How to Make Kids' Birthday Party Invitations

When it comes to planning a kid's birthday party, the materials needed can become rather expensive. The decorations, party invitations, party favors, snacks, birthday cake, and games will eat up a birthday party budget real fast.

When purchasing birthday party invitations, most people don't realize they are paying for the trademark of the cards rather than the actual cards. The trademarks include the characters and the card companies. This creates a huge mark up on the premade birthday party invitations.

Now is the time to cut back your costs on your birthday party invitations. For instance, you can get 250 pack of card stock at Staples.com for $9.98. Any birthday invitations you purchase that are preprinted will cost you between $3 and $5 for approximately 10 cards with envelopes. If your child has several friends, not to mention family members, the cost of purchasing preprinted birthday invitations will become very expensive, quickly. By purchasing plain, non printed cardstock, will be far less expensive. Besides, you can use the blank card stock for other things.

Creating Birthday Party Invitations

There are a lot of sites which provide free clipart for you to use to decorate the outside of your birthday party invitations. You can also find birthday card software preloaded on your computer when you purchased it. You can use this to help you create the birthday party invitations.

Materials Needed

Blank Card Stock. You can use white or colored blank card stock to make your birthday party invitations. Just remember, if you plan on making other types of invitations or greeting cards yourself, it would be wise to purchase the white card stock. The prices of the card stock will vary from store to store. You should shop around for the best bargain. Many times you can find card stock at WalMart cheaper than most places.

Clip Art. You can search for your child's favorite characters online. You should try searching for "free children's favorite character here clipart" when doing your search for decorating the outside of the invitations.