Ballerina Birthday Party Ideas

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Celebrating your child’s love of ballet with a Ballerina themed birthday party can offer an elegant and sweet option for fun.  It brings a combination of pink and dancers that is sure to look fantastic in any venue area. If you have access to a portable stage, or to using an auditorium for a venue, both would create a realism to the Ballerina theme that is fantastic.

Let your invitations stand-out with artwork of ballerinas and a curly font.  Adding glitter brings a sparkle that is sure to be noticed as well.

Ballerina Invitations

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Ballerina Decorations

To decorate for such a beautiful theme, you can go all-out with tulle to fill your space with a true dancing vibe. Lining the tables with tulle gives a full effect that is absolutely adorable or make tulle poms to hang from the ceiling.  You can make tassels to hang as banners along your back drop with a variety of shades of pink fabric, you can also use silver or gold as another color in your palette as an accent to your decor.

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Sprinkles of confetti shaped as ballerinas or glitter on the tables adds a sweet touch that is very simple to do. This is also a wonderful theme for breaking out those favorite vases of yours with floral arrangements in light pink shades. You could even bring a vintage touch and use antique trays to hold your snacks and treats.

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Ballerina Sweet & Treats

Let your treats and snacks complement your colors by covering them in pink or silver/gold frosting.  Pretzel sticks turn into delicious and beautiful snacks with a little pink chocolate on them.  Pink Wafers and Cake pops are a perfect size treat to munch on. Add a little tutu on the cake pops. Mini-cupcakes are great for little fingers and create a little less mess when chomping. You can also find sweet little candies like mints to add to the mix. This would be a great party to have little finger sandwiches and crackers and cheese or a fruit platter.

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The cake for this event should reflect your little one’s love of everything ballet.  Create a look of pure decadence with a tiered cake dressed as a dancer, the bottom tier can be the tutu and the topper a tiara for a gorgeous effect.

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To keep your guests busy, you can use a mock stage to put on a ballet show, have them dress up in tutus and tiaras and dance to some lovely classical beats like Nutcracker. Having a color section set-up the children can color some ballerinas of their own to take home for fun.  One other unique activity could be setting up a craft area and letting each child create their own edible jewelry from licorice strings, round candies or cereal.

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For take home gifts you could make tutu’s and tiaras for each to remember the party by. Or you can put together dry cookie mix in adorable mason jars for everyone and label them with personalized thank-you messages. With such a sweet assortment of elegant ballet ideas, your Ballerina themed birthday party is sure to be a winner.

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Mickey Mouse & Minnie Mouse Birthday Party

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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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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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Ladybug Birthday Party Ideas

Ladybug Birthday Party Ideas

A Ladybug birthday party offers a fun way to celebrate your little one who loves that adorable little creature.  You can use the classic red and black colors to mimic the true-to-life ladybug or you can go a more creative route, using pink and black or green and black, adding a unique touch. Ladybug themed birthday is also perfect for first birthday.

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This sweet theme is a breeze to DIY with all kinds of different options that are simple to put together. Balloons make a fantastic room filler, and using all of the colors for your theme you can blend them perfectly. Creating a ladybug banner can be fun, choosing construction paper that matches, you can even attach the letters of your little one’s name to add a personal touch for them to enjoy. Using black polka dots or grass table-cover will allow the other colors you choose to stand out brilliantly.  This is also a theme that lots and lots of florals will look fantastic with. Roses for an elegant touch, or carnations for a sweetened atmosphere.  A Ladybug Party is also a wonderful one to use tulle for decorating, using it for banners on the fronts of tables, making little skirts to dress the trays, all kinds of fun options.

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There are lots of yummy treats that you can have at a Ladybug Birthday, natural foods are most theme friendly, like fruit and veggie trays.  Making cupcakes that have ladybug frosting, or ladybugs on sticks would look exciting.  A cake for this type of event can be a wild creation, layers of deliciousness decorated in a garden-like fashion and covered in adorable ladybugs. Other excellent snacks can include cucumber sandwiches, twizzlers, all types of salads, m&ms and more.

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An activity that would be lots of fun for all the guests would be a ladybug hunt.  You can hide plastic ladybugs, and other bugs too and see who can find the most, letting each one keep what they find.  You could make little capes and have each visitor glue spots on them so everyone can be a ladybug.  Another fun craft would be to let everyone create their own ladybugs from playdough, or using construction paper.

To wrap-up your Ladybug Party fun you can send sweet gifts home with the guests like sugar cookies frosted just like ladybugs. You could also make adorable little mini-pies, with personalized ladybug labels.  A more permanent way to remember the fun would be to make bookmarks or send ladybug pens, or pencils and erasers home with them.  With so many different ideas, your Ladybug Birthday party is sure to be a big success.

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Adult Birthday Game & Activity Ideas

Adult Birthday Party Game And Activity Ideas

Adult birthday parties can be one of the most fun events we attend. Unlike younger-geared birthday parties, when it’s an all-adult affair, there can definitely be more room for options of activities, themes, and even the length of the party.

Ice Breaker Activities

As with any other age group, it’s always a good idea to start the event off with an icebreaker-type activity to help your guests relax and begin to mingle. Some great options for icebreaker games are Ask Me, Trust Walk, and The Best. Ask Me is a game that consists of you giving your guests nametags as they arrive that say “Ask Me About…”. Each nametag is different and can say a variety of things, such as “…my first kiss” or “…the craziest thing I’ve ever seen”. Guests will ask other guests the questions that are on his or her nametag and this allows your guests to get to know each other right off the bat! Trust Walk involves two guests randomly placed together, with one being blindfolded and the other giving verbal directions to lead them to a chose object or out of the room. The Best is a particularly fun icebreaker activity in which you put a collection of slips of paper with things written on them like “Longest Thumbs” “Best Crabwalk” and “Highest Jump”. Draw the slips of paper out of a container at random and each guests performs what is on the slip of paper to determine who does it best!

No matter what your chosen theme, there are tons of options for indoor and outdoor activities for an adult birthday party that are wonderfully versatile for all guest personalities across the board. Keep in mind, for most adult birthday parties, you will want to stick to 1-2 activities (not including the icebreaker game you choose) after your guests have filled up on food. A series of activities that are super popular currently and work for either indoor or outdoor parties, are the “Minute to Win It” themed games. For less than 15$, you can buy a pre-packed “Minute to Win It” kit full of activities for your guests, or you can create a kit yourself. There are plenty of items you can find at local sports store, $1 store, local craft shops and Amazon as well. Check out the youtube video below to get creative ideas on what to put in a DIY “Minute to Win It” kit for your adult birthday party!  They are a little long but you can fast forward and only view the games you are interested in. There are 40 minute to win it games in this video –

You can go to youtube.com and search for Minute to Win it BluePrint to get instructions how to play each fun games.

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 Now, let’s take our adult birthday party outside first. When outdoors, no matter if it’s cold or warm temperatures, there are several activities that your guests will enjoy at your adult birthday party. The classic and timeless activity of roasting marshmallows and telling ghost stories around a fire is always a sure win to show your guests a good time. Another classic outdoor game is Cornhole, in which bean-filled sacks are thrown into holes drilled into a long board from a certain distance. If you are looking for low-cost options activities, a Women vs. Men Scavenger Hunt is an exciting and competitive way to entertain your guests. Scavenger hunts involve two or more teams, each with a list of tasks the team members need to accomplish during a set time.  Other games that are highly engaging and full of laughter are hula hoop contests, limbo, and ladder golf.

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Indoor games can be just as interactive and full of energy, and one of the most popular activities is a Murder Mystery. What’s really great about this activity is that you can be as subtle or elaborate as you want and there are so many directions you can take this activity for your guests. You can even center your adult birthday party’s theme around this Murder Mystery game! The basic idea of the Murder Mystery is exactly how it sounds—involve your guests in figuring out who is guilty of this fictional crime! You can incorporate other smaller games within the Murder Mystery activity, such as cards, scavenger hunts, or even charades.Murder Mystery

For a more low-key indoor activity, charades is always a good go-to adult party game. Zoom-In is also another hilarious game in which extremely zoomed-in snapshot photos are shown to your guests and they have to guess what the photo actually is. Identity Crisis is another extremely fun game in which you put a celebrity’s name on a piece of paper and tape it to the guest’s forehead/hat/headband so that he or she cannot see the name. Then, the guest asks the other guests questions to try and figure out just whose name is on the paper, like “Am I a singer”, “Am I married”, or “Do I have long hair?” You also can’t go wrong, of course, with classic games such as Twister or Jenga!

With the right games and activities, your adult birthday party will be one to certainly remember for a long time to come.

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