Category: Birthdays

While your birthday party guests came to celebrate your special day and not to critique the decorations, festive and engaging table decorations can add excitement to your party and make the event more enjoyable for everyone involved. When decorating your birthday party tables, you don’t have to invest a fortune or stay up all night, toiling away. With simple planning and consideration of the mood of your event, you can ensure that you build memorable table decorations that enhance your overall party.

Whether planning for a child’s party or an adult birthday party, homemade decorations give the event a personalized look. Before purchasing materials at an art store or a party supply shop, look around your own home for supplies. Look for pieces you can repurpose into DIY party decorations, including fabric, boxes, leftover art materials and colored paper. For a child’s birthday party, leave some of the projects for the guests to do themselves. They can draw a banner, create a birthday collage with thematic images or personalize their favor bags.

Decorating for children’s birthday parties has come a long way since pink and white gingham for girls and trucks for boys. Contemporary parties often represent the imagination and ideas of the guest of honor and features thematic imagery and interactive decorations. Involve your child in the birthday party-planning process, and set aside a special do-it-yourself project for the children to complete, such as painting a treasure chest gold, personalizing a long birthday banner or scattering sequins over the place settings.

Party decor can make or break a child’s birthday party. Rather than rely on matching packaged sets, integrate customized or homemade pieces that give the birthday party decorations personality, reflecting the birthday child’s style and preferences. Involve your child in the party planning, encouraging her to brainstorm ideas for themes, party favors and decorating projects. He will enjoy helping make a pinata, paint a scenic backdrop or decorate party favor bags.

Every year, to remember the day that a woman underwent the greatest pain of her life, we scratch together a cake, top it with candles and sing a four-lined song to the one who came into the world on that day. If that doesn’t seem odd enough, we top the party with a cone-shaped hat with a fluffy ball on top. It’s easy to whip together some hats to celebrate that wonderful day.