Being allowed to celebrate a birthday is always a huge highlight for children. Usually, for weeks in advance, they think about which children should be invited, how the apartment should be decorated, and what gifts they want. Parents usually look forward to this event with a bit of respect. But that is often not necessary at all. Here are many tips and information on organizing a children's birthday party so that the celebration is a real success.Children's birthday partyHosting a children's birthday party at home
Children usually can't wait until the first guests finally walk through the door. You can bridge the time until then by preparing the decorations. Feel free to involve the birthday child: would they prefer a princess party or a pirate party? Or something completely different?
Ideas for a children's birthday party theme
Haunted Castle
- Pirates
- Fairies
- Jungle
- Circus
- Princess
- World Tour
- Superheroes
- Sports (e.g., soccer)
- Dinosaurs
- The decorations, the cake, and perhaps even the games should be chosen to match. You don't always have to buy everything for the decorations. You can also craft beautiful decorations yourself with the children. This makes the time pass faster for the children, and they will surely be very proud to have helped. The invitations can also be crafted with the children. Don't forget to note the location, date, time (from when to when), and who is celebrating the birthday on the card.
To keep the children nicely occupied, it is a good idea to prepare children's games. Depending on the age and skill of the children, there are plenty of fun games that can enrich the birthday party. A lovely idea is also to make a stamp card for the children. Simply cut out a card from paper in the right size, list the various games offered, and confirm with a stamp once the child has completed them.
Games for a children’s birthday party
A treasure hunt is definitely a highlight for the children. If you have no ideas here, you should take a look at
Treasure hunt
www.grapevine.de. Fun treasure hunts are offered for many different themes and every age group. You can also choose between treasure hunts outdoors or indoors.We decided on the
Cooking pot
What you’ll need:
- scarf
- Sweets or small gifts
- Wooden cutlery
- A child's eyes are covered with a scarf, and they are given a wooden spoon. Now the gift is hidden under the cooking pot and placed in the room or in the garden. The blindfolded child must now find the pot. The other children can help by calling out to the child whether they are walking in the right direction. By indicating "warm" (right direction) or "cold" (wrong direction), it goes a bit faster, and then it's the next child's turn.
Sack race
Sacks, plastic bags, or pillowcases
What you’ll need:
- possibly 2 ropes
- A child's eyes are covered with a scarf, and they are given a wooden spoon. Now the gift is hidden under the cooking pot and placed in the room or in the garden. The blindfolded child must now find the pot. The other children can help by calling out to the child whether they are walking in the right direction. By indicating "warm" (right direction) or "cold" (wrong direction), it goes a bit faster, and then it's the next child's turn.
- Gift, sweets
- Each child gets a sack. The start and finish lines are laid out using the ropes. If too many children want to play, you can simply divide them up. The winner (or the best 3, etc.) gets a gift.
Musical chairs
In the middle, a few chairs (one less than the number of birthday guests) are placed back-to-back. The children must walk in a circle around the chairs as long as the music is playing. When the music stops, every child must find a chair and sit on it. The child who doesn't get a chair is eliminated, and another chair is removed. The winner gets a gift.
What you’ll need:
- chairs
- Music
- Each child gets a sack. The start and finish lines are laid out using the ropes. If too many children want to play, you can simply divide them up. The winner (or the best 3, etc.) gets a gift.
Snacks for the children's birthday
For the children, it's usually not that important what the food looks like, but there must be some refreshment, because all the playing makes them hungry. Of course, a cake with candles in the number of the child's age should not be missing. Nevertheless, it is nice if the cake and snacks match the theme of the birthday. Nowadays, there are many decorations for cakes to buy, such as wafers with motifs, sugar sprinkles, or marzipan or fondant figures.
For the snacks, you should make sure that they are easy to eat, perhaps even finger food, because experience shows that the birthday guests usually have no time.
Ideas for savory snacks for the children's birthday
Fish or chicken nuggets
- Sausage
- Hamburgers
- Pizza
- Fries or potato sticks
- We often had sausages or nuggets with potato slices. That was always very well received by the little guests.
- Pizza swirls
- Pizza muffins
It is important that you as parents are well prepared; set up as much as possible before the party so that you can almost exclusively take care of the little guests. Feel free to think of more games in case a few suggestions are not accepted by the birthday guests. Do not be afraid to ask friends or family for help if there are too many guests. And even if the afternoon is exhausting: radiant children at the end of the party make you quickly forget the efforts.
Posted on: 08/16/2016
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