Having children and always wanting to make them feel happy and excited is the ultimate dream of all parents. Each parent certainly wants to see their children grow well and enjoy every moment, thus they will have great memories while growing up.
One of the important moments and always eagerly awaited by a child is their birthday. They will want to celebrate it with great impressions and full of joy. Worry not, because a special birthday party doesn’t always have to be expensive and costly. The most important thing is the meaning of the party itself and how the children can celebrate it with joyfulness.
Limited funds are not a reason to not do any celebration party for your little one’s birthday. You can still put together a fun and economical birthday party for them. Here are some additional tips to save money during the party:
- Opting to celebrate the party before or after lunchtime, thus you don’t have to provide lunch.
- You don’t have to prepare for any other drink selection aside from water. You can purchase My Own Water bulk bottles for the drink provided at the party. This is definitely a much healthier and cheaper option!
- If you have the skills, you can opt to bake the birthday cake by yourself. You only need to be creative to decorate it – to make it look beautiful.
- Ask for help from family members or friends, so they can help to be the MC or photographer at the party. Thus you don’t have to hire extra help to cover for this.
Even though the budget you have is not that big, celebrating a memorable birthday can still be done as long as you calculate it accordingly. Here are some birthday party themes that can be done economically but are still fun to do for your little ones!
Chocolate Party
Who doesn’t like chocolate? Almost everyone likes this sweet treat, especially the children. Using chocolate as the birthday party theme will be exciting – not only for your little one but also for the guests who come!
You can make a chocolate party, where the activities are not only blowing candles and cutting cake but there will be a chocolate-making workshop for the children. It is so easy to do the chocolate party workshop, you can obtain all ingredients needed at the supermarket. Buy some chocolate blocks, and ice cream, along with cookie cutters.
Before the party starts, melt the chocolate and ice cream and stir everything in a big bowl. Create a space for each of the children to make their own chocolate. You can put around a table and chair and write each of the children’s names on their designated place. Start the workshop by asking the children to get creative to mold the chocolate using the cookie cutter. Make sure to ask some other adult to supervise the workshop, thus there won’t be any unwanted things that happen during the party. When all the chocolate molds are filled with melted chocolate, then you can put it in the freezer as soon as it cools down.
While waiting for the chocolate to freeze, you can start the actual party. By singing together, letting your little one blow out the candle, and doing the procession of cutting the cake. You can end the party by giving out the chocolate that has completely frozen and put it inside a nice plastic wrap. This can be used as party merchandise, thus you don’t have to buy anything else. Creative and economical, these two are the best way to describe your children’s birthday party!
Ice Cream Party
This party theme is almost the same as the chocolate party, except what you shall use for the party is ice cream. Make an ice cream party with additional accompaniments such as white bread, choco chips, choco crunch, and others! Ask the children to mix and decorate their ice cream however they like.
Don’t forget to prepare different flavors of ice cream to ensure that every child can enjoy their favorite ice cream flavor. Happiness and joy for all!
Masquerade Party
You can organize this party by preparing famous cartoon character masks and asking the children who came as a guest to choose which character they want to go as.
You can easily find the masks online at affordable prices, thus do not worry that you have to pay extra for the cartoon mask. Make sure that you order the mask more than the number of guests you invite, so you will not be short of it whenever emergency issues arise.
For the overall theme of the party, you can make it in line with your little one favorite cartoon character.
Garden Party
If you have a large enough garden, then you can utilize this for your children’s birthday parties. You don’t have to look for the perfect place for the party, because you can do it easily at your house. Without having to worry on how to push all of your furniture aside to make some room for the party space.
It will be much more fun to do it in the garden, to let the children get closer to nature and can inhale fresh air. For older children, you can also organize a prize-hunting adventure game. Give the children instructions and ask them to work together to find the treasure.
Celebrate at a Restaurant
If you want a birthday party that is simple and hassle-free, then celebrating it at a restaurant can be the right choice for your little one’s birthday. This is also suitable if you have limited time to prepare for the birthday.
You can just let the staff at the restaurant help prepare everything for you, from the venue, meal merchandise, and even the party rundown – all will be prepared by the restaurant team. Guarantee this will be very easy to do, but at the same time still a fun party nonetheless!
Your children’s birthday party celebration will definitely be a fun and memorable one, at the same time safe for your wallet! So wait no more, start your birthday party planning early on.
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