Do you have any children's birthday party craft ideas?  

Hats. If you know how to make folded hats out of newspaper they can decorate them. If you don't know - let me know and I'll search for instructions. OR you can just cut strips of construction paper and make Indian hats (er..forgot what they're called but I'm sure you know what I mean)

Hand puppets. Since you have paper bags, let them make decorated hand puppets out of them.

Paper plates stuck together with beans in between make great rattles. Kids like to decorate them too.

Hope this helps spur your creativity a bit. -Tink :)

Well with your list of items you could do several different things.

Make puppets out of the paper bags using yarn, fabric, googly eyes, and some of the other stuff you have listed.

You could also do pinwheels. Use the paper plates and cut them before the kids arrive. Cut each plate into 4 quarters...going not quite to the middle of the plate. Then take the bottom corner of each quarter and fold it towards the middle of the section so that it is facing up...do that with each side...and you can also staple about a half inch in from the bottom of the folded part to keep it in place. (I hope I am explaining this right for the visual effect...if you need me to describe it better I will.) Then punch a whole in the center of each plate. Then rest can be done with the kids get there.

Pinwheels continued: After kids arrive

Have the kids pick a piece of construction paper out and roll it into a tube. Staple each end and use a little tape in the middle. Poke a whole through one end with a pencil or scissors, then use a pipe cleaner to attach the plate to the roll. If you curl the end of the pipe clean and stick it through the plate it should leave a little round center and should keep it from going through the plate. Then just curl the other end around itself on the back side of the roll. Make sure it is not too tight or the plate won't spin.

Then the kids can decorate their pinwheels how ever they would like.


You could do book marks, paper woven place mats, memory books (construction paper, yarn and small cut out pieces of white paper glued inside each page.)

If you have a ton of construction paper memory books are good, because they are kind of like scrap books. And if you have a digital camera on hand you can take some pics of the kids at the party and print them up on plain printer paper for them to glue into the pages of their scrap books! So while they are making their books you can print the pics of them with the cake, eating lunch, playing games and then they are ready to be glued in!

Hope that helps you out a little. :)

Its party and fun time for the kids.Its not a craft class.So its not necessary for the kids to make any particular thing which you may suggest.The stuff you have collected is good and safe just give it to them and let them go wild with there imaginations.Tell them to make what ever each one likes say birds toys robots flowers fishes worms animals kites cards table chair stars.You will be surprised to see all the best craft ideas they have in them.Do try this and the next party will always be looked forward to come to with fresh ideas as they will enjoy this pretty much.So don't worry be funny and have fun.

doesn't use what you have listed as having on hand but a relatively inexpensive project that will serve as entertainment and favor is to buy inexpensive tshirts (dollar store usually has them) or have each child bring one t-shirt with him (make sure to tell them it will be marked on)
purchase fabric paints (or markers or crayons - make sure they are for fabric ie won't wash out)

now let the kids decorate their shirts, get some fabric glue and they can use those googly eyes too!

or
if you feel like it, make tie dye shirts instead may be less expensive than the fabric paints.

Wow, it sounds like you have a lot of neat stuff, CanadaGal.

My idea doesn't use your list, but I've hosted a party for children in which we decorated cookies and cupcakes. We had all sorts of decorating stuff and the children could do whatever they wanted, then we ate it all! Yum!!

OK...you can flame me for this, as it is not really a craft, per se, but kids get a kick out of it.
HOW TO MAKE A WEENIE MAN:
take a weenie (hot dog, frank, whatever) cut it from one end, up about 1/3 of the length, so the bottom third is now two "legs"
The other end will be the "head" so to make arms, start 1/3 from the "head" and make a cut on each side, at a slight angle inward as you cut from the "hands" up to the "shoulders"
When you cook it, the legs and arms will curl out and open, forming a figure. Add mustard dot eyes, and a ketchup mouth...and you have a "weenie man"

If you are really patient you can make 4 cuts that run from the bottom, up the weenie 2/3 to 3/4. Basically you make a North South cut, then an East West cut, and then two more cuts at 45degrees to the previous ones. This makes 8 "legs" When you cook it, (boil or microwave) the curling of the long parts makes a "weenie octopus"
OK...yeah it's silly, but my brother and I got a kick out of it when we were little, so just though to pass it on.

You can also boil red cabbage, save some of the purple juice, add it to an eggwhite, start it frying, and carefully pour the yellow yolk onto the center...when it cooks you will have "green eggs"
(Apologies to Ted Geisel) HAVE FUN