With March Madness beginning in the next week, basketball is on everyone's mind! You can throw your own March Madness party or even a basketball themed birthday party with a little help from our blog.
A fun way to invite party-goers to a birthday party is to design the invitations to look like tickets to a game.
Two variations of March Madness invitations. You can design your invite to don the color of your favorite team on the jersey invite above.
Basketball Burgers: Make your own mini sliders with basketball branded cheese.
Basketball themed plates, cups and napkins.
No sports party is complete without buffalo chicken dip.
Here's how to make your own:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
2. Combine one 8 oz. package of cream cheese, 1/2 cup of Frank's Red Hot Buffalo sauce, 1/2 cup of ranch, 2 cups shredded cooked chicken and 1/2 cup of shredded cheese in a 1-quart baking dish
3. Bake 20 min. Stir and serve with crackers
Get creative with something as simple as cheese and crackers. Draw lines of a basketball on your round pieces of cheese with food coloring pen and top on round crackers.
Serve ranch with carrots or other veggies with a sign that says, "Dunk it!"
Serve apple turnovers with a sign that says, "Turnovers" to keep with the basketball theme.
Serve M&M's that are your favorite team's colors in a dish for your March Madness snack table.
Create balloon pillars to outline your front door of your party!
Create a march Madness party table by using a lot of orange colors to stick with the basketball theme. Using food sold at sporting events works as well. For example: Pizza, hot dogs, wings, burgers and fries.
Invites:
Examples of several different invites for either a March Madness Party or a Basketball Birthday Party!
A fun way to invite party-goers to a birthday party is to design the invitations to look like tickets to a game.
Two variations of March Madness invitations. You can design your invite to don the color of your favorite team on the jersey invite above.
Party Food:
Basketball Burgers: Make your own mini sliders with basketball branded cheese.
Basketball themed plates, cups and napkins.
No sports party is complete without buffalo chicken dip.
Here's how to make your own:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
2. Combine one 8 oz. package of cream cheese, 1/2 cup of Frank's Red Hot Buffalo sauce, 1/2 cup of ranch, 2 cups shredded cooked chicken and 1/2 cup of shredded cheese in a 1-quart baking dish
3. Bake 20 min. Stir and serve with crackers
Get creative with something as simple as cheese and crackers. Draw lines of a basketball on your round pieces of cheese with food coloring pen and top on round crackers.
Serve ranch with carrots or other veggies with a sign that says, "Dunk it!"
Serve apple turnovers with a sign that says, "Turnovers" to keep with the basketball theme.
Cute cake and can be made for college basketball as well for March Madness. Put your favorite college team's logo on the middle basketball cake and then make cupcakes to surround the cake. You can make fondant jerseys of your favorite players for each cupcake.
Decorations:
Create balloon pillars to outline your front door of your party!
Create a march Madness party table by using a lot of orange colors to stick with the basketball theme. Using food sold at sporting events works as well. For example: Pizza, hot dogs, wings, burgers and fries.
Black and orange balloons can be transformed into a basketball entrance for your party.
Giggle Bean specializes in children's parties, showers and events of all kinds in the Hampton Roads region of Virginia.
Credits:
Ticket Invites: Etsy
Plates, napkins, cups: Birthday In A Box
Buffalo chicken dip: Tammileetips
Dunk it veggies: Michellepaigeblog
Basketball crackers: Hungry Happenings
Invitation: Purple Trail
M&M's: Our Best Bites
Balloon pillar decorations: Above the Rest Designs
Bball burgers: Hungry happenings
Balloon doorway: balloonutopia
