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.
