Top Summer Birthday Party Activities for Kids

Wonderful Wipeout

If your little one loves the popular reality competition  show Wipeout, consider throwing a wet and wild bash like this one featured on Partytots!

To get started on their own Wipeout course, creative Mama Beth rented an inflatable water slide, stocked a soapy water kiddie pool with rings hidden at the bottom, and made the iconic "big red ball" course with some extra-large bouncy balls and tires. To finish it all off with a splash, she included a "crooked noodle" path (made out of swimming noodles) for the little ones to weave and bob through before crossing the finish line. All in all, a super-fun idea that kids of all ages are sure to love — sunshine, water play, birthday cake... What could be better? Be sure to check out Beth's full post to see fantastic photos of their entire course and party!

Bubble Up

One Charming Party offers up this fabulous idea for making a "human bubble" for kids — a perfect party addition for the kiddos out there who love all things bubbles!

To make your own "human bubble" game, simply create a homemade bubble solution (recipe included in the full post), and you'll want to have a hula hoop and kiddie pool on hand. Crafty Mama Brittany recommends making the bubble solution the night before for maximum gigantic bubble strength — and notes that if you are including this activity for a full-on bubble bash, that bubble containers, bubble bath, and bubble gum are all great goody bag inclusions. Now that's a serious bubble bonanza sure to bring a smile to your child's face!

Angry Birds Love

If you're planning the perfect "Angry Birdsday" bash for your little birdie-slingin' fanatic, be sure to check out this fun idea on Alpha Mom for creating a cool Angry Birds bean bag toss game.

Sure to enthuse all of your pint-sized party-goers throughout the afternoon, this DIY game features homemade bean bag birdies (lots of tips included in the full post), grumbling pigs (mini pumpkins with faces), and a "pig's lair" made out of upcycled packaging supplies and leftover boxes. 

Splashy Bash

In need of a serious cooldown this summer? Partytots offers up this fun idea for making a quick and easy DIY water balloon piñata for kids — and we have a feeling that this is one activity that's sure to be an absolute splash at this year's party!

To get started on your own water play piñata, simply gather up a package of balloons, string, a small plastic funnel, a garden hose for filling up the balloons, and a plastic bat or cardboard mailing tube for whacking. 

Fun Photo Opps

Nothing beats taking silly photos on your birthday and that's exactly why we can't get enough of this neat idea for making  little monster party photo props featured on Kara's Party Ideas!

Whether you're making a stylish birthday backdrop, a themed character face cut-out, silly masks for the littles to sport, or a DIY photo booth, this easy shutterbug activity is sure to create lifelong memories and plenty of laughs for party pals of all ages! And, if it's a little monster party that you're after, don't miss out on the rest of Kara's great ideas — from sweet treats to decorations, there's plenty of google-eyed good times to be had!

Cool and Creamy Piñata Treats

We cannot get enough of this genius idea for creating an ice cream sundae piñata included on Giver's Log — perfect for cooling off on a warm summer day, and certainly one activity that's sure to be a fun surprise for all of your young guests!

Noting that her colorful square piñata only took her 30 minutes to create and that the piñata fit perfectly in her freezer, creative Mama Amber simply used some tissue paper, an upcycled Amazon box, and Elmer's glue to bedazzle this bash-worthy box o' treats. Visit Giver's Log to see more gorgeous photos of Amber's creation — and to get the scoop on some must-have sweet fixings that they included for their sundaes!

Painting Party Perfection

Nina of J and J Home shares this creative idea for offering giant DIY painting boards for kids, as shown at her niece's Rapunzel-themed birthday party. Needless to say, her guests really let their hair down enjoying this colorful and creative project!

A fabulous opportunity for letting your mini Picassos show off their artistic side in the sunshine, these large "canvases" are simply repurposed cardboard boxes (so clever!). Plus, once the paintings have finished drying at the end of the day, each child can take his or her masterpiece home along with their goody bags — there's nothing quite cooler than offering activities that double as take-home treasures!

Birthday Muddy Fun

If you've got a rambunctious group of tots heading over for this year's birthday celebration, consider making a fun obstacle course, like this one featured on Under the Sycamore.

Much like the Wipeout course, this cool DIY activity offers up a variety of dirty messy challenges, including a romp through tires, oversized cardboard boxes to crawl through, a string maze, and a finale of digging through a pool of mud for plastic insects to take home as party favors. Mom Ashley says that both of her boys agreed that this was by far the best party ever, and we're sure there are plenty of little ladies out there who would also concur! Check out the rest of Ashley's full post to see their creative course ideas.

Outdoor Passing Practice

If you've got a young star quarterback on your hands who loves nothing more than practicing his pig skin spin, he's sure to get a kick out of this homemade passing practice activity included on Family Fun!

Easily made using a large, water-resistant tarp, colorful duct tape, scissors, rope, and markers, this passing practice sheet is sure to get some hoots and hollers from all of the football fanatics at this year's birthday blast (including Dad!). And the best part: this cool passing tarp can be used throughout the summer for hours of impromptu afternoon fun!

Popping Party Favors

Clever Mama Brooke of Inchmark shows off yet another fun idea for creating a birthday balloon piñata activity for kids — but with this one, there's treats hiding in the balloons rather than water!

To get started on your own, you'll want to have a wet/dry shop vac and some PVC pipes on hand so that you can expand the balloon enough to add your candy (Brooke says that simply shoving in the candy only led to accidental holes in the balloons). Brooke includes a full walk through on creating your own balloon piñata board, and with a wee bit of handy help from Dad, you're sure to be all set for plenty of popping fun in no time!

DIY Slip and Slide

Another great addition for your "summer water fun" file, this homemade slip and slide featured on Inner Child Fun is a great idea for throwing a neat summer birthday bash on a budget — with plenty of water fun for all!

To create their DIY water slide, Mom Valerie says that they used a long, heavy-duty contractor drop cloth, a couple of buckets of water, and some U-shaped garden stakes to keep it all in place. It's no surprise that this quick and easy water slide was a huge splash for Valerie's daughter — and we're sure your gaggle of party guests would be delighted as well!

Summer Science Exploration

If you're hoping to include an "edutaining" activity for your child's birthday celebration, be sure to consider this fun idea for making a "fizz and color" exploration lab included on Mama Scout. (Read more)

Perfect for a summer science-themed party, this open-ended activity is easy to set up for your littles, and is sure to provide plenty of opportunity for different variables and scientific exploration. Mom Amy begins by adding baking soda to muffin tins for each child, and then sets out vinegar, along with a variety of items for experimenting, including droppers, syringes, straws, food coloring, glitter, colorful sand, plants, plastic animals, and more. For the young scientists out there who haven't yet experience the fizzing fun that comes from adding baking soda and vinegar, this art/science table activity is sure to pack plenty of surprise!

Tips to Birthday Party Decorations That Your Kids Will Love

Every Mom and dad to give our kids a surprise her/his birthday, here are most tips to Decorate Kids Birthday Party

Year after year, kids grow up eagerly looking forward to their birthdays. Soon after their birthday for that year is over, they are already anticipating the next birthday, which will come only after a year has passed by. So birthdays are of great significance for kids and they expect a lot of things from their birthdays. Most often, children are blissful over their centenaries but sometimes, as is normally with the kids, they aren’t satisfied with some trivial things and feel sad about the matter. So just as expectant the children are of their birthdays, it takes a great headache for parents to make sure everything is perfect and their children get everything that they expected to.

It takes a great deal of parenting to satisfy the needs of children, but splendid birthday decorations will surely help the cause. Here below are 30 awesome birthday party decorations that every kid will love, and make things easier for parents.

1. Fork Placeholder

This simple party decoration uses fork as placeholder. Forks can be used to hold light items like paper and cards. Cutting patterns out of paper to write names of kids as shown in the above figure looks great.

2. Hanging Paper Flowers

Paper flowers hanging up in the ceilings look wonderful. It’s neither very tough nor expensive to create these of our own. It just requires a few paper bags and a bit of imagination.

3. Balloon Blowout

This decoration can be done even with the most basic balloons. All you need is balloons of several shades and colors and double sided tape to attach the balloons to one another and to the wall as well.

4. Cupcake Liner Flower Lights

With this awesome trick, the interior of the house can be decorated in a very beautiful way. All one needs is cupcake liners, which can then be turned into pretty flowers.

5. Tiered Paper Candy Stand

This is not only eye-catching but also eco-friendly idea for kids’ birthdays. You can make a beautiful stand where you can place candy for all the kids using only paper.

6. Baby’s Sunshine Party

Which jolly, bright kid doesn’t love a sunshine-themed party? There’s probably no better way to do so than by making a yellow lantern garland by tying together lanterns with a nice fishing line and hanging them above the table as shown in the above figure.

7. Flower Pots for Cutleries

Cute flower pots as shown in the above figure could be used to store forks, knives and other cutleries. This is another innovative way to decorate the party, instead of scattering the pieces all over. 

8. Lego-themed Birthday Party

Kids love Legos very much and they don’t like it even when someone touches their Legos. For this, a Lego-themed birthday party is a great idea as it will really uplift the mood of the kids.

9. Balloon Animals

You can even get animals for the birthday party, whatever the kid likes, from bear, chicken and goat to pigs and lions. Of course, this is normally possible only with helium-filled balloons. Nevertheless, it adds great fun to the party.

10. A Day at the Circus

Kids love circuses and as such, throwing out a Circus-themed party is a great way to liven up the party. It’s not very arduous as well. You can renovate your home into a day at the circus using hues of red and yellow and circus happenings like face painting. You can also use signs to create a circus-like environment.

11. Giant Sign

You can make wonderful large signs on the walls of the house. If you’re not very comfortable with wall painting and feel you might slip it, you can use projector to do so. 

12. Ghostbusters Party

You can even plan the party in the theme of Ghostbusters. There’s not much problem with Ghostbusters-themed party, except some kids may be scared with it.

13. Napkin Crafts

Instead of using plain napkins, you can cut out the paper napkins out into a variety of fun shapes for kids as shown in the image above, just using scissors.

14. Miniature Gumball Machines

Miniature gumball machines are easy to make, of course with a bit of creativity. Round overturned terra-cotta pots can be used to make the base of the machine and round glass jars to form the top of the pots. 

15. Cupcake Liner Garland

You don’t have to throw even the leftovers if you can use some imagination and in turn, you can have another brilliant way to decorate your kids’ birthday party. Leftover cupcake liners can be turned into a colorful garland. (Read more how to do it here.)

16. Wet and Wild Wipeout Party

This kind of party is really cool, literally. It can make any tot smile. This party filled with water obstacles, can be created bouncing balls, slippery slides and any other inventive ways to make sure the kids get wet, and thus cool.

17. Ribbon Mobile

Any kind of ribbon can used to make a mobile to decorate the party. This mobile could be hung over a table. All you have to do is to line the inside of a ring of embroidery loop with a double-sided tape, press the ribbons against the tape after folding and tie two ribbons to the opposite sides of the loop, to hang it on the ceiling.

18. Campfire Treat

In the summer, you can even celebrate birthday party with a camping treat. For this, you don’t even have to go very far away. You can set up tents in the backyard, organize a forager quest and tell ghost tales, around a campfire. 

19. Balloon Doorway

The doorway can be decorated in a very attractive way by hanging balloons using threads at the end of the steamers.

20. A Football Party

Well, this is particularly targeted to the boys and specially, if he loves football. Nothing is likely to make a football-loving boy happier than organizing a football-themed birthday party for him.

21. Ribbon Lanterns

The ribbon lanterns as shown in the image above looks really beautiful and will surely light up the birthday party in every sense.

22. Woodland Wonderland

This elegant decoration scheme makes everyone at the dessert table feel as if they’re celebrating the birthday party in the woods. So, spare a thought to create Woodland Wonderland at the dessert table.

23. Decorate Cutlery

Who says the cutleries always have to be insipid? You can always use some paint to add a little spirit to your cutlery, especially for the wooden ones.

24. A Snow White Birthday Party

Well, this one particular is targeted for girls and especially if they’re in love with fairy tales. Using toxic sweetie apples, fabled cookies, embroidered cupcakes and ornamented mirrors, you can bring your girl’s wildest fairy-tale dream to life. 

25. Piñata

A piñata is meant to be smashed apart which will overwhelm the kids with its contents, in the form of candies and tarts. This will surely lighten up the festive moment at the party.

26. Ribbon Wands

All the fun doesn’t have to end right at the party. The fun could be packed to the home of the guests as well by handing them over beautiful gifts. One such attractive gift might be homemade ribbon wands as shown above. 

27. Balloon Confetti

Using confetti with balloons is another way to create a standout party. All this simple party decoration requires is filling balloons with confetti before blowing them up. Doesn’t the balloon with confetti look real cute? 

28. Goldilocks and the Three Bears-Themed Birthday Party

Children love fairy tales and so storybook-themed birthday parties can be rally sweet. And, there’ll be very few things sweeter than the Goldilocks and the Three Bears-themed birthday party. You can create an almost-perfect bear family house scenario at your own place with the use of mystical details like chairs, bed, balloons and handmade desserts.

29. Candy Topiary

Well, this edible tree takes all imagination to the ultimate fairy-tale level. It will surely catch plenty of eyes and is sure to be the staple of the show

30. Painted Seats

With fun spray paint colors, you can decorate your plain seats by painting them in wide variety and shades of color to create a really cheerful environment. (Learn how to do it here.)