Birthday Party Tips & Advice

Give a cultural and educational touch to your child’s next birthday party. Plan an Around the World children’s birthday party for a great idea your child and his or her friends will love.

Getting dressed up and playing games are what children love to do best. With an Around the World party, your kids can play imaginative games and dress up in the costume of their choice!

Start with the invitations. You can get really creative here and enlist the help of your child to create the invitations from scratch. Find world maps on construction paper and you can place a small piece of white construction on top with all of the party information. If you want the children to dress from a country of their choosing, be sure to put that suggestion on the invitation!

If you don’t want your attendees to worry about finding costumes from the country of their choice, you can plan to have a box of costume supplies for when they walk in the door. Choose from such simple items as cowboy hats to Indian headdresses, traditional costumes from Russia, Sweden, Mexico, China – the list goes on and on! As each child comes in the door, they can select the costume pieces they want to wear for the afternoon.

What can you do for games during your Around the World party?

Depending on the age of the children, you can teach everyone origami to make an array of shapes in colorful paper. Let the children ‘fly’ to another country and enjoy a game that represents that country. Have them dance to jazz music playing Hot Potato during their flight to New Orleans. Bang a piñata filled with candy during a ‘flight’ to Mexico. Go to Hawaii to do the limbo and wear lei’s. Search for the leprechaun’s gold in Ireland. You can come up with a variety of different games for the children to play during your Around the World children’s party.

Feed the children sample foods from around the world to have them taste new dishes. Put out the tasty beignets of New Orleans or sample Chinese food. Try pasta or pizza from Italy and ‘fish and chips’ from England. For the birthday cake, you can shape a large sheet cake and draw the world on top of it.

With an Around the World party, your child and his or her friends are sure to have a wonderful time with plenty of exciting, international adventures!