Theme Ideas

Pirate Party Be a pirate for your birthday? Find the buried treasure? Discover an island? Meet Captain Hook? Well, maybe not the last one, but this is a great party for any adventurous mate. Make an invitation and be creative. I suggest a treasure map to your house, what else? This wouldn’t be hard to do and the whole family can get involved. Just make sure the clues aren’t too hard! Plan outyour menu, and the activities that go along with it, etc. What do pirates eat? They love cake and ice cream and hot-dogs Decorate with balloons and pictures of pirate ships. Decorate your table with chocolate money as treasure. Make treasure map place mats (that send them looking for treasure) and a pirate hat for each guest. Come up with some activities that go along with your pirate theme to keep everyone entertained. I suggest a treasure hunt (hide prizes in different rooms; give out clues and a treasure map-mentioned above). You may even want to watch Peter Pan or Hook and have a trivia quiz when it’s over for prizes. As the kids enter, give each a moustache and an eye patch and MAKE THEM WEAR IT. You may also want to get some bandannas to tie around their heads. Great photo opportunity.

Balloon Theme –start with lots and lots of balloons. Kids have great fun playing with balloons both indoors and outdoors. Try drawing faces on the balloons, playing basketball, passing the balloons between each child without dropping; football with a balloon is great fun.

Film Star Party –make the birthday child a film star for the party. All kids love dressing up. Then all the guests can guess which star, character and film the child is dressed up as. Prizes could be in the style of Oscars. You could video the party interviewing guests as their film star role or acting out their favourite scene: for their 15minutes of fame!!

Safari Party Tracking down the animals in the jungle aka garden or house ( based on the treasure hunt party)find the animals putting names to them, lots of games to play pin the tail on the donkey, finding pairs of animals to put into Noah’s Ark, dressing up as their favourite animal, bake animal shaped biscuits and let the Kids decorate them as part of the birthday tea, face painting, model making

Treasure Hunt– treasure chests filled with sand, costume jewellery and puzzles for your guests. Attach colourful balloons if you desire. Use treasure maps as place mats on each table; put instructions on each table with clues to find the treasure you have hidden either in the house or garden. Fill a room with balloons to lead people to the ‘buried’ treasure. Remember to list the clues as well as the ‘rules’ on the instructions. Can be used inside or outside. Chocolate money is a great idea for hidden treasure

Alien Party It’s the Millennium. The future is now. Kids are really into aliens...so give into it and have a party to remember. You’ll need an invitation, make your own and send it out with a special message from outer space…like "The Aliens Are Coming…to Alex’s House!" Have fun with it. Think of places other than home to have your Kids Party A party room at the Children’s Museum? A room at the ScienceMuseum? Something like that. If not, you’ll still have fun, but having it at a museum is an added benefit (not to mention learning experience).Plan your menu, but don’t try too hard. there are certain names you can give something as simple as a hot dog that screams "science fiction!" listing your food items with a difference si-fi sausages, borg burgers, celestial chips, warp drive waffles, plasma pizza’s, etc .Come up with some fun activities a "draw an alien" contest; decorating alien cookies, get loads of boxes and let the Kids make their own Alien, and other things that go with your theme.

Pyjama Party There’s nothing like sitting around in your pyjamas and your favourite slippers, drinking hot chocolate, eating biscuits and sharing stories with friends. Invite everyone over for a pyjama party an all-night sleep over to celebrate your birthday. Here are some "do’s and don'ts." Don’t forget to invite your guests’ favourite night time companions if they have one. (Tell the truth…who can sleep without their worn and weary teddy bear or favourite "Noonoo?") If you have your Kids friends to stay over, make sure you start late enough that they aren’t bored by 10 p.m. As far as the invitation goes, customise it for your needs or you can make your own invitation. If your neighbours won’t get too upset, set up a clothes line in your front garden with sheets, pyjama tops, bottoms, pillow cases and more blowing in the wind. Your guests will immediately know where the pyjama party is being held, and they’ll have a good laugh too. Fun signs that you can make on your computer in the bathrooms and other places can say things like: WASH BEHIND YOUR EARS, BRUSH YOUR TEETH and more! Let the Kids make tents and houses out of sheets, blankets Of course, the proverbial bedtime stories are what you think of first when you think pyjama party. And let’s not forget the good old "ghost story." So, that’s always fun. The usual charades, trivia contests and other games will work well, but you probably want to have some pillow fights. Why not?

Magic Party There is nothing more fascinating for children than magic. Remember when that coin was pulled from behind your ear, or when that eight of hearts card mysteriously ended up on the top of the deck? Come, on we can all admit that we marvelled! What better way to add to the fascination than to incorporate a magic theme that will keep children’s eyes wide the entire time. When each child enters, give them a magic trick or a deck of cards with instructions on how to perform a certain card trick (take into consideration ages of the children so that the tricks are age appropriate) . During the party, each child has to learn how to perform a trick. Have the children decorate their very own magic hat. You can buy pre-made black top hats and have them decorate them with glitter, ribbon, pom-poms, and other fun materials that you find at a local craft store. The grand event of the party is a magic show where all of the kids perform the trick they’ve learned.