You can't cover the entire
house in plastic sheeting to weather a kid's birthday celebration, but you can
confine the chaos to 1 room. Decide on a theme, with some the aid of the
birthday child, and select a few simple props to transform a basement or family
area into a wacky fantasy or perhaps a high-seas adventure. Keep it colorful and
'em busy for a party everyone loves.
Mixed-Up Hungry Caterpillars
Your literary baby deserves an Eric Carle birthday for young artistic bibliophiles. Cover the party table having a ladybug paper cloth. Draw ladybugs with black and red markers if you cannot find them premade. Paint tiny terracotta pots in vivid shades and stick a genuine Gerbera daisy or a paper cutout flower in every one to march down the core table. Make the cake a caterpillar squiggle of miniature green cupcakes with one larger, red-frosted cupcake for that birthday child. Suspend a Carle-style paper-collage star in the light fixture and let big helium balloons bump gently from the ceiling. Tape oversized, colorful mixed-up animal shapes around the walls -- copy pictures in the "The Mixed-Up Chameleon" -- and set out white poster board, glasses of bright cut-up paper, pencils and glue sticks for creative guests to create their own collage art. A mini-Carle book having a personalized bookmark becomes the party favor.
Trip to the Fair
Turn a kids birthday celebration room into a country carnival to have an old-fashioned birthday bash. A "Happy Birthday" carnival billboard dominates the rear wall and strings of inflated balloons crisscross the ceiling. Make use of a needle to pull a heavy thread through balloon ends. Clothespin a strip of tickets per guest to chair backs in the party table. Set up card tables round the room with mini-carnival games. Incorporate a stack of empty, paper-covered tin cans to knock over and done with ping-pong balls, a shallow tray filled with water-filled bowls for a penny toss, a pick-up-sticks play-off, a washable tattoo booth or perhaps a clown head with a big, open mouth for that bean-bag toss. Cover tables having a paper cloth and contrasting crepe-paper ruffle and hang up a hand-lettered booth sign over each game. The party table receives a red-and-white striped cloth, platters of kid-friendly finger foods, bowls of fruit, pretzels and popcorn, along with a birthday cake.
Mad like a Hatter
Don't be late for a date using the White Rabbit and the Mad Hatter -- a wild costume tea party for that theatrical Alice in your child. Suspend giant paper blooms in the ceiling over the table, pay for it in a hot pink paper cloth and hang places with flowery napkins and mismatched dessert plates and tea cups collected from thrift stores. Tiered serving stands up for grabs hold a selection of tea sandwiches and tiny pastel teacakes. Mismatched tea pots are full of pink lemonade. Fancy bowls of strawberries and signs saying "Eat Me" or "Drink Me" complete the table along with a variety of chairs and stools manages seating. Place a crazy hat on each seat, tagged having a guest's name, and photograph each Mad Hatter like a party favor.
Birthday Buccaneers
Old sheets and do-rags get the pirate birthday party decoration arrived without a buried treasure chest of gold to bankroll it. A dowel or old broom handle constitutes a mast for a square mainsail -- a cut-up sheet having a black skull-and-crossbones. Skinny dowels lashed crosswise to the mast contain the sail in place as it leans from the wall behind the cake table. Drape the table with another sheet, tea-dyed or soaked in watered-down gray paint and dried, for your unwashed ambiance peculiar to maritime brigands. Tack clusters of black balloons round the room, unroll brown craft paper like a "plank" leading up to the poster of a pirate ship on your wall for pin-the-Jolly-Roger-flag-on-the-galleon.
Mixed-Up Hungry Caterpillars
Your literary baby deserves an Eric Carle birthday for young artistic bibliophiles. Cover the party table having a ladybug paper cloth. Draw ladybugs with black and red markers if you cannot find them premade. Paint tiny terracotta pots in vivid shades and stick a genuine Gerbera daisy or a paper cutout flower in every one to march down the core table. Make the cake a caterpillar squiggle of miniature green cupcakes with one larger, red-frosted cupcake for that birthday child. Suspend a Carle-style paper-collage star in the light fixture and let big helium balloons bump gently from the ceiling. Tape oversized, colorful mixed-up animal shapes around the walls -- copy pictures in the "The Mixed-Up Chameleon" -- and set out white poster board, glasses of bright cut-up paper, pencils and glue sticks for creative guests to create their own collage art. A mini-Carle book having a personalized bookmark becomes the party favor.
Trip to the Fair
Turn a kids birthday celebration room into a country carnival to have an old-fashioned birthday bash. A "Happy Birthday" carnival billboard dominates the rear wall and strings of inflated balloons crisscross the ceiling. Make use of a needle to pull a heavy thread through balloon ends. Clothespin a strip of tickets per guest to chair backs in the party table. Set up card tables round the room with mini-carnival games. Incorporate a stack of empty, paper-covered tin cans to knock over and done with ping-pong balls, a shallow tray filled with water-filled bowls for a penny toss, a pick-up-sticks play-off, a washable tattoo booth or perhaps a clown head with a big, open mouth for that bean-bag toss. Cover tables having a paper cloth and contrasting crepe-paper ruffle and hang up a hand-lettered booth sign over each game. The party table receives a red-and-white striped cloth, platters of kid-friendly finger foods, bowls of fruit, pretzels and popcorn, along with a birthday cake.
Mad like a Hatter
Don't be late for a date using the White Rabbit and the Mad Hatter -- a wild costume tea party for that theatrical Alice in your child. Suspend giant paper blooms in the ceiling over the table, pay for it in a hot pink paper cloth and hang places with flowery napkins and mismatched dessert plates and tea cups collected from thrift stores. Tiered serving stands up for grabs hold a selection of tea sandwiches and tiny pastel teacakes. Mismatched tea pots are full of pink lemonade. Fancy bowls of strawberries and signs saying "Eat Me" or "Drink Me" complete the table along with a variety of chairs and stools manages seating. Place a crazy hat on each seat, tagged having a guest's name, and photograph each Mad Hatter like a party favor.
Birthday Buccaneers
Old sheets and do-rags get the pirate birthday party decoration arrived without a buried treasure chest of gold to bankroll it. A dowel or old broom handle constitutes a mast for a square mainsail -- a cut-up sheet having a black skull-and-crossbones. Skinny dowels lashed crosswise to the mast contain the sail in place as it leans from the wall behind the cake table. Drape the table with another sheet, tea-dyed or soaked in watered-down gray paint and dried, for your unwashed ambiance peculiar to maritime brigands. Tack clusters of black balloons round the room, unroll brown craft paper like a "plank" leading up to the poster of a pirate ship on your wall for pin-the-Jolly-Roger-flag-on-the-galleon.
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