Garden Birthday Party Ideas

Decorate clay pots
Let your guests start their own garden with this clay pot craft.  Buy small terra cotta pots at the craft or discount store.  Set out paints and paintbrushes along with the pots at the party and have the kids paint their terra cotta pot.  When they are done and the paint is dry fill the pot with soil and add let them add a few flower seeds.  

Garden Party Games
Bug and Flower Hunt
A fun treasure hunt that kids of all ages like to do at parties.  Buy lots of small plastic flowers or bugs and hide them around the party area or backyard before the party starts.  Give each guest a butterfly net (or a paper sack will work) to collect as many flowers and bugs as they can find.  If they want to play again (and they will!) divide the kids into two groups.  One group will hide the items first and the other group will find them and then they will reverse so everyone gets to hide the items and find them again.  

More fun games for parties

Garden Party Food Ideas
Garden Party Cupcakes
Cute Garden Party cupcakes idea found at http://www.womansday.com/Recipes/Garden-Party-
Cupcakes


Tear Drop Cookie Cutters  can be used to cut out a variety of food and when the tear drops are placed in a circle they look like flower petals.  Cut out a variety of foods and arrange plates to look like a food flower garden. These foods all work great and will give the party a splash of color - slices of oranges, apples (toss with a little pineapple juice first to prevent them from turning brown), kiwi (makes great leaves), sugar cookies, brownies, etc.  You can also cut whole sandwiches with the cookie cutters. 

Garden cupcakes.  These are fun for kids to eat.  Make them ahead or have the ingredients set out and let the party guests make their own.  Fill a cupcake liner with chocolate pudding (the dirt) about half way.  Crumble Oreo cookies and put them on top of the "dirt".  Stick gummy worms half in and half out of the pudding and top with flower sprinkles.