My oldest nephew, Riott, will be turning 3 later in the month. His mom asked me for a little idea help for his birthday party since his only request for his party is pink. Ha! Kinda funny to see his mom freak out over his insistence on the color while she also insists that all colors are gender neutral. Trying to make this both a boy and pink party, she has chosen a rock star themed party with colors like black, gray, and the highly-anticipated pink. As you can probably tell from the above picture, he rides the rock star train frequently. Well, she should know by now that I'm probably not the best person to ask for a little help from, so here's a lot of idea help for what is sure to be a memorable celebration.
Invitations
- Do a photo shoot of him as a rock star to include in your invitations (or e-vites).
Activities
- You could have stations: a hair station to rock-ify hair (colored hair spray), a tattoo station, a photo shoot station to capture their inner rock god, sparkly make-up station, Guitar Hero station...
- Have the kids dress up as soon as they get there. Provide fun, flashy pieces in place of goody bags, like rock-star glasses, blow-up guitars, jewelry or anything else Oriental Trading can convince you that you need.
- Coordinate with parents ahead of time the kids' favorite songs on a playlist to blast throughout the party or to convince the kids to karaoke to. Or you can play Riott's songs of choice throughout. Ha! I can only imagine what that would sound like, though...
Food
- Use cookie cutters to have star-shaped food... little pizzas, pb&j, rice crispy treats...
- Pop rocks. Rock their little worlds.
- Guitar cake. Here's some inspiration for your personal cake maker, Grammie...
Special Touches
- Mom and Dad, as my SIL pointed out, can wear security shirts... or bodyguard shirts. Same goes for little brother since he isn't really little... okay, fine. He can wear a rock star in training shirt or something.
- Take a little inspiration for the Hollywood Walk of Fame by having stars lead up to the party location. You can even put the names of your little guests on the stars. Chalk may be the easiest way to do this.
- You can have a red (or pink!) carpet for them to walk and hire some paparazzi (parents, Carla...) to give them the full star treatment.
- Disco ball, guitar, or star pinata.
