Make Birthday Invitations

Have you ever tried to make birthday invitations on your own? Birthday parties are always a fun-filled activity and therefore invitations for such occasions should be well-suited. If it is the birthday of your kid, then the whole thing becomes much more enjoyable. Children add zest and joy to any kind of celebratory occasions. Invitations for kids birthday should be welcoming and colorful.

Making Birthday Invitations
Purchasing ready-made invitation cards from the market is no fun at all. One can prepare the cards all by himself and give a personal touch to the whole process. The instructions presented in this article could help you make your own invitations for birthday parties.

Various designs can be used to prepare birthday invitation cards. Theme-based cards viz., the balloon cards, cupcake cards, candle cards, gift card, etc can be used for preparing the background image. The image of balloons, cakes and other such things related to birthdays make the invitations much more relevant in their appearance.

Make Birthday Invitations at Home
Making invitation cards at home enables us to give them a customized look and put across your birthday invitations wording ideas. Children should be allowed to participate in the activity. It would help them in gaining basic skills of sketching, painting, cutting, etc. The following procedure would help us understand how to make kids birthday invitation cards in a better way.

• Drawing paper should be used as a base for making a card. The other materials required in this kids' craft include crayons, pair of scissors, acrylic paints and pencil.
• The drawing paper should be cut properly and folded into a shape of a greeting card.
• The card would thus, have 4 faces (actually, pages). The first page should be colored/decorated with the theme that one chooses. If possible one may cut the page along the shape of the design portrayed on this page.
• The shapes to be draw should be simple and need not consume much time.
• The 3rd page should be used to write message of invitation. The 2nd and 4th pages can either be left blank or decorated with simple design patterns.
• The date, venue and time of the party should be written in bold letters.
• The name of the person whom you are inviting can be written on the 3rd page, above the invitation message.

Use of MS Word
The templates provided by Microsoft Word can be customized to add graphics and text messages. One can make a nice birthday invitation card, using this software. The following steps act as a guide in making invitations.

• The first step is to open a word document and choose the 'file' option from the menu bar.
• One should select 'new' followed by 'template' and search for online templates/designs.
• The options, 'invitations' and 'parties' need to be selected.
• The templates obtained from the Internet can be customized by adding graphics to them. Font color, size and style should be selected to add the required message to the invitation.
• For important instructions such as date, time and venue, bigger font should be used.
• The 'print' option from 'file' menu is useful in printing the invitation.
• Depending on you choice, a regular or glossy paper can be used.

Some people do not have time to spend on the process of making invitations all by themselves. However, if they would still want to customize the invitations to some extent, there are websites on the Internet which can prove to be of great help. One can choose from the ready-made templates and page size to be used. Addition of a custom message followed by printing the card completes the process.

One can make full use of his creativity in this activity irrespective of, whether you are executing it to make surprise birthday invitations or to convey well thought out birthday party invitation wording. The whole process becomes fun-filled with children allowed to participate in it.