Christmas Party Themes That Will Always be in Demand

This Christmas, stay away from the traditional approach and get everyone into the holiday spirit by choosing a specific theme rather than taking up Christmas itself as the theme of your party. Choosing a theme will give you a basic structure for your preparations along with giving a coordinated look to your celebrations. Carry this theme through every step of your party, starting from the invitations to the favors. Here are some popular Christmas Party Ideas and themes that will never lose their charm.

Snowflake Theme

This is an evergreen theme for winter festivities. Come up with an elegant and appealing decoration to transform your house into a snow land. Cover the trees and a major portion of your party area with artificial snowflakes. Use snowflake Christmas ornaments for decorating your party venue. Have a life-size Snowman at the entrance and a smaller one for your party table. Spread out a white table cover and use red colored Christmas party supplies to serve food to your guests. Send your guests home with some homemade cookies and chocolates.

‘Christmas Vacation’ Theme

Invite all the fans of this movie for a character party. Ask them to dress up as their favorite character and wear ugly Christmas sweaters. Over-decorate the party venue, by using lots of Christmas lights, a big Christmas tree, colorful streamers, and other Christmas Party Supplies. Incorporate the elements of the movie as much as possible and after a sumptuous dinner, play this movie, sit together, and enjoy your winter vacations.

Disco Theme

This 70’s inspired Christmas party idea is sure to excite your guests, as they will get a chance to wear those giant bell-bottoms, colorful trousers, knee high boots, etc. and dance till the midnight. The best decoration for such a party would be to set up a perfect discotheque environment. Have a dance floor with a mirrored disco ball just above it; serve classic drinks such as Martini, tequila sunrise, etc. Right music that will get people to the dance floor is the key to a successful disco party and therefore, take professional help if needed. 

    

Circus Party Theme

This Christmas, spread happiness and laughter by throwing a circus theme party. Ask your guests to dress up as various circus characters such as clowns, jugglers, circus animals, etc. This will help you to create a perfect circus environment for your party. Decorate your house with brightly colored streamers, buntings, lights, etc. and serve circus related food such as popcorn, candyfloss, burger, and hotdog. If you have a good budget, hire performers to entertain your guests.   

Christmas festivities are a great way to meet your family and friends, spend some quality time with them, and enjoy the holiday season. Make sure you plan your celebration well in advance so that you can stay away from the last minute mess-ups.

Birthday Party Decorations Items & Tips

Birthday Party Decoration Ideas

 

Birthday Party Decorations can transform your event into a unique and memorable bash. Birthday Party Decorations set the mood for any party, be it a 1^st birthday, a girl theme birthday, a boy theme birthday or a tween birthday. These beautiful Birthday Party props breathe life into a birthday. Guests love to walk into a surreal setting.

Various articles fall under the ambit of birthday party decorations-props, lights, fabrics, streamers, balloons, banners, scene setters, table decorations and themed or personalized items. It does not take much to transform your party area into an exciting atmosphere filled with our unique birthday decorations.

You could cover the walls of your party area with themed scene setters. They can be attached to the walls with lights double sided tape. Remember not to take a very heavy duty tape if your party is indoors as it might spoil the wall paint. Alternately flat paper or gossamer cloth in the theme colors will also look very attractive. For instance, in a princess themed birthday, you could scallop thin gossamer cloth bought from your local fabric store, on the walls. Dangle printouts of the theme you have selected with curling ribbon. Tissue lanterns hung from door frames, table edges also look very festive.

In case you have an event in the evening in your garden, make sure to arrange for lights to be arranged. Cover the lights with colored cellophane paper to reflect the color scheme of your party.

Birthday parties are memorable events for us, parents, the children and for our family and friends. You could give your child a memorable birthday party themed with the stuff they like. We offer the latest in birthday party supplies from favorite kids shows, movies and cartoon featuring dinosaur, animals, farm animals, princesses, super-heroes and more.

Decoration with Party Balloons

Party balloons form beautiful backdrops in a party. We offer an extensive range of helium quality latex balloons. These include printed latex and foil balloons. Decorating possibilities with balloons are endless. Latex and Mylar balloons of helium quality look awesome when coupled together. Balloon bouquets can be hang at the main entrance, leading up to the party area. If your party is indoors you could leave some to touch the ceiling and create a magical feel. Matching a bunch of Mylar balloons with printed latex balloons would create a lovely table centerpiece. Balloons are a terrific low-cost way to turn a plain party area into a matching party accessory that looks awesome.

Decoration with Banners

Banners are very colorful party decoration. We offer a wide assortment of party banners. Banners help to tie in your chosen theme with the other decorations and add a colorful touch to the setting. Banners serve two very important functions. Most importantly, the banner announces a special message regarding the event. Secondly, a party banner makes a great backdrop for memorable photos.

Decoration with Candles

Candles in different shapes and styles are an essential cake decoration and consequently a party decoration. We at MyBirthdaySupplies offer a varied selection of birthday candles to fit your party theme. After all, blowing out the birthday candles and making a wish is great fun.

Decoration with Centerpieces

Centerpiece in various theme-complementary shapes look beautiful on party tables. You could also use a centerpiece on the table used for keeping the gifts, surrounded by beautiful theme co-ordinating balloons. Click a picture of the birthday child amidst the gorgeous surroundings.

Decoration with Streamers

Streamers whether plain or printed is also an evergreen birthday party decoration. You could twist a few and hang them from the walls. Alternately a canopy from the ceiling also looks beautiful. Streamers could also cut into small pieces and strewn over the party area to create a festive feel.

Decoration with Pinatas

Pinatas are also a great birthday decoration, in addition to being a fun activity to play. Pinatas are safe and east to use and will make all the kids very happy.

Go ahead and use our unique birthday decoration ideas to create a one-of-a kind birthday party for your loved ones. Birthday decorations provide the skeleton for a successful birthday party.

Halloween Party Invitations That Will Excite Your Guests For Your Big Monster Mash

Halloween is one of those holidays that people look forward to. Come 31st October and everyone, whether kids or adults, will be busy celebrating this day by dressing up like witches or devils and playing trick-or-treat. This is an occasion when people organize lots of parties and celebrate some special social moments. If you are planning to host a stupendous party, here are some Halloween Party Ideas that will help you to gear up your guests for this special celebration.

Zombie Theme Invitation:
Choose any Zombie picture available over the net and print it out on printer paper or construction paper. Either print or write your party details on it to complete your invitations. For giving it a spooky look, you can put on some blood red colored ink on it and let it dry. Zombie theme invitations do not have to be scary; you can have some fun element in it either by using pictures of cute zombies or by using funny invitation wordings such as ‘We want brains but will settle for a party’. Such invites are readily available at stores that sell Halloween Party Supplies; however, you can always use your own creativity to come up with something unique.

Skull Invitation:
Why not scare your invites by sending them a skull as an invite? Buy some ready-made skulls, cardboard boxes to enclose them and some springs. Glue the spring to the inside bottom of the box and glue the skull to the upper part of the spring. Instead of gluing, you can use the fishing wire to attach the skull to the spring. Once done, push the skull downwards and close the box firmly in a way that when someone tried to open it, the skull will pop up. Tie it up with a ribbon to make it look cute and attractive. Write your message on the box and request the recipients to open it for a sweet surprise. Your invitees will certainly love this extra-ordinary Halloween Party Idea.

Horror Movie Invite:
A DVD of ‘The Uninvited’ or ‘Exorcist’ would be the best invitation for your party. Write your invitation on the cover of the DVD and mail them across as invites! Instead of DVDs, you can send out the movie posters as invites. Simply choose a poster of your choice and edit it in Photoshop to add your party details and delete the other irrelevant details on it. Take poster-sized printouts and roll them up to form tubes. Your movie poster invites are ready to be used!

Apart from all these, you can always consider the pre-packaged invitations and Halloween Party Supplies available with many party supplies stores. They are the easiest and quickest way to announce your grand celebration.

Simple & Spooky Halloween Game Ideas for Kids

Halloween is around and everyone is looking for different costumes to look at their scary best. An eerie party demands equally dreadful games. Therefore, here are 6 simple and spooky games to add thrilling effect to your party.

Skelton Scavenger Hunt- Purchase plastic skeletons and disassemble them. Hide the bones all around the party area and make clue cards for finding them. Divide kids in teams and give them clue cards to follow. Team that finds the bones and assembles it first wins.

Zombie Squad

Select one player as ‘IT’ and let others act as zombies let them stay motionless or expressionless. Player chosen, as’ IT ‘need to try different tactics to make zombies smile, giggle, burst out in laughter or wiggle without touching them. When IT succeeds in making any zombie smile, giggle or anything then that player joins Zombie and the last zombie wins.

Scarecrow Contest  

Handover 4 to 5 broomsticks, assorted old clothes, tin cans, old newspapers, scarves and pillowcases to kids. You can divide kids in different teams, set a time limit, and within that limit tell them to make scarecrow. You can award prizes to teams on different criteria like most silliest scarecrow, funniest or silliest, by this you will able to applaud more teams.

Bobbing for apples  

This is a fun game and a Halloween favorite too. Take a huge plastic tub fill it with cold water and apples. Have atleast one apple per player. Give each kid a chance to fish out one apple from the tub without using his or her hands. Let t hands of players be clasped behind back. Tell them to use teeth while bobbing for apples. Player who gets more than one apple stands to win.

Hanging Doughnuts  

This delicious and delightful game will make kids explode with laughter while filling their mouth with yummy treat. You can play this game in your backyard; tie a length of rope between two trees. Now tie doughnuts to the pieces of ribbon and then finally tie ribbon to the rope, ensure it is not too high or low, ensuring it hangs slightly above the mouth level. Tell kids to eat doughnut without using hands, you can blindfold them also for adding more thrill to the game. Player who eats the entire doughnut first without letting it off from the ribbon is the winner.

Candy Race- This is a fun game, get lots of candy, wrap it, and get mittens. No. of mittens will depend upon the no. of players you have in game. Divide kids in team and draw a starting and finishing line using chalk or masking tape. Let one kid from each team stand behind the starting line and begin the race. After reaching finishing line they will pick one candy each and get back to their teams, unwrap it pop it in their mouth and remove their mitten. Then handover pair of mitten to another team member and he repeats the process. The last person in the team should remove the mittens and hold its hands up. The last person from whichever team holds their hands up wins.

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Game Ideas for Under Construction Theme Birthday Party

Block off the construction zone and put on your hard hats to construct a fabulous under construction party for your lil engineer.

Let your lil guests’ ride on the fun lane, by doing a bunch of Construction theme fun activities.

1. Hammer Time- Let the kids enjoy doing construction work with fun hammers. Arrange few store bought hammers and nails and let kids have a child friendly hammer time. You can use wooden golf trees as nails and buy store bought candy filled hammers; you can also give them as favors once activity is done. For activity, cover Styrofoam boxes with brown, wood texture contact paper to perfectly represent wooden blocks and let kids hammer away whatever they wish to.
   
   

   

2. Treasure dig- Let kids have gala time digging through the paper rocks and find small treats for themselves. For this activity arrange a huge box or bucket, fill it with crumbled paper rocks, and hide small treats like theme candies, bubbles, spin tops and more into the box. Set a time limit and let the kids try their hands finding treats one by one. Kids can use a shovel for finding buried treasure.
   
   

   

3. Cardboard Busters- Stack the colorful cardboard blocks into a pyramid shape, securing them with tape. Use crazy balls or tennis ball as wrecking balls to knock down pyramids. This game is like fun bowling and kids will thoroughly enjoy doing it. Give each kid one or two turns to knock down pyramids.
   
   
4. Crane Tag- This is a simple game and does not require much of preparation. Mark two goal lines across each other using masking tape. Pick one player to be the crane and make him stand at the middle of construction zone. Let the players stand behind any of the goal lines and once players are ready, crane will yell ‘cross if you can’ and players need to cross the opposite goal line without being tagged by crane. Game continues until each player has been tagged.
5. Stack Cans-This game is perfect for younger kids, give them few empty cans with the task of making a tallest building using cans. Kids will love the challenge of stacking the cans as high as possible

To host a memorable construction party, you can buy coordinated under construction birthday supplies including a theme invite, tableware, decorations, favors etc.

Simple & Fun Summer Crafts for Kids

Summers are here again and this is the time for summer parties, summer vacations, and loads of summer activities. Let kids do not sit idle at home, nurture their creativity by making them learn some easy and fun crafts. Here are simplest of the crafts that will definitely excite your lil toddler.

1. Monster Balloons- Kids love playing with balloons, so let us give them a balloon-based craft. Blow two, three colorful balloons and now with few craft supplies will turn these balloons into monster balloons. Use tissue papers to make eyes, cut out larger white circles and smaller black circles then attach the black circles to the white circles and stick them to balloon using glue stick. You can also use googly eyes instead of tissue paper. Using tissue paper cut black mouths and triangle to denote monster teeth. To complete the monster look, let us add a curly antenna, on top of the balloon. Take a card stock and cut a thin strip out of it. Then, wrap that strip around the pencil and tactfully slide the twirled strip off the pencil. With glue stick, attach it to the top of balloon to make monster horn.
   
2. Seashell Sail Boat- Firstly, to make this boat, you will need a clean shell, modeling clay, a thin twig, small triangle cut from tablecloth or any plastic bag and modeling clay. Let us assume you have chosen a plastic triangle, neatly trim it to resemble a sail. Then snip a series of tiny openings along the edge to make a place for ship’s mast later. Carefully thread the twig through the openings and press gently a small amount of clay into the shell hull. Then, place the mast firmly into its center. Now your hand made mini boat is ready to sail.
   


3. Paper Dolls- These paper dolls will be a super fun project for your little girls at home. They can decorate it using different pattern papers and colors, my daughter tried this last month and spent entire day decorating her paper dolls and thoroughly enjoyed it.
   
   Firstly, fold a card to make a fan. Using pencil draw a simple doll shape on the card. Carefully cut out dolls using scissors and unfold it. Decorate paper dolls using patterned paper, glitters, and crayons, with your own ideas. You can decorate it as shown in picture with patterned paper, flower clips and so on. For more interesting ideas visit our website blog.

Score a Goal by Hosting a Soccer Theme Birthday Party for Your Lil Champ

Soccer is one of the most celebrated sports worldwide. To host a super fun soccer- theme party for your little sports fan here are some amazing soccer party ideas.

Invitation Ideas

1. First thing that grabs attention of party guests is Party invites. For a soccer theme invite, you can send a soccer photo ticket invitation. Mention the party details in the ticket and tell your guests to carry these tickets along, as they need to show it at the entrance. To add a decorative touch, throw some colorful confetti in the envelope.

2. Buy some inflatable soccer balls. Write party details on the soccer ball, you can also include this fun slogan that says Put on your soccer shoes and jersey

And get ready for some kicking fun

As we are going to host a soccer party

           So let’s score some goals everyone!

Write these details on the ball and deliver it. Your guests will need to blow up the ball in order to read the details. Tell them to be geared up for a fun filled match!

Decoration Ideas

Planning a soccer party outside is a great idea; you can rent a soccer fields for some real soccer bonanza. On the other hand, if you want to host this party at your home, our soccer birthday supplies will transform your home into a fun soccer stadium.

• Most popular soccer decorations are black and white. So, let this color dominate the decorations or you can pick color of your child’s favorite soccer team.

• Make a soccer sign in board at the entrance to lead your party guests to the party. You can also place a life size cut out of the football, soccer male cut out, or a referee cut out to catch everyone’s eyes and an ideal way to greet your guests.

• Deck the walls by pasting posters of your child’s favorite soccer team players.

• This is your child’s special day, so make him feel like a star athlete, you can place his pictures all over in dressed up in jersey or hang a personalized soccer banner with his name written on it.

• To spice up the party decorations, balloons are your best bet. Decorate with helium- filled soccer balloons; batch them with black and white balloons and tie them all around the party area.

• Cover the table with tissue grass mats to represent fields, this will create a perfect soccer field table and serve them theme food like soccer shaped cookies, soccer cup cakes etc.

• If your budget allows, buy soccer stadium props to give your party area a complete feel of stadium.

• Place net over the doors, cut out circles from construction paper to create fun soccer balls. They can make great hanging decorations; hang them from the ceilings or around the room.

These soccer party ideas will surely add flair and color to your soccer theme birthday party. So, throw a soccer party that makes you sing Ole Ole Ole!

Fun and Festive Luau Games for Kids

Aloha! Are you geared up for hosting a memorable Luau Party this summer? Here are some fun and festive luau party games to add a rush of excitement among kids. So, get started!

1) Hula Hoop Contest- A luau party is incomplete without a hula-hoop. Buy bunch of kid’s size hula-hoops at an economical prize from dollar store. Hand over hula-hoop to kids and challenge each participant for this fun hula-hooping contest. Give away fun prizes for different categories like the one who can go the longest with hula-hoop and may be one who had a craziest hula hoop style.

For prize- Buy a unique golden hula-hoop and decorate it with ribbon and you can also string a golden colored bracelet to it.

2) Coconut Roll- Coconut is symbolic of luau parties, so here is a fun game you can lay with coconut. Draw a small ring in the middle of the yard, hand coconut to participants one by one, and see who can roll the coconut closest to the center of the ring. This game will be best to keep the younger kids entertained.

3) Coconut Bowling- This game is inspired from bowling and will certainly excite kids. Use two empty 2-liter bottles as pins and to add a festive touch, embellish them with floral stickers. Fill empty bottles with sand to weigh them down, so that they do not easily fall when hit. Use coconut instead of a ball and set up a small path to serve as alley. Give each kid at-least 2-3 turns to hit.

4) Tacky Tourist Relay- Gather sets of item representing tourist in Hawaii such as hula skirts, leis, sunglasses, Hawaii shirts, flip-flops, beach hats, fun camera with neck straps. Place these items collectively in one end of your party space and line teams up at the other end. As the name suggests, each person will race as relay style, picking one item at a time and racing back until all items have been collected. After each team has collected all items, any one-team member can dress up as a tacky tourist and this will make for fun photographs. The team that dresses up first in the tourist ensemble clearly wins.

5) Lei Making Competition- You can have either a paper lei making competition or fresh flower lei making competition. You can have either orchids or other fresh flowers. For making neck string, se 90” of string, for ankle or wrist leis use approx 16” of string. Other things you will need are lei needle, and scissors. This task can be lil challenging for kids, should be done in the supervision of adult. Children can explore their creative side and will surely have gala time in this competition.

Whimsical Game Ideas for Tinkerbell Birthday Party

Tinkerbell is the sweetest and adorable of all the fairies and is always loyal to her friends. If your lil one is fan of this Disney fairy then host a Tinkerbell theme birthday party on her upcoming birthday.

Here are some theme games to delight lil fairies attending party:

1) Tinkerbell Tag- This game is similar to freeze tag. Hand over a small pouch of glitter to each player and make one kid "Captain Hook". When you say start, other players will run away from "Hook" and the moment "hook" tags a player, that player will freeze until some player sprinkles fairy dust (glitter in the pouch) on her. Make sure each player gets a chance to become "it".

2) Frog Race- Kids will have a blast, jumping like frogs in this fun frog race. With the help of masking tape, draw a start and finishing line for the race. Let the little guests complete the race, jumping like frogs and whoever comes first becomes the winner. For added fun, make kids wear green socks or gloves on their hands and get a feel of frog. Play a Tinker bell fairy song in the background during race.

3) Fairy Wand- Let the kids do some creative crafts as well like making a fairy wand using simple materials like small dowel pieces, glitter glue, spray paint and more. Divide kids'in-group of 2-3 and let the older kids paint all of the dowel pieces with silver spray paint and carefully cut stars form the craft foam. Then, let the younger kids decorate the stars using glitter glue. Attach the decorated stars to the wands using hot glue then tie ribbons to give it a fancy touch.

4) Fairy Cake Hunt- This game will surely excite every kid at the party and will keep them engrossed until the last moment. Create trail of cues, one leading to another and hide them all over the party area. Gather all the kids and tell them that someone has stolen birthday cake and now all the fairies have to find cake by following clues.

• Sample clues: It is a clue all fairies want, a clue all fairies expect, so look by the steps that lead to the deck.
• If you are looking for new clue to hold, go to the place where you keep food cold.

When kids have finally reached last clue, get the cake from the hiding place and put it on the party table. Kids will surely have a blast playing this super thrilling game.