Angels

Age of Birthday Girl: 5 years old
Age Range of Guests: 3-8 years old
Gender of Guests: boys and girls

Potential Age Range of Theme: 2-10 years, depending on specific focus & activities

An angel party seemed like a fun idea (and it was) except it's hard to find angel decorations in May! We eventually found a few things that would work but this party may be easier to put together in late fall or early winter once Christmas decorations are in the stores.

Invitations: On plain white card stock we taped silvery star paper on the front and added small wooden angels we found at Micheal's Craft store (we cleaned them out of their supply at the time). We stamped "You're Invited" on the front and then wrote the party details inside.

Cake: The cake was made in a 9x13 pan. After covering it with light blue frosting we added mini-marshmallows, cut in half, to make clouds. Small wooden stars and angels were taped to toothpicks and inserted into the top of the cake. Cupcakes were covered with blue or white frosting and then topped with star & moon sprinkles and/or a mini marshmallow. We decorated the table with a white tablecloth covered with silver star confetti. It was a very nice effect overall.

Games & Goodies: The birthday girl wore a white dress, angel wings, and a halo. Party guests made their own halos out of silver or gold pipe cleaners. We found an angel craft from Oriental Trading and decorated them with markers, stickers, gems, ribbon, etc. We played games with angel themes such as a halo version of musical chairs, an angel scavenger hunt (find something white, something that makes music, something that has wings, etc).

Goodie bags were made from white paper bags decorated with the silver star paper and another wooden angel. They had angel stickers inside, silver glittery pencils and paper, candy, and gum.

Noah's Ark

Age of Birthday Girl: 2 years old

Age Range of Guests: 1-6 years old

Gender of Guests: boys and girls

Potential Age Range of Theme: 1-6 years, depending on specific focus & activities

Invitations: Our daughter (turning two at the time) helped us make these simple invitations. We cut out a boat shape from brown construction paper & placed it on a blue piece of paper. We attached a brown flap for the ark door in the front and glued a white piece of paper with party info on the back. Insdie she placed a variety of animal stickers for decoration.

Cake: We baked two cakes for this creation - one 9x13 and one 9x9. We covered the 9x13 with blue frosting and cut the square one in half.

One half of the square was covered in brown frosting and became the bottom of the boat. We cut about 1/3 off the end of the other half, and then sliced some off the long edge so it would fit nicely on top of the base. This was also covered with brown frosting. The remaining 1/3 was cut into two pieces diagonally so they could form the roof of the ark. This was also frosted.

Small chip sticks were used for the roof but pretzel sticks or other candy and snack foods would also work. We found fish sprinkles to add to the water, but you could also use gummy candy or plastic fish if you have those. Animals pairs (found at a party store) were placed around the ark and we also came across animal candles to stick on top. Cupcakes had blue frosting with the fish sprinkles.

Games & Goodies: The kids all made an ark out of paper plates and construction paper. They added stickers and/or drew pictures of animals on their ark. We gave them colored cereal O's to make a rainbow bracelet. We played animal games - making animal noises to a story, searching for animals in a treasure hunt - and read them the account of Noah's Ark.

Garden Party

Age of Birthday Girl: 4 years old
Age Range of Guests: 2-7years old
Gender of Guests: boys and girls

Potential Age Range of Theme: 2-10 years, depending on specific focus & activities


This was a fun theme for little kids - boys and girls all enjoy gardening. You could emphasize the bug aspect more if you have a child that is not into flowers.

Invitations: For the invitations we cut out colorful card stock in the shape of petals. The center of the flower was a small circle decorated with glitter. The information for the party was written on the flower petals and then they were all attached with a brad fastener. We made sure the flower would fit into an envelope but if you are hand delivering invitations that is not necessary.

Cake: This cake was inspired by one we saw in Family Fun magazine (search their website for "gumdrop garden" - their picture is much better than ours). The base is a regular 9x13 inch cake, frosted & surrounded by a fence made from wafer cookies (Family Fun used ladyfingers). Cookie crumbs were sprinkled on top for dirt. We had food allergies at the party but if you are not worried about that you could add green-colored coconut for grass.

Large gumdrops were cut into tulip shapes and stuck onto toothpicks. We found sour gummie butterflies and of course used gummie worms. Cupcakes were covered in green frosting and each had a gummie worm or gumdrop flower on top.

Games & Goodies: We decorated goodie bags with spongy flower stickers. Inside each child had some of the gummie butterflies and gummie worms, flower and insect stickers, paper & pencil, and some candy.

Using the same spongy stickers the kids each decorated a small flower pot and created their own flowers to put into them. They had small rocks for the bottom and shredded green tissue paper for grass. We did some games outside in the yard including searching for garden tools in the sandbox, a treasure hunt for some hidden plastic flowers, and a small obstacle course using garden equipment.