Choosing a theme for your little one's birthday party can make organising the event a lot easier for you and makes it even more special for your child.
Zoo:
- Kids can come dressed as their favourite animals.
- Decorate the room with stuffed animals and animal-themed cups and napkins.
- Hang green crepe paper streamers to mimic jungle vines and make some basic balloon animals.
- Make homemade biscuits using animal-shaped cookie cutters.
Circus:
- Costumes can includes clowns, acrobats, ring masters, lion tamers, strongmen and even bears.
- Use alternating lengths of red and white crepe paper along the ceiling and walls to create the effect of a circus tent.
- Serve popcorn, hot dogs and ice cream – typical circus food.
Pirates:
- Decorations and costumes for pirate parties are really easy to get so this is the perfect theme if you’re stuck for time.
- Cover shoeboxes in brown paper to create DIY treasure chests, fill with gold paper and costume jewellery and place them around the room. Cover the table with a blue cloth and decorate with seashells. Oh and don’t forget to hang your pirate flag on the wall!
- Chicken (gold) nuggets and shell pasta are a must. You can also make cupcakes with blue and black icing.
Disney:
- Children can come dressed as their favourite Disney character.
- Disney cups, plates and napkins are easy to find so you can use these to decorate. You can also hang Disney movie posters – and you can’t go wrong with balloons.
- Play Disney movies in the background and the songs will be your party’s soundtrack.
- For food, have a Mad Hatter Tea Party with cakes and tea or eat jelly insects like they do in The Lion King.
Superheroes
- Get your little one’s friends to come dressed as their favourite superhero.
- When decorating, base the colour scheme on your child’s chosen hero. For example, if they love Superman, decorate with red and blue streamers.
- Use comic book pages as a cover for the food table and hang capes from the back of each chair.
Cowboys and Indians:
- Make a Wanted poster for each child and hang these around the room. You can give them out as party favours at the end.
- Decorate the room in stuffed horses, toy guns and toy trains and cover tables in gingham tablecloths.
- Play country music and serve hamburgers, baked beans and (very mild) chilli. Don’t forget the ice cream – we’re certain that cowboys loved ice cream.
Lego:
- Lego has made a big comeback since the movie was released, so kids will love dressing like their favourite characters.
- Decorate the room in the typically bold Lego colours (red, green, blue, etc).
- Draw Lego faces on sheets of yellow paper and hang these around the room.
- All the food should be rectangular – you can even make Lego pizza by cutting it into rectangles and using pepperoni slices to create the studs.
