Butterfly Party    Butterflies are both beautiful and amazing creatures that lend themselves out as a perfect theme for young children.  As butterflies are mulit-colored, a color scheme for a party can be a mixture of just about anything!  Birthday activities at a "Butterfly Bash" might include painting coffee filters (with water colors) and inserting them as "wings" into clothes pins. The old rounded head type or crafting clothes pins work best. A stained glass butterfly can easliy be made with crayon shavings and wax paper. An adult would need to use a warm iron to melt the wax bits between two pieces of wax paper. Then attach the colorful "mosiac" or "suncatcher" to construction paper cutouts shaped as butterflies. A butterfly wand is a great gift for youngsters to take home. Use a butterfly shaped cookie cutter to impress an outline onto crafting foam sheets (found at craft stores or your local Wal-mart)or use any other butterfly outline. Simply cut out the butterfly shape, fold in half, and make two little cuts in the center of the fold. This is to allow a pencil to slide through them. Tie pieces of thin ribbon the the erasure end of the pencil before sliding it onto the butterfly shape cutout. Use glitzy pencils, or ones with flowers on them, for a neat effect. Since you have the cookie cutter already it should be a snap to make butterfly sugar cookies! Let children frost and decorate their own to eat or take home. Visit your local library for books about butterflies to read as you begin to quiet a toddler party group down. The library may also help to find discovery type activites geared toward older children. Have fun!