Birthday party ideas?

[traceyt07]

Please share your birthday party themes with me.  I'm at a total loss.  Amelia said she wants a Paw Patrol party but when I looked at Party City it's all "boy" stuff and she doesn't want that.  I feel like I'm back at square one.  What are you doing for your little person's party this year?  

[xanthepants]

I found a stable just outside the cities that rents ponies, one for each kid, for a half hour parent led walk. Then you have a party room at the stable. So a pony themed party.
I also looked at an art party place that did parties that put up big canvases ala Jackson pollack. I thought that looked awesome. You could let them decorate their own cupcake with a plastic pallet with sprinkles in the different cups.

There was another art party where they could decorate their own fairy house (little bird houses) and got tutus for a fairy party. I thought that was darling for a tinkerbell party.

[sarahandeddie]

Avery has been set on a Frozen theme for awhile. At first she wanted her party at the sprinkler park, which would have been cheap and easy, but she must have overheard me mention my fear of bad weather. So now we are having her party at home, just in case it rains. It's going to be a lot more work because I have to get the house spotless before the party.

I think we are going to rent a bounce house and I was looking into some water activities.

[starfishy]

Tommy is doing a Peanuts/snoopy themed party. We are just having it in the backyard and hoping for no rain. Tommy asked for pizza and cake so that's easy! I think laurski81 's Henry is doing the same- was that you?

[laurski81]

Yep! Like starfishy said we are doing a Peanuts themed birthday too. Henry didn't really ask for much he just wants a cake and for people to sing to him so that's pretty easy. We are just doing something with my sister's family and my parents next Sunday (his birthday is Friday of next week).

[starfishy]

Oh- and we invited friends with kids and my parents/sister and kids. It's a Saturday in the summer so I'm not sure how many will be able to come.

[junkytrunk]

We had a TMNT party. We rented a big bounce house/water slide. It kept the kids entertained the whole time and they had a blast. It also happened to be the hottest day of that week, so it worked out nicely.

Could you still do Paw Patrol and just get pink cups, plates and streamers? Skye is pink, so it would be to represent her.

[traceyt07]

That's what I'm thinking junkytrunk. Play up the Skye character? Why does it all have to be "boy" stuff? Of course she could have blue plates, cups, etc, but she wants pink or purple and paw patrol. Grrr.

I think we'll probably just borrow the bouncy house from our neighbors, fill up the kiddie pool and maybe do some games. Pin the tail on the pup?

[britbratjf]

Dagny wants a Princess Jasmine cake. So I need to lol around & see if I can find that. Otherwise I don't "theme" her parties. We are planning on setting up a couple sprinklers & inflatable pools and calling it a day.

[babywinks]

We are doing a my little pony theme. Abby wants twilight sparkle on her cake and Kion from the lion guard too. Don't know why, but a mom in my moms group makes great cakes so she will be making it for us. She is creative so she can make it work! We will have MLP decorations and lots of balloons. I also am making costume pony tails for the kids to take home. Here's a pic of twilight sparkles tail and rainbow dash (before I added the green). I am making other ones too that aren't pony specific just lots of colors so boys and girl who don't know the ponies can pick their favorite colors.

[sarahandeddie]

babywinks Those are adorable!

[barefoot84]

Jun 18, 2016 17:15:17 GMT -5 traceyt07 said:

That's what I'm thinking junkytrunk. Play up the Skye character? Why does it all have to be "boy" stuff? Of course she could have blue plates, cups, etc, but she wants pink or purple and paw patrol. Grrr.

I think we'll probably just borrow the bouncy house from our neighbors, fill up the kiddie pool and maybe do some games. Pin the tail on the pup?

We're doing a Skye theme. I'll add the link to my Pinterest as soon as I can get on my PC.

[barefoot84]

My Skye pinterest: pin.it/Y6rrPUW

Also, ROFL at making the cake on my Pinterest. She's getting a round cake with a Skye toy on top, like the cake in my Pinterest. Probably even just a one layer cake, because her egg allergies make it hard for a cake to stick together like it should.

Edited because the link didn't work the first time

Edited again because I remembered I got her a Skye tshirt to wear on her birthday. I was lucky to find one in Canada but I saw a lot of cute ones on the Target website.  

I also got her a new plate and a new bottle featuring Skye.

[traceyt07]

barefoot84 wow! That all looks awesome. You've found some really great ideas! Asher's party is this weekend and once I get past that I'll start planning her stuff. I'm totally going to steal some of your ideas! :-P

[roo1582]

I threw out a ton of ideas for Kayleigh but she landed on wanting a farm birthday. Its just in our backyard and nothing crazy. Just some farm decorations and farm themed food (ex: chex mix will be chicken feed). I was actually surprised she wanted a farm party, because I mentioned a super hero party which she has really been into.

[bliz1712]

I'm being very plain. It's a Peppa Pig theme and will be at a local park. I'm doing it from 2-4 so I don't have to serve a full meal but also won't have to worry about electrical outlets for keeping food warm. I'll have snacks, punch and a cake and maybe a game for the kiddos. Thinking maybe a pin the tail on the pig. Not sure yet on that. There will be a park so I wouldn't HAVE to come up with something but it might be more fun.

[okiemama]

T wants a boat party...whatever that means. I'm working on ideas. Last year was a train party so I think he's building off of that but it was awesome at a little place with trains we could ride on...nothing like that for boats around here. I'm thinking maybe a game where the kids go "fishing" for goodie bags or something? Maybe some kiddy pools set up for swimming?

A wants Minnie Mouse. Easy, done. Hot diggity dogs and cake! All the decorations available everywhere. Except settle a question I have: what color should Minnie Mouse stuff be? I grew up with the red dress Minnie and bought a pretty red party dress for her to wear and then realized in the "Mickey mouse clubhouse" era they changed her to totally pink head to toe. So all the decorations to buy are pink.

1) will she clash her party now?
2) what color do you immediately picture Minnie Mouse in?

Also---because that sort of thing bugs me:
Especially for those of you doing Peanuts themes, did you notice Sally is in pink in the new movie??? She's supposed to wear blue!

[samelly]

We are having our party at a farm-themed park that be had play structured and a petting zoo. Since we are doing he party there, I am not doing too much decorations and theme stuff. She wanted Scooby-Doo on her cake so we are doing that and I got a few Scooby-Doo things at party city for loot bags.

It is kind of annoying how everything is gender divided. Scooby-Doo and Paw Patrol are on the boys side but they are her fav cartoons. She would love it too if they had girly items with those characters.

[MissMusic]

We weren't even going to have a party this year, but Lil is determined to invite her school friends so here we effing go again...

We have a Safari theme.

We were going to show the movie "Madagascar" and have each kid decorate large boxes like cars, and then sit in there with our pith hats and watch the movie. We're skipping the car thing and just doing a pinata and stuff like "pin the tail on the lion". We have a community pool so the kids can take a dip in the watering hole