It’s Day three of our Home work assignments using our new HP Pavilion TouchSmart 11 laptop and the HP ENVY 4500 e-All-in-One printer. as we continue to be part of the #HPFamily Time campaign- Let’s talk Christmas, parties that is.
With only 10 weeks left till Christmas I am already planning and preparing for the up-coming party fun and excited about today’s Homework assignment to share with you some fun ideas you can print off using both the HP Pavilion TouchSmart 11 laptop and the HP ENVY 4500 e-All-in-One printer to use in planning, preparing and hosting your Christmas parties.
Not only do I enjoy hosting mom and couple Parties I also enjoy hosting parties for my kids friends.
I began my kid parties years ago with my girls hosting an annual Christmas craft party each year and now my daughter Savannah plans a big Christmas Party for her girlfriends each year. It’s fun to help her plan it from invites, favors , activities to the menu. So, last year I decided to allow our two youngest boys to host their first Christmas party, they choose to incorporate decorating over sized Gingerbread men in to their fun for their fist Gingerbread party.
Allowing your kids to host their own celebrations allows you the hands on teaching experience of showing your kids how to plan and prepare for a party along with how to be a great host to their guest.
Ready to plan and party? Begin with these Steps:
Step #1 – Choose a Theme :
Choose a party theme. This will help you in the planning stages of choosing decor’ colors, party favors, your menu , invitations , decorations etc.
I used my HP Pavilion TouchSmart 11 to begin searching online for Christmas party theme ideas and here are my favorites that we came up with:
Ugly Christmas Sweater Party
Everyone wears their UGLIEST Christmas sweater or you could shop thrift stores and provide one for each of them as their party favor..to then be worn in the years to come
Click here for FREE Ugly Sweater party invite.
Cookie Exchange Party
Invite your guests to bake several batches of cookies to bring and exchange with one another allowing you then to each go home with an assortment of cookies.
We found Free printables and ideas over at The Pretty Blog to make hosting your own cookie exchange party a breeze to host. The free printables include listed below can easily be printed out on the HP ENVY 4500 e-All-in-One printer
Cookie Exchange Invitations
Cookie Exchange Labels
Cookie Exchange Recipe Cards
Cookie Exchange Table Cards
For more ideas, details and how to instructions on hosting your own Cookie exchange party Click Here to go to The Pretty Blog now.
Snowman Party
Create a super festive snowman party with this FREE holiday snowman party collection that you can print out and use this Christmas or for winter Snowman party. From Living Locurto!
For more fun Snowman Party ideas here at 24/7 MOMS Click here
The Free printable party collection from Living Locurto includes:
8×10 Poster
Cupcake Toppers
Cupcake Wrappers
Gift Tags
Jar Labels
Click here to print FREE printables and let the celebrations begin.
Christmas Cookie Decorating Party
Host a cookie decorating party by inviting your children’s friends and neighbors over with the use of these free printables from Phyllis Hoffman Celebrate they include invitations, labels and tags to add fun to your party.
This playful party art is the perfect addition to a kids’ baking party.
The free printables include:
Cookie Decorating Invitation
Cookie Decorating Milk Labels
Cookie Decorating Santa Box Labels
Cookie Decorating Rolling Pin Tags
Click here for your free printables from Phyllis Hoffman Celebrate.
Christmas Hot CoCoa Party -
Create a Hot Chocolate bar filled with assorted toppings and serve a variety of cookies to create your own Hot Cocoa party with the FREE printables from Catch My Party
The free printables include
Invitations
Banners
Signs for framing
Water bottle Labels
Cookie labels
Thank you Favor tags
and so much more.
Click here to download your free Hot Cocoa Party printables from Catch My Party.
All of these printables are easy to locate online using our HP Pavilion TouchSmart 11 and then with a touch of a button we can print them off on our new HP ENVY 4500 e-All-in-One printer.
Step #2 : Organize your party
Organize your party by creating check lists, guest lists, menu plan and even your shopping lists with one of two ways
Use a free online party organizer such as:
MyPunchBowl.com –, party planning, email invitations, and much more. Free invitation templates to match your party theme.
or
Use Free Party Planning Printables :
We found the perfect ones to use when planning a party over at Just A Girl and easily print them out on our new HP ENVY 4500 e-All-in-One printer.
Click here to get your free Party Planning printables
Step #3 – Send out your invites –
This year we will send online invites using our new HP Pavilion TouchSmart 11
Step #4 - Check it off -
Follow your party planning check list you made in Step #2
Step #5 – Enjoy your Party!
We are loving the ease of using our new HP Pavilion TouchSmart 11 to search, plan and create our upcoming Christmas celebrations and then the ability to simply print everything out on our HP ENVY 4500 e-All-in-One printer
More about the HP Pavilion TouchSmart 11
The right touch for every task. Now, the true value of touch is all in your hands. The compact, powerful HP Pavilion 11 Notebook gives you everything you need to supercharge your day – at home, at school, virtually anywhere. Touch never looked so good with optimized graphic performance and a slim, polished profile that shows off your sophisticated side.
More about the HP ENVY 4500 e-All-in-One printer
This e-all-in-one offers affordable printing from virtually anywhere. Produce borderless, lab-quality photos and laser-sharp documents from your smartphone, tablet, and Internet-connected PC.
Disclaimer: I wrote this review while participating in a program on behalf of HP and received an HP Pavilion TouchSmart 11 and an HP ENVY 4500 e-All-in-One printer as part of my participation.