Birthday party themes

angieelee · #1 April 20th, 2011, 10:19 AM

Anyone have a theme picked out for your LO's upcoming birthday party?

::er!ca:: · #2 April 20th, 2011, 12:50 PM

Isabel is having an ice cream theme birthday party. We've decided, after much debate, to do a combined party for Brinlee and Isabel. It will be on May 28th, so right in between their birthdays. Brinlee will have a party of her own for her friends, the combined party for them is just for family.

Anyway, here are the paper products that I purchased:

I got the plates, napkins, invites, mylar balloons, stickers, and activity placemats (enough for the kids) in this theme. We'll fill in the rest (cups, bowls, plasticware, table cloths, etc.) with solid color items.

At Hobby Lobby I found these ice cream paper lanterns, so I got a few of them for decoration. I also picked up treat bags that are the same ice cream cone themed. (borrowed pic from google

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And I got these ice cream bowls to put the sundae toppings in (sprinkles, nuts, gummy bears, cherries, mini m&ms, etc.)

I found ice cream cone shaped marshmallows in the Easter section at WalMart, so I bought a few bags of those.

I got chocolate, strawberry and caramel toppings, cones, and will get bananas for banana splits too. I'm also going to get root beer for root beer floats.

And I'm going to attempt to make cupcakes that look like this

But if that fails I'll probably just place an order on Etsy for some cupcake toppers.

And I'm going to attempt to make a game, Pin the Cherry on the Ice Cream... so we'll see how that goes

If that fails, I'll buy this bean toss game for $15

Oh, the girls are wearing Popsicle Party (a Gymboree line from last year) to their party to match the theme.

~Allison~ · #3 April 20th, 2011, 05:26 PM

Aaden's having a Toy Story birthday party. His party is going to be June 18, which is the day after his birthday, at our city park (which reminds me, I need to reserve the shelter!).

We're using these plates, napkins, cups, etc. We'll get a few more solid color cups and plastic silverware:

We really wanted MIL to make this cake, but all the reviews I've read have said it's really hard and super detailed, and she said she doesn't really want to do it:

So instead of the cake, I'm either going to make a sheet cake, and put some Toy Story toppers on it, or make cupcakes, and use these papers, picks & stand (it all comes together):

I'm going to try and make these treat bags for the kids that are going to be at the party:

Unless I find something else I like better, I'll be ordering him this shirt (but wiht short-sleeves, and probably not black) from Etsy:

::er!ca:: · #4 April 20th, 2011, 05:51 PM

So cute Allison!!! I almost went with TS3 for the girls, they love that movie!

~Allison~ · #5 April 20th, 2011, 06:41 PM

We kept going back and forth between Toy Story, and Mickey Mouse, because he loved both of them, but then all of a sudden, Toy Story started being his most favorite thing, so we decided to go with it!

angieelee · #6 April 21st, 2011, 05:21 AM

Oh my goodness. I am quite behind on this.
I am thinking of a Cars theme, Thomas, or Cowboy since he always tells me is a cowboy and insists on riding MY stinkin' horse all the time. We are about to change his room to Cowboy theme.

We shall see.

way2gomom · #7 May 2nd, 2011, 06:56 AM

We are doing Curious George. We are using printables from PBS Parents: Kids Birthday Parties: Curious George Birthday Party | PBS Parents

We'll have cupcakes and the Curious George cake listed on the site. That reminds me, I probably ought to get on the ball! I think it will be on June 11th, but that's not firm yet.

Lonomia · #8 May 2nd, 2011, 10:14 AM

We won't be having a theme. We aren't really having much of a party so I don't want to go all out.

MommaOnCloud9 · #9 May 2nd, 2011, 10:55 PM

Allison, Max had a TS3 party last year because the movie was released the weekend of his birthday. I got cupcakes at Sam's Club because they had the ring toppers (similiar to the ones you got pictured) and everyone - even the adults - have always liked Sam's cakes. They're very well priced too.

This year, we're going with a Spongebob Squarepants theme.

I'm not a fan of Spongebob but we're having a pool party and underwater Spongebob goes well with that. The other option was Cars 2 (which is being released the weekend after his birthday and will be the first movie in theaters that we take him to). He loves Cars 1 and Hot Wheels, but I didn't like the cars thing with a pool party. I could just go with a pool party theme, but Belle had a pool party last year that we went with that theme. So, I want to do something different.

He'll have Spongebob swim trunks.

Invitations:

This is the partyware. We'll probably just get the plates and then get napkins, silverware, and latex balloons in blue and yellow.

I was thinking of having these mini-cookies as favors along with krabby patties:

I planned on getting these Spongebob face stickers to decorate latex balloons, but the etsy store is currently gone. I hope to be able to find them again.

Max has been seeing the Spongebob cupcakes at Sam's Club for several months now and insists that's what he wants for his birthday.

But honestly, I'm going to see if I can talk Max into a Pirate theme! That would go well with a pool party too!

I got him a few skull and crossbone outfits and shoes from TCP, so he might start to think a pirate theme would be cool.

Loni · #10 May 4th, 2011, 09:58 AM

Ivy once again will be having a July 4th themed party, but it won't be much of a party. My brother, his kids, and my parents will be here but we're moving about 2 weeks before Ivys birthday and going away 2 days after we move, so I won't have much time to throw anything together for her birthday. I hope she's happy getting to spend time with her cousins that she only gets to see once a year.

MamaJess0008 · #11 May 5th, 2011, 05:46 PM

Josh is having a dinosaur party. I found a cute dinosaur pals cake at walmart--we ordered it today 29 bucks for a 1/2sheet marble cake, buttercream frosting. We ordered favors for little gift bags on ebay. Super cute. I am looking for not so scarey plates, cups, decor and invites. His party will be Sunday June 5th at a local park with a lake for swimming. We got the same shelter as last year, but had to move the party a week later then his birthday. His birthday is Memorial day this year and the shelters were all rented out for that weekend.

Its gonna be a fun fun party!!