Post birthday party themes here!!!

[PrincessTigerLily]

Hi everyone! I was hoping we could start a list of creative, fully developed birthday party themes here (ala the Disney family theme nights thread). Let's have a theme, food, activities, and favors for each!

INDEX
Ratatouille Party
Mary Poppins Practically Perfect Tea Party
Incredibles Party
Nemo Under the Sea Party
Alice in Wonderland Party
101 Dalmatians Party

 

[PrincessTigerLily]

Invitations - Make from home computer using Disney clipart
http://www.ratatouillemovie.net/pictures.php
"We'll be cooking up a good time!"
"It will be a recipe for fun!"

Menu - Cheese and grapes platter for munching
Be a chef like Remy: Make your own english muffin pizzas (let kids slather on the pizza sauce, sprinkle mozzarella cheese, then top with whatever they like. It's easiest to have muffin tins out with the topping options in each cup area.)
Make your own fruit kebabs (skewers with fruit chunks: cantaloupe, grapes, pineapple, strawberry, etc.)
Chips
Baby carrots and dip

Games - Palate/Sniff Test: group is divided into two teams. Each child is blindfolded and given one item to smell and one item to taste and identify. The team with the most correct guesses wins.
Ladle Relay: again, break the group into two teams. Each child takes a turn with the ladle and must carry something in it (you decide how messy you want to get!) like a ball or water or cotton balls and make it to the bowl without spilling. You can call a different action for each turn, like skipping or walking backwards, etc.
Rat in the Kitchen: Use plastic play food or yellow foam cheese cutouts and scatter on one end of the room, "The Kitchen". An adult is the "chef" and guards the kitchen. At the shout of "Go!" each "rat" (children) must try to sneak into the kitchen and steal a piece of the food. If a rat is tagged by the chef, he or she must stay in the kitchen.

Decorations - Color theme: blue, white, and yellow. Use blue and white checked tablecloths. Centerpiece is a large cooking pot filled with flowers and cooking utensils (wooden spoons). Can even print out Ratatouille clip art and attach to florist's picks and stick in.

Favors - Ratatouille chef hats (check PartyPro online)
Ratatouille Activity Book (free online printable from Disney)
http://adisney.go.com/disneypicture...ownloads/Ratatouille-ActivityBook-B(INTL).pdf
Chocolate chip cookie mix in a plastic baggie, tied with blue and yellow curling ribbon and recipe card. Try your local $1 store for wooden spoons and tie one on!

It also might be fun to have some face paint and give each guest a Remy nose and whiskers!

 

[LadyShea]

Great ideas!

 

[mommylovesdisneymore]

That sounds great

 

[PrincessTigerLily]

Invitations - "Spit Spot! Make your way to No. 17 Cherry Tree Lane to (birthday child's name here)'s Mary Poppins Practically Perfect Tea Party!"
You could use Mary Poppins clip art or even make them in a teapot shape.

Menu - Tea sandwiches (PB&J, ham&cheese, cucumber, etc.)
Fruit Platter with dip (mix one 6oz container flavored yogurt with 8oz container of thawed coolwhip, refrigerate and serve)
Supercalifragilisticexpealidocious Tea Cookies (oreos dipped half in white chocolate with sprinkles)
Teapot shaped cake or a round cake with carousel horses on top.
Tea, of course! If the birthday child is not fond of tea, substitute lemonade, chocolate milk, or another favorite.
Depending on how nice your set is, it would look lovely to have a real tea set for the girls to use.

Activities - Bert's Chalk Drawings: tape long rolls of paper to the floor with chalks available for the children to draw with.
Let's Go Fly a Kite: Decorate butcher paper kites
http://www.allfreecrafts.com/kids/paper-kites.shtml
Get measured by Mary: tell the children that Mary Poppins sent her magical measuring tape for the party. In advance, prepare an appropriate saying for each child (such as Mary uses in the movie), and measure each child. Naturally, the birthday girl gets to be "Practicall Perfect in Every Way"!
Decorate a Mary hat: buy inexpensive straw hats at a craft store and spray paint them black. Let children decorate with red cherries and daisies. Glue takes a while to set, so with good adult supervision hot glue may be a better alternative that also allows the guests to wear the hats almost immediately and is great for photos.

Decorations - Lots of daisies! Parasols, and don't forget a sign on the front door that says "No. 17 Cherry Tree Lane"! Colored kites hanging from ceiling.

Favors - A spoonful of sugar of course! Dip plastic spoon in melted chocolate, and then sprinkle chunky colored sugar while still warm. Let cool and set completely, then wrap in cellophane and tie with curling ribbon.

 

[PrincessTigerLily]

Invitations - "You are invited to my Super party! We will have an INCREDIBLE time!"

Menu - Super Heroes (submarine sandwiches)
Violet's Disappearing Snack Mix (Chex mix or similar type)
Mr. Incredible's Strength-building Veggie Tray
Frozone's Sundaes (one scoop of vanilla ice cream in each dish, have plastic bowls with various sprinkles and toppings available)
Incredibles Mask Cake (cut shape out of a 9x13 rectangular cake and frost)

Activities - Make Incredibles shirts! Buy plain white tees and print out designs on transfer paper. See below link for designs to print:
http://disney.go.com/disneyvideos/animatedfilms/incredibles/
Help each child to iron-on his or her design to their own shirt.
Elastigirl Twister - same great game, new great name!
The Dash dash - create an obstacle course for the children to run, going as fast as they can just like Dash! You could even choose to have a stuffed animal at the end for the "Super" to rescue!
Make an Incredibles mask - Using the link below as a template, cut masks out of black fun foam. Using a paper hole punch, make two holes on each side of mask to tie elastic to.

Decorations - red, yellow, and black

Favors - mask and t-shirt

 

[Bren's Mom]

Invitations – “You’re Ofishally invited! Please join B for a party under the sea, he’s so excited about being 3! Dive Date: Dive Time: At our coral reef, home address here.”
(NOTE: I created this invite on Publisher and printed them myself on plain paper with artwork found online. If anyone wants me to e-mail it to them pm me and I'd be happy to! You must have Publisher installed to open it though.)

Menu – We had 2 parties. For the kids, from 10-12noon we had:
Fishing rods (pretzel rods, piece of long thin licorice tied on, and tie a gummy worm to the other end of the licorice) These were a BIG hit
Nemo and Shark Bites fruit snacks, Mandarin oranges and pineapple chunks
Crocodile shaped cheetos (forget the brand name), ‘Crabby’ crackers (old bay seasoned, crab shaped crackers, not sure if you can find them everywhere, we’re in CT)
We didn’t have cake, each child got their own ‘aquarium’ to eat; blue jello in a clear plastic cocktail cup with blue cool whip on top and Nemo and Sharks fruit snacks ‘riding’ the Cool Whip wave. Also a big hit.
For the adults, 5pm; Veggies, chips and ranch dip, crab cheese ball, shrimp cocktail, Clam chowder, hamburgers and hot dogs, cole slaw, potato and tomato salads. A Nemo cake from a local bakery. (We didn’t get too into the theme with this one as we don’t have a lot of fish eaters in the family. I could have done a lot with it if they had been!)

Activities – Finding Nemo; got large Nemo stickers, placed each in a plastic snack size baggie (for protection since we’d planned to hide outside). In one baggie we also placed a Dory and Nemo’s dad sticker. That baggie was the winner, they ‘found’ Nemo.
Fishing Game; got 2 fishing game sets at the dollar store, the magnetic kind. Put a bucket of water on the ground, put the fish in and let everyone have a turn.
Slippery Fish; got a blowup plastic clown fish. Our original plan was to do this outdoors, and to get the fish wet and slippery in some soapy water. We skipped that part since we had to be inside due to weather. The kids sit in a circle, pass the slippery fish around with music playing. When the music stops the one holding the slippery fish is out.
Prizes were Nemo squirters, the Nemo stickers they found and Nemo tattoos.

Decorations – All different shades of blue and bright green streamers. Hung straight down to mimic water. Looks really cool if you do a lot of them and turn a fan on or if there’s a breeze outside. We got a number of inexpensive blow up clown fish; tied them onto deck rails/banister rails and under umbrellas with fishing line. Lots of blue and green balloons, and Nemo, of course!

Favors – Nemo stickers, a hermit crab that comes out of its shell when you put it in water (found online), Nemo and Sharks fruit snacks.

 

[PrincessTigerLily]

Bren's Mom, how creative! It sounds like your party was so much fun, thank you so much for sharing it! I will add Nemo to our Index!!

 

[Bren's Mom]

It *was* alot of fun and thanks! I have to give credit where credit is due, though...found many of these ideas online, there are LOTS of creative moms out there! I have some awesome pics, will try to post a few later from home.

 

[Tiffa]

4 years ago I threw a Mad Hatter's tea party with "Alice" as the host ,I of course was the Hatter My dd was turning 5 I put all the tea sets out that we had and I borrowed about 5 more, I got the small bottle of juice's at Wal-Mart and punched out tag's and took off the labels on the juice and put on the tag and put "Drink Me" on the then did cookies and wrote "Eat Me" on all of them. We had so much fun

 

[Bren's Mom]

 

[natnelliesmom]

I am planning my DDs 4th birthday right now. She loves dogs- (we have 5!) so I am doing it to a 101 Dalmations theme.
I'm painting a white tablecloth with black spots, using black and white paper goods and having the movie on the television.
Serving cookies in the shape of dog biscuits, food and treats served in new, clean dog bowls, and punch with dog bone shaped ice cubes. The cake will be a dalmation dog.
Instead of gifts we are requesting that guests bring items to be donated to our local animal control facility. Towels, dog food, leashes, beds, dog bowls etc.
I will be giving each child a small stuffed dalmation to bring home with them.
Fun and community oriented!
-Sarah

 

[PrincessTigerLily]

2 great new ideas! Thanks! These sound like fun! I will add "Alice in Wonderland" and "101 Dalmatians" to our index!
Keep the great ideas coming!

 

[PrincessTigerLily]

Bren's Mom: GREAT pictures! And what a cutie-pie! Thanks for sharing those with us!