
Me: “Hello?”
HOA: “Jen.”
The voice on the other end was very stern.
Me: “Yes?”
HOA: “Is everything alright? This is the HOA lady and we have some concerned neighbors.”
Me: “Um, ok… yes, everything is fine… why?”
HOA: “The danger signs and caution tape all around your yard – what on earth is going on?!”
Me: “Ohhhhh, that. We’re having a construction-themed kids party.”
Relieved laughter.
HOA: “Good heavens, we didn’t know what to think! We thought it was a gas leak or something!”
So it’s worth mentioning: be sure to contact your HOA before throwing a construction-themed party or you might give the neighbors a good scare.
Oops.
These tiny Home Depot aprons are pretty adorable too. The manager at my local store was kind enough to give me a handful of them for this party. I used my Silhouette Cameo to personalize the aprons with the kids’ names.
Having a friend who is a professional photographer is pretty stinkin’ amazing. Our friends, Shelby, Jason, and their kids attended the party and Shelby was kind enough to snap some of these photos so I can focus on the kiddos. She’s the super sweet and talented photographer who took our family photos for last year’s Christmas card. She’s also the one I built this storage bench for. She’s currently based in Alabama, but will be based in Oklahoma starting this summer, so if you’re looking for a great OKC photographer, check out her website.
The kids had so much fun building. They loved learning something new and were pretty excited about building their very own bug house.
You can purchase the party supplies and workshop kits from HomeDepot.com.
And when I said ‘Kids Workshop Party,’ I actually meant “Parents Helping Their Kids Build Stuff Party.’
But hey, no thumbs were harmed in the process so I’d call it a win.
But seriously, what a sweet way to spend a Saturday, right? We all had a blast.
Check out my little lefty. Just like her mama.
Just look at that intense focus! Bug house building is serious business.
After all that building, we’d really worked up an appetite, so we hit the snack table while the paint dried on our bug houses.
Aren’t these little food labels adorable? I designed them in Photoshop. If you host a construction-themed party, feel free to download these cute food labels.
- Construction Food Labels 01 (PDF) (JPG)
- Construction Food Labels 02 (PDF) (JPG)
- Construction Food Labels 03 (PDF) (JPG)
- Editable File for Construction Food Labels (Editable PSD)
These disposable paint trays are perfect for holding snack foods.
And of course, we had to have cookie cake. Because hello. COOKIE CAKE.
The kids had so much fun building and painting – and catching bugs in their new DIY bug houses!
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This is the BEST birthday party ever! I am seriously going to do this for my children one day! You are amazing!
Thanks Lindi! Do it – the kids had SO much fun!
So fun! And beautifully put together. Now I want a construction party for my next birthday.
Let’s do it! We’ll fly in all of our buildy blogger friends and have a ball building together!
Ha ha the HOA!!! This is so cute, I bet the kids (and parent helpers) had a blast. I need to get some of those bug houses. My kids like to collect ‘rolley polleys’ potato bugs and use my scrap wood pile to make houses. So I have small piles of wood all along my driveway. 🙂
I love this idea!! I have two boys and they love the first Saturday of the month! SO fun and creative. 🙂
Enjoyed this wonderful idea. I am diving into the diy landscape to do, as one man said, more nose
to nose projects with my family. So you have a new reader, may steal some ideas to work on with
family and some kids in our neighborhood.