Kids Tie-Dye Birthday Party Craft Basics

We love craft birthday parties for kids, in part because it helps to focus kids’ attention. Tie dye is a festive and colorful kids’ birthday party activity for boys and girls.  The needed materials are relatively inexpensive, and kids make their own handmade tie-dyed creation to take home.

Where the Wild Things Are 1st Birthday Party: Wild Rumpus Birthday!!

We’ve been so thrilled by the gorgeous home birthday parties we’ve been seeing lately for both kids and adults.   This one, from the Hostess With the Mostess (hwtm) blog really stood out as an adorable first birthday party idea beautifully executed.  Using Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are as a party theme, she combined purchased reusable paper decorations, homemade items and a sweet costume from Etsy. We loved the colors and the creativity involved from decorating fallen tree branches with die cut leaf decorations and pretty wrapping paper as a table runner.  She had a delicious array of kid-friendly healthy foods like cut fruits, apple sauce and popcorn balls.

Yo Gabba Gabba 1st Birthday Party Supplies, Ideas

We loved this at-home 1st birthday celebration featuring a Gabba pinata with fabulous handcrafted decorations.  They used cost-effective but colorful solutions throughout the party that really brought the Yo Gabba Gabba theme to life.

“The centerpieces were made with plastic disposable cups filled with pinto beans and covered in colorful Gabba colors and balloons.”

Kids Birthday Breakfast or Morning Brunch Party

The Frugal Momma has some great recipe suggestions (after the link) for a kids’ birthday breakfast or brunch party.  It can be so much easier and less expensive to coordinate a morning birthday event, and the timing usually works out well for little kids’ schedules.

Make Birthday Candy Sushi – Birthday Party Activity and Favor

What do you get when you combine rice krispie treats, fruit rollups, gummy worms and twizzlers?  (Besides sick).   You get candy sushi, a super fun, inexpensive birthday party activity for a family or group of friends.