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Your inspiration could be as simple as a little girl’s birthday party or as complex as a wine tasting, but whichever the affair, setting your table with Paris chic elevates any party into a soiree.

Set against a backdrop of classic black, playful polka dots and pretty pink details, the Paris Damask party theme from Birthday Express brings elegance and sophistication to the table, with a delightful European twist.

Food & Drink Ideas – Pink lemonade becomes instantly chic when poured into plastic champagne flutes tied with curling ribbon. Match your cupcakes to the decor with the Paris Damask Cupcake Combo Kit which looks great when displayed on a pedestal lined with black and white Sixlets. A cookie decorating station will delight budding little French chefs.

Party Activities – Drape pink toile and feather boas about and then turn the accouterments into an activity where little ladies dress up and pose for pictures as they walk down a faux Paris runway. You can also have photobooth alongside the runway show.

 

Party Decor – There are endless ways to bring flair to the table with all of the pieces in this Paris Damask collection, including Eiffel Tower centerpieces and damask decorated partyware.

 

Paris Theme Setting

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• Butterfly Party Invitations
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Whether you are throwing a party indoors or outdoors, a Butterfly Birthday Party makes an elegant and delightful theme that not only kids, but adults will love as well. Using such a sweet natural favorite, you can used any colors imaginable to create an event to remember.

Butterfly Party – Decorations – Food – Favors

For a little girl you can use a mix of light and bold pinks to bring a sophisticated and lovely look to your venue. Adding a touch of purple to the decorations can create an elegant feel for older girls. For a little boy, you can go wild with bold oranges, blues, and greens to create an exciting look.

A Butterfly party is a great theme for all of your DIY crafting ideas, you can make adorable invitations with ease.  Using a soft, sweet font and an array of gorgeous little butterfly stickers you are sure to have the guests ready to come to the party.

Mix balloons that complement your theme colors. You can make balloon bouquets and then tie little butterflies onto the strings to give them a natural flying effect. You can use poster board to make your butterflies, letting you personalize them however you would like to.  Glitter will add a touch of glam that definitely brings glam to any party. This is also a wonderful party to have lots of confetti at, sprinkle it around your guest centerpieces for flashy fun. The centerpieces can be floral arrangements that bring more of the natural aspect into your theme, along with grass table cover and perhaps a little white picket fence surrounding the floral centerpiece, or your can make butterfly bouquets for a unique twist.

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For your food arrangement, you can make cupcakes that have butterflies on them by using chocolate covered pretzels as wings for a 3-D look that tastes yummy. Cookies are always a hit and you can shape them into butterflies using butterfly cutter and frost them all with different styles to have a whole tray of beauty. Have some different salads to bring in more green for an accent to the butterfly colors you choose to decorate with. You can have a sheet cake for the birthday centerpiece and cover it in elegant little butterflies or flowers on a garden bed.

Caterpillar tag is a fun game for kids to play at a Butterfly party.  One child is “it” and runs to catch the other children. As they each get tagged, they link hands ending up in a row that looks like a caterpillar.  For an older group you can create a butterfly word find and have the kids compete to see who can finish it first.

Personalized party favors offer an elegant gift for guests at a Butterfly Birthday Party. You can give out lotions or bubbles with labels that match the theme and thank you notes. Butterfly bookmarks offer a lovely memento as well. You could even offer little candies like mints or m&ms that have little butterflies printed on them.  With such a lighthearted and sweet party theme, a Butterfly party is sure to offer memories that will last.

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• Baseball Party Invitation
• Baseball Party Decorations

Not only is baseball a fantastic sport to participate in, but it makes a wonderful theme for any kid who loves sports. With a Baseball themed birthday party, you child has a chance to bring their favorite game to a whole new level of fun.

You can create fun invitations in a baseball shape, making a unique style that guests are sure to enjoy receiving. Using red, blue and white for theme colors you can use a bright red for your font, letter the words stand out on the invitation brightly.

Baseball Party – Decorations – Food – Favors

For a DIY decoration, you can have giant white balloons and put the baseball stripes on in red, giving a personal touch that will make add some fun to your venue. You can hang baseball jerseys up, or put them in frames to create a more sophisticated look and put them on the walls around your party room. you can use baseball caps as centerpieces, with bouquets of mini-baseballs in jars or vases to create a neat look. This is also a fantastic theme for using cheer flags as decorations, you can spread them throughout the venue area to bring the whole area into the baseball fun. You can use baseball plates and napkins for everyone to eat from.

To really make people feel like they are at a game, you can make fan favorites that you find at any baseball game for munching on. Hotdogs or mini-hot dogs offer a wonderful option for finger-food.  Popcorn in fun boxes and peanuts in adorable jars bring that baseball feeling to life. A gorgeous option for creating a memorable dessert would be to make cupcakes into a baseball glove shape and add a baseball topping to the very center.  You could also create a sheet cake with the birthday child’s name and fun baseball related pictures.

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There are a wide range of activities that you can have at a Baseball birthday party, for an outdoor event on a nice day you could set up a mini-baseball field and play a game with real equipment or wiffle balls and a plastic bat, giving the winning team a prize of course! You could have a table in the venue area prepared for everyone to sign a baseball, bat or glove for your child to give them a special way to remember all of the visitors they had on their special day. You could even set up a bean bag toss for little ones to work on their pitching skills.

To show your appreciation to guests you can put together gift bags with adorable baseball fun like buttons with personalize messages, mini-baseballs, lollipops and more.  You could give everyone a wiffle ball set to start their own little one in on baseball fun. Or you can make delicious sugar cookies and frost them like baseballs, wrap them in saran wrap and tie them with a pretty ribbon. A Baseball party is a sure way to give your little fan a fun day.

 

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• Minion Party Invitations
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• Minion Party Collection

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If you are searching for a fresh idea to celebrate your child’s birthday, a Minion party could be just the idea for you! Despicable Me is a fun favorite for kids, offering a lot of excitement and entertainment that is sure to be remembered.

With a Minion Birthday Party, you can use yellow and blue for your theme colors, bringing vibrancy to your venue.  The invitations can be bold and bright, drawing attention with minion artwork and wild fonts.

Free Minion Invitations 5×7″ PDF

For decorations at a Minion Birthday Party, you can go all out with wild and fun pieces. The minions are crazy little characters that do a lot of exciting things so your room should reflect that to really blend the theme nicely.  Bright yellow and blue balloons are great for filling the venue space. Draw some large Minion eyes on the balloons or stick large white circle and a smaller black circle paper cut outs. A spread of flag banners with minions will add the characters throughout the area nicely. You can make your own minions from construction paper and decorate with those as well. Using blue and yellow table cloths with bring the theme’s color palette to life and you can even create a backdrop from blue and yellow to hang the birthday banner on as well.  For crafters, you can make a minion wreath from blue and yellow ribbon and hang it on the front door as a welcome sign to the party area. Purchase some yellow paper cups, and 2 large googly eyes. You could even procure movie posters to hang around the room and border them with mini-minions or balloons.

 

Fun foods for a Minion party can include all kinds of sweet treats. Making minions out of marshmallows is a pretty simple endeavour that entertains deliciously. Bananas are a wonderful idea for a healthy snack, bringing that yellow into the mix perfectly. Donut holes labelled as “shrunken moons” will give a little mess of goofiness and of course you cannot go wrong with adorable Minion cake pops! You can use classic soda bottles filled with orange juice or lemonade to make drinkable minions by placing little eyes on the bottles. With blue and white swirly straws, these drinks are sure to be a hit.

How to Make Minion Twinkie Cake Pops by Abe’s World

Some great minion activities to keep kid’s going strong include a minion egg hunt! Make minions out of plastic yellow and blue eggs and fill them with fun treats or toys, making every kid a winner. For another outdoor activity that can be loads of excitement you can fill up water guns and have a target contest shooting at minion pictures. For an indoor activity, you can have a pin the goggles on the minion game.

Free Minion Despicable Me Birthday Printable – Use for Centerpiece or Banner

Create gifts for take-home that guests will remember, mini paint cans fill with rubber balls offer a fun and lasting option.  You could make minion medallions for kids to wear, or fill homemade minion bags full of fun minion paraphernalia like stickers, minion cookies and more. A Minion Birthday Party is a sure way to give kid’s some crazy fun to remember.

 

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