Party Ideas for A Simple Birthday Party With Family
You may like a quiet gathering with family members to celebrate the birthday party for your child. Here are some suggestions.
Theme : choose a party theme, Disney Mickey Mouse. Since it is for the family member, you can do without invitation card. Order a Mickey cake or cupcakes from nearby bakery a week before the party. Get a special candle, so that the keep sake photo is memorable.
Plan light decorations. (is important though it is only celebrated among family members, so that you set the atmosphere for the celebration). Prepare a birthday banner to be hung across the wall behind where you child will be cutting his birthday cake, about 7 feet high, using double sided tape. Get about 30 multicolor latex balloons and inflate them, and tie them into 3-balloon clusters, and stick them to the wall or tie it to the pillars. Do not worry that you are not professional balloon decorator, balloons are easy to decorate and it looks nice no matter what you do, they will make your scene looks very festive!
To decorate the cake cutting table, use party tablewares, they are usually printed vividly, hence will appear very attractive in your keep sake photos. Surely your guests will be excited to use the tableware later.
Prepare some party favors if you invite children, hand out earlier so that they can have lots of fun during the party.
Remember to take lots of pictures, and share these keep sake photo with your children.
Great Party Ideas for General Birthday Party
Birthday party is the most celebrated occasion, hence, not surprising at all that birthday song is the most sung tune. Let us explore some ideas to make the party memorable and joyful.
Theme : First and foremost, choose a suitable theme. For children, famouscharacter like safari animal, Hello kitty, Sesame Street, Disney, Winnie the Pooh or ocean theme are popular; For Adult, choices are less obvious but occasions like new year eve, Halloween , beach party, Luau Party, Valentines day, Christmas Party are commonly celebrated.
Invitations : get a good invitation card since first impression last! You will be surprise in most cases, the decision to attend a party or not is made the moment the invitation card is received, your guests will be eager to attend when a nice invitation is received
Garden Theme : inform your guests in your invitation about the theme and encourage them to wear and bring along garden related items.
Decoration : many types of balloons are available to set the scene of garden theme party. Use more of lime green, green and forest green latex balloons because it is cheap. If you have catered for extra budget, use some foil balloons with nice animal prints which will make your decoration more appealing. place plastic plants, leaf, insects around the room. Have a garden theme party banner hang across the entrance doorway, paste animal cutout around the walls and dangle some green, lime green and gold color crepe streamers, to set the garden scene. 
Activities : prepare more flower lei and invite the older children to put on colorful garden dress, paint their face with age-appropriate non-toxic face paint. Separate guests into groups to compete in games like animal puzzle or memory game.
Refreshment : serve more fruits rather than heavy meals with garden theme tray, plates, napkins and cups. Use some banana leaf in plates too. Choose stirrer or party picks with garden theme.
Party Favors : instead of giving away junk food and candy, give away party favors like animal stationary, keychain, bendable insects, games, which they can enjoy for another week instead of gobble up the food immediately after the party.
Thank you : shoot lots of pictures and include them in envelope together with garden theme thank you notes. This will leave a memorable party for your guests.
Great Party Ideas for child Big One Birthday
A child first birthday is a Once-in-a-lifetime occasion you would like to celebrate and capture the moment with family and friends, and to keep as a memorable day for your child when she grows up. Here are some great tips for celebrating the Big One!
Theme : choose a baby-related theme like Baby Einstein, safari animal, Hello kitty, Sesame Street, Hug & Stitches theme, ocean theme.
Invitations : invite family members and close friends, preferably those with babies. Try to limit the number of guests so that the party is cozy, relax and manageable. Keep the party short, around one to one and a half hours because the birthday baby and babies friends need more rest.
Animal Theme : use cut out of animals or mask as invitation cards with details written at the back. Suggest guests to bring along favourite toys (or animal related toys) to share. Prepare some animal wear and dress them up like animals when they arrive; animal hats, animals nose, caps, masks and headband.
Decoration : place animals around the room, have a animal print happy birthday letter banner hang across the entrance doorway, paste animal cutout around the walls and dangle some green and gold color crepe streamers, to set the jungle scene. Create a centerpiece with bundle of animal foil balloons inflated with helium, or erect a small fence with animal balloons sculpture. After the party, children can grab one of the favourite animal balloon home!
Activities : gather animal toys around a corner of your house and decorate the walls around it with primary colors and animal print cutout. invite the older children to put on animal dress, paint their face with age-appropriate non-toxic face paint and act as animals, or present a puppet show. Keep the activity simple and short for the one year old.
Refreshment : serve some zoo-food, preferably bite-size finger food, like Monkey bite (cut up bananas), tiger milk (chocolate milk), animal shaped easy dissolved crackers, in animal theme cups.
Party Favors : give away party favors in goodies bag early so that they can play during activity time. Make sure the party favors are age-appropriate. Use safe toy like bendable animals, animal hand puppets or finger puppets.
Thank you : shoot lots of pictures and include them in envelope together with animal theme thank you notes. This will leave a memorable, once-in-a-lifetime first birthday for your child.
Ideas For Your Princess Party!
Treat birthday girl like royalty at your princess birthday! Create a party scene like a fantasy castle!
Invitation :- Send invitation featuring Disney princess, Cinderella™, Belle™, Snow White™ or Ariel™, with details inside, and include candy jewelry, lip-gloss or hair ribbons. You may use gold or glitter crowns and write party details on the inside, fold and mail to guests. Paste princess & crown stickers on your invitation and write, “Invitation from the King & Queen of (Your last name) to Princess (name’s) Royal Birthday party at Castle (Address)”
Costume & Wear :- Ask little princesses to wear “ball gown and jewels”, prepare in dress-up box, tiaras, costume, gold crowns, fancy wands, boa, jeweled tiaras, chram bracelets, candy jeweled, hair accessories, pinwheels, light sticks, and for boy prince(cape, crown, sword..)
Decoration : - Use "Princess Party" or Welcome to "Castle (Last Name)" banner to welcome your guests at entrance. Decorate your walls with glitter star cutouts, pink and white crepe streamers, metallic pink and silver balloons. Sprinkle your table with sparkle confetti, and decorate with princess theme tablewares. Decorate centerpiece with crown, star wand, tiaras, and combine 4-5 latex and foil princess balloons(helium filled) as centerpiece. Turn a chair into throne by wrapping it with ribbons and bows, use pink pillow for a seat, you can use it during cake cutting.
Party Games and Activities : -
» provide glitter crown, tiaras, wand, star temporary tattoos to cheeks and hands, and do princess makeovers using body glitter, lip-gloss, blush, and wax lips.
» Play "Find the Lost Slipper," hidden somewhere in the party room. Or "Find the King Treasure" and have guests search for "treasure box" filled with gold coin candy, jeweled candy.
» fill castle or frog pinata with party favors, ask guests to take turn to smash it! Beware of swinging pinata buster, play under adult supervision.
» Kiss the Frog. Hang a poster or paper cut-out of a large frog, blindfold the kids, and have them place lip-shaped stickers on the frog. Or play "Pin the Horn on the Unicorn" using a similar concept.
» Art & Craft :- Make paper crowns or tiaras and decorate them with sequins, jewels, stickers, ribbons and glitter. Make jewelry out of beads and create jewelry boxes for safekeeping. Make wands by decorating dowels with silver or gold pens, glitter and sequins, then attach a long ribbon to one end. Make own "pretty as a princess" picture frames, decorated with stickers, jewels, and gel pens. Insert an instant photo of each guest in the frame as a take-home party favor.
Refreshment : - prepare a royal birthday cake! Insert with mould princess or castle candle. Serve your guests with Disney princess or princess theme tableware, use heart shaped twisty suckers.
Party favors :- fill goodies bags, paper purse with princess lip-gloss, glitter stickers, frog pop-up (tell story about prince-turn-frog), jeweled candy, temporary tattoos, rings, hair clips, earrings.
Thank yous :- keep your camera handy and take lots of pictures, include decorated photo frame with their dress-up photo, send together with the thank you notes.
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