Fish Cupcakes
Picking a theme for your child's birthday party can help you pull everything together. Your games, decorations and food can all match the theme you choose. One theme you may want to consider is a fish-themed birthday party. This theme is geared toward children under age 6. Does this Spark an idea?
Decorations
Cut fish out of a fishing magazine and use tacky putty to place them all over the house. Hang streamers that are either blue or aqua colored. You will also want to get some balloons; Nemo ones if you'd like. Make sure you tie a couple balloons to your mailbox so guests can easily find your house.
You will also want to purchase under-the-sea type plates, cups, napkins and a tablecloth. These will be used to decorate your food table. In the middle of the food table, place a small fish bowl with a live goldfish inside. Give this neat centerpiece away as a prize to one of the children who wins one of the games.
Food
Goldfish crackers can be set in a bowl and placed on the food table. Next, make some dirt cups by filling Styrofoam cups with vanilla pudding. Then place one or two gummy worms in the pudding. Cover the worms with crushed Oreo cookies. Kids will have to dig to get the worms which are used as bait for fishing.
No party is complete without a cake or cupcakes. If you make cupcakes, you can decorate them with different fish using colored icing. If you choose to have a cake, you can order one or make one with an underwater scene.
For a drink you can serve blue Kool-Aid in a punch bowl. To make it more festive, fill an ice cube tray with water and then drop one Swedish Fish in each cube. Freeze and then add the ice cubes to the top of the punch bowl. You now have fish swimming in a lake.
Games
When you are ready for the kids to calm down, you can have them sit at a table and play "Go Fish." When that is over, fill up the bathtub with water and add plastic fish with numbers underneath of them. The child that fishes out the largest number wins a prize.
Have the children make a fish out of construction paper. They can color the fish with markers or crayons. Next, have the children flip the fish over and glue on a magnet. Now the children can gather sticks and tie a piece of yarn to the end of them. At the other end of the yarn, you can have the children attach a paper clip. Just tie the string around the paper clip. Now lay out a blue plastic tablecloth and throw the fish on the tablecloth. The fish are now swimming in the ocean and the children must use their homemade fishing rods to catch the fish. This is done when the paper clip is attracted to the magnet.
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