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Kids Birthday Party Ideas

Are you planning a kids birthday party? Not sure what to do at the party?  Read through  these ideas Birthday Party Activities.

Kids Birthday Party Activities

Animal Game
Bob the Builder
Blowing Bubbles
Build your own Maze
Butterfly Crafts
Dinosaur Dig
Hayride
Ice Breaker Game
Karaoke Content Personal Pizzas
Purse Party
Scavenger Hunt

Still not sure where to start?  Start with tips for planning a children's birthday party.  Then start thinking about the birthday party theme or check out these ideas for theme for the birthday party.  Then comes the decisions about party loot bags.

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Give your child a birthday party they will remember as the greatest party ever and you'll have as much fun as the kids!

Birthday Party Plans

 

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Gifts Kids Can Make Book Cover

Children love making gifts for their parents and other adults who are important to them.  But what can they make that will delight the person they are giving the gift to?

Here's how you can quickly and easily get lots of simple, high quality gift ideas that you children can make.  Guaranteed to be fun the children making the gift, and a delight for the person receiving it.

Gifts Kids Can Make

 

 

Kids Pick A Party Book

From a Mystery Party with fingerprint activities and mystery foods to a Prehistoric Party with fossil digs and dinosaur crafts, this book contains creative ideas for 50 theme parties, including suggestions for invitations, decorations, costumes, games and 
other activities, food,
and party favors

 

 

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Do you want your children to have great birthday parties?  Not just the kind of party where you spend a lot of money to take them some place, but the kind of party that will create a memory for the rest of their lives.  These party packages include everything you need to easily create a fantasy party for your child.

 

 

Kids Birthday Party Activities

 

Personal Pizzas

Use the individual size pizza crusts.  Put out bowls with different toppings (cheese, sauce, pepperoni, mushrooms, tomato, peppers), and let each child make their own pizza.  Be sure you know whose pizza is where when you put them in the oven.

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Animal Game

Before the party, cut pictures of animals out of old nature magazines.  Try to use the pictures on the covers, because they are sturdier. Then pin a picture with a safety pin to the back of each kid's T-shirt. They all can ask each other yes or no questions, like "Do I swim in the ocean?," "Do I have feathers?" or "Do I live in the jungle?" until they figure out which animal are they. It was a wonderful ice-breaker too, if some of the kids don't know each other before the party. Very fun, and something all the kids could easily participate in.

You can also play this game with older kids using pictures of rock stars or movie stars.
Thanks to Alithia for sending in this idea.

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A Great Ice Breaker and Fun for the KIDS

One idea that worked out beautifully for my daughter's 5th birthday was to have a arts and craft table when the guest arrived. The arts and crafts table was a great ice breaker for the kids and parents. The girls decorated their princess hats and the boys decorated their crowns. We had stickers, crayons, colored pencils, glitter pens (that didn't work so great - too messy), and ribbon. We also had the kids decorate their goody bags. Brown or white paper sacks work great as party bags. We had a piñata and the kids put their candy and small toys in their decorated party bags.

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Build your own Maze

When I was going to have a large group of mostly boys age 10, and a couple girls.  My husband and I went to a appliance store and asked for some of their big huge boxes that the refrigerators come in, got them home and made a giant maze in our backyard.  If you don't have room in your yard the local park or recreation centers are usually good about allowing use of their areas providing you clean up. 

This idea was sent in by Kerry Gessl.

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Butterfly Crafts

I just had a birthday party for my son, we made butterfly's out of a coffee filter.

Materials
coffee filter
pipe cleaners
spray bottle
magnets

Have the children color the coffee filter (the more color the better).  When they are finished spray water on the entire filter (this gives a tied dyed look) let it dry.  Pinch together in the middle wrap a pipe cleaner around it turn the top of the cleaner for the antenna's and put a magnet on the back. They all had a great time making them and my son is still making them. You would also tie a clothes pin to it with pipe cleaner then add the magnet and it could hold messages on your fridge.

This craft activity was sent in by Karen Miller.

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Purse Party

Young girls like to do “purse parties”. 

  • purchase several cloth purses.  They should be small, little girl sized, and made of plain cloth.
  • Put out fabric paints and let the girls decorate their own purses.
  • Try to find some glittery paint or sequins that can be added.

Kids love it ! 

Thanks to Martha W. for sending in this idea.

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Karaoke Contest

We had a karaoke idol contest and invited some neighbors to be the judges.

What great fun and laughter the kids had and of course great singing.

The judges held score cards that we made with construction paper and marked each child accordingly.

Even the young boys in the neighborhood took part!

Thanks to Ann V. for sending in this idea.

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Bob the Builder

For my son's 2nd birthday, we had a Bob-the-Builder themed party and I bought a bunch of unfinished birdhouses from the crafts store and set up a large table with paints and brushes. 

I told all the children that before they came to the party, Bob the Builder stopped by and dropped off all the birdhouses that he made for them to paint. When they were finished, that became their party favor. It worked so well even my son believed it.

Thanks to Ronald S. for sending in this idea.

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Hayride

My daughter just turned 4 yrs old in Oct. We had her first, and my first, birthday party. I was so nervous & worried about having a good turn out and the kids having fun. I think the biggest hit at the party was the Hayride. My father got some straw and put it on our trailer and took our guests, kids and parents, around our property for a "hayride", Everyone had a blast! The other thing that was a big hit was the goats, the pony and the geese.

Thanks to Wendy L. for sending in this idea. 

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Some people love planning birthday parties, others would like to choose from pre-planned birthday parties

Turn a birthday gift into an adventure to make it a day your child or grandchild will never forget. Our visitors have sent in some of their best birthday gift ideas that will create memories for a life time.

For more ideas on kids activities, visit the Creative Kids at Home Activity Library.

 

We'd like to create a list of some of the best (or worst) ideas for themes and activities at children's birthday parties.  Send us your stories for our Birthday Ideas page.

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Children love making gifts for their parents and other adults who are important to them.  But what can they make that will delight the person they are giving the gift to?

Here's how you can quickly and easily get lots of simple, high quality gift ideas that you children can make.  Guaranteed to be fun the children making the gift, and a delight for the person receiving it.

Gifts Kids Can Make

 

 

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