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Thomas The Tank Engine
Bob The Builder
Dinosaur
Fairy Party
First Birthday Party
Glamour Party
Jungle Party
Lady Bug Party
Pirate Party
Rocket Party
Skateboard Party
Winnie The Pooh & Friends

Themes & Decorations

Table

• Choose a colour from the theme and cover the table in a large tablecloth.
• Have a Thomas the Tank Engine Plate, Thomas the Tank Engine Hat, Thomas the Tank Engine Napkin, Thomas the Tank Engine Cup, Thomas the Tank Engine Straw and Thomas the Tank Engine Loot Bag for each guest at the table.
• Cover the party table or party room with trains and train tracks. Perhaps each guest can bring their own Thomas item (train, soft toy etc) along. Add some blue, red and yellow streamers to complete the look.
• Make sure each guest has a Thomas the Tank Engine Hat.

Decorations

• Decorate with Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends balloons, complete with matching curling ribbons.
• Decorate your entrance or party room with large Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends pictures.
• Add a Thomas the Tank Engine Happy Birthday Banner to finish.

Games and Activities

• Fill a Thomas the Tank Engine piñata with goodies such as lollies and other treats, tie to a tree or beam and watch the children enjoy either hitting with a stick or pulling the ribbons to release the treats.
• Thomas Train Treasure Hunt. You will need; A train driver or Thomas Hats, Treasure hunt clues, Treasure hunt prizes (these could be anything to do with Thomas or trains, such as figurine trains, any sweets or chocolates etc), Whistles for each child, so they can whistle and choo choo as they ride the train. Select a "train driver" to drive the train around. You could even change the train driver at each stop. All of the kids at the party can then "climb aboard" their imaginary train (kind of like a conga line), and they can choo choo or whistle their way around together from clue to clue.
• Give each guest a Thomas & Friends Poster Art, which includes 5 colouring sheets, 5 colouring markers and 1 sticker sheet.

Food and Drink

Birthday cake suggestion

• For a simple cake, try adding a Thomas the Tank Engine edible icing image to a round, square or rectangular cake (18cm or 7’or larger), which has been iced with pale blue, yellow or pink icing. Add lollies around the edges, and finish with candles to complete the look.
• Chicken nibbles and dipping sauce (kids love barbecue or plain sauce with these).
• Mini sandwiches cut into shapes.
• Mini scones with jam
• Miniature burgers
• Meatballs
• Truffles or Lolly Cake

Themes & Decorations

Table

• Choose a colour from the theme and cover the table in a large tablecloth.
• Have a Bob the Builder Plate, Bob the Builder Engine Hat, Bob the Builder Napkin, Bob the Builder Cup, and Bob the Builder Loot Bag for each guest at the table.
• Add some blue, red and yellow streamers to complete the look.
• Make sure each guest has a Bob the Builder Hat.

Decorations

• Decorate with Bob the Builder balloons, complete with matching curling ribbons.
• Decorate your entrance or party room with large Bob the Builder pictures.
• Add a Bob the Builder Happy Birthday Banner to finish.

Games and Activities

• Have a Bob the Builder dress up look-alike contest.
• Get the children to team up and build something, like a fort made of recycled cartons. Provide some glue, embellishments such as pipe cleaners, glitter etc and crayons or pens so they can decorate the fort,

Food and Drink

• Chicken nibbles and dipping sauce (kids love barbecue or plain sauce with these).
• Mini sandwiches cut into shapes.
• Mini scones with jam
• Miniature burgers
• Meatballs
• Truffles or Lolly Cake

Themes & Decorations

Table

• Choose a colour from the theme and cover the table in a large tablecloth.
• Have a Dinosaur Plate, Dinosaur Hat, Dinosaur Napkin, Dinosaur Cup and Dinosaur Loot Bag for each guest at the table.
• Cover the party table with crepe paper and decorate with items from the garden, such as pebbles, fern leaves, small and large leaves. Some green streamers hanging from the ceiling will complete the look.
• Make sure each guest has a Dinosaur Party Placemat.

Decorations

• Change the look of your entrance or hall way draping dark sheets along walls to create a cave effect. Cover any windows with dark sheets or dark cardboard, and stick some old branches or leaves here and there to complete the look.
• Decorate with balloons in greens, browns and yellows for an earthy dinosaur look.
• Decorate your path and entrance with large dinosaur footprints using chalk or coloured paper or cardboard.
• Add a “ Happy Birthday” Banner to finish.

Games and Activities

• Hide chocolate eggs of all sizes for a Dinosaurus Egg Hunt.
• Play “Pin the Tail on the Dinosaur”, or “Tack the Tooth on the Dinosaur”.
• Get guests to decorate hard boiled eggs in a Dinosaur theme. You will need plenty of coloured pens for this (perhaps the invites could suggest they bring their own).
• Dinosaur egg and spoon races – children carry their decorated boiled egg on a spoon in a race with other guests (or use plain hard boiled eggs if there might be tears if their ‘dinosaur’ breaks!) Use a streamer as the finish line.
• Play “ Pass the Parcel” with sweets in between each layer, and make sure each child gets a turn.

Food and Drink

Birthday cake suggestion

• For a simple cake, try adding a Dinosaur Icing Plaque to a round, square or rectangular cake (18cm or 7’or larger), which has been iced with pale green or chocolate icing. Add dinosaur lollies around the edges, and finish with candles to complete the look.
• Chicken nibbles and dipping sauce (kids love barbecue or plain sauce with these).
• Mini sandwiches cut into dinosaur shapes.
• Mint leaves lollies.
• Sandwiches filled with marmite or chocolate (dirt sandwiches!)
• Spare ribs and tomato or barbecue sauce (Tex Rex Ribs).
• Miniature burgers (Carnivores Delights).
• Meat-o-saurus Meatballs
• Truffles or Lolly Cake (Rock Cakes)
• White chocolate chunks (Dinosaur teeth).

Themes & Decorations

Table

• Choose a colour from the theme and cover the table in a large tablecloth.
• Have a Fairy Plate, Fairy Hat, Fairy Napkin, Fairy Cup and Fairy Loot Bag for each guest at the table.
• Make sure each guest has a Fairy Party Placemat.
• Colour suggestions - pastel shades such as pink, lavender purple, apricot, lemon, white, pale blue using balloons and streamers.
• Sprinkle glitter ‘fairy’ dust on the party table. Add pretty flowers and rose petals by scattering randomly on the table.

Decorations

• Decorate the chairs with balloons.
• Use crepe paper to make ‘fairy skirts’ for all of the guests.
• Make fairy wands by cutting some dowel (round wood available from hardware stores) to length, painting it pale pink, and securing a star covered in glitter to the end.
• Add a “ Happy Birthday” Banner to finish.

Games and Activities

• Play ‘Pin the Wand on the Fairy’.
• Play ‘Fairy Says’ (Simon Says) and give each child a turn.
• Make a fairy posy using flowers from your garden and tying together with curling ribbon.
• Make fairy gardens - use a small disposable plate, fill with dirt and decorate with petals and glitter and small leaves and sprinkle over flour or icing sugar through a sieve.
• Have a Fairy Dance Contest.
• Play “ Pass the Parcel” with sweets in between each layer, and make sure each child gets a turn.

Food and Drink

Birthday cake suggestion

• For a simple cake, try adding a Fairy Icing Plaque to a round, square or rectangular cake (18cm or 7’or larger), which has been iced with pale pink icing. Add lots of edible silver balls or hundreds and thousands (available from most supermarkets), and finish with candles to complete the look.
• Make the food feel tiny and dainty
• Small star-shaped biscuits decorated with pastel icing and edible silver balls or hundreds and thousands.
• Mini sausage rolls.
• An assortment of small star and heart shaped sandwiches.
• Butterfly cup cakes.
• Flowers and heart shaped jam biscuits ( belgium biscuits are ideal for this).

Themes & Decorations

Decorations

• Have a 1 st Birthday Plate, 1 st Birthday Hat, 1 st Birthday Napkin, 1 st Birthday Cup and 1 st Birthday Loot Bag for each guest at the table.
• Keep things simple by using pastel streamers hung high so children can’t grab them.
• Don't use balloons. Young children can choke on uninflated or popped balloons.
• It is best not to use a tablecloth as young children can pull on them.
• Invite guests to bring along their teddy bears, for a teddy bears picnic.
• Add a “ Happy Birthday” Banner to finish.

Things to Remember

• Lots of noise may be frightening for some children.
• Make sure your house is child proofs to prevent any accidents.
• Take lots of photos and video footage that can be shown at your child’s 21 st birthday party!
• Begin a scrapbook.

Games and Activities

• As one year olds are too young for organized games and activities, it is best to keep it simple.
• You could blow bubbles.
• Sing nursery rhymes or songs where everyone can join in.
• Put plenty of toys out for guests to have free time flaying with them, or get guests to bring their own favourite toy/teddy bear etc. (Mention this on the invitation).

Food and Drink

Birthday cake suggestion

• A cake cut into the shape of a number 'one' with a number 1 candle, little cup cakes with teddy bears on top, or a cake in the shape of a teddy bear (these can be hired from cake specialty shops).
• Mini sandwiches.
• Various vegetable sticks.
• Animal Crackers.
• Orange and apple segments.
• Miniature muffins.
• Mini milk shakes such as banana or berry.

Themes & Decorations

Table

• Choose a colour from the theme and cover the table in a large tablecloth.
• Have a Glamour Plate, Glamour Hat, Glamour Napkin, Glamour Cup and Glamour Loot Bag for each guest at the table.

Decorations

• Decorate the room with pinks, blues and lime green balloons and streamers – anything girly, glitzy and glamorous!
• Use lots of glitter and sparkly finishes to the room. Cut popular celebrities out of magazines and make posters out of them and hang around the room, or even make custom placemats from them for each guest.
• Hang lots of silver or gold tinsel around the room.
• Add a “ Happy Birthday” Banner to finish.

Games and Activities

• Play ‘Pin the lips or sunglasses on the celebrity’.
• Have the guests come dressed up in gorgeous gowns and tiaras and have a beauty contest, where all participants get a glamour prize (you could make some inexpensive sashes with fabric pens with “Most beautiful smile” etc).
• Invite Mums and Dads to participate in a fashion parade, with lots of flashing cameras.
• Karaoke or dance contest, or disco.

Food and Drink

Birthday cake suggestion

Purse cake - buy or bake a deep round cake. When cold, cut one third of the cake off, leaving a large semi-circle. Tip the cake on its side, using the flat side of the semi circle as the base of the cake. Ice with pink icing. Put round dollops of purple icing uniformly over the cake, then secure round pink, green or blue (or a selection) of round sweets or jewels of the same size on top of the dollops for a studded purse effect. Add a piping effect around the edges for the seam of the purse, and attach some ribbon or satin strap loops as the handle of the purse at the top. Finish with pretty candles on top.

• Pink Lemonade (add a small amount of red food colouring to lemonade).
• Dainty finger sandwiches.
• Crackers with cheese, salami etc.
• Toothpicks with cheese & pineapple
• Hot or iced chocolates with plenty of marshmallows.

Themes & Decorations

Table

• Choose a colour from the theme and cover the table in a large tablecloth.
• Have a Jungle Plate, Jungle Hat, Jungle Napkin, Jungle Cup and Jungle Loot Bag for each guest at the table.
• Make sure each guest has a Jungle Party Placemat.
• Get the birthday child to make names for each guests chair from cardboard or coloured paper and colouring pens. Or, buy an inexpensive colouring in book in a jungle theme and get them to colour in the pictures and hang or blue tack onto each chair. Pictures can be plain or laminated, for an extra special effect.

Decorations

• Decorate the party room with as many stuffed animals as you can find (borrow and get guests to bring their own – make sure they name them first!)
• Use ‘jungle colours’ such as green and brown for balloons & streamers.
• Cut out or draw animal footprints and place on the floor, walls etc.
• Add a “ Happy Birthday” Banner to finish.

Games and Activities

• Play ‘Pin the Tail on the Zebra’.
• Use some of the stuffed toys for a “Jungle Hunt”.
• Play jungle animal charades.
• Play Pass the Parcel with sweets in between each layer, and make sure each child gets a turn.
• Have a “jungle animal” running race where all guests pick an animal out of a hat, and run and make noises like their animal. Selections could include; monkeys, lions, tigers, elephants, giraffes, snakes.

Food and Drink

Birthday cake suggestion

For a simple cake, try adding a Jungle Icing Plaque to a round, square or rectangular cake (18cm or 7’or larger), which has been iced with pale green or chocolate icing. Add animal lollies around the edges, and finish with candles to complete the look.

• Animal crackers or biscuits.
• Coloured jelly with snake lollies set into them.
• Mini meatballs and barbecue or tomato sauce.
• Mini pizzas.
• Iced biscuits with animals or snakes stuck to the top.
• Chocolate frogs and fish.

Themes & Decorations

Table

• Choose a colour from the theme and cover the table in a large tablecloth.
• Have a Lady Bug Plate, Lady Bug Hat, Lady Bug Napkin, Lady Bug Cup and Lady Bug Loot Bag for each guest at the table.
• Decorate table with paper flowers made from crepe paper in red and black.

Decorations

• Make balloon ladybirds by drawing black dots onto red or orange balloons.
• Cut pages out of a Ladybird colouring in book and get guests to colour in their own place mat, which they can take home as part of their loot bag. Plenty of colouring pens, pencils or crayons will be needed for this.
• Add pictures of lady bugs randomly on the walls. Secure to the wall with blue tack for easy removal.
• Add a “ Happy Birthday” Banner to finish.

Games and Activities

• ‘Pin the ladybird on the flower’ or ‘pin the spot on the ladybird’
• Get each guest to colour in round rocks to look like ladybirds. Add pipe cleaners for antennae and black dots for the spots.
• Play Pass the Parcel with sweets in between each layer, and make sure each child gets a turn.
• Musical chairs or musical statues.

Food and Drink

Birthday cake suggestion

Hire a ladybird shaped cake tin from a specialist store, or ice a plain round cake with red icing and pipe black spots randomly over it. For the antennae, add chocolate stick biscuits. Decorate around the cake with flower and bug-shaped lollies, and finish off with an age birthday candle.

• Jelly ladybirds – make raspberry jelly with black lollies or dark chocolate drops set into it.
• Decorate brown marshmallow biscuits with dollops of red for a male lady bug.
• Halve large strawberries and stick to a dark chocolate biscuit as a base. Ice round dollops of dark chocolate icing onto the strawberry.
• Cut sandwiches into the shapes of flowers.
• Have plenty of red or orange cordial served from a clear glass or plastic jug which has been decorated with black sticky dots.

Themes & Decorations

Table

• Choose a colour from the theme and cover the table in a large tablecloth. Black would be ideal.
• Have a Pirate Plate, Pirate Hat, Pirate Napkin, Pirate Cup and Pirate Loot Bag for each guest at the table.
• Make a treasure chest by spray painting a box with a separate lid (such as a photocopy paper box) with black paint. Once dry, spray paint lightly with gold paint and let dry. You could rub some dirt over the box in places to make it look old and dug up. Put this as a centerpiece on the table.

Decorations

• Get your guests to come dressed up as pirates.
• Draw a skull and crossbones in black marker pen on some white balloons and place at the gate or entranceway.
• Have a telescope ready for each guest as they arrive (empty cardboard handy towel or toilet rolls covered with tinfoil are ideal for this).
• Use pirate colours for decorations using streamers and crepe paper in red, white, black, gold and silver.
• Use phrases such as ‘Shiver me timbers’ and ‘Aye, Aye Captain’ during the party.
• Make eye patches by cutting a patch shape out of black cardboard or felt, making a small hole on each side. Thread thin elastic through and adjust to fit the child’s head.
• Make a fake moustache by drawing on with a black or dark coloured eyeliner pencil.
• Add a “ Happy Birthday” Banner to finish.

Games and Activities

• Play ‘Pin the patch on the pirate’, or ‘Pin the Parrot on the Pirate’.
• Play “ Pass the Parcel” with sweets in between each layer, and make sure each child gets a turn.
• Musical Pirate statues.
• Purchase some pirate temporary tattoos or draw mock tattoos with felt pens on to the guests’ arms and legs.
• Tug of war.
• Sack races.
• Have a treasure hunt, and use the treasure chest you made above by filling with inexpensive goodies for all.
• Play ‘walk the plank’ by either placing a plank just off the ground onto bricks or drawing a plank on concrete and drawing toy sharks beside it. Make each round harder to keep it interesting, such as balancing a book on their head, egg & spoon balancing, eyes closed, hands tied behind backs.

Food and Drink

Birthday cake suggestion

For a simple cake, try adding a Pirate Icing Plaque to a round, square or rectangular cake (18cm or 7’or larger), which has been iced with dark chocolate icing. Finish with candles to complete the look.

• Ice round biscuits in white icing and top with a skull and crossbone pattern, or an eye patch shape.
• Freeze different coloured fruit juices of bright colours, such as Raspberry, orange, kiwifruit into ice trays. When ready to serve drinks, put a large clear jug filled with lemonade in the centre of the table. Add brightly coloured ice cubes and you have a ‘tropical island mocktail’ to serve.
• Chocolate truffles.
• Mini pizzas.
• Wedges
• Chicken nibbles with barbecue sauce.

Themes & Decorations

Table

• Choose a colour from the theme and cover the table in a large tablecloth.
• Have a Rocket Plate, Rocket Hat, Rocket Napkin, Rocket Cup and Rocket Loot Bag for each guest at the table.

Decorations

• Decorate the room with blue and silver balloons and streamers.
• Cover the windows in dark paper with holes pricked in to let the ‘starlight’ through.
• Provide a star name badge for each guest as they arrive.
• Add a “ Happy Birthday” Banner to finish.

Games and Activities

• Play ‘pin the spaceships on the moon’ or ‘pin the flame on the rocket ship’.
• Space walk – requires plenty of balloons! Fill a room with balloons to the childrens’ waist height (a balloon pump is ideal here). Let the children have some free play amongst the balloons going on a ‘space walk’ – they will love it!
• Have fun playing outside with bouncy balls.
• Play ‘Astronaut Birthday Boy/Girl Says’ (Simon Says).
• Play “ Pass the Parcel” with sweets in between each layer, and make sure each child gets a turn.
• Meteorite and spoon race using a rock covered with tinfoil as the ‘meteorite’.

Food and Drink

Birthday cake suggestion

•  Cut a star shape out of a square cake using a template as a guide. Decorate with white icing and cover with edible silver balls (available from supermarkets). Surround with milky way treats and mars bars. Complete with an age candle.
• Mini pizza planets.
• Mars bars cut up into smaller pieces.
• Milky Way bars.
• Popcorn.
• Star-shaped biscuits.
• Jet planes stuck with icing to the top of marshmallow biscuits.

Themes & Decorations

Table

• Choose a colour from the theme and cover the table in a large tablecloth.
• Have a Skateboard Plate, Skateboard Hat, Skateboard Napkin, Skateboard Cup and Skateboard Loot Bag for each guest at the table.
• Make sure each guest has a Skateboard Party Placemat.

Decorations

• Decorate the room with cardboard cutouts of skateboards, or pictures from a skateboard magazine of popular skateboard experts.
• Decorate every corner of the room with lots of purple and yellow balloons and streamers.
• If the party is outside, make some ramps out of strong wood and boxes (if the boys are old enough) and get guests to bring their own skateboard.
• Add a “ Happy Birthday” Banner to finish.

Games and Activities

• Play ‘Pin the wheel on the skateboard’.
• Have the guests come dressed in their skateboard gear, complete with caps and sunglasses. Don’t forget to make sure they bring their pads and helmets too.
• Sack races.
• Three legged races.
• Play “ Pass the Parcel” with sweets in between each layer, and make sure each child gets a turn.
• Skateboard relay races or obstacle courses.
• Ten pin bowling using tennis balls and empty fizzy bottles.

Food and Drink

Birthday cake suggestion

For a fun birthday cake, make the underside view of a skateboard by making or buying both a round cake and a rectangular cake. Cut the round cake in half. Lay each half at either end of the rectangular cake with the flat side facing the rectangle. Ice in either chocolate or white icing, and decorate with swirls out of sweets, or add your childs age at one end and their name at the other end. For the wheels, you will need 4 mini donuts and 2 biscuit or mint sticks for the axels. Finish with co-ordinated candles to finish.

• Mini pizzas
• Chips & dip
• Cocktail sausages, or a ‘hotdog’stand (Dad cooking hotdogs on the barbecue).
  

Themes & Decorations

Table

• Choose a colour from the theme and cover the table in a large tablecloth.
• Have a Winnie the Pooh Plate, Winnie the Pooh Hat, Winnie the Pooh Napkin, Winnie the Pooh Cup, Winnie the Pooh Straw and Winnie the Pooh Loot Bag for each guest at the table.
• Cover the party table or party room with teddy bears (Winnie the Pooh bears, Tigger, Eeyore, Piglet, Rabbit, Lumpy or Kanga if possible). Perhaps each guest can bring their own Pooh bear along. Add some yellow, red and lime green streamers to complete the look.
• Make sure each guest has a Winnie the Pooh Hat and of their own.

Decorations

• Decorate with Winnie the Pooh balloons, complete with matching curling ribbons.
• Decorate your entrance or party room with large Winnie the Pooh & Friends pictures.
• Add a Winnie the Pooh Happy Birthday Banner to finish.

Games and Activities

• Fill a Winnie the Pooh piñata with goodies such as lollies and other treats, tie to a tree or beam and watch the children enjoy either hitting with a stick or pulling the ribbons to release the treats.
• Get guests to decorate hard boiled eggs in a Winnie the Pooh & friends theme. You will need plenty of coloured pens for this (perhaps the invites could suggest they bring their own).
• Give each guest a Winnie the Pooh Fun Pack as their loot goodies which include a fun puzzle, scribbler, sticker book, stickers & crayons.

Food and Drink

Birthday cake suggestion

• For a simple cake, try adding a Winnie the Pooh edible icing image to a round, square or rectangular cake (18cm or 7’or larger), which has been iced with pale blue, yellow or pink icing. Add lollies around the edges, and finish with candles to complete the look.
• Chicken nibbles and dipping sauce (kids love barbecue or plain sauce with these).
• Mini sandwiches cut into bear shapes.
• Fairy Bread (hundreds and thousands sandwiches)
• Miniature burgers
• Meatballs
• Truffles or Lolly Cake