Pokemon Party on a Budget?

[MKCP5]

Hey there Anyone done anything really fun for a pokemon party that didnt break the bank? Looking for ideas!!!! TIA!

 

[CatNipRules]

I know that we did a party a few years back and Birthday Express has a good selection of items. The thing that I liked was that you could choose different things and it still didn't cost an arm and a leg.

 

[Ali]

I had my son's birthday party 2 weeks ago at the lunch break at the Pokemon State championships. All I had to do was buy pizza for our group of friends, had goody boxes, and cupcakes. The kids were all wired from the tournament and they were happy to have a break with food at the venue. Maybe holding the party on the day of one of the upcoming sneak peaks or holding a tournament at your house would work?

Party city has limited pokemon stuff too.

 

[clm10308]

My son went to a Pokemon party a few years ago that he still talks about. The mom must have been rather artistic. She made each kid a headband of Picachu ears from poster board, and she had drawn several of the Pokemon characters on poster board and hung them for decoration. She then gave the pictures away at the end of the party. My son kept those ears for many years. I finally made him throw them away when we moved.

 

[pixiewings71]

Pokeball cupcakes.....just decorate the top of the cupcake to look like a Pokeball, you can use licorice for the black lines. I would get solid colored plates, napkins, etc, and then add a few Pokemon details to that.

 

[cjnix29]

we were going to do one until my son changed his mind. You could make a pokeball pinata too. You could have a treasure hunt of sorts, as the kids go on their pokemon journey, have actual pokemon battles, make some "pokemon food", like little biscuits or puppy chow. I would just pick either pokemon cake plates, or napkins, and forget all the rest of the cartoon paper goods. Pick a black, red or yellow for the rest. Do you have any of the video games? Sometimes those came with posters, and you could hang those up for decorations. Put around any pokemon stuffed toys you may have as decorations. You can probably find pokemon printables to color too. You could make up a game where the kids have to rescue a pokemon from Team Rocket.

 

[luvMickey72]

Had one of these years ago, we blew up a picture of a pokemon (my husband works at a printing company) and we played pin the tail with it, the kids loved it!

 

[cinderella73]

I have done several Pokemon parties. I will post some more pics and ideas when I get my laptop up and running tomorrow. Here are some pics of the cake we made. We used a small round Wilton ball cake pan for the Pokeball , and a small bear mini cakepan for the Pikichu ( we used ice cream cones to make his ear tips) .

We also made these ( posted a general pic from the internet until I get to mine) . These are Pikichu peeps pops. You just use yellow marshmallow peep bunnies . The eyes pick off easy and you can use the food coloring markers to draw in the details. Super easy and cute. I will have to fnd the pics I took of ours.

Post back later with more stuff.

 

[Princess_Meghan <3]

When I had a Pokemon birthday party, twelve or thirteen years ago (has it really been around that long?!), we had a scavenger hunt of sorts where we "rescued" Pikachu from Team Rocket at the end.

Basically, we had different activites, like having to pop balloons by sitting on them(my mom somehow tied every activity in to pokemon, and it was like having different steps to beating Team Rocket). After every activity was done, we got a clue that led us to where the next activity was set up. The final clue led us to where Team Rocket had 'hidden' Pikachu (we used a stuffed Pikachu that we had, and if I remember correctly, there might have been a Pokemon card or two for each of us there as well). I remember that all my friends loved it, and it was the talk of my class for weeks afterwards.

 

[lucigo]

Check Ebay for cake toppers. You can get just about anything printed for a cake now. We had a yoshi cake printed one year when we couldn't find anything yoshi anywhere else!

(I don't know these people,this is just an example).
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Anime-Pokemon-Pals-Pikachu-Edible-Frosting-Image-Cake-Topper-EZ-to-Apply-NEW-/300691410468?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item46029ace24#ht_2606wt_905

 

[CAFarmerGirl]

You could make Pokemon hats for party favors: baseball cap from Joanns ($3/each) and felt ($0.25) cut into the shape of a pokeball symbol (I traced one off of my son's book). I simply hot glued the felt onto the hat. My son had me do white felt on black hat and black felt on white hat for the Black and White version of Pokemon.

 

[Sugar Jones]

Do you have a bakery near you that will print of sugar prints for cakes? That's what I do. I think it cost me $12.00 for it. Then I bake and ice my own cake and lay the icing sheet on top. Easy peasy!

For the invites I use the same picture, but edit it with the invite info and print them off myself or at Walmart.

Here's an example of my son's:

Invite:

Cake sheet:

 

[jemmouse]

Oh how fun, I remember doing this one for my son. What I did was bought a plain school folder for each child. Then I went online and printed every fun Pokemon craft, maze, word search, game, coloring page I could find. Then I xeroxed those for the number of kids we were having and put in the folders. They each brought their favorite characters and to my surprise they dressed like them as well and had their battles. It was so much fun! The folders were a big hit as well. They all colored, and were so complimentary of one another. And they took them home for parting gifts along with treat bag. There had to be 50 pages in each folder.

Make a cake, have your son make decorations. Even get gigantic paper and make wall murals...

My son is 11 now and I so miss these type of parties...HAVE FUN and GOOD LUCK!!!

 

[MKCP5]

Thanks for all the great ideas. Anyone have anymore? I think we will do a pokeball cake--loved that! And pin the tail on pikachu, maybe the scavenger hunt. Thanks for all the info : )