There are plenty of children’s party ideas for ages 5 to 7 year olds that allow your children and you to flex your creative muscle and enjoy various party games. You may want to consider these ideas:
Cheerleading Party
Cheerleading as one of the many children’s party ideas, can be both unique and energy booster to your kids as part of their party games.
You can make invitations shaped like megaphones or pennants with the birthday girl’s name spelled out in block letters. You can have the kids follow instructions to make pompoms and hire cheerleaders from a local high school’s squad to teach everyone some cheerleading moves. This is one of the greatest children’s party ideas and can be considered as a highlight to your party games.
You can decorate a table to look like a concession stand and serve hot dogs, popcorn, nachos or anything else you’d typically eat.
Another great children’s party ideas is for the cake to be shaped like a megaphone or cupcakes could be decorated with jumping cheerleaders which resembles as part of the party games.
Pajama Party
Another fun and exciting children’s party ideas is to have a pajama party and work party games around that theme. If your child is too young for a real slumber party, you can hold a mock one instead. Ask everyone to wear pajamas and bring sleeping bags. Push your couches aside and have the kids cozy up on the floor and watch a movie. You can have a bed shaped birthday cake too. Another children’s party ideas is to serve pancakes while ask the kids to decorate them after that you can proceed to party games.
Rock ‘n’ Roll
Children’s party ideas that revolve around a rock ‘n’ roll theme is also exciting and fun to add whimsy to any kiddie events and party games. You can send invitations that look like concert tickets or backstage passes. You can style and punk out the kids’ hair with some strong-holding gel and temporary spray-on dye when they arrive. You can borrow some kid-friendly musical instruments from friends and have the kids break into small groups and put together an act for the rest of the crowd or make it a contest as part of the party games or you can set up a karaoke machine. You can shape the cake like a guitar or make cupcakes that look like microphones. Great children’s party ideas for this theme include favors in goodie bags filled with Pop Rocks candy, glow-stick bracelets, temporary tattoos and a pair of sunglasses to be given after the party games.
Superheroes
Exciting children’s party ideas that include superheroes can be fun to kids of any age and add up to the many party games during the kid’s birthday. Beforehand, make one plain cape for each guest or buy several pre-made ones. During the party, you can have the children create their own names and super powers and let them decorate the capes to their liking with felt lightning bolts, stars and other shapes you’ve already cut. The capes serve a variety of purpose: fun activity, party games, props and party favor.
For decorations, laminate pages from vintage comic books and use them as placemats and cut strips from them to use as napkin rings. Decorate the house with red and blue streamers, tablecloths, plates and napkins.
Most children’s party ideas for this theme include stacking all your child’s superheroes on his cake and serve them after the party games.
Go Green
One of the most unique children’s party ideas is to go green as theme including all decorations and party games. If the birthday boy or girl is a budding environmentalist, you can build the theme around going green. Party games and activities could include playing old-fashioned games such as kick the can or making a craft, like wind chimes, out of items from nature, old silverware and trinkets found at secondhand shops which can be great children’s party ideas.
The food should be natural and healthy like cut fruits and vegetables and homemade family favorites. You’ll likely want to use cloth napkins and washable dinnerware.
In addition to so many children’s party ideas is to have even the party hats as reusable items and the cake can have an eco theme, too.
Great children’s party ideas include favors such as sending each child home with a sampling seeds to plant after having party games.
Pirates
For the active boys pirate parties as theme are one of the most popular children’s party ideas for this age group with a twist on its party games. Set the tone for yours by sending message-in-a-bottle invitations.
Decorate tables and doorways with fishing nets, red and black streamers. Another unique children’s party ideas is to make pirate eye patches ahead of time for everyone or have the kids do it themselves as a party games.
For young children, cakes and cupcakes can scream “pirate” without being too dark or gory. One of the party games can be sending the children on a scavenger hunt that leads them to the party favors: individual treasure chests filled with chocolate gold coins and other booty. Surely, this children’s party ideas can be a hit!
Fairies
Children’s party ideas as Disney’s Tinker Bell for a theme is all the rage to this age group so it’s no surprise that fairy-themed parties are growing more popular including all decorations, cakes and party games.
Hold the event in a park or woodsy backyard and run a battery-operated machine that blows bubbles throughout the party to set a magical mood. You can serve whimsical food like tiny tea sandwiches, ants-on-a-log celery sticks, and a cake sprinkled with edible flowers. Finally do include as one of the many great children’s party ideas sets of wings as party favors which can be given away after the party games.
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