"Puff Ball" Party!

Ya know those little puff balls that you can get at the craft store?  Well, we had a blast with those one birthday!  We made a bunch of puff ball creatures.  Just hot glue the puff balls together 

and add googly eyes!

Kids love them. My little kids could 

play with them all day!

 We let each guest make their own puff ball creature and then we played games WITH the puff balls. For the dessert we did puff ball cupcakes.  We went very simple on these.   We simply made cupcakes, then put a pick in each one.  The picks were made out of paper with googly eyes, to look like the puff balls.  Since the birthday girl was turning 6, we placed the cupcakes to form a "6".

 Below:  We played "hot potatoe" but with a puff ball.

 Above:  For this game we simply had the kids try to make their puff ball creature move by blowing on them.  It sounds silly, but it was really fun!  They had fun watching their puff balls fly across the table and onto the floor. 

Below:  this game was so silly and fun!  We made a "hot air balloon" and let our puff balls travel in it.  This only works if you have stairs.  We attached the homemade hot air balloon to a straw.  A cord went through the straw and ran from the upstairs to the downstairs.  We held onto the balloon upstairs till the puffball was placed in it...then we let go of the balloon and it slowly traveled down the stairs.  Ha!

 Decorations for the party were super simple.  Lots of balloons, streamers and to match the theme we attached paper googly eyes to our balloons, so they looked like puff balls.  You can see them sticking out of the box.  I think we played a balloon toss game with them too.