Sports Lovers Birthday Party

Party Invitations

• Create pennant-shaped invitations using bright-colored cardstock. Remember the "when and where" details.
• Invite partygoers to come dressed in their favorite team shirts.

Party Decorations

• Drape a stadium-name banner on the door…use your family surname…”Johnson Stadium”.
• Inside the house name all the stadium hot spots…a party-favor table works for a 'souvenir stand', the backyard becomes the 'dugout', your kitchen can be the 'snack bar.'
• Hang streamers, pennants and sports posters in the party space.
• Suspend a sports-themed piñata from a tree branch for outside fun.

Party Games & Activities

• As guests arrive, assign them to a team. Give the teams fun names like Ball Blasters, Sideliners.
• Get everyone outside for some old-fashioned sports: croquet, badminton, or bocce ball (like lawn bowling).
• Organize a ball game, complete with trophies (have a few inexpensive ones engraved with the birthday kid's name and birthdate in the spot for the event on the trophies).
• Stage a short "triathlon" race, with guests competing in three different events. Party favor prizes could include small games, like bouncy balls, pick-up sticks, jacks or Chinese jump ropes.
• Supply inexpensive visors or baseball caps and an array of puffpaints and art supplies to decorate.

Party Favors

• Party favors that score with sports fans include bouncy balls, pick-up sticks, jacks or Chinese jump ropes.

Food Fun

• Have party goers decorate cupcakes for their favorite sport.
• Supply bowls of white, orange and yellow frosting and purchased black, red and white decorator frosting tubes.