Dino-ROAR Party!

ROARRRR! Learn how to throw an awe-inspiring dinosaur themed party here!

Invites:

You can create your own funny invites with a little help from photo shop!

Traditional dino invites.

Decorations: 

Green streamers can be used to create the jungle theme hanging from doorways. Dinosaur prints can be made with black construction paper. 

There are many ways to make the Dinosaur theme your own. Printable leaves and dinosaur footprints are creative ways to make chair backs pop. Balloons and blow up dinosaurs can be centerpieces. 

Create your own activity section for the party! Set up little tables and chairs for the kids to play games. Secure foam dinosaur face cut outs to each chair. 

Games:

For dinosaur bingo print out cards with names and pictures of various dinosaurs and the kids can use different stones/rocks to cover up the squares they have. 

Build your own terrarium! This is a creative activity for your dino lovers. The kids all get their own clear, plastic bowl. Set up a table with fake grass, leaves, rocks, stones and plastic dinosaurs and party go-ers can have their own terrarium to take home. 

A fun party game is the Dino Dig! Set up different plastic sand boxes filled with sand. Give children "excavating tools" aka sand box toys and have them go to each sand box and try to find a specific hidden plastic dinosaur. Whoever finds the dinosaur first, wins! 

Glacier Excavating! 

Freeze small plastic dinosaurs in ice cubes and give each kid their own. They have to smash open the "glacier" to get their dinosaur prize!

Party Food:

An awesome way to incorporate the theme into a party table is to have one area labeled "Carnivores" and one area labeled "Herbivores." The Carnivore table will have snacks with meat like meatballs, dinosaur shaped chicken nuggets and meat sandwiches. The Herbivore area will have fruit and cups of ranch with celery and carrot sticks.

Dinosaur cupcakes can be created with chocolate cupcake mix and chocolate icing. Place tiny plastic dinosaurs on top!

Label your drink area Drinkasaurus!

Dinosaur fossil cookies: Make sugar cookies and use dinosaur plastic toy footprints to create the "fossil" look on each cookie.

Lava Cakes: Make your favorite chocolate cake recipe and use orange and red candy melts to create the lava on each cake.

Dino Bones: Cover a pretzel stick and two pieces of popcorn at each end with white chocolate to create the perfect dinosaur bones. 

Individual brownies are now Prehistoric Stones!

How awesome is this Stegosaurus Cake?!

ROAR! This cake is dino-mite!

Party Favors: 

Label bubbles "Dino Repellant" as a fun party favor for guests!

Credits:

Dinosaur cupcake: Crafts by Courtney
Dino Dig: Nicoles
Terranium: While the girls are sleeping
Dino Bingo: Hostess with the Mostess
Lava Cakes: Top Party Ideas
Dino Bubbles: Etsy
Excavating Dinos: The happier homemaker
Invites: Catch my party
Invites: Minimoz
Drinks: Etsy
Decorations: Learn with play at home
More Decorations: Catch My Party

Giggle Bean specializes in children's parties, showers and events of all kinds in the Hampton Roads region of Virginia. 

Barn Yard Bash!

If you can't go to the farm, bring the farm to you with a Barn Yard Birthday Bash!

Invites:

Party Food: 

Amazing Party Cakes!

Corn on the cob cupcakes!
Place three cupcakes in green cupcake cups side by side with yellow icing on top. Use yellow and white jelly beans as the corn and place a yellow starburst on top as the butter. Put two corn on the cob holders on either side of the cupcakes for more detail.

Tractor Cupcakes!

Chex Mix can be transformed into Chicken Feed.

Pigs in a blanket is a fun snack for a Barn Yard theme.

Buy cow print plates and napkins. Mini hay bales are cute table centerpieces. Add a sign with a pig that says, "Pig Out" and glue to stick placed in hay bales for your Barn Yard snack table.

Rice crispie treats are now hay bales for your farm style party.

A cute idea for utensils is to label forks "pitchforks" and spoons "shovels."

Barn Yard Party Games: 

You can create a bean bag toss with any type of barn yard animal to stick with your theme. Pictured here is a Feed The Pig bean bag toss. 

There are so many variations of Pin the Tail on the Donkey for kid's parties, but with this theme you can use the original one!

Party Favors:

Printable barns you can fill with candy for guests.

Cow Tales candy is a cute way to says thanks for coming and show off your barn yard creativity.

Giggle Bean specializes in children's parties, showers and events of all kinds in the Hampton Roads region of Virginia.

Credits:
Barn Yard Cake: Cake Central
Printable Barns: Birdsparty
Pigs in a blanket: Cozyoldfarmhouse
Pig out sign and plates: Catch My Party
Old fashioned pin the tail: Etsy
Chicken Feed Chex: Catch My Party
Pig bean bag toss: Spaceships and Laser Beams
Ban yard table: Bethdenny

Nerf War Party!

Get ready, Aim, Fire! Nerf Wars are a hit for kids' birthday parties. Here's some inspiration on how to throw your own. 

Invites:

 You can customize your invites and let your guests know that this will be a Nerf Wars Party and to bring their favorite nerf gun. Or you can provide Nerf guns for guests! 

War Zone:

You can hand paint cardboard boxes in camo colors as barricades for kids to hide behind. Painting the kids faces in camo is also a fun way to add to the theme.

Snacks:

In order to keep with the Nerf theme, create a snack table that's in the same color scheme: camo colors and oranges, yellows and reds. Use green and brown icing on the cupcakes, pepperoni pizza is now "bull's eye" pizza, and snacks in the color scheme include: cheetos, pineapples, popcorn, carrots and goldfish. 

Nerf Juice is actually just Sunkist or Fanta. There's plenty of ways to incorporate the theme with a cake as well. You can do a green and black camo cake or use bright orange and cover your cake with targets and darts.

Party Favors:

Dog tags and grenades are an awesome party favor for guests to take home after a Nerf War Party!

For an awesome party favor, give each guest a bag filled with their own Nerf gun, Nerf darts, sunglasses for eye protection, a bandana, a water pouch and a belt for darts!

Games:

 Spread "ammunition" throughout the party area for guests to always be able to reload. You can also create a target practice area by setting up pop cans for kids to shoot at. 

If you have room in your backyard you can set up a game of capture the flag. Place a bright flag somewhere that's challenging to get to and split the kids into two teams. Someone has to obtain the flag without being hit by the other team with a dart. You can create barriers for kids to hide behind using boxes, paint and tarp and any other creative items found in your garage. 

 Giggle Bean specializes in children's birthday parties, events and showers of all kinds in the Hampton Roads region of Virginia. 

Credits: 

Nerf Juice: Busy Miss B

Camo Boxes: Midwest Moma

Ammunition: karaspartyideas.com

Invites: etsy.com

Invites: CMArtistry.com

Camo Barricades: sweetshindigs.com

Party Favors: Catch My Party
Colorful Snacks: thedatingdivas.com
Game Pictures: letscountblessings.blogspot.com