We are working, working, working to organize an All Things Birthday series of posts to start early next month. The whole thing started while brainstorming and organizing a Birthday Present Shopping Guide, but the event is growing and will include the best of the best in all things related to children’s birthday parties – from planning to presents. We’ll have tips from party planning experts, reviews and, of course, giveaways.
One idea we’re very excited about is posts to share and show off children’s birthday parties. And that’s where you come in…
We want to feature YOUR birthday party. We love to see other people’s parties and know you all have some great ones to share. Here’s how you can get in on the fun:
- Collect several pictures from the children’s birthday party you want to feature
- Make a list of websites and resources you used to plan the party (inspiration, things you purchased, crafty projects, etc)
- Email your photos and websites to theshoppingmama@gmail.com
To get an idea of what we’re looking for, check out this post about my daughter’s pig-themed first birthday party. It’s so simple, will only take you a couple minutes to gather the info and you get to reminisce and look through party pictures.
What’s in it for you? At this point, just simple fun – oh, and you get to show off your cute kids, creativity and baking prowess. Want more? Oh, okay, here you go…
- If you submit your party, you get FIVE bonus entries in the All Things Birthday giveaways!
- If you’re a blogger or shop owner, you get a link back to your site.
- If we get a good response, we’ll organize a voting competition with a (super cool) prize for the favorite party.
We’re really excited about this and think it will be a lot of fun. We hope you’ll get on board and submit your child’s favorite party. Feel free to email or leave comments if you have any questions! Happy {All Things} Birthday!
Chani M
June 25, 2010Can’t wait for my son’s birthday party in two weeks!!
Amy
July 4, 2010I threw a great Lightening Mcqueen Party I will for sure send pics
Chani M
July 4, 2010Getting ready to re-set up our party for today, got rained on so we’re moving indoors! I’ll try and get pics up!!
rachel crisman
July 5, 2010I am on the verge of throwing a Toy Story party. I always take lots of pics.
mylene
July 5, 2010We just had Curious George birthday party for my 2 year old son – it was great!
Kirsten
July 6, 2010We had a birthday carnival with about ten girls. We made a ticket booth out of cardboard and had tickets we bought at a party store. The kids earned tickets by playing games and redeemed for prizes.
My husband took a sheet of wood and had evenly spaced nails on it that we tied balloons to. And we had darts from our dartboard.
We put a tin can in the ground and had golf..some old golf clubs laying around.
We hung a hula hoop from a tree and they threw a Nerf football through it.
We took a bucket and did a ball toss. Harder than it sounds.
We had paper sacks of popcorns, hot dogs on the grill, tubs filled with ice and bottle water. My teenage daughter and her friends manned a cotton candy machine and snow cone maker. Cheap to buy and fun to use over and over. I put out fruit platters with watermelon and grapes.
There was a jar of candy and if you guessed the closest you won the jar.
This is an expensive extra but I had won a Coke electronic basketball set so they played that…timed.
It was a HUGE success. Using prizes from the dollar store cut the cost.
At the end they played in the pool and slept in a big tent out back. We had smores and told stories over the fire pit.
Rebecca W
July 6, 2010My daughter wants a Blue’s Clues party. Its not so easy to find Blue’s Clues anymore.
We are having two birthday parties this year for her (one in TN with family and one in GA where we live!) I want to make the notebooks so every child will have one and have a hunt like they do on the show.
Randi submitted some photos from a really cute Blue’s Clues party. I’ll post it by the end of the week so check back and hopefully you’ll get some ideas!
Nicole May
July 9, 2010Oh, I’ve been doing this wrong on contests! I’m sorry!!! I was just writing 5 entries about my favorite party. I get it now. Sorry!!!
Nicole May
July 9, 2010I just sent an email with my son’s first birthday party and pics. Hope that makes up for the wrong entries I’ve been doing for contests.
Clarissa Neiding
July 9, 2010I did a construction theme party for my son. I made pillow cases out of construction theme fabric with each child’s name embroidered on them as prize so that each kid could carry the rest of their prized in them. We had a scavenger hunt (wrapped prizes in different colored tissue paper, each child had to find one red, one blue, one green etc prize so that everyone got the same prizes), Played pin the digger on the backhoe, dug for prizes in the sandbox, had a digger pinata, made a dump truck out of boxes and had the kids pitch beanbags in etc. I will send a pic of the party