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Adult Birthday Party Food

Food Ideas for Adult Birthday Party

As we get older, we become more focused on putting healthier food into our bodies. With this in mind, it doesn’t mean you have to only serve salad at your adult birthday party, but it does mean that incorporating healthy fairs into your spread is a must.

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cracker with Cheese, olives and pepperoni

The ultimate adult birthday party food (besides the birthday cake, of course) is one or more yummy dips! Whether it’s salty or sweet, dips are all the rage for adult birthday parties, as they are filling, easy to eat, and the combinations for flavors and what you can accompany with the dips is endless. Cheese based dips with Velveeta, sour cream based dips with spices such as ranch and chipotle, and mayonnaise based dips with veggies like spinach and artichokes are all highly loved choices. Chips, pretzels, and crackers offer a satisfying crunchy sidekick to go with these dips, or carrots, celeries, and cucumbers also pair well (and give you your necessary healthy munchies!). Food skewers are also a versatile option for food, and again, a great way to incorporate veggies or fruits into your dishes.

Beverages are a significant part of any party and you absolutely cannot do without water. Hydrating your guests on the constant is a necessity, and while soda is certainly on the menu, try to incorporate as many H20 based drinks as you can into your line-up. Lemonades and teas are perfect examples of flavorful and super hydrating elixirs.

Moving away from dips, other fantastic food choices for an adult birthday party are chicken wings, unmessy/easy to eat filo cups with any kind of fillings you desire (think macaroni and cheese, or mashed potatoes), turkey or beef burger sliders, quesadilla wedges, and pepperoni pinwheels. Hummus, Tostitos, and jalapeno poppers are also party favorites. It is a good idea to have small bowls of mixed nuts, chips, popcorn, or candy that your guests can munch on throughout the party.

And don’t forget sweet treats like no bake cheesecake, jello, or pudding cups serve to satisfy your guests as they are waiting to cut the birthday cake!

vege sticks

vege sticks

herb cheese with sesame cracker with thin sliced apple

herb cheese with sesame cracker with thin sliced apple

cracker with cottage cheese, courgette and tomato

cracker with cottage cheese, courgette and tomato

chicken wings

chicken wings

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October 23 by

Teenager Birthday Party Favors

Teenager Birthday Party Favor Ideas

While planning a birthday party event can be stressful, there is a break for fun and creativity when it comes to choosing favors for your guests! For a teenager’s birthday party, you have vibrant and colorful options that you can work with.74349-500

First, you’ll need to decide if you would like your favors to be disposal, keepsakes, or a little bit of both. Mason jar favors are all the rage right now and there are tons of ways to turn these into party favors for your teenage guests. Mason jars can be painted, decorated with buttons or glitter or ribbons, and filled with candy or small favor items. Mason jars are a perfect palate for whatever theme you’re working with, and they are inexpensive. They even come in any size you need for your favors!

If you go for a bagged or boxed set of favors, fill them up with individually wrapped candy, gel pens, chapstick, sunglasses, or playing cards. Any of these can be personalized as well with the name of your birthday teen guest of honor, or the guests themselves. Also make sure to throw in noisemakers in your favor goody bags that the teens can use during the birthday party. Whistles, kazoos, party poppers, and blowouts are classic and lively noisemakers that no teen birthday party should do without!

If you decide to keep your noisemakers separate from your party favor bags, then wait until the end of the party to give the favor packages to the guests. This way, there’s no chance of your teenagers losing their gifts before they leave the event.

My Favorite Teen Party Favors

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October 23 by

Adult Birthday Party Favors

Adult Birthday Party Favor Ideas

As the host of an adult birthday party, coming up with party favors for your guests can be the most fun part of the entire planning process. Unlike younger-aged birthday parties, adult favors are something that you want to make a keepsake, and less disposable.

When choosing the favors for your party guests, keep your theme in mind. You’re going to want to incorporate this into your favors and you are also going to want to use it as the primary flair for your presentation of the favors—i.e., the gift bags, boxes, or containers you choose.4966-500

There are tons of options as far as adult birthday party favors go! Glassware is a really popular option for party favors as it serves as a great keepsake that your guests will continue to use. Barware like shot glasses, flutes, wine glasses, and steins personalized with your party theme are universally loved favors. Stadium cups are a fun gift as well, and as a bigger plus, they are durable and unbreakable.  Accessories for the home or kitchen specifically are highly favorable gifts for your adult party guests. Wine stoppers, coasters, candle holders, koozies, and keychains can be personalized any way you choose for your guests and are extremely usable long after the party is over.

Candy is also a wonderful filler for your party favor gift bags. Candy bars, coffee, and cheese plate packages tend to fit whatever theme your adult birthday party holds, and they are a great little surprise alongside the gift favors! When you spend so much time and effort on a great birthday party for your adult guests, you want them to leave with something they can put in their homes and always remember how amazing the event truly was.

My Favorite Adult Party Favors

 

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October 22 by

Mickey Mouse & Minnie Mouse Birthday Party

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Party Decorations – Food – Favors

Mickey and Minnie Mouse have long been a party favorite, and for a good reason. With these fun characters, any kid can have an exciting event that will give them lasting memories. You can add a touch of glam by adding silver to the classic red and black/pink and black color palette, giving your venue an elegant twist.

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A Mickey and Minnie theme offers a lot of DIY options, creating your own decorations with black construction paper.  You could make your own banner, hang some clothesline and pin a Mickey and Minnie silhouettes across the room. Using polka-dot tablecloths adds a fun touch that stands out easily. Sprinkling the tables with confetti or glitter will also give an effect of glam that kids will love. You can hang lanterns in the Mickey/Minnie shapes from the ceiling, allowing the theme to blend smoothly throughout the venue area. There are also a variety of flag banners you could choose from to hang on the tables and walls, letting you personalize it for your child. Adding bows to the chairs will give a neat and stylish addition. This is also a brilliant party theme to have party hats at, you can even add the Mickey/Minnie ears to them, letting the kids really get into it.

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Break out the sweet tooth for the foods at a Mickey/Minnie party, there should be an abundance of treats for the kids to munch on. Oreo cookies and cake pops make wonderful silhouettes, letting you get creative with a fan favorite. You can make sugar cookies into Mickey/Minnie shapes and frost to match your theme very easily. Cheese and cracker trays are a brilliant idea as well, you could even label it “Mouse Food” for a fun touch. For a cake you can decorate with the classic Mickey colors and have the characters on top in fun poses, or your can have a cupcake cake shaped into mice for an easy to make option.

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A fun activity at a Mickey/Minnie party would be to have a race where everyone has to dress-up in costumes and run for the finish line! Making a bean bag toss makes a lovely outdoor activity for all the kids to join in on.  You could even have some bowling fun, adding Mickey/Minnie labels to a bowling pin set, it would give the kids a fantastic game that matches the theme perfectly.

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Party favors for a Mickey and Minnie birthday party are sure to be a blast putting together. You can give costume jewelry in party bags or sweet treats like cake pops shaped into the characters shapes.  With bright colors for your theme you could also give out mini-jars with gumballs, or M&M’s. A Mickey and Minnie party leaves you with an abundance of choices for everything you can imagine, allowing you to create a party that fits your child perfectly.

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October 22 by

Sesame Street Birthday Party

Sesame Street Birthday Party

Sesame Street – Decorations – Food – Favors

A Sesame Street party offers you a brilliant option for entertaining children with an abundance of characters and fun! With this theme you can centered your party around your favorite Sesame Street character or bring them all in for a multitude of colors and excitement that is sure to be enjoyed.

Invitations for a classic theme like this can be vibrant and colorful, with bold loud fonts that will leave an impression. Using a rainbow of bright colors decorating for this event is sure to be simple and fun. One sweet decoration that you can do is to make character faces on pails and fill them up with little things like treats or flowers and spread them around the party area. This is an event that you can use any character stuffed animals or books that you have already to display as well. Streamers and hanging lanterns can give your room a full look that is a breeze to put together.

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For food at a Sesame Street party you can go wild! Create fun and easy finger foods and then name them after your favorite characters from the show.  Make some tuna fish sandwiches, cut them into triangles and call them, “Telly’s Tuna Triangles.” A seven-layer salad can be a “Count Surprise!” If you have Sesame Street cookie cutters, you can make sugar cookies and cut fruit into fun shapes. Don’t forget about the cupcakes! For your cake, you can do a large sheet cake with a group of Sesame Street favorites or you can make a circle and choose one favorite to showcase.

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One activity that your group can do that is sure to be loved would be a cookie decorating contest. Let the kids decorate as they wish and then after the best one is picked, the children can all eat their treat! Another enjoyable activity that kids will love to participate in would be a number treasure hunt.  You can hide a bunch of foam numbers and letters around and see who can find the most.

For thank-you gifts you can put together coloring books and crayons for the kids to take home. If you like giving sweets you can put together little bags with gummy bears, or worms. You could also give out play dough, or green ooze for small ones to enjoy playing with. With such a blend of colors and fun, a Sesame Street party is sure to be entertaining for all who come.

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