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definitely choose some kind of project for them. A couple of ideas: buy some unfinished wooden toy cars and have each of them paint their own or copy the idea on here of putting painter's tape all over your floors for pretend roads and make buildings out of shoe boxes (we used google images and printed out pics of the front of his favorite stores/places and taped them on the front of the shoe boxes) and have a hot wheels party- my 3.5 yr old son played with his hotwheels and our pretend city/roads for a week straight! The marshmallow and toothpick structure building game where you make two teams and have the kiddos work together to build a structure out of marshmallows and toothpicks (uncooked spaghetti noodles broken into smaller pieces also works well)- my son loves this as well! Basically, your best bet is to have a couple of structured games/projects for them to do at a big table and keep the party short 1-2 hours max so the kids don't get too restless being inside a confined space and you should be good to go!

she is precious!! I love that you have an Alexandra nicknamed Allie as well!!

we are also foster parents- soon to be adoptive parents- wahoo! I would totally go for some red, yellow and turquoise or orange, yellow and turquoise. I'm not one for themed rooms at all but I defnitely think you can find some fun fabrics in these colors and hang some fun tissue paper poms in different colors from the ceiling and put a few fun prints on the wall. Also- a rug is a must for making it feel more inviting and having a great place for them to play on the floor. All these little touches will make it feel a lot more like home for the kiddos coming to live with you. I also would allow them to choose some things that they like to decorate the room with- obviously this would only work if they are preschool age and up.

Love the color on the walls!! Please share what it is as we have been searching for the perfect gray for our little guy's big boy room :O). Thanks!