Sriteja 3rd Birthday party puppet show

When Naga called me to shoot his son 3rd birthday I was very excited. I had shot his wedding ceremony two years ago and he had contacted me to shoot his son second birthday. Unfortunately I couldn’t as I had a wedding that day. But apparently Naga liked my work and decided to contact me for the third birthday.
So here is a highlight of Sriteja’s fun party, which involved muppets animals, cup cake making, and a Diego theme

Magic Party: If you opt for magic party theme for your child’s 6^th birthday party, then you can get the kids to come dressed as magicians. Get the kids to make their own magic wand from dowels decorated with colored ribbon, glitter, paint and stickers. You can organize magic party games like hiding lots of white rabbits made from craft paper, around the house or garden. Whoever finds the most rabbits gets a prize.

 Circus Party: Ask the kids to come dressed up in either circus or any sort of carnival costume. For decoration, create different activity areas and put up large signs saying what each activity is e.g. Popcorn Stand, Toss the hoops, Restroom, Ticket Booth. You can purchase some superb cardboard cutouts or make your own out of cardboard boxes, tables, canopies, sheets etc. To make it more fun and realistic, give the kids some ticket coupons as they arrive at the party and these will be used for the games, stalls and food.

Craft Party: A craft party theme is more popular with the girls. Ask the kids not to come in their best clothes but to come dressed as artists. You can organize some craft party activities like decorating, painting, jewelry making etc and some craft party games also. You can give gifts to the kids like pencil, Craft kits, Sketchpads and pencils etc.

Do something that is close to heart

The best way to put together a memorable 3 year old birthday get-together experience is to do something related to your child’s interest. One of the biggest difficulties in organizing a birthday party for a kid is that the parents quite often try to integrate adult birthday party ideas. It should be taken into consideration that a child’s mindset is different from the adult’s mindset, so it is better to choose ideas that are favorable to kids and not to the adults.

Try to know from your kid

Try to read your child’s mind. Try to know about your child’s preferred comic strip characters, dream jobs, and other fantasies. Your child will be highly surprised if you throw a pirate themed birthday and will be thrilled to know that you remember that he dreams to be a pirate.

Match your home décor with the theme

Another important aspect that should be considered while arranging a 3 year old birthday party is that your home décor should match up to the theme. A 3 year old kid is creative, and is enjoying the best years of life, so organize a well planned theme party, with masks and toys. Shop for all the toy stores around for perfect accessories and home decor which can balance the selected theme. For instance if you have chosen a pirate themed celebration, then buy stuffed parrots as return gifts. You can also buy eye patches and decorate your home with ship, water, and artificial trees all around.

Add fun and games

Your 3 year old kid birthday party is incomplete without games and excitement. Children like to indulge themselves in games in their birthday celebrations. For example for a party based on the princess theme, the children can indulge in hunt for treasure around the house to search for of unicorns and princess glass slippers and tiaras.

You can make your kid birthday worth remembering with a little sensitivity and a sincere effort. Your child has all the right to have a good time on his third birthday party. So help him out in making this an awesome experience for him

Fun Packed 3^rd Birthday Parties

You can arrange a fun packed 3^rd birthday party for your kid even though it is very exhausting for the parent to keep up with these little devils. But you can make this occasion as thrilling as possible without over-doing it for your kid.

There is no need to go over-board. There are 4 must things for your 3 year old kid.

(1) Invite friends

(2) Family

(3) Presents

(4) and, most importantly the cake.

The following are some of the inexpensive yet innovative ideas to make the birthday party for your 3 year old worth a while.

3 Most Inexpensive Birthday Party Ideas

• Finger Painting – Children love being imaginative and spending time outdoors. If we coordinate these two activities together by organizing a “finger painting party” outside where children can paint on paper and cardboard it would be great fun for them.
• Outdoor Play – Children can unload trucks on the sand, construct castles out of sands, and release some amount of energy. These fun ideas are amazing for three year olds.
• Costume Contest – You can organize a costume party for the little princess. You can make them wear your old clothes and perhaps a little bit of make-up.

A happening party is not dependent on how much you spend but it depends on how you can make this event thrilling and unforgettable for your little kid.

Free birthday Party Invitations

Once you have chalked out the date and birthday party theme and it’s time to send out those invitations to the invitee. But an innovative way of announcing the party would be to construct an invitation web page Instead of penning out all invitations and distributing them out. The web page will include all details relating to the party like the date of the party, party theme, dress code and venue. You can also add images and photographs of your child.

A Birthday Ball Dance party for the Princess

1. Try to give a royal treatment to your birthday girl on her birthday. Send invitations to all the invitees about her birthday ball. Try to indulge your little princess as well as her guests in makeovers and make them watch movies such as Cinderella and Snow White. Arrange for a decorated throne for your little daughter and make her feel the guest of honor and make her wear a plastic tiara to give a princess look. The guests can be served crown cookies, sandwiches and cake. You can also lease a blow up castle for bouncing purposes which will add to some additional amount of fun and frolic.

Dolls Tea Party

2. You can make your little princess have tea with her friends dressed up as dolls on her birthday. The favorable dress code can be floral dresses and floppy hats. The guests can be told to bring their favorite dolls. The party venue can be outside in an open space with flower bouquets and neutral tablecloths on the table to match up to the theme. The guest cans be served sandwiches and cupcakes along with the iced tea. You can also provide food to the dolls brought by the guests.

Ballerina Birthday Bash

3. You can have a ballet-themed birthday celebration for the young girl. You can buy accessories required by a ballerina & make the guests wear tutus and ballet shoes. There should be enough space where girls can dance wearing lovely attire in ballet soundtracks. Hiring a ballet dancer will help since she can give lessons to the invitees. A good décor and good food will add to the party.

Hula Girl Birthday

Hawaii theme can be created on your child’s birthday. Though Hawaii may be miles away but that theme can be created at your house with plastic palm trees and flowers. The guests can also join in hula dance. Water slides and kiddy pools for kids can further add to the party. The entire venue can be decorated with paper flip-flops and sand art crafts.

Butterfly Garden Birthday Party

4. Since butterflies are adored by young girls for their bright colors and so it can be a creative birthday party theme. A painter can be hired for painting the picture of butterfly on the face of the invitees. The venue can be completely decorated using flowers & butterfly birthday cakes.

4th Birthday Present Ideas

Searching a gift for your  4 year old kid is quite a difficult task since it is an age when a child becomes very inquisitive & inquiring. At this stage they love to play. So you need to buy from a wide collection of toys and other gifts available that not only challenge them but also offer them hours of inspiring fun.

Thomas Tank Engine

1. Wooden Thomas Tank Engine train can be an ideal gift for a little boy. The child can be imaginative and he can imagine that he is commanding the Tank engine. Even gifts like Thomas the Tank Engine DVDs or may be a series of Thomas and Friends books written by Rev. W. V. Awdry, can be gifted which is considered a staple of every childhood literature since it was introduced in the 1940s. The set of train may include hand-made engines, railway tracks etc, made of wood.

My Little Pony

2. My Little Pony can be an ideal gift for a girl since she can pet, comb and even style, with all kinds of accessories. There are a lot of Little Pony products, available right from puzzles, books games to room decorations. Even girls love horses just like the way boys love trains and dinosaurs.

Board Games

3. A four year old kid can try for simple board games. There are lots of options available like traditional standbys Chutes, Ladders and Candy land. All these games are quite and also teach children about numbering and counting. Another good game that can be played is Dinosaur Monopoly. It is a simple form of game meant for young children.  

Legos

4. A 4 year Boy and girl generally leave the phase of wooden-block sand venture into something tougher. Legos are basically a natural succession. These help the kid to build creativity and help them stay pre occupied for a longer period of time.  Other good games include Lincoln Logs and Tinker Toys.

Books

5. At the age of 4, Boys and girls learn to read books. The kids prefer 2 types of books like picture books having simple words and story books that you want your kid to read, such as Berenstain Bears, Dr. Seuss and Arnold Lobel’s The Small Pig. There are also habitual story books such as Goldilocks and the Three Bears, The Three Little Pigs and Sleeping Beauty.

Princess Party Invitations:

Princess party invitations could include pictures of glass princess slippers, castles and knights on royal horses. Make sure the cards look special by using stylish fonts, calligraphy, glitter inks and
colored ribbons and flags. Mention the arrival and departure, date and venue clearly in the invitations. You can mention the dress code for the princess party as well. You can tie up the invitations with a bow like they did it in the olden days for all official parties.

Princess Party Decorations:

Decorate the entrance of your house with flags, shields and red carpets to make it a grand entrance.

Royal ball:

You can create a royal ball in your living room where you can decorate it with pink truffles and drape the tulles in the ceiling to create a canopy. This will give the look of a small dancing space for children
to dance in. You can also drape the chairs with pink ribbons and colorful bows.

Royal entrance:

Using a chalk you can draw princess characters on the driveway eg: snow white and Cinderella.
At the entrance you can write “enter the castle” here or “welcome to the kingdom”. You can have cutouts of court attendants and the dwarfs prepared and place them at the entrance. These will form the welcoming party for the guests. When each guest arrives their names can be announced in the background as in royal courts.

Ok now that the guests have arrived and we are all set we need to make sure that each guest receives personal attention and leaves the party with fond memories. We will discuss this in PART II of the article.

The Princess Party – Part II

Now that the guests have arrived at the princess party let’s make the evening a delightful one for them. The best way to do this is to arrange some games which they will enjoy. Here are some beautiful ideas.

Wishing well or fountain:

Place a small wishing well somewhere in the party. Give each guest a penny and ask them to wish something before dropping the penny into the well. Tell her that at night fall her wish will come true. You can then add gift boxes inside so that when each guest leaves they can pull out the gifts from the well.

Ice Drop:

Kids are divided into two teams and given 2 toothpicks and two bowls. In one bowl ice cubes are kept. The two bowls are placed at a distance on a table. Each person has to run from the start point bowl to the finish point bowl by carrying ice with toothpicks. The one who finishes first wins.

Kiss the Prince:

This is a simple kid game. The kids put on red lipstick and are blindfolded and spun around. They then try to kiss a picture of a prince. Whoever is closest wins.

Glass Slipper:

Everyone sits in a circle and passes a slipper from one person to the next (while music is playing). Someone calls time or stops the music and the person left holding the slipper is out. Continue until there is only one person left.

Besides the games the next thing you can concentrate on is the food. Make sure the food is delicious so that it can be enjoyed by the children. Some useful suggestions are Food Items

All types of breads and  platter of meats Enchanted chicken and turkey legs Cream cheese & strawberry jam sandwiches (you can shape them with star, heart, diamond etc.
Royal Salad (dried cranberries, golden raisins, cherries etc.)

Princess Party Drinks:

Apple juice
Some sort of a sherbet
Pink lemonade
Strawberry tea

Princess Party Treats:

Strawberries
Grapes
Cockies
Popcorn
At the end of the party give everyone a small return gift so that they remember the party for a long time.

Princess Party Favors:

“Love” and “Thank You” charms can be added as favors and gifts. The half diameter charms feature a hole at the top for easy attachment with ribbon. Small assorted gift packets with plastic miniature
princess dolls, wands, magical characters work well.

Now you can start planning you royal ball and don’t forget to include your prince or princess in the process.

Batman kids party theme

Coolest Superhero Birthday Parties for Your kid!!
Batman is a character which every kid knows about. He is a super hero who is physically fit and mentally agile to take on all evil and evil doers in the world. He is the advocator of good. Because of this kids admire him and even impersonate him while at play. For your kids, Batman is an ideal hero. Batman uses the knowledge of science and math in his crime fighting tools and this attracts today’s kids. So it can be a very good birthday theme for the youngsters.
Because of its universal appeal the super hero batman theme is something very interesting one can have at a kid’s birthday celebration. You can make invitation cards having bat wings as the theme. You can use pen flashlights and can use it in a bat shape attaching a card with the date, time and location of the party. A Super hero Spiderman party with kids in red and blue colors can be a mind blowing idea.
The villains mostly seen in movies can also play significant characters in your kid’s birthday party. Some of the famous characters are Catwoman, Joker, Penguin, Two Face, Mr. Freeze and the Riddler and the Spiderman nemesis Green Goblin. These characters can add a lot of charm to the kid’s party.
These days the super hero theme has become very popular at birthday parties. There has been an overwhelming response for superhero party supplies. Thus a well decorated superhero party can add lots of amusement, liveliness and zeal to make the party a brilliant success.

Here are some interesting ideas and stuff you can arrange for your jungle themed party.

Fill the room with jungle leaves and also attach tissue paper plants and flowers. Paint photographs of wild animals like elephants or giraffes. Wrap the tables in animal skin styled cloth and put stuffed animals at the center.

Fill your house with balloons or paper chain in tropical colors like green, tan, yellow. Decorate the paper chain in such a way that they look like vines by twisting and connecting green and yellow streamers jointly.

Cut paw prints out of cardboard and glue it on the ground. On the entrance you can use banner written “Welcome to The Serengeti National Park, Africa!” Dangle the pictures of wild animals on the walls of your party area.
Make palm trees using the cardboard rolls to give a safari look. Cover them with brown and green felt strips.

Cut pictures of monkeys, hippos, elephants and lions and glue them in plywood and lean it against a fence or wall. Present each guest of yours a synthetic safari hat and a pair of binoculars the moment they arrive. Dress the birthday boy/girl before the guest arrives so that he /she can welcome the guests at the door.

Fill the room with jungle themed toys and hide them all over the yard. Tell the kids to search the treat bags while on their way to the safari. Serve flavored punch by referring to it as “Jungle Juice.” Prepare the cake with the jungle safari theme.

Take snaps of children wearing jungle safari hats and binoculars and attach a thank you card so that all the guests have an extraordinary photo remembrance to keep.

Every kid loves twisting balloon animals. Playing with balloon animals is a source of temptation for kids. Apart from that, remaking balloon animals without popping them is also exciting.
The balloon dog is the basic animal shape. This is where it all begins. Balloon dog is by far the most requested balloon animal so far. The main reason behind it is that it is quick, simple, and most of all people really like dogs. With proper balloon animal directions a swan, sword, giraffe or even a horse can be prepared.  Children of all age groups are enthralled by the act of distorting balloons to different shapes. A birthday party is empty without some fun filled balloon twisting activities.
The astounding part is that kids love it. Even a lot of adults sit back and smile as different shapes of balloon animals are formed in front of them. Once you excel in preparing balloon animals you can twist balloons and make lots of shapes in no time. But for this you need to have good supplies and a good pump.
Method to Make Balloon Animals for the Kids at a Birthday Party.
The concept of making balloon animals started from many decades ago.  This art is also known as ‘balloon twisting‘. The balloons are twisted into some amazing shapes of animals.
Balloon twisters spend hours in twisting balloons of different shapes thereby practicing the different skills like tying the balloon with one-hand, creating balloons inside balloons etc. Once you become an expert in making balloon animals of different shapes, the skill can be used in making more complex shapes with two or more balloons. The shapes are restricted to the twister’s imagination and idea.
Balloon twisters use pumps like hand pump, electric, battery or a compressed air tank to inflate the balloons. In case you don’t know how to make balloon animals, there are lot of books, photos, articles and videos to help and guide you out. There are also coaching classes to teach people on ways to twist balloons. Give balloon twisting a good try and you will definitely succeed in making balloon animals.