To plan your VE Day celebrations at home VE Day 75 and English Heritage have developed some toolkits, which include recipes, posters, dance moves and a Spotify playlist for you to use, find all the details HERE . ARTventures is hosting The Big Neighbourhood V.E Day 75 Family Festival at Home!, running a free programme of online sessions during the course of the day of Friday 8th May with lots of our favourite children’s activity providers taking part so that you can enjoy a fun-packed festival timetable.
We also have lots of ideas on how you can celebrate with the family below.
Create your own Red, White & Blue Bunting
Give your party a BRITSH theme with your own designs of red, white & blue bunting! There is a great free bunting template which you can download here. Grab your paints, crayons, pens and crafting materials and get busy! Once the designs are complete simple cut the flags and attach together with ribbon or string!
Design your own VE DAY Party Hat and have a competition for the best design!
This one will have to be done in advance.
Grab some old newspaper, PVA glue, some balloons and some paint and create your own party hat from Papier-mache!! For a top hat try using a flower pot covered in cling film for your mould!
Have a Picnic
Set out the picnic blanket in the garden (if the sun is shining!!) or in front of the telly and enjoy some best of British favourites! You could even add some of our…
Red, White & Blue Baking Idea’s
Get the aprons out and whip up a storm (or a flour cloud!) in the kitchen with the kids!
These are our favourite recipes for Royal Wedding themed goodies.
Blush Meringues try using food colouring to make red and blue meringues!
Red, White & Blue Strawberries are perfect to make with your littlest ones.
Red, White & Blue Swirl Cookies
Red, White & Blue Cupcakes these might be aimed at 4th July but there’s no reason you couldn’t enjoy these at a Royal Wedding Party! You could even have a royal wedding (cup) cake competition!
Or for the quintessentially English try adding blueberries to your Strawberries & cream or try blackberry jam on your scones!
Try your hand at 1940’s baking!
There are lots of recipe ideas online to take you back to the 1940s. Here are a few of our favourites!
Fancy Dress Theme
We all know how kids love to dress up at any occasion so why not have the kids don their best WW2 outfits or they could come in their military uniforms, as knights or their Sunday best!
Party Games
Put a spin on the traditional party games with these fun ideas!