How To Host A Fun-Filled Barnyard Birthday Party For Your Child

If you have an animal lover or a farm enthusiast in your house, you couldn’t avoid hosting a barnyard party for long. Such parties look great when planned on a real barn among the rigs, hens, and other farm animals but in many cases, it isn’t possible to host a party outdoors. With the right barnyard party supplies and ideas, it wouldn’t be difficult to bring the authentic barnyard feel to your celebrations. You can draw some inspiration from the farm animals and get creative with the food and decorations. Here are some other helpful Barnyard Party Ideas that will bring the spirit of an actual farm to your child’s birthday celebration.

Invitation

 

• Our prepackaged invites are the easiest and quickest option for announcing your party and inviting your guests for a fun filled celebrations. These invites feature farm animals and come with matching envelopes so that you can conveniently mail them.
• Cut out animal shapes from sturdy and colorful cardstock. Give them a thick border and use glitter pen to write your invitation details on the back. If you have a grown-up child, you can take his help.
• Purchase red bandanas and write your invite on them using washable ink. Mail them and ask your guests to wear them to your party.

Decoration:

• Make your venue look like a barn by placing hay bales all around the party area. You can even spread the hay bales in a circle and use them as seats.
• A scare crow at the entrance is sure to greet your guests in a dramatic way.
• Hire a balloon artist to make balloon animals that you can use to make your guests feel as if they are in a farm.
• Spread some hay at the center of the party table, take out your child’s stuffed barnyard animals, group them together, and arrange them on it to create a lively centerpiece. Complete the look by using coordinating tableware and other Barnyard Birthday Party Supplies.

Games: 

 

• Pin the tail on the pig is sure to keep kids busy for some time.
• Order our Barnyard pinata, fill it with some irresistible favors, candies, cookies, stationery, etc., and let the kids break it open to release the sweet treat that is inside this real-looking barn.
• Hide small favors inside the hay bales and ask your little guests to find them out. Kids love treasure hunt, so this game is sure to provide them tons of entertainment.

Food:

• Your child’s barnyard birthday party demands some finger-licking food such as country-style fried chicken. Serve them with potato salad.
• Baked potatoes, bakes beans, hamburger, hot dog, etc. are other options that you may consider.
• Serve fruit juices and punches. To create excitement among the kids, name them against farm animals such as moo juice and piggy punch.
• Apple pie is the perfect dessert for a farm party.

Favors:

 

• Give away chocolate and candy eggs and tag them as bird eggs.
• Make or order animal shaped cookies, wrap them individually, and give them away as favors.
• Bandanas, animal figurines, animal stickers, farm-themed coloring books and crayons, play doh, noisemakers, whistles, squirt guns, straw hats, are some other favors that you can consider for kids of all ages.
• Our prepackaged thank you notes are sure to show your appreciation, so make sure you include them in your shopping list.

For more interesting kids’ party ideas, visit MyBirthdaySupplies. We also have a colorful collection of barnyard party supplies available at a discounted price, so that you can host a grand party without bothering about your budget.

3 Awesome Father’s Day Craft Ideas That Kids Would Love

If you have one or more blossoming minds at home, make sure you celebrate all special occasions without any failure so that the little ones learn the significance of relationships and bonding. Such celebrations also boost creativity among them, so involve them in the entire planning and execution process. This father’s day, let them honor the father-children relationship by making some crafts for their dad. This will not only surprise their dad but also keep them busy for days. If your child is old enough, ask him to come up with his own ideas, or else suggest some easy crafts that they can make. Here are three suggestions that the little ones are sure to love. 

Hand printed cards

Kids love crafts, especially making cards. So why not have them make a card for their dad! Buy them some plain cards. Let them paint with hands, feet, fingers, brushes, or any other thing that they feel like. Their cards need not be very glossy or attractive; make them understand that whatever they make, their dad is going to love it. If they don’t know what to paint or how to paint, suggest them. Let them also decorate the envelope, write their message, and include some fresh flowers with the card. 

Father’s day cake or cupcake toppers

Your daughter is going to love this craft and would come up with endless ideas. Ask them to write their messages on these toppers or simply decorate them in their father’s favorite color. If your child is old enough to cook, let them bake the cupcakes or cake as well. 

Father’s cake car banner

What could be a better way of declaring your love for your father than making a car banner? Help your tots make a ‘Happy father’s day’ banner by sticking large-sized alphabets to a fancy curling ribbon. You could buy the prepackaged letters or let kids make them at home using craft sheets. Add a little shine to them by sprinkling glitters.

Kids won’t be able to make these crafts by themselves, so provide your assistance, and encourage them to make whatever they can. Let this be a surprise for their dad. He would love the efforts the little ones have made to make him feel special on this day.

Princess Party Beverage Ideas

Little girls across the globe are crazy for a princess birthday party where they would be declared as a princess for the days wearing pink frilly dress with tiaras on their heads. Along with transforming your house into a regal castle, such a party needs some extravagant foods that are exclusively enjoyed by the royal community. Apart some lip-smacking finger food, you must serve some sparkling pink beverages that the ladies would daintily enjoy. Here are some beverages recipes that you may consider for your child’s upcoming princess birthday party.  

Princess Punch

Ingredients (makes 4 serving)

• 2 cups lime-lemon soda
• 2 cups raspberry juice
• ½ cup Raspberry sorbet
• 1/8 cup lime juice

Directions to make

• Combine all the ingredients except sorbet in a punch bowl.
• Stir in the sorbet when you are ready to serve the beverage.
• Pour them in margarita or wine glass, garnish with fruit slices, and serve.

Sparkling Apple Cider

Ingredients

• 2 liter apple cider
• 2 cup white cranberry juice
• 2 liter sparkling water
• Apple slices for garnishing

Directions to make

• Mix the apple cider and cranberry juice in a pitcher.
• Pour them in wine glasses and top off with sparkling water and apple slices.

Iced Strawberry Tea

Ingredients

• 1 pint fresh strawberry puree
• 5 cups brewed tea
• Sugar as per taste
• ¼ cup lemon juice

Directions to make

• Chill the freshly brewed tea.
• Strain the strawberry puree to remove the fiber (if any).
• Pour the puree into a pitcher and mix in the chilled tea and lemon juice.
• Add sugar as per your taste.
• Mix well and serve.
• To add an element of elegance put in some star or heart shaped ice.

Red Apple Sangria

Ingredients

• 4 quarts apple juice (fresh)
• 2 cups fresh lemon juice
• 2 quart fresh orange juice
• 2 liter sparkling white-grape juice

Directions to make

• Mix the apple juice with the lemon juice as soon you juice them in order to keep the apple juice pink.
• Mix in the orange juice and chill.
• Before serving, simply mix the apple juice and garnish with fruit slices.

These beverages are sure to be enjoyed by the little princesses attending your party. Instead of serving them in wine glasses, use our disposable princess party supplies that feature the lovely Disney princess in a beautiful background. These supplies will minimize your breakages along with your after party cleanup work.

3 Extraordinary Birthday Party Invitation Ideas

Your invitations set the tone of your party, therefore, make sure you choose something that instantly captures the attention of your guests and excite them for attending your celebrations. Although the prepackaged invites are often the easiest and quickest way to announce your party, why not get creative and invite your guests in extraordinary ways. Here are three unusual kids’ birthday party invitation ideas that are sure to make the invitees keyed up about attending your party. You can easily customize them according to your party theme. 

  

Newspaper invite

 

With little creativity and basic Photoshop skills, you would be able to announce your child’s birthday in a grand way. Scan the front half page of a newspaper and use Photoshop, the image editing program, to edit the main headline and its body. Give a catchy headline declaring your child’s birthday invite such as ‘Calling all superheroes to rescue the world’ or ‘Princess Kate is hosting a royal ball at her Kingdom’. Write an interesting body having all your party details. To fill up the rest of the space, you may include your child’s picture as well. Dress up your child in themed costumes and use this picture in the body. You may take professional help if required or ask your friends and family members to help you out. Take prints outs of these invites and mail them to your friends. 

  

Balloon invite

Why choose the boring paper invites? Blow up some balloons, write your invitation on them, and ask your child to hand deliver them to all the invitees. Alternatively, write your party details on small pieces of papers, roll them up to form tubes, and insert them into the balloons along with some confetti. Hand deliver them and ask your guests to blow them up for reading the invites. These inexpensive invites are sure to set the stage for your party. 

Mascot invite

You have to spend a little extra for this invite but it is sure to get your guests go crazy for your big celebration. Buy plain cards and write your party details on them. Hire a mascot to deliver them for you. You may ask your child to accompany him so that the invitees don’t feel awkward to have a stranger at their home. If you are short on budget, you may ask any of your family members to dress up in theme costume and deliver the invites. The kids would be amazed to see fairy godmother or a Spiderman inviting them for your child’s birthday. 

Utilize your child’s birthday as an opportunity to get creative and come up with wonderful party ideas that will wow your guests as well your own family members.

Summertime Games For Your Child's Birthday Party

Summertime is here and it’s time to plan greatest birthday bash to entertain the kids. If your little one has a competitive spirit and loves to play games, organizing some fun Birthday Party Games will make the birthday really special.

I have some really interesting ideas for kid’s party activities which you can consider for your little one’s birthday party. These ideas will surely help you to plan a birthday bash that kids will never forget.

Water Balloon Volleyball

Transform the standard game of volleyball into an amazing water game. Divide your party guests into two teams and put a rope between two trees. Have a small or medium-sized balloon filled with water and ask the teams to flip the balloon to over the rope to the other team.

If one team misses or drops the water balloon volleyball, the other team gets a point.

Tip: Have 10-15 water balloon volleyball ready before starting the game.

Homemade obstacle course

Kids love to perform different physical activities and jumping over the obstacles. You can create a homemade obstacle course having a series of activities. The kids have to begin the course from the starting line and race through a series of obstacles to finish it.

You can include cardboard boxes to crawl or series of old tires to cross before reaching the finishing line.

Squirt Gun paintball

Squirt Gun paintball is one of the amazing Kids Party Games which is loved by the little ones. Plan the Squirt Gun paintball in an open area.

To plan the activity, you will require Squirt Guns, White T-shirts, Food coloring and huge things to hide behind.

Dive the guests in two teams and have all of them put on white t-shirts. One team should stand on the one side of the field and other team on the other side. Each member of the team will have Squirt Guns filled with food color and when you say ‘go’, they should try to squirt each other with guns.

These Kids Party Games will surely help you to plan an exciting bash for your activity lover.

How to make Curious George Party Cake

Are you planning a Curious George birthday party for your little one and curious to know how to prepare a yummy and beautiful birthday cake? I have a recipe to help you make an exotic and adorable peanut-butter monkey cake which is complete fun.

 Ingredients

1 package 1-layer sized chocolate cake mix

½ cup canned white frosting

2 tablespoon peanut butter

1 cup canned chocolate frosting

2 cups chocolate-flavor crisp rice cereal

2 chocolate kisses

1 purchased large, soft peanut butter cookie

1 banana

Lemon juice

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350^o F. Prepare the cake mix according to the package directions and bake in an 8x1 ½-inch round baking pan. Remove cake from pan and cool as directed on the package. Invert cake onto serving plate.
2. In a small bowl, stir together white frosting and peanut butter. Use the mixture to frost the top centre of the cake in the shape of a monkey face. Place 1-2 tablespoons of the chocolate frosting in a plastic bag and set it aside.

Frost the rest of the cake with remaining chocolate frosting and pat the cereal into the chocolate frosting only. Snip one small corner off the plastic bag and pipe in nose and mouth. Place two chocolate kisses pointed side down onto the face for the eyes.

3. Break the peanut butter cookie and place the halves on each side of the cake for ears. Before serving, peel a banana and brush the peel with lemon juice to prevent browning. Place the peel on plate above the monkey head.

Makes 8 servings.

This adorable peanut butter monkey cake will be loved by kids and adults alike. To team-up with the Curious George birthday party theme, you can purchase Curious George Birthday Supplies and have those little monkeys around your kid.

Luau Party Activities That Will Provide Ultimate Summertime Fun To Your Guests

For hosting a successful party, you need to think beyond the standard party aspects such as decorations and food. People, especially kids expect lots of fun and entertainment at parties and you, as a host, must plan some entertaining games and activities to keep them involved throughout the party. When kids are in a playful mood, they are least bothered about the decoration or food; all they want is fun. If you are planning a luau party for your child, these luau party games are sure to create a light, lively, and fun atmosphere. 

 

Limbo

No luau party would be complete without a limbo. To play this luau party game, you will need a rod or a stick. A curtain rod will also work. Choose two adults to hold the either ends of the pole. Have your guests put on the grass skirts and flower leis, turn on some Hawaiian music, and ask them to go under the pole by only leaning and not crawling. Once the whole group has passed, lower the pole by a few inches. Anyone who loses his/her balance and falls down is out of the game. Keep repeating this process until you are left with just one player, who will be the winner.

 

Coconut bowling

Collect 10 empty 2 liter soda bottles and fill them half way with sand so that they stay still till they are bowled. To increase the excitement among kids, decorate the bottles by wrapping grass skirts around them. Arrange them as you would arrange the pins and ask the kids to knock them down using a real coconut. You may use a ball but a coconut will give the kids an authentic luau experience. In order to keep them motivated, award the winners by giving away some Luau Party Supplies. 

 

Hula dance 

 

Hire a dance instructor to teach some hula dance moves to your guests. Kids are sure to love this wonderful Luau party idea. Let them dance for a while and later, you may host a short hula dance competition among them. This will be a good change over the conventional patterned party games. If you have a small budget, you can play some hula dance videos and ask the kids to replicate them. 

 

Pass the hot coconut

Twist the conventional ‘pass the hot potato’ game and rename it as ‘pass the hot coconut’. Play some hula music, let the kids sit in a circle, and ask the kids to pass the coconuts around the circle. Whenever the music is stopped, the person holding the coconut will be out of the game.

Apart from these luau party games, we also offer many unique and interesting Luau party ideas that are sure to help you plan an authentic luau. Also, browse our adorable collection of Luau party supplies such as tableware, decorations, favor, etc. to plan a grand party within your budget.