5 Kids' Birthday Party Ideas

Girls' Pink Birthday Party for $40

Click HERE for details about wall art, cupcakes, party trays, paper flowers, fan circles, and pinwheels.

Boys' Dinosaur Birthday Party

Click HERE for a how-to on cupcake toppers, party game idea, and a free printable leaf template that goes perfectly with these dinosaurs.

Princess Birthday Party

We literally provide this entire party for you, and it's FREE!  Click HERE to print your invitations, cupcake toppers, Happy Birthday banner, and thank you cards.  Plus, get recommendations on cupcakes and crafting supplies.

Luau Party

Who doesn't like a theme party?  Click HERE for tons of information... how to make your invitations, paper lanterns AND tiki lanterns, paper flowers, tiki totems, shark week-inspired cocktails with accessories, party design tips, and, of course, free printables to make these brown paper bag tiki guys!  We even have a sugar cookie that goes with this party, and we give you the recipe.  Yah!

Tween Birthday Party

It wouldn't be a good collection of kids' parties without ideas for tweens.  Click HERE to get details on cupcake decorating, how to create cupcake toppers, coloring pages, invitations, and birthday signs, and how to make paper lanterns and garland.

Happy party planning!

Tween Birthday Party Ideas

` tween cupcake decorating party

` golden vanilla cupcakes with fluffy buttercream frosting

` sprinkles

` cupcake toppers
We used PicMonkey to create these.

 ` candles

` black & white cupcake wrappers

` the 'more is more' approach

` coloring pages

We created these with PicMonkey too.

` homemade black & white paper lanterns

Click HERE for paper lantern tutorial.

` homemade paper garland 

We sandwiched fishing line between two punches with Aleene's Tacky Glue.

` invitations

We matted on black paper, and again, used PicMonkey to make them.

` happy birthday sign in 8x10 frame
Guess what we used to make that sign?

Princess Birthday Party Printables

Super exciting stuff here! So pleased to debut our princess.  Oh, and guess what?  Today she's wearing her pink dress!  Please feel free to use her at your princess party too.  We've included the printables.

` princess birthday party invitations

SEE printables below.

` princess cupcake toppers

We used a 2 1/2-inch circle punch.

We love, love, love golden vanilla cupcakes with fluffy buttercream frosting.  Click HERE for the book with this recipe.  It really is fabulous!

` princess happy birthday banner

Tip:  Hot glue sets too quickly, and Elmer's wrinkles the paper.  Aleene's Tacky Glue is just right (the Goldilocks of glues)... strong enough but won't wrinkle your paper.

` princess party bags

printable princess party invitations

printable princess cupcake toppers

printable princess happy birthday banner page 1

printable princess happy birthday banner page 2

printable princess happy birthday banner page 3

printable princess happy birthday banner page 4

printable princess thank you cards

Homemade Luau Party

Aloha!  The series is over, but the party is just beginning.  Watch what happens when we put it all together.  Welcome to our Luau Party!

` layer table runner and cloth napkins for your homemade luau party tablescape

` use some homemade paper lanterns and paper flowers to make up your budget-friendly centerpiece

` use a tray to hold napkins, silverware, cocktail accessories, and a couple homemade paper flowers
` remember to choose paper to match your home, so your tray will automatically coordinate with your party colors

` use old wrapping paper for a fun party backdrop to display the rest of your homemade paper lanterns and paper flowers

` string homemade paper lanterns together with fishing line

` we love Loctite FUN-TAK mounting putty for securing our wrapping paper to the wall and our homemade paper flowers to the wrapping paper

` make your own party sign with an unused picture frame, scrapbook paper, and a dry erase marker

Homemade Luau Party Paper Bag Tiki Guy!

This is no joke.  Here is the fourth part of our Luau party series... 

drumroll please........... AND it's kid-friendly too........... the tiki guy, or lady, if you please!  That's not all.  Our next post might be, no wait--will DEFINITELY be, something that contains alcohol!

` make your own tiki guys with brown paper bags and scrapbook paper

` tiki guy parts in simple shapes and a variety of colors

(create your own or feel free to use our printables at the end of this post)

` they can be used as gift bags

` they are cute centerpieces

` kids can make them too... fun party project!

` they stack neatly to make a tiki totem

printable tiki guy parts

Homemade Luau Party Paper Flowers!

For the third part of our Luau party series, we will remind you how to make your own paper flowers, Hawaiian-style, of course.  See how they kind of look like a Hibiscus?  Keep checking back.  Still more Luau party posts to come... up next might even be the design sprinkle version of a tiki guy!

` original paper flowers in fun, new luau colors

Click HERE for paper flower tutorial. 

There is one small difference from the original paper flower.  We only made one layer of petals, instead of two.  Easier, right?  Now your inexpensive scrapbook paper will carry you even further!

Homemade Luau Party Paper Tiki Lantern!

Paper and tiki lanterns are the second part of our Luau party series.  Please don't think that the party stops here.  Hold onto your leis... more Luau posts to come!  

` original paper lanterns in fun, new luau colors

Click HERE for paper lantern tutorial.

It will be hard to keep you from doing the limbo when you see this new twist on the paper lantern.  Behold... the paper tiki lantern!

` paper tiki lantern... it's like the other lanterns, only cooler

STOP!  This is the most important step!

` FOLD before you cut your paper

Everything else is the same from here on out.

This is a lengthy post for us, so if you need to revisit the original paper lantern tutorial, click HERE.