Storybook birthday party theme

If your little one loves storytime and fairy tales, and their special day is coming up soon, you may want to consider a storybook birthday party. With a storybook party, it will be like they stepped right into their favorite books! Here are some tips for throwing a fun, memorable storybook party.

To set the mood of your storybook party right from the beginning, you can send out invitations in the shape of a storybook. Simply cut a piece of colorful construction paper into a rectangle shape, then fold it in half to form the front and back cover. Afterward, fold in a smaller square shaped piece of paper into the cover to form the inside of your storybook invitation. You can hand-draw or print out a cover for the storybook invite.

Throwing a storybook party isn’t uncommon, so you should be able to find a variety of paper plates, decorative banners, balloons, and party hats starring fairytale characters at a local or online party supply store. In the party area, you can set out some of your child’s storybooks, stuffed animals, and dolls that fit the overall theme or even buy some new ones that serve as both party decorations and birthday presents.

To add that extra touch of fantasy to your storybook party, you can provide the guests with little accessories that serve as costumes. For example, you can have pig noses and wolf ears for the Three Little Pigs Story, a fake long nose for Pinocchio, pointy dwarf hats for Snow White, a red cape for Red Riding Hood, and a bear noses and ears for Goldilocks (and maybe even a gold wig).

Since this is a storybook birthday party, you will of course want to have a storybook cake. You can design a cake to look like a storybook, a fantasy castle or other landscape, a red riding hood basket with flowers inside, or a fairytale character. You can even serve the food in little red riding hood baskets instead of regular plates.