Making B'day of your children very special

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Today, I'll share my ideas about making b'day of your little ones special, as special as it could get without needing to spend a fortune.

If you are a creative person, there are number of things that you could do to add to the fun of b'day party, right from the preparation of invitations. Here are ideas for you to think and bring your creative genius out.

1. Party Theme - Select a theme for the b'day. If its a boy, theme could be a super hero, space mission, detective mission, jungle safari, wet splash (messy but lot of fun), F1 racing party, rock star music band, Arabic desert treasure hunt, Beach party etc. If its a girl, theme could be super girls like power puff girls, barbie/Cinderella, flower garden, fashion show, butterfly park, princess party, mermaid/sea life party etc.
2. Party Invitation - Once you select the theme, start with invitation planning. According to the theme, design your invitation cards. Involve your child in the preparation of the cards so that he or she will feel absolutely proud of it when you take him/her to distribute the cards to your guests. You can make simple but very lovely invitation cards. Hands-n-Krafts will soon provide ideas and samples of it on its website (http://www.handsnkrafts.com) . Just to give you some idea, if its a space mission, you can shape up the card like a rocket/spaceship. You can have photo of your son printed/pasted on it in morphed space-suit photo using photo editing techniques. Excitement for the guests starts with invitation card and you must use this opportunity to build up the curiosity.
3. Party-hall Decoration - You will need to decide the decoration ideas based on the theme you have chosen.
   
   • welcome message banner - either you can hand make or can get welcome message printed for the guests at the entrance of the party hall. This is in particular good if you are doing the party in your clubhouse or at any place outside your house.
     
   • theme banners - you can have photos, messages etc. printed as banners that you can paste or hang inside the party rooms.
     
   • table decoration - for a theme like space mission, table decorations are real fun. You can decorate the table covers according to the theme and also keep some decorative stuff on various tables like return gift table, incoming gift table, food table, cake table and other tables that you might use for any custom purposes.
     
   • wall decoration - If you have big walls, use them to best of your creative imagination to accentuate the party mood. You can create various pictures/frames suitable for the party and get them printed to put on the wall. One popular of such is a hand-print poster where kids can come, put heir hand-print, sign their names etc.
     
   • light decoration - If party is in the late evening, you can have lights making the ambience suitable for the theme.
     
4. Party Costume planning - Theme are really fun when costumes of guests/kids are all colored in the theme as well. You can request your guests in the invitation to get the kids dressed up according to the theme if that is part of the party fun. If you can afford to, you can have some part of the costumes (caps/hand-bands etc.) given to all kids from your side.
   
5. Party Food planning - There is not much leverage on the food but still if you are of creative type then you will find ways to have fun with food as well. You can play on food color, shapes (for example salads), name plates of food items to suit your theme.
   
6. Party Cake Selection - Cake is a big ticket item for the theme and helps spicing up the fun in great way. For your b'day theme, select a good decoration for the cake. If you have a good bakery around your place who can provide a custom decorated cake, then think of some 3-D decoration of the cake. For example, for space theme, you can have spaceship or rocket shaped cake. Kids are just thrilled about it.
   
7. Return Gift planning - return gifts are what every kid now days look forward to with lot of excitement. If you are giving the gifts that are as per the theme including the gift wrappers or gift bags, gift tags etc, kids will remember that for very long. Its in general is a good practice to select the gift as per the ages of the guest kids and keep their gift tag with their names ready beforehand. As per the return gift, to make it more exciting, you can also give some sort of party certificate (for example, space mission certificate) where kids can paste their photos. Even better if you can gather their photos while you go for distributing invitation cards. When kids see the fun certificate with their photo, you can't imagine how much joy it gives them.
   
8. Party Games Planning - any theme party is incomplete without having games of that themes. Select 3-4 games that you think will fit into the range of age group of guest kids. You can scane internet forums for kid games and you will find plenty that you can customize to suit the theme. Those games are best where not only kids but their parents also can participate.
   
9. Party Music Planning - get the music scores already selected and CD/digital collection prepared for the party. You can have different type of music scores for part start, during party games and then closing part of the party.
   

Hope this gives some good ideas to you. If you have done something innovation for the b'day party of your son, share it here. If you like to do such fun stuff for b'days, you can also be part of my yahoo group (handsnkrafts) where you can submit your ideas for other craft enthusiasts. I will publish other exciting b'day craft ideas soon. Watch out my blog space and stay smiling.

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