Fun Kid Birthday Party Ideas - Creative Themes
By Mike Dougherty "Grandpa Mike", Fri Dec 9th

b>Theme parties are always great fun for any child'sbirthday party.

Does your child have a favorite movie, book, TV show, favoritecharacter, or maybe your child likes animals or has a favoritesport or past time. Well how about using one of your child'sfavorites as the theme for their party.

Planning Your Party

If your child is old enough, sit down with them and ask whatkind of theme they'd like for their party. Then, keeping yourbudget in mind, as well as space limitations and preparationtime, choose a theme and start making plans.

Once you've decided on a theme for your child's party,you'll find that everything begins to fall right in place.

Kid Party Invitations

You and your child will have lots of fun putting together acreative invitation for their party.

When wording your invitation, try getting into your theme andhave some fun. Use words and phrases that fit your theme.

If you're having a Princess party, you might make it a"Royal Invitation from the King and Queen."

For a Pirate party, write your invitation on a piece ofbrown paper bag crumpled up to look like old parchment. Draw amap to your house and have "X" mark the spot. Then writesomething like this, "Aaarrrhh, we be celebratin the ofCaptain (your child's first and last name) and ye be invited."

Interactive invitations are lots of fun and help to get yourinvited guests involved in your theme right away.

For a Dinosaur party you can send along a small boxwith a small plastic dinosaur "buried" in glacial ice (wrappedin cotton). Then the recipient can "dig up" the dinosaur.

For a Princess party you could have your invitationrolled up, tied with a purple ribbon and hand delivered bysomeone in appropriate costume.

Be creative and have fun with your invitation. Remember, it'sthe first impression your guests will have of your up-comingparty. Get them excited so they can hardly wait!

Kid Party Decorating Ideas

With your theme in mind, you can keep your decorations simple byusing balloons and streamers and by putting pictures on yourwalls that you've cut from magazines.

Or you can be a little more creative by turning your living roominto your theme location.

For a Dinosaur party put

blue and white helium filledballoons on your ceiling to form a sky with clouds. Then hangdark brown, light brown, green and orange streamers from theceiling to the floor to make a jungle. Wrap some of thestreamers together to make your jungle thicker.

For a Princess party create a special throne using achair and decorating it with bright red and purple balloons andstreamers. And maybe even use a colorful pillow.

Again, be creative and have fun.

Kid Party Game Ideas

Most party games can be slightly modified to fit your theme. Fora Blue's Clues party Pin the Tail on the Donkey canbecome "pin the tail on Blue."

For a Princess party, Musical Chairs becomes "The Royal MusicalBall" and you can play appropriate music.

And speaking of music, music that is appropriate to your themeis perfect to use during your games. Simply start a game whenyour music starts. You can easily find CDs for most movies andTV shows.

Kid Cakes

There are a lot of great recipes available for theme birthdaycakes, or you can easily pick up a frosted cake then add "ediblecake toppers" for your theme.

Using edible cake toppers is a great way to create a colorful,professional looking theme cake for your child's birthday.

Kid Party Food Ideas

If you're serving food or snacks, keep your theme in mind and becreative.

For a Princess party, serve finger sandwiches, candysushi, royal colored jelly beans, grapes, sparkling apple orgrape juice or a "royal punch."

For an Incredibles party, label your food. Ketchupbecomes "super sauce", carrot sticks become "energy sticks" andyou can even have a mini "hero sandwich."

If you're using an underwater theme like Finding Nemo, serve"peanut butter & jellyfish" sandwiches, Gold Fish crackers and"tuna fish" sandwiches.

Be Creative

Even with a limited budget you can be creative and come up withlots of fun kid party ideas... Put just a little effortinto your plans and your child will fondly remember thisbirthday party for years to come.

And don't forget to take lots of pictures and shootlots of video of everyone having fun.

About the author:Mike Dougherty "Grandpa Mike" has lots of experience puttingtogether successful parties for his children andgrandchildren. For more information take a look athttp://fun-kid-birthday-parties.com you'll be glad you did.