Harry Potter party ideas and photos by: Lisa from Stratford, CT For my daughter’s 11th birthday we did a Harry Potter birthday party. We sent invitations that read like Hogwart’s acceptance letters. We recruited relatives to dress up and be professors for potions class (we made lava lamps) and transfiguration class (we played charades using … Read more
For my daughters 2nd birthday she wanted to do Little Einsteins. I figured it would be easy to find party supplies, but I was wrong. I ordered what I could then made the rest. For the Center Pieces I printed out some Little Einstein Clip art, cut it out. Glued it to a stick then … Read more
For my daughters 4th birthday she asked for an angry bird cake. We stepped it up a bit to surpise her with an angry bird party complete with an angry bird scene made from card board boxes. Angry Bird Party Activities We bought some red and blue dodge balls from the dollar store and blew … Read more
I tend to go a little over the top with birthday parties. It drives my husband insane and every year he begs me to tone and it down and not spend a fortune on the kids birthday parties. This year I managed to make both of us happy. First, I invited almost everyone using facebook. … Read more
We moved on to making light sabers. I found this idea online and improved upon it slightly: * 1 1/4″ PVC Pipe (each piece cut to 10 in) * 1 1/4″ PVC Pipe Caps * Pipe Insulation (each piece cut to 2 ft) Be sure to get the insulation that isn?t cut/split * 4 ft … Read more
Harry Potter party ideas and photos by: Lydia from Patterson, CA My son and I spent a whole year planning his Harry Potter birthday party, picking up items for goody bags, plates, decorations etc., from clearance bins and dollar stores and making some of our own decorations and treats. We also purchased the Harry Potter … Read more
My son is a HUGE Pokemon fan and wanted a Pokemon party at our house for his 7th birthday. As his birthday is in August and it is sooo hot, we decided to make a pool party. First off, I want to say that I found a lot of ideas from this site and others. … Read more
To celebrate Sofia’s 7th birthday we decided to throw a Princess Party. We bought invitations for a Princess party and gave them a week before the party. A special treat for Sofia was to choose a costume she wanted to wear. She chose Snow White. We decorated the living-room and tables in purple and pink … Read more
Each birthday invitee was also given an Angry Bird Mask! I simply purchased black masks at the craft store and hot-glued trimmed pieces of foam.
On Nate’s 3rd Birthday, we celebrated with a Sesame Street themed party. This was the second year for our Sesame friends, so I had some ideas of things to do, though almost all were different from those of the year prior. I like to save money and do most everything myself. It is much more … Read more
My son Luke wanted a Scooby-Doo themed party for his fourth birthday. At the time he was really into the Scooby-Doo movie called “Pirates Ahoy!”, so we decided to make it a ghost pirate mystery. The party took place in the Athens Little Playhouse, which is a children’s theater in Athens, Ga. The lady who … Read more
Each child proceeded to the Jedi Training Academy to complete their training. Each cadet started by studying Balance – walking across elevated boards while wearing Yoda (my nephew had a stuffed Yoda) in a backpack. Then they had to Face Their Fears by crawling through a cardboard refrigerator box that was draped with black plastic … Read more
The invitations were acceptance letters to Hogwarts School of Magic and Wizardry. We used the Hogwarts Wizard font found on-line at http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org We customized each invitations with the guest’s name to make it look like the letter Harry received at the start of The Sorcerer’s Stone. Here was the text we used for the invitation … Read more
I took round labels from the dollar store and downloaded 8 Pokemon badge pictures and printed them on the labels. Each label represented a battle they had to complete. When they did, they got the label to put on their card. The first label was the Basic badge and they got this one when they … Read more
If your daughter is like mine then Disney’s Wizards of Waverly Place is all you hear about. Unfortunately, not many parties with this theme are on the internet yet. There are a few places where you can order supplies online, but a trip to my local party store left me empty handed with character merchandise. … Read more
I went with a color palette of Purple, Light Blue, Orange, and Hot Pink. For the table I started with a purple table cloth, Light Blue “big” plate and Purple smaller cake plates, topped with an orange napkin. To top this off I wrapped plastic silverware in an additional orange napkin tied with multi colored … Read more
For my daughter’s 2nd birthday, we threw her an Abby Cadabby party. Her favorite character on Sesame Street is Abby. I began practicing to hand-draw the birthday cake a few months before the party. Heres the Abby Cadabby cake and how I made… I searched for Abby Cadabby party favors from our local Factory Card … Read more
Once everyone was there, we had story time. I wrote a basic story, and the owner of the theater elaborated it on it and told it to the children. The story was basically about a beautiful little princess whom everyone loved. The little girl was going to celebrate her birthday, so everyone in the kingdom … Read more
The invitation was the scene from Empire Strikes Back where Darth Vader welcomes Hans Solo, Princess Leia and Lando Calrissian to dinner. I intended to build the white backdrop completely out of Legos but we didn’t have enough so I used my daughters Playmobil Castle. I did build the table and chairs out of Legos … Read more
The “students” were “sorted” into one of the 4 houses – Griffindor, Ravenclaw, Slitheren, or Hufflepuff. Each child had the sorting hat placed on her head. Inside the hat was a 2-way radio and my husband in the other room randomly announced one of the house names which broadcast from the hat. Each child received … Read more
My 7 year old son wanted an Avatar Last Airbender Birthday Party. The movie had just come out and so there weren’t many ideas out yet. We found a great picture on the internet to use as the invitations and then put our information on it. The decorations were pretty basic. We had red, yellow, … Read more
For our decorations we put up a garden background which we purchased at Celebrate Express along with all of our paper supplies and a few other decorations. For our tea party we covered the table with a table cloth, runners, candleabras, and flower vases. We even had chair covers on all the chairs to make … Read more
1st birthdays are always exciting but a tough one to plan. Getting the adults and kids to enjoy is one thing, getting your one year old to smile through the party is another. I started planning for my boy’s 1st birthday 3 months before and boy oh boy, how rewarding it was, only my pictures … Read more
Once the guest came in there was a Jedi check in, which the child were issued a Jedi Robe and Light saber. If they didn’t come dressed as their favorite character, surprisingly most did come dressed up, even the adults. I copied and pasted the trial signs onto poster board and placed them around the … Read more