I love a pretty party, but these days I extra appreciate simple and easy parties. I’ve rounded up 31 unique kid birthday party themes to help get your party started!
1. A party animal themed birthday is broad enough for any age. Spray paint plastic animals bold colors and give them party hats. Add kids and you’ve got yourself some party animals!
2. A carnival themed party sets the stage for all kinds of fun games and activities. Think ring toss, face painting, and a photo booth!
3. If you’re looking for simple and inexpensive birthday idea, consider a breakfast birthday party. What kid doesn’t love donuts and juice for breakfast? Best part? Have the party at a local breakfast joint that has a playground!
4. If you’ve got a dog lover on your hands consider having a “Puppy Paw-ty”! How cute is that? The birthday boy had a “Bark-ery”, dog ears, and a cardboard dog house. Adorable!
5. If you’re kiddo loves the movie Frozen, this party by my friend Megan will blow you away! This Frozen themed sweets table steals the show!
6. Vehicles are a big hit at our house, so we had decided to have a birthday party on the top of a parking garage! It’s scooter and bike riding greatness and bonus points for views from the parking garage! This was also the easiest birthday party I’ve ever thrown.
7. Destiny put together the most adorable Paris themed birthday party for her daughter. She even gave our black tutu’s as party favors! Her tip for throwing awesome birthday parties: keep it small and have parents drop off the kids!
8. This mermaid birthday party by Crystal is adorable, and best of all fairly simple and inexpensive to put together. The backdrop is crepe paper and her centerpieces are Dollar Store bowls filled with Little Mermaid toys. The cupcakes are topped with crushed graham cracker and a chocolate seashell… I can handle that!
9. If you’ve got a Ninja Turtle fan in the house, this Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle birthday party is perfect! Amber has DIY ideas for every aspect of the party from invites to cookies to ninja masks! I love these gatorade inspired turtles pictured below.
10. My friend, Donna, threw her son a Mad Scientist party that was so much fun. The ideas are endless for this party theme. Activities included making slime, science experiments, and periodic table twister! Of course the kids needed mad scientist googles for protection! (Here’s a set of 6 for $12 on Amazon.)
11. A camping party is perfect for a backyard shindig. Think tents, tee pees, quilts, s’mores, lanterns, and flashlights! Meredith did an amzing job on this camping themed birthday party! See more details here.
12. An Olympic themed party leads to so many fun games and activities to get the kids moving! Plus torch cupcakes? Genius! See all of the Olympic party inspiration at Tar-Tryin’.
13. Pizza is always a party pleaser, why not make it the theme! Have kids make their own mini pizzas for lunch and wear chef hats! Check out all of the pizza party details at Kojo Designs.
14. Treasure hunts and pirate tattoos were the highlight of this pirate themed birthday. There was also a ship in a bottle craft and the kids even got pirate names! See all of the pirate themed birthday details at Notable Nest.
15. Every detail of this Wild Thing Birthday Party is adorable! See more at Hostess with the Mostess.
16. Who doesn’t love The Very Hungry Caterpillar? I love that the pull apart caterpillar cake is doable even for the novice baker.
17. A rainbow birthday party makes for easy decorating! Ashlee Marie has a great tutorial for a ruffled rainbow table cloth. This rainbow party also had a rainbow piñata and a pot painting craft. See all of the details at Ashlee Marie.
18. A tye dye party ensures adorable decorations, a great party activity, and the perfect party favor. Make sure you’ve got back up for this party because as you might guess, it gets messy! See all of the details at the Pleated Poppy.
19. Have kids make a spaghetti lunch while wearing chef hats and decorate cupcakes for dessert! See more cooking party birthday details at My Many Colored Days.
20. Rock Star Party
25. Sleep Over Birthday Party (The girls are Twinkies and the pillows are marshmallows!)
27. Lego Party
30. Jungle Party
31. Beach Bash
Have you hosted any kid parties lately? What’s your current favorite kid party theme? I’d love to hear…
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Aw, thanks for sharing my Lego party!! I’ve been doing themed parties for my kids for the last 15 years and we’ve covered almost every one of the themes you listed! 🙂 Love the inspiration!
You’re welcome, Randi! Thanks for sharing all of your AWESOME ideas on your blog!
that sleepover cake is pretty cute!
Awesome ideas, I need to Pin these!
Great inexpensive but really fun and creative ideas! I have to share these!
These are great! I would love to give many of these a try!
I did a Green Eggs and Ham party when my son turned one year old:
http://sarahrosessupposes.blogspot.com/2013/03/dr-suess-celebration.html
For his most recent party we did a puppy party. We had puppy chow and bone shaped gingerbread cookies as well as a “who can drink the water out of the dog dish like a puppy the fastest” contest! A picture of the puppy cake I made is on this page:
http://sarahrosessupposes.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html