Cupcake Birthday Theme

Great Cupcake birthday party ideas sprinkled with fun party games, activities, goodie and party favor ideas. Mix them all together for a great Cupcake birthday party!   Invitations for a Cupcake Party Buy or make cute cupcake shaped invitations. Fill out the invitation and then include some confetti in the envelope. Buy Mike and Ike candies and stick on large address labels printed with the party information.  The Mike and Ikes look like cupcake sprinkles.  Print out party information on white paper so that you can cut them out into 1 1/2 x 3" inch strips.  Wrap the end of the paper around a toothpick and then glue to secure. Stick the toothpick with the party information into mini cupcakes.

Cupcake Sprinkle Toss
Buy or make small colorful beanbags (stuff with rice or pinto beans) about 3”x3”. Set a clean cupcake / muffin baking pan on the floor and place numbers in each cup - the first row would be 1, second row 2, third row 3 and so on. Place  a piece of tape on the floor about 4 feet from the cupcake pan and have guests line up behind it. The object is to throw the beanbags (give the first person in line 3 beanbags) into the cupcake pan and try to get the highest score.
Total the numbers that the bean bags land in. The beanbags could make a colorful party favor.

Sprinkle Relay Race
Buy very large jelly beans or you can use Mike and Ike candies for this relay race. Place a container filled with an equal amount of candies. Divide the guests into two teams and have them line up behind a start mark. Place another container far away from the start mark. Give the first player on each team a wooden spoon and have them balance as many “sprinkles” as they can on the spoon while running to the opposite container. If they drop any they have to bring them all back to the start and place them in the start container. Then the next person in line starts the race.  Then first team with all of their “sprinkles” in the opposite container wins. Count the sprinkles to be sure none were dropped during the game.

Decorate photo frames with glitter and sequins to look like sprinkles on the top of a cupcake.

Making and baking the cupcakes can also be a fun activity. Depending on the size of the group set up 2 or 3 mixing stations. Divide the cupcake batter recipe so that each group will make about 3 cupcakes each.

Buy inexpensive aprons at the craft store and let the children decorate them. Use them when they bake their cupcakes and then let them take them home as a party favor.

Brown circular box or plastic container - wrap goodies in pink satin material then place face down inside container.  The pink satin will look like frosting on a cupcake.