•  Dinosaur Invitations

Create some prehistoric mayhem with a Dinosaur Party that your child will cherish forever! Using a jurassic idea, you can create a venue outdoors for a very natural effect.  If you cannot have the event outside, you can bring some plastic plants indoors and hang gigantic leaves of paper stock to make a wild outdoorsy look.

Make each guest table a dangerous excursion of dinosaur delight with a mini-prehistoric centerpiece at each one.  Use small plants with long leaves to cover the dinosaurs that you place around to make it look like they are hiding in the bushes! For the base colors of your tables use dark brown covers so the green from all the natural elements and shine fantastically.  For a fun and secretive decoration, place a couple of crates around the room with DANGER tags place on them.  Inside you could actually have some sort of stuffed dinosaur as a prize for the winners of your activities during the party. You can use different green shades of crepe paper for a 3D effect on your back drop for your food table by cutting it into long strips, wrapping the top around some yarn and then draping it across your wall like a banner.

You can really get creative with your Dinosaur dishes, one favorite is to make a Tyrannosaurus with a watermelon, toothpicks for teeth and inside his mouth you can place lots of little fruit bites for the kids to chomp on.  Make little “bones” from pretzels to add a bit of archeological fun. Little nests with candy eggs are sure to have your guests ready for more treats.  You can make dino-cookies and all kinds of other dino-shaped delicacies for an exciting buffet. Make a dangerously delicious cake with a giant dinosaur coming out of the top in a crazy fun way.

Some unique activities that kids will love include making your own dinosaur dig.  You can put little plastic dino’s into balloons, then fill them with water and freeze the night before the party. Then peel the balloon off the dino-ice cubes and let the guests hammer into the ice – with safety goggles of course- to excavate their prize. Have a hot lava tug-of-war by placing a red towel in the center and have each team on the sides to pull the other team onto it.

You can send your little party goers home with plastic eggs filled with surprise goodies to enjoy when they get home.  You could also make delicious dirt cups with little dinosaurs on top for a treat to remember!

Mermaid Party Decorations – Food – Favors

For a magical theme that any little girl can adore, throw her a special Mermaid Birthday Party.  With a variety of under-the-sea venue decorations, your party can be one for the books.

Using a variety of colors for your theme, blue for the base of course and then vibrant other choices like orange, green and yellow for your contrasting tones, your party room will pop with excitement.  This is a fun theme for using all the tulle you can find.  Blue tool around your tables that drapes the floor gives an underwater effect that is sure to impress. You can also take advantage of your sunny windows by draping blue, sheer fabric in front of them so it gives a blue hue to the whole room.

Use balloons to fill up the spaces, you could even make little balloon creatures like an Octopus for a fun touch. For a unique centerpiece idea, you could put a beta fish in a cute bowl out, surrounded with moss (outside of the bowl) and then add some fun little miniature sea creatures to the moss. Then as you have your party activities you could give the fish away as the prize for winning competitions.

For some crazy sea food adventures, make an octopus from a pepper and set him in dip for the kids to enjoy checking out. Turn regular crescent rolls into little crabs by adding green bean legs, little olive eyes and strawberry claws. Have blue punch for a beverage choice, you could add a blast of fun by freezing red Kool-aid in sea creature cubes to make the punch look more undersea-riffic. Make some oyster sandwiches with vanilla wafers, marshmallow creme, and cake pops. Have an Mermaid tower of a cake with three tiers topped with your child’s favorite little Mermaid.  You can decorate it like the ocean with other little creatures and seaweed effects as well.

Some fun Mermaid Birthday activities include making your own shell jewelry, that gives each guest a personal way to remember the special day. Have a pinata shaped like a sea creature to attack for delicious candies or other little prizes. If you have a little wading pool you could also set up a bubble party game with a hoop to see how high you can get a bubble up around each child.

 

Give out a unique Mermaid favor for each guest, little starfish offer a theme-based way to celebrate this sea adventure party. You could also give out shell-art, like photo frames that you have glued shells and sand on for a neat artsy look.

My Favorite Mermaid Party Decorations

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