My son will be turning 8 this November, but celebrating it will be a little bit different this year! As I am sure it will be for you!
Safety is the most important thing right now when planning any kind of celebration. We can still give our kids the best birthday party ever in a different way through the birthday car parade or the Drive-by Parade while following social distancing guidelines.
If you haven’t heard, due to the Coronavirus pandemic it’s 2020’s new trend! A drive-by or car parade is when people drive by the birthday girl or boy’s house, honk their horn, wave, and cheer to give her good wishes.
Birthday car parades are very common now. My neighbor just had one for her 4-year-old. The cars were lining around the corner from her house. With a mask on, she decorated all the guests’ cars with balloons. When the time came, you can hear lots of happy cheers and honky in the neighborhood. The birthday girl was ecstatic, to say the least.
My friend had a birthday car parade for her 8-year-old and her kid said it was the BEST BIRTHDAY EVER! She normally celebrates her birthday with all her classmates and friends in a party place. Proof that you can have a great memorable party with fewer people.
Having a birthday car parade is great for mom as well. It involves less planning. You only need to:
1. Invite the guests, which you can do with a virtual invite.
2. Decorate the outside of your house with a sign or balloons.
3. Give out a party favor, but not necessary.
If you’re like me and like simple birthday party decorations then these are the only things you need for an awesome birthday car parade.
THE YARD SIGN
EDITABLE YARD SIGN CAN BE PERSONALIZED FOR ALL OCCASIONS, NOT JUST BIRTHDAYS.
Let everyone in the neighborhood know that it’s her birthday! She’ll be so excited as neighbors and strangers honk and wish her a happy birthday!
Send your family and friends invitations to drive for some honking, shouting, and cheering for the birthday girl. To save money and paper you can send out e-vites instead of physical invitations.
Don’t forget to decorate the inside of your house for the birthday girl. Hang up a birthday banner with a numbered balloon or paper party fans (my favorite party decorations, besides banners!!). You can also hang this on the outside of your front door.
Thank your guests for stopping by with some party favors and attached gift tags to them. You can either hand it to your guests while wearing your mask and/or place the party favor in their back trunk to limit contact.
Want to see how you can edit all of the above on your desktop or mobile phone? Click HERE.
CUPCAKES/INDIVIDUAL DESSERTS
Instead of having a big cake this year, why not celebrate with individual cupcakes or other desserts, such as macaroons, that you can box and give to guests as party favors.
FREE CAR CUPCAKE TOPPERS
You can download this free party favor gift tag for your next car parade party. Just print it out, have the birthday girl sign them, and stick them onto your cupcake or other desserts with a toothpick and tape. You can also print these onto sticker paper and attached them to gift boxes or bags.
PERSONALIZED CUPCAKE TOPPERS
EDITABLE CUPCAKE TOPPERS
If you want to edit these car parade cupcake toppers you can purchase them in my shop. See how easy it is to edit them with this DEMO.
This adorable llama banner is an easy way to decorate your birthday party! The polka dots background makes it look clean and sophisticated while the llama adds cuteness to the banner.
PRINTING AND USAGE
What’s included in your PDF file:
15 pages, each with one bunting measuring approximately 7×9.7 inches.
You get these letters and symbols: HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
One bunting with only a llama that can used as spacer or beginning and end decorations of banner.
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We All Scream for Free Ice-Cream and Popsicle Bookmark Printables
These ice-cream and popsicle bookmarks are so sweet. They are the perfect solution to inspire you to read during the summer. Put these in your book to help keep your place and motivate you to finish your book to get your sweet treat!
Cute bookmarks to help keep your place in your favorite book. They’re also great as party favors along with a cute book. Can be used for a book party or an ice-cream social. How about giving it out at an ice-cream reading party? Sounds like a sweet treat!
These ice-cream and popsicle bookmarks would definitely encourage your kids or YOU to read more during the summer. Reading or reading to your kids is so important! Here are some benefits of reading:
Improves your memory and focus
Helps you write better
Increase your vocabulary
Boost brainpower and imagination
Helps you relax
Helps you learn new things
Teaches us empathy
Gain new ideas to share with family and friends
Go on adventures without leaving your home
Awesome Ways to Use These Bookmarks
Use these ice-cream and popsicle bookmarks to encourage you and your kids to read this summer.
With all benefits of reading, it’s important to encourage your kids to read at a young age. Or reading to them if they’re babies.
For older kids, you can use the ice-cream as a reward for reading certain pages a day or when they finished the book.
Use These Printable Bookmarks as fun party favors
These ice-cream and popsicle printable bookmarks are great as party favors for a summer-themed, ice-cream themed, or book-themed party! Books are probably my favorite to give to my family and friends. Gift some fun books and include these printable bookmarks inside. It’s a cute little surprise.
Have a reading challenge with your kids
I don’t know about your kids, but my kids love a good challenge. It motivates them to start and finish things in order to get a reward. Why not start a reading challenge with your kids?
You can do the reading challenge in several ways. The simplest challenge is the first person to finish a book gets to choose the rewards. The rewards can be anything the winner chooses or you can limit the rewards. Examples of rewards might be an ice-cream, money, what to eat for dinner, a place to visit, a restaurant.
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They also have a chrome extension to help you save money. When you’re on a shopping site, if it’s part of the Rakutan’s program they will let you know. If there are any kind of coupons for the store, you can let Rakuten apply it for you. Cool right?!
You can also use Rakuten for In-store purchases. Find out more how here.
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Before you download please keep in mind that these ice-cream and popsicle printable bookmarks are for personal use only. You may not alter them, claim them as your own, or sell them.
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What is included in your PDF:
Three ice-cream and popsicle bookmarks (size at 2.5×6 inches) designed to be printed on an 8.5×11 cardstock. I use these bright white cardstock from Accent Opaque Digital.
Let me just say that I’m in love with this polkadots ballerina gift tag.
I love the red, white, and blue color combinations. And I totally love this ballerina clipart that I downloaded from Free Pretty Things For You.
This ballerina clipart is part of a beautiful vintage image pack you can use to make party decorations, party invitations, planner stickers, etc.
PRINTING AND USAGE
This vintage polkadots ballerina printable gift tag is for personal use only. If you would like to share with your family or friends, please send them a link to this page and not to the files themselves.
This gift tag would really be pretty printed on cardstock. I personally print all my party printables on these cardstocks.
You can also print this on sticker paper and stick it on the gift bag. You can get free sticker paper sample from Online Labels.
This gift tag printables can be cut these by hands using a scissor or a paper trimmer.
Alternatively, you can use a cutting machine, such as the Silhouette or the Cameo to cut these out.
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