party theme help!

My daughter will be 2 in November(20th). I have no clue what type of theme I want to go with this year. She isnt into cartoons or have a particular toy she favors more.

This is what I did last year. I did a Monkey theme with the colors pink and brown. I also made some Ears out of brown paper bags and the pink streamers for the kids...but this year I need ideas to get this brain started.

The set up

Cake!

Big sis in her ears

A very tired baby at the end of the party lol

so throw me some ideas for my cutie Happy thanks guys

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14 replies since 15th September 2008 • Last reply 15th September 2008

Reply #1:

How about under the sea?

The invitations could be written on a shell or sand dollar.
As a party favor each child could take home a gold fish (they are cheap), and a sea shell.
The streamers could be in green and blue hung across the ceiling like the top of the ocean looking at waves.
Punch bowl in a fish bowl. have the candy "Swedish fish" in it.
Maybe a blow up kiddie pool (with bubble bath).

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Reply #2:

Love the idea yeesha.

Or a princess themed party? the guests can dress up, you can make paper crowns...

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Reply #3:

I love the sea idea, apart from the actual gold fish thing i think parents will get angry cuz they'd have to buy a bowl or a tank and then look after it etc

I like the idea of a circus theme! clowns are scary though!

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Reply #4:

go onto Marthastewart.com They've got a whole section on kids birthday parties with plenty of ideas, recipes,decorations,games,etc or try belladia.typepad.com/craft_crow/ and have a look through the articles, there's a couple of good ones of themed kids birthday parties

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Reply #5:

so far i did some research on two themes that I am considering.

Pink Pirates- i can easily buy the girls pirates costumes for halloween that they can reuse for her party in november. The color scheme would be pink and black and decor and food I would have to think more on.

50's drive in movie- I like this idea cause I can find them some poodle skirts or make them. The invites i can make with cardstock and some 50's images and have a short kids movie play in the living room(which is good for the adults to take time out while the kids sit and watch the movie) Food would be hot dogs in buns wrapped in foil on a table with fake price signs with popcorn in those nifty boxes that i can probably find at a party store.

Any who what do you guys think..help me add on to these ideas Happy THANKS!

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Reply #6:

I love the drive-in movie idea, it's really original Happy

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Reply #7:

ooh do the drive in!

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Reply #8:

ya i think i will do the drive in too...now lets explode with more ideas with the decoration and other goodies Happy yayaya you all are fanastic.

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Reply #9:

do you have any of those plastic toy cars that kids could ride on? or could you get some cheap ones from somehwhere? or maybe ask the other kids to bring one of their own if they have one.

ummmm....you could play celebrity heads but with movie names instead of celebrities. Don't know if that might be too hard for the kids to play though.

I'll be back with more ideas later

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Reply #10:

get big cardboard boxes and cut out a window to make your own cars. they can sit in them in groups of two. have pillows and stuff inside.

you know those boxes they have at the movie theaters that they put your food in when you order a lot? you could do that with the hot dogs and stuff with shoe boxes and paint them or use colored paper to make them look like little cars

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Reply #11:

and also when they eat their hot dogs and stuff they will be in the box and easy clean up!! omg you are brilliant! Happy

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Reply #12:

a found an article that might help, they've got some great ideas
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/241388/how_to_a_kids_drive_in_movie_birthday.html

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Reply #13:

OHHHHHHHHHH Okay my best friends mother has been baking SO MANY CAKES lately because her family is HUGE and she is GREAT and cakes... We've made two boob cakes, a rastafarian man cake, and a chili cake...

You could make a CAR CAKE! Happy the wheels could be chocolate covered doughnuts and the headlights could be yellow jelly beans or soemthing circular, the grill could be black licorish, and instead of making a top, it could be a convertable, and for the windshield, you could make sugar glass and just stick it into the cake, then cover it in frosting! THAT WOULD BE AMAZING.

it sounds very complicated... but IF YOU DO DO IT, that would be SO COOL! and you'd have to take about 239048230489 pictures!



AND I LOVE the movie ticket invitations, thats SO CUTE! Happy


I think I'm going to try and make the car cake... just for fun. Happy Because I'm like that Happy

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Reply #14:

These are cool, but instead of candles you could put candies, etc.
http://www.pattiewack.com/retro_candlesticks.html

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