Every parent wants the best for their kids. And when it comes to celebrating their birthday, you’d only want to make sure that it’s going to be a fun-filled celebration that your child will love and your family and friends would also enjoy.
A great way to achieve an awesome birthday bash is to celebrate this milestone with a theme. While it makes an exciting and picturesque celebration for the birthday celebrant, a themed birthday party doesn’t have to be expensive. With the help of DIY guides and tips, you can come up with the best party supplies, party menu and even the activities that are suited for your child’s party theme–without necessarily overspending!
To jumpstart the birthday planning, here’s a list of top 10 birthday themes that your child will surely love.
Party Themes for Boys
1. Pokemon
Let your kiddo enjoy the cute and adventurous world of Pokemon for his birthday. It is a great birthday theme just for any age of your child. But especially when he loves watching and playing Pokemon, let him dress like Ash or Brock and have his own poke-ball.
Decoration: This theme requires a rather straightforward and simple decoration for your party venue. The color palette is mostly Red, White, Black and Blue with an accent of Yellow. For details, pick some items from the anime e.g pokeball designs, badges and pokemonsters. You can find printables online for party banners, bunting, and other supplies that you can use for the birthday party.
2. Disney Cars
Get your kid ready for a fun and exciting car race with his friends in his Pixar’s Cars Birthday Party. Your kids will truly enjoy this party as Lightning McQueen takes the centerstage together with his friends Mater, Finn, Sally and Doc Hudson. Make this birthday an outdoor party to let the kids race to the finish line while wearing the costumes of the characters, made of cardboard boxes.
Decoration: As this theme is about race cars, try to put emphasis on road racing designs such as checkered bunting, chevron patterns, road signs, speed limits and tires and garage. Also, make Lightning McQueen the centerpiece of your party decoration. Make your drink station look like a “refuelling station.” Check out this blog to get more inspiration on how you can prepare for your kiddo’s Car’s party
3. Batman
You can never go wrong with a Superhero themed birthday party. And the Batman theme has been a time-proven choice both for parents and their kids who love the famous superhero. As such, party supplies are just easy to come by.
Invite your kid’s buddies inside Bruce Wayne’s Batcave. And let them wear their favorite superhero costumes to create a birthday celebration that is suited for Superheroes. Do this by sending out batman themed invitations to inform guests that the celebrant needs them to save Gotham City.
Decoration: Your decoration only needs Navy Blue and black as your main theme color, plus a note of Yellow. Of course the decoration won’t be complete without the batman logo hanging all over the place. To complete the feel, include other Batman characters like Joker, Poison Ivy and The Penguin in the wall scene setter. For more inspiration, visit this blog by Birthday Inspire.
4. Marvel Avengers
Calling all Avengers, assemble! With all the craze about Avengers, these days, your kids and their friends would never fail to enjoy this themed party. Dress him like his favorite Avengers character and let his friends join the celebration in their favorite Marvel costumes.
Decoration: Follow this tip from Soiree Event Design: they used cardboard standup design around the venue to make a life-like feel of having the Avengers at the party. These standups are life-size, so aside from serving as your scene setter, it could also double as an attraction to take some selfies on. And for a really exciting Avengers birthday party, why not make themed foods like Avengers Pizza, and Iron Man Chili Chess Dip.
5. Star Wars
Star Wars fever never died down for many decades now. Even your child is hooked on this inter-galactic fun-filled adventure. So let your Jedi son enjoy his birthday with the cast of Star Wars. To set the mood and make the party more exciting, invite guests with these creative invitation designs.
Decoration: First off, you want your kiddo to wear his best Star Wars costume in order to set the mood and make it more fun for your son. Next, the main design of your theme should be an image of the galaxy. You can DIY a galaxy-looking backdrop by using black fabric or paper. Then, splatter stars on it with white paint using a toothbrush. Another decor that you want to have for the party are the lightsabers that are among the must-haves for a Star Wars party.
6. Spiderman
Who wouldn’t love the jolly and funny personality of Spiderman? And sure enough, your son would love to have a birthday party with this theme. Make this celebration even more lit by inviting his friends in Marvel hero costumes. And good to know, you can never go wrong with this theme as decorations are widely available in major party supplies store. You can even DIY your decors if you have time.
Decoration: Décor ideas for Spiderman themed parties are no-brainer. You just need that iconic Spiderman mask with its prominent eyes and web patterns strategically placed around your venue. But make sure that your color palette is blue and red with only a little touch of black and white or else it would look like a Halloween party. To match your party foods, check out this list of Spiderman themed recipes.
7. Justice League
Let your little kid celebrate his birthday with Batman, Wonder Woman, Superman, and Flash. This is the ultimate party celebration, especially for the boys, highlighting the most iconic and popular heroes of all time. Depending on the age of the celebrant, you can fit the theme to toddlers and even up to early tweens.
Decoration: It is best if you could secure a comic-themed design. You can achieve this by aligning all graphics and design look like it was lifted from a comic book. So be keen to have strong solid colors, bold texts and lines. And it’d be wonderful to have life-size cardboard standups of the Justice League members. For more inspiration check out this guide.
8. Nautical
Follow your kiddo’s desire to sail over the sea with his friends as the ship crew. Ahoy Matey or Nautical is a fun theme for a pool party celebration of your child’s birthday. Decorating for this theme is also fun to do as the décor details are not hard to find.
Decoration: A nautical themed party features blue, white, red and brown as your main color palette. Make sure you use chevron and stripe patterns. And be creative in using ropes as décor. Also, you can don the party place with nautical icons like the ship’s wheel, anchor, buoys and mast.
9. Soccer
Let your little soccer player invite his playmates for a day of fun Soccer themed birthday party. Preparation for this party should never tax too much effort from you. You can gather his soccer team for a day of friendly soccer game that follows a birthday party.
Decoration: Decorating for this theme is as simple as incorporating soccer game icons like bunting, flags and the soccer ball in your table ware designs, balloons and banners.
10. Basketball
Let him celebrate his birthday together with his favorite basketball team. To complete the theme, have him wear his favorite jersey with the number and name of the basketball player he idolizes As in the soccer themed party, invite his basketball team for a friendly basketball game before the party proper.
Decoration: Follow the basics of decorating for themed birthday parties: make sure the cups, plates, utensils, the table centerpiece and napkins follow the basketball theme. Also, try using jersey shirts, and trophies as wall decors. For more design inspiration, check out this blog.
Party Themes for Girls
1. Moana
The most recent Disney Princess, Moana makes a perfect theme for your daughter’s party if she loves the sea and sailing adventure. What’s great about this theme is that it works great both for poolside and backyard birthday parties.
Decoration: Your party design for this theme also looks like a Luau party in that you use hibiscus flowers, grass skirting, Tiki torch and Totem poles as your décor items. But to put a touch of Moana, you’d want to have a cardboard standup of Moana, Chief Tui, Gramma Tala and other characters.
2. Minnie Mouse
The classic and the ever favorite cartoon character, Minnie Mouse would make a very great birthday theme for your daughter. As a timeless birthday theme, looking for Minnie Mouse merchandises won’t give you a problem.
Decoration: Party design for a Minnie Mouse theme is rather simple. All you need is to focus on pink, black and white as your main color palette. Plus, make a wide application of polka dot patterns in your decors e.g in table cloths, wall design, etc. And of course the decoration won’t be complete without Minnie Mouse herself. You can have her classic silhouette or a printable of her complete image.
3. Peppa Pig
Throw a birthday bash with a Peppa Pig themed party. This theme makes a very good choice for toddlers who are hooked by this cartoon series. If you want to DIY, then it would cause no problem, thanks to its simplistic cartoon design.
Decoration: Light solid colors of pink, blue, green and yellow are your choices for decorating a Peppa Pig themed party. A scene setter would be as easy as a blue and green fabric with Peppa’s family. If designing is not your turf, there’s a ton of printables online that you can use as wall décor. And when the food comes in the way, make sure to match your menu with the theme: follow these recipes.
4. Frozen
Celebrate a warm and fun birthday party with the celebrant as Elsa in a Disney Frozen Themed Birthday party. For added fun, let Olaf take a part of the centerstage. And to complete your Disney Frozen birthday party, make sure you get cardboard standups of the main characters for your photo booth or as your scene setter.
Decoration. Work on blues & whites, and you’ll never go wrong in decorating your party place. Use these two colors for the balloons, table wares and linens. For an added icy cold spirit, use mirrors and crystal materials for your platter, candleholder etc. You can also DIY a snowy white tree to complete the set. If you want to match your menu to the theme, check out this list of Frozen inspired recipes from the Spruce.
5. Little Mermaid
Let her celebrate her big day in an under the sea adventure with her mermaid friends! Everyone would love to attend your daughter’s Little Mermaid themed party especially when you celebrate her birthday at the poolside or by the beach. To make it even more fun, why not give all of these little girls a tutorial on mermaid swimming while wearing their mermaid outfit.
Decoration: Party decoration for this theme converges that of Moana and Luau themes. Hence, it includes hibiscus flowers, faux pearls, seashells and white sands. Your color theme would be blue-green, turquoise or teal. For detailed design inspiration check out this blog.
6. Barbie
Whose daughter wouldn’t resist a Barbie themed party? It is definitely the best theme for almost any young girl. It is the theme to turn your daughter into a charming fashionista together with her beautiful friends. Barbie themed party would definitely sate your daughters liking for girly and cute things and would make a good bonding time for her and her friends.
Decoration: Your decoration for this themed party can range from glittering and girly pink to sassy and posh black and pink. It’s for your daughter to decide. But when you do, make sure you use her Barbie collection as your décor. And from there you could just add other decorating materials for the tables, and walls, like this modern Barbie party from HWTM.
7. Rocker girl
Does she love music and loves to dance to its tune on it? If so, she might love to have a Rocker Girl Birthday Party. This theme would definitely unleash her inner Rock star spirit and will be a blast among her friends. Partying and concert-going should be the feel for this particular birthday party, so you’ve got to prepare for a really amazing and rockin’ celebration.
Decoration: A beautiful scene setter that shows a concert stage with lights and musical instruments will do the wonder of achieving this themed party. Black and pink makes a good combination as your main palette. And to really evoke a rock star feel, use cardboard guitars as your main décor inspiration for the balloon, cake, and graphics for the invitation and giveaway bags.
8. Tinker Bell
With only a handful of pixie dust, you can turn her birthday celebration into a magical party. If your little girl loves Tinkerbell, then don’t skimp on turning her into a charming pixie like Tinkerbell, complete with wings and the iconic green garment. This themed party is best celebrated with her buddies in their Peter Pan costumes.
Decoration: The best party decoration for a Tinkerbell theme is to replicate the feel of being in Neverland. To achieve this, make sure you place colorful flower shaped cutouts on your walls and hanging flower designs from your ceiling. Also pair them up with green leaves and foliage to add contrast to the look. Plus make sure you use pixie dusts or glitters to add a glimmering effect.
9. Sofia the First
Let the fabulous and wonderful life of Sofia the First come to life in your daughter’s birthday. Featuring ultra-feminine tones and details, this birthday is certainly fit for your little princess. To complete this fabulous party, invite her princes and princesses friends for a grand banquet.
Decoration: A Sofia the First theme is a party in light purple, pink and glittering gold colors. You’d want to incorporate glittering materials in your decorating supplies. But be careful not to overdo with glitters. Fairies and princess items like tiaras and princess costumes are your go-to décors. To check out more décor ideas, visit this blog from Karas Party Ideas.
10. Despicable Me
Have your little princess celebrate her birthday with Agnes, Gru and a batch of minions! Surely, the boys and girls would love to have this party. Who wouldn’t like this themed party, with the cute banana-loving minions and beautiful combination of yellow & blue color palette.
Decoration: With a color theme of luminous yellow and bubbly blue, you can never go wrong with your party decoration. Follow this color combination for your balloons, table wares, invitation and wall scene setter, but also give a few tone of black, greys and white.
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