A birthday party is only as memorable as its theme, and one of the best is an event done in casino style. This is a wildly popular and extremely fun theme, especially for the older crowd, and it’s one of the most interactive motifs you can choose. Between snazzy decorations, delectable food, and adventurous party games, putting together a casino themed birthday party can be one that your friends and loved ones talk about for a long time after.

Casino Themed Invitation

Casino Themed Party Decorations

The color palate for a casino themed birthday party involves bold colors of reds, blacks, and whites, and can also incorporate accent hues of glittery gold and silver. The decorations themselves are bright, elaborate, and the options for what you can do are creatively limitless! Basic, staple décor should be red and black balloons, streamers with designs of spades and clubs, and playing card garland that’s easy to make yourself. Big signs reading “Casino” can be placed at entryways, event tables, or just all around your party venue in general.

 

Paper garland letters, golden balloon letters, or even DIY lighted letters are a great way to make these signs pop and to really illuminate the casino theme. Hang oversized, fuzzy dice from the ceiling, or utilize dice replica vases to house beautiful red flowers. Use casino themed backdrops with images of Las Vegas and gambling games to transform your space into what feels like a real casino. Utilize aesthetic accessories like tall candlesticks with a bouquet of feathers on top or framed printouts of mobsters and 1950’s celebrities like Elvis, Marilyn Monroe, and Frank Sinatra. Fill doorways with vertical, shiny circle garland that guests have to walk through for an ultimate snazzy feel, and don’t shy away from oversized, blingy, and bright décor.

Casino Party Theme Setter

Casino Themed Birthday Party Food

The decorations are only the beginning of setting the tone for a casino themed birthday party, however. The most important aspect is the food. The birthday cake should be extravagant and mouth dropping, so going for multiple tiers can truly make it larger than life. A three-tiered cake with each layer being a square replica of a die, complete with an elaborate red and black feathered boa topper and sparklers. An octagon-shaped single layered cake that replicates a poker table with all the details formed in sugar fondant is also an amazing piece of art. Candies served in martini glasses and sugar cookies with frosting that mimics playing cards, dice, and poker chips compliment the birthday cake perfectly. Miniature roulette tables that hold chips, pretzels, nuts, and other party snacks adds an extra flair of fun. Miniature sparkling champagne bottles and liquor filled tiny chocolates are also a quaint treat to give guests.

Casino Themed Cake by Lanrete58

 

Casino Themed Games & Favors

What’s really great about a casino themed birthday party is that party games and favors can really go hand in hand. A casino is all about playing games and winning prizes, so why not set up gaming tables for your guests to play and win fantastic favors? Poker, roulette, and craps are just a few casino games that are easy to set up and easy to teach guests that don’t know how to play. Your party can last for hours and hours with your guests having a blast with these games, mingling, and winning party favors. Some good prizes are dice bottle stoppers, Vegas coasters, or playing card visor hats that mimic the ones worn by actual casino game dealers. And of course, you can’t forget the presentation of these prizes! Dice boxes, satin black bags, and a personalized flute filled with candy are all great ways to send your guests home feeling like ultimate winners.

 

Casino Themed Photo Booth Props

Print > Cut > Assemble

One of the most popular and timeless computer games for kids is Minecraft, and what better way to celebrate any milestone birthday than with a Minecraft themed party? This motif is fun, interactive, and can actually be pretty easy to put together. With a simple palate of colors, wild décor, and creative food fares, you can throw a Minecraft birthday party that your children will remember forever. After you send out your brilliantly decorated Minecraft birthday party invitations full of gaming enthusiasm, it’s time to get started!

Minecraft Birthday Party Decorations

Transforming your reserved birthday party space into a world of Minecraft is an exciting adventure, and can be done by putting even the most basic party decorations together. Start with your color scheme, and make it bright, with neon green being your center Minecraft hue. Also, keep in mind that you’ll need to incorporate Minecraft imagery, which is a pixelated green and black face, along with pretty much anything else you can turn into a “pixilated” form. Lots of DIY projects can come from these ideas, such as creating a wall backdrop, tablecloths, or balloons that have free hand sharpie pixelated Minecraft images and the like. Streamers that can be made into spider legs after the bugs in the game or large banners in pixelated letters paying homage to the birthday boy/girl are also great DIY crafts you can incorporate into the party. Green, square shaped lanterns that you can hang from the ceiling and even green lightbulbs can really make your party guests feel as if they have fallen into the game itself. You can even get the kids involved in making more decorations at the actual party by handing out Minecraft coloring pages and hanging them up for show after the kids are finished.

Minecraft Birthday Party Tableware

Minecraft Birthday Party Food

For food, this is where you can delight your birthday boy/girl with the ultimate Minecraft themed treats. It’s a good idea to set up a main table that houses all the most popular food for the event, and this includes the birthday cake. Whether you opt for a single or multi-tiered cake, make sure you don’t spare the details here. If you’re going to go all out and elaborate on anything, the birthday cake should be it. With limitless options for frosting, shapes, and sugar fondant creations, you can make this cake into anything from a big Minecraft-inspired block, a canvas for a cast full of game characters, or a replica of what’s on the game screen. Savory foods that you can incorporate Minecraft images into are pizza (get creative with the pepperonis!), punch, popcorn, and even drink bottles! Other treats to include are themed jars filled with green and orange candy, sugar cookies and cupcakes frosted with Minecraft images, and green bowls full of finger foods like carrots, chips, and pretzels. Creating food labels in the Minecraft letters and colors also adds an extra touch to the entire theme.

Minecraft Photo Booth Props

Minecraft Birthday Party Bags

Putting together party favors for your little guests is where things really get fun. You can create interactive favors that the kids actually get to make themselves to take home, such as character masks, decorated jumbo plastic cups, or blocked artwork. Presenting the favors in green, Minecraft-faced bags and square boxes makes opening the packages full of favors even more enjoyable for the kids. Candy and individually wrapped chocolates, cookies, and cake pops are a delicious way to fill up the favor bags, or you could go for something more permanent, such as miniature Minecraft character figurines and toys. Minecraft themed hats and socks are also a memorable favor that the guests will love to hold onto.

Between magical blocks, swords, giant spider villains, and mystic rocks and explosions, Minecraft is a game that offers not only a mind building activities for kids, but also a fantastic birthday party theme.