Thursday Thirteen – keeping it simple – children’s birthday party ideas
The BIG List of Birthday Party Ideas
Over 150 kid’s birthday parties and favorite party themes. This is a down to earth, realistic list of birthday party themes – the kind that don’t involve hiring circus performers, donning safety gear or taking out a second mortgage on the house to pay for the party!
Indoor and Outdoor games to play at your party
A list of Birthday Cakes to make that don’t look too awfully difficult. I love the lego cake!
Don’t forget my post on Birthday Cake cones
And my list of birthday songs!
Here’s a great article that describes appropriate parties for the age of the birthday child. There is a big emphasis on keeping things simple – Hurrah!
Birthdays in the classroom – a theme page for teachers
DLTK’s Birthday Pages – There are crafts and coloring pages throughout the site for nearly any birthday party theme imaginable. You can use the Searchfeature if you’re having difficulty locating something. Many of the theme sections have a “Birthday Ideas” section which includes suggestions for decorations, treat bag items and games! This a good site to use every day, not just birthdays!
Here is the free printables page from the same site. Everything imaginable – banners, cards, coloring pages, hats, even a pinata!
What if the birthday child or one of the little guests has allergies to deal with? Here’s an article on planning an allergy wise birthday party.
A list of sensible alternatives to those ridiculously expensive goodie bags filled with “stuff”
Another from the same forum on reducing the birthday present overload
To remember it all – Tips from Digital Photography School – How to photograph your child’s birthday party
And one more Big Page of Links – Because it’s Your Birthday!
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I haven’t had a child around in my house for nearly 30 years. But these are certainly good ideas.
My 13 is posted…drop by and have a laugh or two! Won’t you?
I did have a birthday party for Rumsfeld once. He had a very good time and received lots of presents. (He’s a toy poodle)
SJR
The Pink Flamingo
Great idea for TT thanks for sharing, mine’s up too hope you can drop by…
My kids are too big for that,
so sad.
But great ideas.
Happy T13!
For the longest time, I just did the “Chuck E. Cheese” thing, because I was too lazy to do it alone.
Thanks for the idea!
A realistic birthday party…Imagine the fun!
Hey, I liked these so well I bookmarked the page. We have a little birthday party twice a year now, and will have another or two if my two single children will ever get with it and marry and have more grandchildren for me…not that I’m pushing or anything.
Gosh what great ideas! So often the child’s birthday party is about the parent – and that’s yucky. These are great suggestions for keeping things very simple and child-centric
Happy TT
I like this post because it is about fun for kids. I actually thought about hiring a clown for my grandkids birthdays.
My 34th TT is up: 13 comments you can make to your physician while he’s performing a colonoscopy on you. Here’s the link.
A most excellently informative list! Happy 13-day!
My daughter will be 2 in October and I’ve started thinking about this already. I don’t want to do anything with too many people because it will just overwhelm her.
Great post!
What a fun list! One idea that I didn’t see on the very exhaustive theme list was what we did to celebrate my stepdaughter’s 13th birthday. We had asked her what theme she wanted for her party, and she taciturnly responded, “Umm, I’m thirteen?” (Translation: She thought she was too old and too cool for party theme.) Nonetheless, I ran with it. We played with the idea that 13 is considered unlucky, and served a black cat-shaped birthday cake, used a black tablecloth, and decorated the table with spilled salt and broken mirrors (actually tin foil-covered cardboard “shards”). To enter the party, you had to walk under a ladder. She loved it!
Kathryn, that is a Very Clever Idea! And I think it’s one of the few ideas that you could have come up with that would be met with delight rather than the disdain that thirteen year olds work so hard to maintain. Kudos to you and that is one lucky kid, having you in her life!