The birthday party planned with a unique theme will be remembered for years.
When you plan a birthday party year after year for your children, you can run out of original ideas and activities quickly. To keep the kids entertained, you need a good theme that is out of the ordinary. An interesting theme will give you ideas for decorations, food, activities and invitations. Does this Spark an idea?
Winter Beach Party
If your child's birthday occurs during the winter months, a beach theme party offers an unexpected surprise for the event. The party can take place inside the home with the proper decorations and activities. Have the kids wear summer clothing and decorate with sand pails and shovels, lanterns, travel posters, seashells and lounge chairs. Party guests can enjoy limbo and Caribbean music. Have some beach balls on hand for indoor beach games during the birthday celebration. Serve beach foods including hot dogs, hamburgers, corn on the cob, fruit salad and ice cream. Complete the beach party theme with a birthday cake decorated like the beach.
Cookie Baking Party
A cookie-baking birthday party theme should keep all kids occupied during the entire event. The baking party theme works best with a small number of children in the kitchen. The adults attending the party can do all of the baking and provide children with frosting, sprinkles, jimmies and candies to decorate the cookies. Set up tables with disposable tablecloths to keep the mess to a minimum. You can even bake a giant cookie for the birthday cake.
Costume Party
Halloween doesn't have to be the only time of the year that children dress up in costume. Plan a costume celebration for a birthday party and let the kids come as their favorite characters. Have the kids dress up in a costume from a favorite book or let each child decide the type of costume he wants to wear. If your party has a Halloween in the off-season theme, plan scary activities such as horror movie viewing and frightful stories.
Formal Dinner
Give the kids a chance to dress up in fancy clothes and attend an elegant dinner party. You can still serve the children kid-friendly food such as pizza and hamburgers; just serve it on good china. A birthday party still requires cake and ice cream, so serve that as the dessert course for your grown-up dinner party.
Follow the dinner with music and games and maybe acting out improvisational scenes. Your children will enjoy the chance to play grown-up during the birthday celebration.
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