Resources ~ Kids Parties ~ Party Themes
Everyone wants to throw the perfect party that their kids will remember forever
and hopefully without spending a fortune. Below are some themes and suggestions
for planning the perfect birthday party.
Verse It has a lot of good
wording for invitations that would be perfect for any theme.
Princess Party
Of course we had to start the list with the famous princess party. Here are a few
suggestions for the perfect princess party.
Royal invitations
If there are not a lot of kids, you can print out the invitations on yellow parchment
paper and darken with a wet tea bag to make it look distressed. Also you can use
a wax seal and tie it with a ribbon and hand deliver. If this seems too much you
can print an invitation on card stock that is sold at all local office supply stores,
put a picture of a princess or castle at the top and use fancy wording such as;
“Here ye, Here ye, Princess _______ cordially requests your attendance at…” again
www.verseit.com has perfect wording for this.
Decorations and Activities
Any princess and castle decorations would work. You can also add a red carpet at
the entrance to the “castle”.
Attire
You can request that all attendants come dressed in their finest princess or prince
ensemble. You should have a few extra outfits just in case.
Food
This depends on the type of party. For a princess tea party, you could have peanut
butter and jelly sandwiches cut small and placed on a serving tray along with a
metal desert tray. Also you could have the girls use small goblets, which you can
purchase at your local dollar store, with their names written on them and china
to make it special.
Cake
I am a big fan of the cupcake cake. At all parties the cake seems to go untouched
unless there is a cupcake cake, then the leftovers are scarce. There are two options
in regards to cupcakes for a princess party, one would be a tower of cupcakes on
one of those multi level tier desert trays, or the second option would be a cupcake
cake. I saw a few that I thought were cute when I searched on the internet, one
was a castle shaped cupcake cake and the other was a tiara.
Games
I think the cutest Game I’ve seen for princess is ‘pass the teapot’, where you pass
around a teapot filled with candy and when the music stops the child holding it
gets candy.
Favors
For favors you can let the children take home the goblets with their names on them
and possibly you could have tiaras for girls or crowns for boys. Princess wands
and swords for knights would work as well.
Carnival Party
What could be more fun then a carnival themed party? Here are a few suggestions.
Invitations
Use bright colors and include some tickets for using at the games.
Games
I think this is the most important thing at a carnival party. Some simple games
could be fishing, where you set up a magnetic fishing set in a baby pool and have
small (s), medium(m), and large(l), written on the fish and have prizes to give
out. Another game could be ring toss. Also ping pong toss where you have glasses
set up on a table with colors attached to the bottom of only a few of them and each
color would get a different prize. Also you can have a sand box and bury gold coins
in it that they could turn in for prizes. Also a water gun game can be done with
water guns and setting up something small to knock over with the water guns on top
of a table. Face painting is always a nice thing to add as well, and cheap if you
know a family artist.
Decorations
For the carnival atmosphere you can add colorful balloons everywhere. You could
also use homemade ticket booths and game booths.
Food
Food is easy for a carnival party. Popcorn, Hot dogs/Corn Dogs, cotton candy, and
lemonade are all fun ideas for carnival food.
Extra fun
you can either rent a pony for the day or a big inflatable structure. This is definitely
extra fun but for the budget conscience, not a staple to the carnival fun.
EXTRA FUN
For our daughter, we started later in the afternoon and at the end of the night
we laid down blankets on the hill in front of our home and I popped popcorn and
placed it in the old fashioned movie popcorn bags and had glow sticks for all of
the kids and when they were all settled, we ended the night with a ground firework
show.
Character Themed
The easy go to with any kid is a character themed birthday party. It is simple and
exactly what any toddler or young child wants. Just ask them what kind of character
birthday party they would like and go with it. Cakes for most characters can be
brought at local grocery stores and birthday party packages are at various party
outlets online. Also you can get character themed games.
Super Hero Birthday Party
It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s every boys dream…A super Hero birthday party.
Invitations
Invitations can be done to look like a comic book or a newspaper strip with their
birthday as the headline. “Evil villain escapes and heads straight for ________
birthday party, and we need all superheroes to help save the planet!”
Decorations
For decorations you could put up super hero posters, or newspaper clippings made
about villains. Also you could put up your child’s dry erase board and right a few
villain facts down and strategies to find them.
Attire
Since you’ve asked for all superheroes to attend you can ask that they all come
dressed accordingly. Or you could make capes and have face painting to make everyone
into superheroes or villains as they arrive.
Games
Following the above idea for decorations you could have two groups of kids. Villains
vs. Superheroes and you could send the villains out to hide and the superheroes
out to find them and have all teams armed with silly string. Another fun super hero
birthday party game would be to set up an obstacle course.
Cake
You could have a cupcake cake of Spiderman. I typed this into the internet search
engine and found a bunch of photos of this.
Favors
You can give out glow in the dark sticks and silly string/Spiderman webs to take
home.