By emdot
Celebrating a 50th anniversary or a 50th birthday is exciting. Some people like to celebrate these occasions with a formal event where people get dressed up in nice dresses and suits and ties. However, if a fancy affair doesn’t thrill the couple or birthday person, throwing a 50s party might excite them.
If you’ve never experienced the 1950s, the movie Grease and the sitcom Happy Days are great reference points for costume ideas. You’ll see girls dressed in poodle skirts, knit sweaters, saddle shoes, and bobby socks. If they’re dating an athlete, she’s probably wearing his lettermen jacket. Some boys in the movie and television show wear cuffed jeans and white t-shirts with the sleeves rolled up.
Making the party a sock hop and playing tunes from the era will add authenticity to your event. Once your guests arrive, have them to leave their shoes at the door and hit the dance floor. You can even organize a dance contest for couples. You’ll definitely want to check out the dance contest in Grease for dance moves. Also, before the party is over, you must teach everyone how to Hand Jive.
Set up a soda fountain area and serve ice cream floats and soda. Also, have hula hoops available for a hula hoop contest and bubble gum in dishes for blowing bubbles. You can even put candy out on the tables from the 1950s, like Mike and Ikes, Tootsie Roll Pops, Candy Lipstick, and Button Candy.
Choosing a 1950s theme for a 50th anniversary or birthday party will be fun to plan and attend. What are some of your ideas for a 1950s inspired party?
October 24th, 2009 by Yolanda D. Young | Posted in Birthday Parties, Party Planning, Party Themes | Comments (0)
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Taking photographs at your child’s birthday party is essential. You’ll want to have the special day captured on film, so you, your family, and your child can enjoy remembering the excitement of the day. Below are a few picture tips for your child’s birthday party.
1. You should always have a designated photographer at your child’s birthday party. Ideally, the photographer shouldn’t be you. You should be free to enjoy your child’s birthday party without worrying about taking pictures. If someone else is photographing the event, you should end up with a few pictures with you in them and even a few with you and your child.
2. Using a digital camera allows for some keepsake possibilities. If you own a computer printer or a picture printer, photos can be printed before the party is over. Your photographer can take a group photograph and print a copy for each child. Before your guests leave, you can give everyone a picture before the party ends. The photograph can be placed in a mini photo album or in a picture frame. You can even have the children decorate picture frames, and then put the group photo in the frame. Each child will have his or her own decorated party favor to take home. If you don’t want to give out picture frames or photo albums, you can make a label on your computer that says, “Thanks for coming to my birthday party.” Once the pictures have printed, place the label on the back of the picture.
3. Having disposable cameras in a bowl or placed around the birthday party area is fun for children of all ages. They’ll enjoy taking pictures of the party and will get shots that many adults wouldn’t think of taking. You can have a designated bowl near the front door, so the cameras can be dropped in it before your guests leave. If you don’t want to use the disposable cameras during the party, kids will enjoy taking one home with them as a party favor.
Finally, always make sure that at least one camera is ready for your child’s birthday party. You don’t want to miss a great photo opportunity because you didn’t charge your camera or didn’t buy any film or a new card the day before the birthday party.
October 16th, 2009 by Yolanda D. Young | Posted in Birthday Parties, Party Planning, Tips | Comments (0)
by David Sifry
If you love oceans, the beach, and seashells, you’ll enjoy planning a Mermaid Party. You can reference Disney’s The Little Mermaid for inspiration and even for party supplies. However, using your own passion for the “sea” create an underwater paradise.
1. Make an underwater paradise. Decorate your party area using blue and green decorations. Hang up different color fish. You can make these yourself or purchase precut fish shapes. If you have seashells, display them around the party area. Create an ocean picture on the party walls. Include seaweed, bubbles, fish, lobsters, and crabs in your wall art. However, if you can host your Mermaid Party at the beach, you won’t need any of these decorations.
2. Serve fishy food and snacks. Goldfish, fish sticks, fish nuggets or tuna fish make thematic additions to your Little Mermaid Party. Blue Jello cut in the shape of fish, sea horses, and starfish using cookie cutters make fun treats for kids.
3. Make ocean art. Buy colored sand and clear containers with tops. (You can use plastic water bottles.) Make colorful layers of sand in the containers by pouring different colors of sand on each level. Once the sand reaches the rim of the container, seal it.
If you have access to a pool, you can make this a Mermaid Pool Party. Also, if boys will be in attendance at your party, make it a Mermaid and Pirates Party. The girls can dress up as mermaids and the boys can wear pirate costumes.
August 7th, 2009 by Yolanda D. Young | Posted in Birthday Parties, Party Planning, Party Themes, Tips | Comments (0)
by Siti Saad
Once you’ve decided to throw a Princess Party, you’ll need to plan activities to keep the little princesses entertained. Beyond singing songs, dancing, and playing dress up, guests will enjoy making a princess-themed craft. Below are a few craft ideas.
1. Decorate tiaras. Purchase foam tiaras with the plastic coil or plastic headband. Usually, these are available at Walmart or Michaels for around $1.00. Oriental Trading carries foam tiaras, also. You can buy twelve of them for around $5.99. If you choose to buy your tiaras at orientaltrading.com, you can purchase jewel stickers to add glitz to the tiaras.
Oriental Trading sells paper tiaras that can be decorated with stickers, markers and crayons if you need a cheaper craft for your Princess Party. They cost around 12 for $2.99.
2. Make wands. You can by foam star wands from Michaels. All the princesses will have to do is tie a pretty ribbon around the stick. Then they can decorate the wands with jewel stickers. If you prefer, you can cut stars from self-adhesive foam. Give each princess two stars and a metallic pencil for the rod. Instruct the girls to take the backing off one star. Then place the eraser end of the pencil on the sticky side of the star. Remove the backing off the other star and sandwich the pencil between the stars. They can decorate the stars and add ribbon around the pencil below the star.
The princesses will be excited about decorating their own tiaras or wands. If time and your budget permits, the girls can do both crafts. These crafts are worthwhile because the princesses will continue playing with them long after the party is over.
August 7th, 2009 by Yolanda D. Young | Posted in Birthday Parties, Party Favors, Party Planning, Tips | Comments (0)
by Siti Saad
Long gowns, tiaras, giggles, birthday cake and little girls are the signs of a Princess Party. Little girls, as young as 2-year-olds, dream of being little princesses. Movies, television shows, books, toys, and music point them in the princess direction. Here are a few ideas to help make a Princess Party spectacular.
1. Costumes. Invite girls to wear their prettiest princess costumes to the party. Have extra costumes available for those who don’t own a princess costume. If your daughter owns enough princess costumes to share, you don’t have to ask the girls to wear their own.
2. Bubbles. As the guests walk up to the party entrance, have a bubble machine blowing. Walking through a stream of bubbles will give your party a magical feel. Make sure the bubbles are in a location where bubble residue won’t cause any accidents.
3. Red Carpet. Have a red carpet available for the princesses to prance down as they are introduced to the royal court. Be sure someone takes pictures while they do a princess wave and smile for the camera. Your red carpet can be a plastic oblong table cloth.
4. Treasure Chest. Be sure to have a princess treasure chest at the Princess Party. Fill it with plastic and candy jewelry. Little princesses view tattoos, stickers, lip gloss, small toys as treasures, too.
The little princesses will have a royal good time at the Princess Party. In fact, they’ll have a royal ball.
August 6th, 2009 by Yolanda D. Young | Posted in Birthday Parties, Party Themes, Tips | Comments (0)
by xddorox
A birthday party with wheels is fun for active kids. They’ll be able to celebrate and get their muscles moving. Below are a few party with wheels ideas.
1. Bicycling. Invite your child’s guests to bring their helmets and bikes for some bicycle fun. Let younger children decorate their bikes with colorful ribbons and streamers. Once the bikes are decorated, have a bicycle parade. Some children will have some tricks they want to show off in a bicycle rodeo. Let them do them only with parent’s permission. You can hire someone to demonstrate some bike tricks, too. Older children may want to have a few bicycle races.
2. Skating. You can’t go wrong hosting a birthday party at a skating rink. Many kids have their own skates, so they can bring them to the party. Many skating rinks go beyond offering just skating and have game room facilities, too. When the kids aren’t rolling around the rink, they can play video games. Check your local rink for party packages.
3. Skate Boarding. Check your local area for a skate boarding facility. You’ll want a spacious facility with ramps of different sizes. Having your party at a skate boarding facility is safer than setting up ramps in your backyard. The facility should be safer because the ramps are permanent fixtures. Once you’ve secured a location, invite your child’s guests to bring their skateboards to the party for a great time.
Parties with wheel are fun way to celebrate a birthday and keep kids active. They’ll be able to eat up the birthday cake, and then work it off on their bikes, skate, or skate boards.
August 6th, 2009 by Yolanda D. Young | Posted in Birthday Parties, Party Planning, Party Themes, Party Venues, Tips | Comments (0)
Celebrating birthdays should be joyous and fun. That’s one reason may people throw birthday parties. However, while planning birthday parties, many people lose sight of the joyous occasion because of financial stress. However, don’t let money get in the way of enjoying birthdays.
Not having enough money to throw a birthday party on the scale that you’d like to can be disappointing, especially if a child is involved. However, look at your party plans and decide which items can be eliminated so you can throw a party that is financially manageable. Having dancing poodles, a bouncy house, and ponies would be great party entertainment, but your child can still have a fun party without these amenities.
Even after eliminating items from your party plans, you may find that throwing a party isn’t feasible. Not throwing a party doesn’t mean you can’t still celebrate. A small outing with a few friends may be better for your wallet. Many restaurants offer free meals or desserts for the birthday person.
Whatever you do, avoid paying for your dream party on credit unless you can pay off the bill before the next one arrives. You don’t want to be paying for last years’ birthday party when your next birthday rolls around.
August 5th, 2009 by Yolanda D. Young | Posted in Birthday Parties, Party Planning, Tips | Comments (0)
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by takingthemoney
A Twinkling Star Party inspired by the song “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” is fun for pre-school age children and younger. They’ll enjoy a star-themed party because of the familiar tune, easy recognizable shape, and fun activities.
Decorate the party area with stars. Dangle them from the ceiling and tape them on the walls. Hang up strands of lights with blinkers around the party area. Use a yellow, gold, or silver tablecloth. If you can find one that shimmers, use that to make the table sparkle.
When the guests arrive, give them star-shaped sunglasses. Use glitter face paint to make twinkling stars on your guests’ faces or arms. While children wait for all children to receive star art, they can make telescopes using paper towel tubes. They can decorate the tube with star stickers. When they’re finished with their telescopes, give them a pre-cut star and a Popsicle stick. Let them glue the star to the stick to make a star wand.
While holding their star wands, help them sing “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.” They also may want to recite “Starlight, Star Bright.” Then give each child a unique star and help them find its identical match, which you will have hidden in the party are
August 5th, 2009 by Yolanda D. Young | Posted in Birthday Parties, Party Planning | Comments Off (0)
by peasap
As the adult wraps the blindfold around the first child’s eyes, she asks, “Can you see?” The child answers, “No,” and the adult places the bat in the child’s hands. She guides the child by the shoulders in the piñata’s direction and releases the child to swing at the colorful piñata. Other children wait with mixed feelings: each child wants to be the child to free the candy, but each child hopes to be the first to swoop up some goodies. With the first hit, nothing happens, but the second swing is a winner. The piñata smashes open and the candy rainbow falls to the ground as hands and bodies rush after it. This is the thrill of the piñata.
If you’re uncomfortable with children swinging a blunt object at a piñata, you can purchase a piñata that is opened with a pull of a ribbon. This style has several ribbons attached to the bottom of the piñata. Each child holds on to a ribbon and pulls when the party host yells, “Pull!” With one tug, the mystery ribbon releases the treats.
Piñatas come in various colors, shapes, and sizes. Many of the contemporary piñatas reflect party themes such as Mickey Mouse, Winnie the Pooh and High School Musical. Purchase one online or in your local party store for your next children’s party.
August 4th, 2009 by Yolanda D. Young | Posted in Birthday Parties, Party Planning | Comments (0)
by Etereal9
When you ask your children, “Can we build it?” They will say, “Yes, we can!” That’s the only answer to give at a Bob the Builder Birthday Party. Below are a few activity ideas for a Bob the Builder Party.
When your guests enter the door, hand them a carpenter party hat. You can purchase these at orientaltrading.com. Gather the children around you and tell them you have a problem. The problem can be as simple as needing to build a tower of blocks as high as they can go without toppling the tower over. Using any type of blocks, such as Leggo, Megabloks, or foam blocks, let them try to build a tower. Have them try to build it higher and higher each time.
Older children at your party may not be intrigued by building a tower. However, they may be challenged by playing Jenga. Jenga consists of levels of three wooden blocks stacked up on top of each other. The object of the game is to pull one block from the tower and replacing it on top of the tower without knocking the tower over. Also, you can only use one hand. Once the younger children are finished building their tower, they’ll enjoy playing Jenga, too.
Once the blocks are put away, have the children do a simple construction project using a few nails and a hammer. You may want to go to Lowe’s or Home Depot for some ideas since they offer construction projects for children once or twice a month.
These are just a few ideas to help you as you plan your child’s Bob the Builder Party. Can you do it? Yes, you can!
August 4th, 2009 by Yolanda D. Young | Posted in Birthday Parties, Party Planning, Tips | Comments (0)
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