Butterfly Birthday Theme

Fun ideas for a Butterfly Themed Birthday Party.  Mix and match these ideas to create your own special butterfly party.  Butterfly Party Invitations Send out butterfly shaped cards or plain white cards with butterfly stickers. For fun tie butterfly shaped cards (with party information) onto curling ribbon and attach to a helium balloon. The invitation will seem to “fly” below the helium balloon.

On the birthday cake or present table cover the top of the table with a sunny yellow tablecloth.  Make large colorful flower petals out of construction paper or poster board and then tape the petals around the outside of the table to make a flower.

Add large artificial flowers all over the room (we’ve found super size flowers at the dollar store that were 12” wide).

Blow up helium balloons and tie them with long strings of curling ribbon.  Attach butterflies, dragonflies or any flying bug to the end of the curling ribbon. Let the balloons float to the ceiling and the butterflies and bugs  will “fly” around the party area.

Fun Ideas
Gather or buy cheap colorful silk scarves and let the party guests pretend they are flying using them as wings.

Set up a bubble blower and let them fly through the bubbles and pop them.

Give them a time limit - 15 to 30 minutes depending on how long the list is.  

 Print out the free list from the  nature scavenger hunt list . 

The first team back with all the items on the list wins … or if time runs out the team that has the most items from the list wins. Give both teams a prize.

Scavenger hunt suggestions:

Before making the butterfly scavenger hunt list go to the area and look around.  Write down the things that you see and add them to your list. Take care to remove any potential dangers - ant mounds, poison ivy, etc. before the beginning of the party. Here are some things to look for: A feather, something blue, root, grass blade, seeds, wood, 3 different kinds of leaves, stick, something that makes noise, something that is faster (or slower) then a garden snail, something shiny, something white, something soft, something black.

Butterfly Relay Races
Play relay races and games but have them “fly” as they play the games.

More birthday party games for kids

Activities
Make butterfly wings, or have them already pre-made or buy them and let the girls decorate the wings at the party.

Buy wooden butterfly shapes at the craft store. Let the girls paint them with glittery paint of all colors, then when dry they can stick on jewels. Place a magnet strip on the back for a pretty refrigerator magnet.

Bake cookies and cut them out with a butterfly cookie cutter. Let the guests decorate their butterflies with frosting, candies and writing gel. This can also take the place of a large cake.

Make fun antennae with headbands, pipe cleaners and pom pom balls. Let them take them home for a party favor.

Butterfly Party Food
Fun Jell-O jigglers cut with a cookie cutter into butterfly shapes.
Sandwiches cut with cookie cutters.
Bow tie pasta - it looks like butterfly wings!
Large Butterfly cookies - Cut cookies with a triangle cookie cutter and then place them together at the points of the triangle to make butterfly wings.

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