A train themed birthday party is a popular option to consider for your young one’s next birthday. Kids love trains and are fascinated by them in all forms; from real life trains to model trains to Thomas The Tank. Given the popularity, a train themed party is fairly simple to plan for. You can find train themed decorations and ideas for the party by simply checking online or local party stores. Here are some further tips to ensure your train themed party is a success!

You have many options for train themed birthday party invitations. You can choose to fashion the invitations after an old timey train ride advert or design them to look like train admission tickets. You can also make invitations that are shaped like the birthday child’s favorite train. With so many options, you can have a lot of fun and express creativity with the invites.

A train shaped pinata is a great opportunity to have the kids participate in a fun activity that ties right into the party theme. This is a natural fit for any train themed birthday party. To add to the fun, you can have the kids dress up as train engineers (all this requires is overalls and a conductor hat) and yell CHOO CHOO as they wack the pinata. For the pinata design, you should be able to find a regular train and Thomas The Tank variants.

Cake Ideas for a train themed birthday party are plentiful and varied. You can choose from many options including a standard steam engine train, Thomas The Tank, The Little Engine That Could, The Little Red Caboose, and The Polar Express. You can even get a custom cake that is shaped like a train with multiple train cars (these can be small cake pieces or even cupcakes). The ideas are endless! 

What train themed birthday party is complete without some giveaway goodies? In addition to the standard candy, small toys you may want to consider a train whistle or an airhorn (be sure it isn’t loud) for some train conductor fun even after the party is over. One of my favorite goodie bag ideas was at a train themed party that I was performing at, all of the goodie bags included a little train cab that could connect to the other train cabs included in the other bags, and the birthday boy had the front train piece. This is a great idea to bring back memories of the fun train themed birthday party whenever the kids play together.

Finally, if you’re looking to go the extra mile for your train themed party you may want to consider getting in touch with a local train company and see if you can host the party on a train cab (and even see if the train can make a trip during the party). A train museum is another good option to consider if there is no local train in your area.

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.

It doesn’t matter if they have their own team or support a local club and it doesn’t matter how old they are, the kids would surely love a soccer party ideas. To make your kid the start of the party you would have to follow these guidelines and also come up with something out of the box and very creative. So here is what we suggest you do.

By using this theme you would not have to worry about creating games and activities. Just give the kids some soccer party balls and let the kick the fun out. Games where kids compete to kick as far as they can or hitting the ball in a goal post would always be enjoyed. You can also plan a full soccer game, kids Vs Parents or between two teams of kids.

In the end don’t forget to thank your guests for coming to party with a unique soccer party ideas gift. You can use a small soccer ball filled with candies and sweets or fill little bags with soccer party themed stickers, pencils and sweets happy bright kids

• Black Lanterns
• Red Lanterns
• Red Buckets
• Striped Napkin Rings
• Mickey Mouse Ears
• Cupcake Liners
• Black Bakers Twine
• Red Party Hat
• Mickey Mouse Balloons
  
• Polka Dot Balloons
• Mickey Mouse Cookie Cutter
• Mickey Mouse Bags
• Mickey Mouse Tags
• Mickey Mouse Sugar Candy Toppers
• Polka Dot Ribbon
• Mickey Candles
• Rock Candy
• Yellow Swirl Lollipops
• All of these supplies can be found online.

Pirates are one of the most popular kids party themes, and the pirate theme party for kids can lend itself to some great party activity ideas. This theme will really allow you to express your creativity with decorations and activity choices. For a pirate theme birthday party, you can even get the birthday kid involved and helping out with the arts and crafts for decorations.

Decorations are a piece of cake for a pirate theme party. If you want to go all out, you can decorate the party area like an actual pirate ship using pre-made pirate party sets, or by making your own. You can also suffice with a pirate party with some simple skull and crossbones and sail mast decorations around the party area. The cake can be shaped like a pirate ship, a skull, and crossbones, a parrot, a treasure chest, a pirate hat, etc. The options are endless! If you are not opting for a costume party, you can have pirate hat shaped party hats on-hand for all of the kids, and the birthday child can even have a special captain party hat.

I have performed at hundreds of jungle safari theme parties as Jungle Joe. A jungle safari theme works very well for all animal lovers, both boys, and girls alike. Here are a few tips to help you plan a jungle safari party. 

Get creative with your Safari invites as they are the first impression that your invitees will have of your party. Paper invitations can be made to look like passports, you can get creative and include a visa to an African or South American Jungle. For e-cards, you can even include jungle safari ambient noises. Don’t forget to add animals, some jungle vines, and trees to add to the safari fun.

At the start of your jungle safari party, the kids can make animal masks out of paper plates. This activity helps to get the kids settled into the theme of the party while working on fun arts and crafts activities. Layout some paint, markers, glitter and crayons and let them get creative. Some elastic bands and a stapler will secure the masks and make them wearable. These are a great alternative to regular party hats or store bought masks.

A scavenger hunt and pin the tail on the lion are great games for a jungle safari party. You can also add some team games like “ Into the Waterhole”. Simply split the kids into two teams to compete in a game of tug-o-war. If outdoors, the waterhole could be a water filled kiddy pool. If water is too much of a mess or if it is indoors, then blue balloons can be used to substitute. The water (or blue balloons) is placed between the teams, and the pulling begins. Whichever team is able to pull the other team into the waterhole wins.

If you decide to bake a cake yourself, you could buy a cake pan that is shaped like your child’s favorite animal. These pans are readily available online or at a party store. A simple rectangular cake with green frosting, plastic trees, and animals is easier to make and works just as well. You can also buy a pre-made cake that is designed after a jungle animal, or even a jungle landscape.

Wow! You did it… The party is coming to a close and the kids are now ready to go home. A safari goodie bag will make the party memories last even longer. Safari print goodie bags, binoculars, a toy jeep, and party hats can all be purchased online for a reasonable price.

If your child adores dinosaurs, you may want to consider throwing a dinosaur themed party. This is a popular birthday party theme and you can find a wide variety of dinosaur themed party decorations available for purchase. You can even use your child’s stuffed dinosaurs as part of the decorations. Here are some further party ideas for a dinosaur theme:

If your child adores dinosaurs, you may want to consider throwing a dinosaur themed party. This is a popular birthday party theme and you can find a wide variety of dinosaur themed party decorations available for purchase. You can even use your child’s stuffed dinosaurs as part of the decorations. Here are some further party ideas for a dinosaur theme:

As with the cake, you can keep the dinosaur theme going with the other food that you serve. Fossil cookies look awesome and are easy to make, simply make normal vanilla cookies and use a dinosaur toy to imprint a fossil onto the cookie before baking. You can also try making prehistoric volcano muffins start by adding some green food coloring to chocolate muffins, then shape into mounds and place red icing to look like lava flowing down the sides.

A dinosaur theme lends itself to some great choices for party games. One of the most popular games at a dinosaur theme party is a dinosaur egg hunt, simply paint some polka dots on eggs and hide them in the yard. Be sure that you have enough eggs so that each kid can find one or two each. You can even hide some “fossils” along with the eggs to add to the scavenger hunt fun. Other favorites for this theme include pin the tail on the dinosaur and stomp and roar like a dinosaur (this game is played like musical chairs, only the kids stomp and roar like a dino instead of dance in a circle).