Confused With Birthday Themes? Go for a Colorful Party

The craze of hosting theme parties has dominated the globe so much that every party these days is hosted on a specific theme be it a character, an event, animals, celebrities, or even an issue. To keep themselves up with the trend, many people take unnecessary stress of hosting a theme party.

Daniel (name changed on request) is one such person whom I met a few weeks back. He approached me to plan his daughter Nancy’s first birthday. Since Nancy’s mother passed away a week after she was born, Daniel have been both a father and mother to her. Like any other parent, he wanted to host an extraordinary party but wasn’t sure which Birthday Party Theme to take up. Nancy was too small to have a say and Daniel had little understanding of the girl’s themes and choices.

I grabbed this opportunity and shared my favorite idea of hosting a colorful party instead of choosing any individual character party. Initially, Daniel was little reluctant but when I showed him the pictures of the previous colorful parties that I had organized, he gave his nod. I got so much emotionally involved with Nancy that I started planning her party as if it’s my own daughter’s party. At many points, I even ignored Daniel’s opinions that I felt were not better than mines.

For making the invitations, we took poster size white card stocks and spray painted them with various colors. At the center of the card, we pasted Nancy’s picture and on the reverse side we wrote the party details. We followed the same painting procedure for making the envelopes.

The decorations were simple. We used a lot of solid color latex balloons of various colors such as red, green, blue, yellow, pink, etc. along with some happy birthday printed balloons, and number 1 shaped Mylar balloons. The other birthday supplies that we used were crepe paper rolls, confetti, happy birthday banner, etc. For the party table, we used a sunshine yellow colored table cover, ruby red colored cutlery, royal blue colored plates, and forest green colored napkins. The party table was looking vibrant and got a lot of appreciation.

Most of the guests were girls between 3-5 years and therefore, we decided to give them faux jewelry. For the two boys, we had spin tops and squirt guns. The favor bags also had lots of colorful candies and mints.

The birthday party ideas were admired by many moms and therefore, Daniel was happy with the way the party was planned. Some of the character theme crazy moms realized that a colorful party can actually be one of the best themes for kid’s birthdays.