Ideas to host a fun at-home birthday party for kids

Birthdays need not be an extravagant affair every year. After all that special day/date comes year after year. Why not shun off the idea of a pricey off-site birthday party this year and host a fabulous at-home birthday celebration for all your kid’s friends. Bring memories of the old-fashioned way of birthday parties.

Here are some simple yet unique ideas of making at-home birthday parties more fun, creative and the most memorable one; all under your budget.

Spread the word in your own hand-writing

Make your own hand written cards with simple message of birthday celebration. Precise information of when, where, time; all written in your child’s very own hand writing will show the great care you take to make sure that every child is included in the fun.

Decorations

Post the party, the last thing you would want to do is to clean up the floating confetti balls, shimmery stars or color papers that came out from the blown up balloons.

Instead just go for few highlighting balloons here and there.

Another cool idea is to hang up the photographs of old memories of your child. Use led lighted strings or wires that glow up with the help of batteries.

Hang up hand-made DIY party decorations.

Make handmade flowers using origami craft papers. Weave them in long strings to hang at the party area. Or make a large flower like pom-poms with pastel colored cloth nets to hang at the ceiling. Use satin ribbons to drop from top. 

Make balloon bunch and arrange in such a way that the party hall area is not disturbed.

No-cost activities

When kids gather at one place, the outcome is obviously noisy and soon running around follows. There is a need to keep the kids occupied and get them all active and creative.

Take aways for all

A box of assorted dry fruits or chocolates is one of the simplest idea to distribute amongst the all kids party guests.

Either simply distribute, or arrange games for all the kids to win the take away gift boxes.

Simple cake with personalized toppings

Lots of decorations and icing on the sponge cake takes extra effort and money. It adds too much sugar in their cake too. Order for a simple flavoured sponge cake and drop or decorate with your own toppings. 

Some easy ideas are to top it with roasted dry fruits, dry cherries and berries, choco chips, Cadbury gems, M&M, wafer pieces, and such.

To add more too all the droppings, place your kid’s toy characters on the cake.

Serve homemade desserts/sweets

Homemade recipes give a personal touch to the entire celebration. Prepare a dessert or a pie to serve all your kid’s guests. The lip smacking tasty expression that comes out of the little party-enjoyers is worth all the effort.

Choose the kid-favourite-menu

Parents tend to spread a vast choice of menu which kids don’t even taste a tiny bite. Just include one big meal item from your child’s favourite list.

Small quantity fills up their tummy. And if it is all their favourite food, they will ask for more.

Play the favourite tune for a short dance

Dancing is a part of any celebration. A birthday is a special day too that calls for some hip shaking. Be-ready with speakers and players to play a wonderful tune that make the kids get on feet immediately.

Gift opening

If you keep up all the gifts in the rack for its safe opening later after the party has finished, then you are ripping off the child’s right to gifts.

Allow all the kids to gather around for gift opening. They will oooh and aaah with every item that comes out of the gift boxes.

Bring out the surprise one after the other. Have you organized at-home birthday party for kids that does not cost a bomb? Share your ideas here with us.