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.