Photo source Do you like bright colors? remember the : “ Every Hunter Wants to Know Where the Pheasant Goes ” ? Of course, who doesn’t remember! The initial letters of these words indicate a specific color, and their sequence corresponds to the palette of the rainbow.
The rainbow party is one of the brightest, but what about “one of ...” - this is the brightest party! Arrange one for a birthday, corporate event, or wedding, and you will see that everyone will remember it for a long time, especially if it is a children's birthday.
We begin preparing the holiday according to this scenario:
- Invitations
- Dress code
- Design and decorations
- Menu
- Competitions
Let's turn on our imagination to the fullest, forget about the dullness and rush off to the fun.
Invitations
Let's start with the invitations. What should they be? for invitations ; you can draw ridiculous pictures yourself, just like children would do.
The main thing is that the invitations for a children's themed party are bright and colorful. You can attach some kind of sweet to the cards, for example, a lollipop, a caramel figurine, and so on.
The text can be written in the form of comic verses, written in children's handwriting, or used in different colors of pencils. When the invitations are ready, you can deliver them yourself or with the help of someone to the invitees.
You can organize a party in oriental style.
Sweet table
At the end of the holiday, a sweet table is arranged. A birthday is not complete without a cake. It’s good to prepare it at home or you can order it from a pastry shop. There must be candles that the birthday boy will happily blow out.
- In addition to the cake, you need to prepare the fruits, placing them beautifully on a plate. Some fruits, including grapes, can be placed in a stemmed vase or fruit bowl.
- Place two or three bananas in the shape of palm trunks on flat plates. Decorate the top with kiwi slices, which will represent leaves. Place tangerine slices at the bottom like an island.
- Children love jelly. It can be prepared in portions or in one form. It can be one type or layered, which looks much more beautiful.
- Various dough figures look beautiful: bears, bunnies, fish, nuts baked using special molds. You can make mushrooms from shortbread or gingerbread dough, baking the caps and legs separately. Then they are glued together with glaze and decorated. The hat can be coated with chocolate glaze. Grease the tip of the leg with white and sprinkle with poppy seeds.
The holiday should gradually be brought to its logical conclusion. The birthday boy is sure to see off the guests, who will leave cheerful and satisfied. Good impressions will last a long time for children and parents.
Costume
Particular attention should be paid to the choice of clothing. It is the choice of the right clothes suitable for a given theme that will help create the right atmosphere for a children's party. The image of a small child or toddler is very popular at such holidays. For girls, these are bright dresses, short sundresses and skirts. Don't forget about bows, knee socks, and other children's decorations for little girls. For men, these are shorts, T-shirts, maybe with images of cartoon characters, sneakers or sandals. As for accessories, you can add a tie, bow tie, and suspenders to your look.
Also at children's parties, images of fairy-tale characters are common, for example, Pinocchio, Snow White with a retinue of dwarves, Carlson in the company of the Kid, and the three little pigs. You can make these costumes yourself or rent them. Just imagining your guests, who, regardless of their age, will come to your holiday in such outfits, makes you smile. Also take care of your guests, prepare accessories such as paper caps for their heads, ears, bibs, baby pacifiers, bottles, rattles.
How to decorate a room?
Now let's talk about decorating the room where your holiday will take place.
It doesn’t matter what it is - a rented hall in a club, or a small room. No children's party is complete without balloons . You can attach them to the ceiling and walls, make various figures out of them, tie a person sitting to each chair, and simply scatter them on the floor. Make various colorful garlands from colored paper and make some crafts. Don't forget about your favorite cartoon and fairy tale characters. Various children's toys, soap bubbles, buckets and scoops will not go unnoticed in your design.
Decorate the tables with bright napkins, colorful dishes, don’t forget about straws for drinks and bright paper or plastic cups. Particular attention should be paid to the menu. To begin with, you can play a prank on your guests and offer them, for example, semolina porridge or cottage cheese casserole as the main dish.
If you don’t want to prank your guests like this, then be responsible about filling the table. Of course, such a party would not be complete without sweets and fruits. A buffet table is perfect. You can scatter candy on the table, build pyramids of cakes, cookies, tubes of condensed milk, put fruit on the table using multi-tiered vases, bottles of sparkling water, compote. For such a party, order a cake, for example, in the form of a pacifier, bib or baby cap. The choice of main courses, alcoholic drinks, and snacks depends entirely on your preference. And don’t forget about all the kids’ favorite treat - ice cream.
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Design and decorations
Costumes are a small part of what can fully convey the atmosphere of the holiday. You still need to try to design the space and create a colorful environment. All this can be easily accomplished by making the following decorations.
- For an indoor party, a rainbow of corrugated paper pompoms , which you can make yourself or order online. We attach them to the wall in the shape of an arc. Take several pom-poms of each color, then you can create the look of a voluminous and lush rainbow that will look great above a candy bar.
- A win-win option is to make a rainbow from inflatable balloons . Rarely does a holiday go without them; they always bring joy, especially to children. There are several ways: a celestial “arch” made of long colored balls, and clouds made of white round ones, preferably small in size, to make cumulus clouds. The second way is to use multi-colored round balls, all the same size, and hang them on the wall in the shape of a rainbow. Third: make a semicircular stand and place the balls inside.
Rainbow made of pompoms and balloons
- Helium balloons with satin ribbons can be used to decorate a flight of stairs in a house or a path leading to it on the street. And if you tie them to a white polypropylene pipe, wrapping them with transparent film for wrapping flowers on top, you will get large Chupa Chups . Near each “lollipop” we lay a square of foam plastic measuring 0.5 * 0.5 meters and 5 cm thick, of the corresponding color. As a result, we get an interesting entrance to the party.
- An inflatable pool with cushions in the middle will become a cozy sofa next to helium balloons.
- A rainbow made from aqua sticks (noodles) will look no less bright . To order online they come in various colors, 1.5 meters long and different diameters. It's better to take d-70mm. Then you will get a cool rainbow arch both for photos and for competitions.
- Decorate the curtains on the window with a rainbow of satin ribbons . Complete it with white clouds on top, cut out of whatman paper or white balloons. There is an interesting option for nature - to build a wigwam covered with colorful satin ribbons. Children love this kind of huts, and this is another object for a photo zone.
- “With seven huge popsicles” on a foam stick measuring 1*0.5 m and 10 cm thick. The ice cream should come out 1.5 meters in size (1 meter foam + half a meter stick). We take foam plastic and round the corners at the top with a stationery knife, and insert a wooden stick at the bottom for a realistic look. We cover it with corrugated paper or wrap it with knitting threads, or simply paint it. It is better to buy paint in construction stores intended for painting foam plastic: waterproof, acrylic or water-based. Apply twice for more intense color. Near such a photo zone, you can take a lot of funny pictures by placing, for example, under each ice cream, children in a suit of the same color.
- If you are at least a little carpenter, then we will make a wooden fence from colored pencils . We buy ordinary wooden boards. We sharpen the tops in the shape of a triangle, like the ends of pencils, and assemble the fence section. Then we paint from scarlet red to purple, without touching the ends, they should remain the natural color of the wood. We paint over the very top, like a sharpened stylus. It is also possible to make a fence from polystyrene foam and corrugated cardboard packaging from household appliances.
Giant lollipops and a fence made of colored pencils
- A garland made of felt or paper is a decoration that is not difficult to make. Cut out hearts, diamonds, circles, attach them to a thread and get a spectacular garland. An original decoration will be a felt inscription: “Child’s name, happy birthday!” or "Rainbow Party".
- For very young guests we make a set - a table with chairs from water sticks. We cut the stick into equal parts, fasten them together and get a round pouf. We also make a table, but only a little higher. Take colorful photos by seating each child in a seat of the appropriate color.
Table and chair made of water sticks; colorful wigwam
- Decorative flowers from isolon will fit perfectly into the decorations for a rainbow party. Suitable in the form of roses or daisies - but better than seven-flowered flowers. Cut out oval-shaped petals. For the stem we take a flexible gray gas pipe, it is easy to bend. You can make a stand on which the flower will stand on its own. We glue it with green isolon and attach the leaves. Several of these giants (great if the height is one and a half to two meters) will create the atmosphere of a real holiday, and you will get excellent photos as a souvenir.
- Don't have time to make decorations? Then we order colorful banner from the printing house.
- DIY stand We make a frame measuring 2*3 meters from wooden blocks, and nail a white fiberboard sheet on top. We paint disposable plastic or paper plates in the order of the palette, and then attach them to the stand. Simple, beautiful and creative – the photo zone is ready!
The decorations don't end there. Ahead, an equally important part is setting the table and candy bar . It’s better to take a white tablecloth; against its background it will look festive and colorful:
- rainbow tulle skirt around the table;
- satin ribbons;
- a cloud of balloons laid out in the center on the table runner, or helium balloons;
- pompoms on the runner;
- fresh flowers placed in colorful jars, or transparent glass vases with tinted water;
- napkins, cups and straws for drinks.
Decorating the table and Candy bar
We decorate the backs of the chairs with a cloud with rainbow ribbons, helium balloons, or soft multi-colored seat cushions.
Children's themed party scenario
And finally, you need to think through your holiday scenario down to the smallest detail, from musical accompaniment to various competitions. Music for your holiday must include children's works; these can be songs from Soviet cartoons and fairy tales, folklore. To this music you can dance in a round dance, dance children's dances, for example, the Dance of the Little Ducklings.
If there is karaoke, then you can sing children’s songs in chorus, for example, Chunga-Changa, It’s fun to walk together, and so on. There should be enough competitions so that none of your guests are bored or uninterested. Absolutely everyone can be involved in such a competition as the best party dress, the choice of Miss and Mister party. The winner can be chosen by secret ballot, or this opportunity can be provided in honor of whom this entire holiday is organized.
Menu, serving
The menu for a kindergarten party does not require any special delights. Only a sweet table and light snacks are quite appropriate - sandwiches, cold cuts, vegetables and fruits. Like at matinees in kindergarten. If there is a feast at the party, prepare a simple homemade meal - potatoes with chicken or cutlets, a few salads, etc.
But it’s worth trying hard to serve the dishes. Although you can invite a “canteen worker”, in a white robe and cap. Let him arrange goodies from large pots - it will be fun to stand in line for a cutlet with compote (although this is more for school).
We offer several ideas for serving in a kindergarten style. It is not necessary to implement them all; a few will be enough for the atmosphere:
- Lay out a bright tablecloth with teddy bears and balls, buy napkins and disposable tableware with children's drawings. If you plan to sit at the table, decorate the chairs with ribbon balloons and place a bib at each plate;
- make stands from wooden cubes: glue 5x5 cubes onto plywood, glue 4 legs at the bottom, one or more cubes high. The result will be a bright thematic decoration, functional - several tiers of treats always look more profitable;
- The theme of the party will be emphasized by dishes decorated in the style of a kindergarten. Fly agarics made from tomatoes, hedgehogs made from eggs , funny faces made from vegetables on sandwiches, butterfly birds on salads;
- Place fruits, vegetables and candy in the backs of toy trucks. Cover the undercarriage with plasticine to prevent the cars from rolling off the table. For serving, you can use molds and buckets; instead of spoons, put plastic scoops on the salads. Have a doll tea party: arrange desserts in toy dishes, place them around Barbie and elegant dolls;
- just for fun, you can solemnly take out... semolina porridge , solyanka and fish cutlets! Who is the smartest guy here, who eats the best?
- If possible, pour alcohol into “harmless” bottles. Or simply replace the labels “beer”, “wine” with “lemonade”, “juice”. Pour the punch into the bucket labeled “compote.” The theme will be “kindergarten” juices - tomato, pumpkin and apple (perhaps useful for cocktails).
If you are celebrating a birthday, buy or order a bright, stylized cake. And deliberately forget to add the first number - let the birthday boy celebrate his fifth birthday instead of 25.
Party competitions
We will tell you in more detail about several competitions that are relevant for this themed party.
An analogue of the children's game “broken phone”
For this competition, you need to divide the guests into 2 teams and line them up so that the previous player looks at the back of the next player’s head. The last players need to be shown a simple picture, their task is to draw this picture with their finger on the back of the one standing in front of him, and so on, until it is the turn of the first in the chain. He is already drawing a picture on paper. The team whose drawing is most similar to the original wins. Prizes in such a competition can be felt-tip pens, pencils, coloring books, sketchbooks, and paints.
With baby bottles on
For this competition you will need to purchase identical baby bottles from the store. To make the competition more challenging, buy bottles with the smallest holes to make them harder to drink from. Fill the bottles with some kind of drink and distribute them to the participants. The winner is the one who empties his bottle the fastest. You can reward the winner with a bottle of champagne.
“You are like this/you are like this”
To participate in such a competition, you will need to choose one woman and two men, or vice versa, one man and two women. The idea of the competition is that two representatives of the same sex take turns giving compliments. To complicate such a competition, you can, for example, designate the letter with which the words should begin. The one who doesn't find the right compliment first loses. And the winner dances with the third participant in the competition, who received pleasant words.
The pajama party is just as bright and fun!
"Ocean is shaking"
Any number of invitees can take part in this competition. One player is selected, whose task will be to turn his back to the others and say - The sea is worried once, the sea is worried two, the sea is worried three, the sea figure freezes in place. The task of the remaining participants in this competition is to depict a figure during this time; for example, you can indicate that it will be an animal. The main player will have to guess who portrayed whom. The one whose figure is the last one to be solved wins. The reward in this entertainment can be a plush toy.
You can offer guests a huge number of favorite children's games . You can have a sack race, or tie your legs to see who can carry a full glass of water or an egg in a spoon the fastest. You can tie a pencil to your belt on a cord and see who can get it into a bottle faster without helping themselves with their hands, who can run faster with a ball between their legs, who can burst the most balloons blindfolded, who can eat porridge faster.
Also, invite your guests to write down a funny incident from their childhood on a piece of paper, and try together to figure out who it happened to. Have your guests bring along a photo of themselves as a child and then try to guess who is in the photo.
Give your guests various quizzes - to guess which cartoon the music is from, the hero of which work in the picture. Hold competition . Let anyone stand on a chair and recite any children's poem. You can also arrange creative duels - mold a figure from plasticine, cut or make something out of paper. The winners will be chosen by your guests by voting. Gifts can be the same creative sets - plasticine, multi-colored paper, children's scissors.
The main advantage of such a holiday is that it is suitable for any audience. Whether they are young or already quite respectable people. You can safely take your children with you to such an event. They certainly won’t be bored here, and they will find something to do to their liking. After all, all competitions and games for a children's party are taken from your childhood, so children can safely take part in competitions on an equal basis with adults. The imagination for organizing such a holiday has no limits. The main thing is to plunge into the world of childhood. Remember what joyful moments there were in childhood, what games they played, what they were happy about. During the holiday, forget all your problems and disappear into the atmosphere. This holiday will allow you to relax and have fun. And undoubtedly, this will be remembered for a long time.
Fun and games for the holiday
Little children will still be passive in the celebration, so the scenario designed for them should contain some noisy and active games, and more spectacular fun competitions and attractions in which the main person will be an adult. For them, you can prepare small performances with familiar and simple, understandable characters. A puppet theater is well suited, with the help of which you can act out funny scenes on the theme of a birthday with funny forest animals, fairy-tale characters or short stories. During the action, the fairy-tale hero can communicate with children.
For older children, it is good to choose competitions, fun games and attractions.
Competitions
Coin
Place coins over the entire surface of the table or sofa. They compete in pairs, players need to be blindfolded with a scarf and brought to a prepared place. On command, players collect coins by touch. Whoever has the most coins is the winner. So, one by one, all children can take part in this competition. The winner receives a sweet prize.
Guess the item
The competition requires two tight bags. Fill each with five different items. This could be a small ruler, a hair tie, a teaspoon, a small toy, or a pencil. The players’ task is to identify the objects in the bag by touch. The player who guesses the most items wins a prize.
Cut the prize
Various useful little things are hung on a string: bright pencils, erasers, sharpeners, candies. An adult periodically swings the rope, and the players take turns cutting off the prizes with their eyes open. You can use a counting rhyme to determine the order. As an exception, the birthday boy can cut first; this is his holiday.
Important: choose children’s scissors for the competition, plastic ones with rounded ends!
Outdoor games for both toddlers and older children
abyss
First of all, you need to determine the start and finish. If the birthday is celebrated in an apartment, then the start can be celebrated in the bedroom or kitchen, and the finish in the room with guests. The child who finishes first will receive a prepared surprise. You need to choose two participants and give them two album sheets. Before the start of the competition, children must imagine that there is an abyss under them, and that the album sheets are magical scraps. The players' task is to stand on the sheets, moving them one by one, to get to the finish line.
The most dexterous
This is a well-known game that mothers, fathers, grandfathers, and grandmothers played at one time. All children will be happy to take part in this game. Each child must bring their own chair, except the birthday boy, and place it in the middle of the room with their backs facing each other, one less than the number of participants. The children stand around the chairs. As soon as the music starts, players begin to walk quickly in a clockwise direction. As soon as the music stops, the children sit on the chairs. Whoever does not get a seat is eliminated, taking one chair. The game continues until there is only one chair left and one player sitting on it.
Cat and mouse
The chairs are placed in a circle, with the seats facing inward. Half of the children sit on chairs - these are “mice”, the rest stand behind them - these are “cats”. One “cat” should not have enough “mouse”, that is, she is standing behind an empty chair. This “cat” winks at some “mouse”. The task of the “mouse” is to run over to the empty chair towards the winking player, the task of the “cat” standing behind is to hold it back with your hands. If he couldn’t hold it, he winks at the next “mouse”. After some time, the “mice” and “cats” change roles.
Chamomile
A chamomile is made from paper in advance - as many petals as there will be children. Funny tasks are written on the back of each petal. Children tear off the petals and begin to perform tasks: walk single file, crow, jump on one leg, sing a song, repeat a tongue twister.
To complete the active part of the holiday, you can invite the children to sing songs together and dance to cheerful music. A selection of musical works is made in advance. Something like this:
Photo of a children's themed party
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