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Easy Birthday Party IdeasPerk Up Your Next Bash with These Fun ActivitiesTurn your party into a some crafty food fun when you decorate the cupcakes in a cone. Just one of the great ideas for birthday party fun in this article.
Tired of the same old hot dogs, cake and ice cream at your birthday parties? Here are some ideas for change of pace but oh so simple birthday party goodies. The first thing you might want to do is consider a theme – then ordinary foods become extraordinary treat. Green Kool-aid becomes – Intergalactic Space Fuel, Bug Juice or Pond Slime. Strawberry soda becomes Royal Ruby Punch, Strawberry Delight or Miner’s Refresher. A new name to an old favorite can often do the trick. Now try changing the cake into something besides an everyday sheet cake or expensive store bought deal. Try some one of these: Delicious Dirt Cake· 1 package Oreo cookies or other brand of chocolate sandwich cookies · 3 1/2 cups milk · 2 packages instant vanilla pudding · 1 container Cool Whip · 1/2 stick butter, softened but not melted · 1 package cream cheese, softened · 1 cup powdered sugar Grind cookies as finely as possible in a food processor or blender. Take a clean flower pot and line with foil. Put half the ground cookies in the bottom. In a bowl, mix together milk and pudding until thick. Mix in Cool Whip and stir. In another bowl, mix together butter, cream cheese, and powdered sugar until smooth. Then add to the milk and pudding mixture and stir together. Pour on top of the ground cookies. Then layer the top with the rest of the cookie crumbs. Cool in the fridge for 2 hours. Add fake flowers in the middle. Cover the "dirt" with colorful gummy worms. Serve it up with a plastic shovel. Serves 8. (from Easy Kids Recipes) Cake in an Ice Cream Cone
Preheat the oven to 350°F. Wrap a small square of aluminum foil around the base of each of the ice cream cones, and stand the cones in ungreased muffin baking pans. Set the pans aside. Mix the cake mix, water, oil, and eggs together in a large bowl with an electric mixer until well blended. Spoon the batter into each ice cream cone, filling it no more than halfway. Place the pans in the oven. Bake the cones until the cake springs back when lightly pressed with your finger, 20 to 25 minutes. Remove the pans from the oven and place them on wire racks to cool for 30 minutes. Remove the foil from each cone and frost with your favorite frosting. You can decorate them now or set out small bowls of toppings and let the kids choose their own. You can avoid them time consuming chore of dipping out ice cream by making ice cream balls ahead of time. Dip out a scoops of ice cream, roll in coconut, chocolate chips or sprinkles and freeze on a cookie sheet until hard. Then individually wrap them or place in a large sealed container in the freezer until serving time. Kids and adults love punch and it is simple and easy to make. Any Hawaiian Punch type drink will work. Just pour 1 gallon of Hawaiian punch into a large punch bowl, add a 2 liter of ginger ale and float a container of sherbet in the middle. Delicious! Keep foods simple. Pizza is a favorite at parties but instead of ordering purchase already made crusts and let the kids make their own. You add the sauce and they choose their toppings and add the cheese. Or try individual servings ready to go. Have a “bagged” lunch where everyone is handed a lunch sack, small basket or even a Frisbee for a plate with everything they need on it. Sandwich, individual drinks, carrot sticks and snack size bags of chips. Great with a picnic, miner’s or outdoor theme. Let you child help make the invitations, decorations and party favors. Consider setting up a craft table as part of the day's activities. Your whole birthday theme could be a craft one such as birdhouses, scrapbooking or painting. Most of all think kid friendly and simple. Easy to make and easy to clean up means more time with the kids for you and less work afterwards. It doesn’t have to be expensive, time consuming or even something totally new to be fresh and fun.
The copyright of the article Easy Birthday Party Ideas in Kids Crafts is owned by Belinda Mooney. Permission to republish Easy Birthday Party Ideas in print or online must be granted by the author in writing.
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