Making children’s birthday parties a special time for both children and parents can be a lot of fun, but it can also be stressful trying to figure out all the details of planning a successful party. Regardless of how old your tot is, there are a lot of fantastic birthday party ideas out there waiting to delight your toddlers on their special day. Whether you’re looking for a fun theme or need a few decorations for your celebration, we’ve put together a list of fun ideas your little angel will love.
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1. Little Town
Miniature towns the size of little kids; little towns have places you find in an actual town. A fire station, a grocery store, a gas pump, a diner, a firehouse, a salon – you name it.
Dressing up like characters and exploring these little towns can be a fun birthday party ideas for toddlers.
These play centers are available for lease. Find available space and rent it out for your kid’s birthday party.
2. Bubble Party
Bubble parties are an excellent ideas for an outdoor birthday party for toddlers gathering, and the reason is apparent. Little kids love to play, and they love to blow bubbles and chase them around.
Throwing a bubble party will require making bubbles. For this, you can choose to hire a professional bubble maker to put on a show, or you can make non-toxic bubbles yourself. There is a wide variety of bubble recipes on the internet to guide you.
If you are doing it yourself (DIY), an automatic bubble blower would also be a great addition to the party. A safety tip is placing it on an outdoor table with a paper towel, and this will keep it from vibrating itself off the table.
Giant bubbles are also a thing at parties like this. Set up a bubble station using hula hoops on a small inflatable pool full of bubble mixture or a mixture of dishwasher soap, water, and sugar. The kids would love this!
A few handheld bubble shooters, multicolored bubble wands, and bubble balloons can enhance the bubbly atmosphere.
A bubble wand relay race is an excellent way to keep the kids engaged. Divide them into two groups, make them take turns blowing a bubble, then try to catch it with their wand. Once they’ve done that, they would try to race to the marker and back without losing or bursting their bubble. If they fail, they repeat the process until they succeed.
3. Bounce House
The bounce house is a huge inflated fun toy, and it can take the mood of a party from bland to interesting in seconds. And is a good option when planning a simple backyard party.
For some extra fun, think about incorporating glow-in-the-dark accessories. This works well in an indoor setting and gives running down the inflated toy a whole different feeling.
You can spice up the play with an obstacle course where kids can race each other through pop-ups and crawl-throughs.
You could set up a bounce house in your backyard or at an indoor playground.
4. Duck Pond
Duck ponds are an entertaining and easy birthday party ideas for toddlers. All you need is an open space and a makeshift pond – you can use an old tub for this. Fill the tub with water just a few inches deep and floating ducks marked underneath with numbers.
Before the party, wrap small prizes and mark them with the same numbers as those on the bottom of the floating ducks. This way, toddlers pick a duck from the tub and win a prize matching the duck’s number. For example, if a toddler picks a duck with the number 2, they win a prize marked 2.
You could mark the ducks in pairs to take things further and make them more adventurous. Let’s say you have 20 ducks, divide them into two and keep all of them from one to ten. This way, two ducks have the same number. When a kid picks a duck, they must find a second duck with a matching number. You could give them maximum tries, and whoever successfully matches their duck within that number of tries wins a prize.
Give out the ducks in addition to the prizes as party favors.
5. Playground Meet-Up
If your kid has a lot of friends, and you wouldn’t want the stress of cleaning up after a party, you can arrange for a playground meet-up. It saves cost and, at the same time, promises fun.
The kids would have enough play options and be kept busy. As parents, you wouldn’t have to do anything but watch. You can bring a few balloons and snacks when they get hungry.
An extra pro is that the kids will be exhausted after the party, which is good news for any parent. Once they get home, they will go straight to bed.
6. Puppet Show
Puppet shows are a simple way to keep the kids entertained. Hire a puppet show group to do what they do best – put on a show. Your backyard would be a perfect set location. Although, any outdoor space would do.
Customizing the puppet show to suit your child’s favorite theme is a good idea. You can choose from Sesame Street, Sonic the Hedgehog, Princess Elsa, Moana, or any of their favorite cartoons.
Another idea is to do a puppet show with family members as puppets. Your kid would be thrilled to see mini versions of them and you.
Essentially, search for a company that will meet your and your kids’ specific needs.
7. Playdough
Your kid can be happy as a lark with some fun tools and a few different colors. A toddler’s attention span is fleeting, and Playdoughs are an excellent way to simultaneously keep them occupied and excited. You can buy them, or you can make them yourself.
Making playdoughs is pretty easy; there are tons of recipes you can try. It is advisable to opt for edible playdoughs, as you can’t entirely control what the kids put in their mouths, and you wouldn’t want to cause harm unknowingly.
Make provisions for pretty aprons for all the guests and a little workspace for each. Fill muffin tins with different colors of homemade play dough. Make tools like mini rolling pins and extruders available, and you’re good to go.
You are using plastic chopping boards as workspaces to control a bit of the mess. Also, you can use a simple playdough recipe or a marshmallow fondant recipe for your homemade playdoughs.
8. Paint Party
The fun part of a paint party is that it puts the kids’ creative skills on display and subtly introduces them to art and colors while still letting them be kids.
Prepare some art supplies like paint, crayons, and markers. Give out little canvasses to each kid and let them express themselves.
Don’t forget to cover a table with plain paper to reduce the mess and stains.
Outdoor paint parties are also a good idea. Spread old sheets or papers on the lawn or driveway with buckets of washable paint and let the kids get wild Jackson Pollock-style.
An extra tip is to dump spaghetti in the buckets of paint and let the kid throw them on the paper. It splatters to create beautiful patterns, and it’s pretty easy.
Another way of making an extra party fun is to paint a mural. Tape a large poster to the wall. Preferably one that matches the party’s theme. Line out colors and crayons, and invite guests to paint a portion of the poster as they like.
In the future, this can serve as an excellent memory of the party for the host.
9. Icy Art
An excellent game for the hot summer sun, ice paintings are a sensual activity that is great fun for younger kids.
Create a variety of ice blocks by freezing water in containers of different shapes and sizes. Adding baking soda to the water before freezing gives it a white color.
Have the kids paint on these ice shapes with poster paint and paintbrushes. They could use their fingers or even their toes if you are open to more messiness.
The ice will melt gradually as the kids work on them to create beautiful paint designs.
Furthermore, you can quickly remove the painting if the kids don’t like them or want to redo them. Rinse the ice block under a running tap.
Your kids have the luxury of creating one masterpiece after the other on the same icy canvas.
10. Cookie Decorating
This is another awesome party idea, doubling as both a party activity and a party treat. Kids get to make cookie designs themselves and also get to eat the finished product.
You can have the pastry already mixed and baked, so all the kids have to do is take out the baked cookies and go on with their decoration.
Sprinkles, butterscotch, raisins, mini m&m’s, and chocolate chips are some topping ideas they could use to decorate the cookies.
Give out two cookies to each kid and a little bowl of toppings for decoration.
Don’t forget to have an extra pack of store-bought cookies on hand. It would come in handy if you run out of cookies, but the kids want to decorate more.
11. Water Party
Kids love to play with water so that water-themed parties can be so much fun for them in the summer. They are the go-to parties when the weather is hot.
The good thing is you don’t need a pool to host a water-themed party. Open space and an inflatable tub will do the trick.
You have plenty of other ways to play with water. Break out a sprinkler and let them run through. This can make a mud puddle that will add to the fun. Kids love to get messy and splash around in them.
Fill up a water table or get tubs of water and fill them with lots of water toys.
You can even set up a water wheel toy for the kids to spin. They could also use a water squirter to squirt water at each other. Make available various toys they can play with and watch the kids go wild.
Don’t forget to make cozy little towels available that kids can dry themselves with. You can gift them as party favors so they can take them home.
12. Music Party
Encourage the kids to make their music. Let them create their pop band.
Random items around the house and even kitchen utensils can serve as instruments.
Hand them out to each kid group and watch them create music-r noise.
Oh! And you’ll need to get earplugs for this. Knowing kids love to stay active and noisy, this would be fun for them.
13. Tea party
Whether it’s in the comfort of your living room at home or a spacious nice-scented garden, tea parties are nice birthday celebration ideas for kids.
Either decorate the floor picnic-style with some cozy cushions or decorate little tables with pretty floral table clothes and kid-friendly tea sets. Little details like this can automatically convert any room to a tea party space.
You can make it a stuffed bear tea party. Little kids would like to bring their stuffed toys.
Decorating with various themes like Alice in wonderland, fairies or princesses and the knights can make things more interesting.
And don’t forget the little treats – finger sandwiches, biscuits, cookies, cupcakes, and giant macarons. Tea parties are incomplete without these.
Final Thoughts from Pragmatic Lifestyle
It’s your kid’s special day! Your goal should be to make them happy. As vague as this may be, it just means to let them have the most fun.
With these birthday party Ideas for toddlers? Easy-peasy!
Tweak up these ideas, add a personalized touch and give your toddlers a remarkable birthday party.
Good luck!
About Me
Hi, there. I am Lin. Together with my husband and two kids, we live in the beautiful Netherlands in Europe. I am dedicated to self-development, creating quality time for the whole family, and fully supporting kids with their potentials with all I have learned from engineering, MBA, and 10+ years of working experience in the energy sector.
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