10 Unique Birthday Party Ideas for Kids




Children Birthday Party Ideas


For 1 Year Old


You can plan a mad hat themed based birthday party. All the other kids can come dressed in different hats of their choice

To create a birthday celebration that your child remembers for years to come you need not look for expensive options. The simplest kids birthday party ideas at home can be just as fun and exciting.

Listed below are a few great ideas:

1. Special Party Hat

You can plan a mad hat themed based birthday party. All the other kids can come dressed in different hats of their choice.


2. Musical Party

You can play some popular nursery rhymes or songs and let the kids enjoy dancing or singing along those numbers.

3. Special Cake

Cake cutting time can be the highlight of the party. You can design a cake based on your child’s favourite colour or animal. You can have a musical cake as well.

4. Blowing Bubbles

You can help the kids to blow bubbles or blow the bubbles yourself. Kids can have a wild time chasing the bubbles, trying to catch or blow them out.

5. Bring Your Favourite Stuffed Toy

1st birthday party ideas for boys can include asking all the guest kids to bring along their favourite teddy bear or stuffed  animal . Each kid then gets a new stuffed animal friend for their toy as a return gift. The party activities can consist of “pin the tail on the animal”, colouring animal pictures or simply enjoying play time with their stuffed animal.

For 2 Years Old

For every parent, their child’s birthday is a special occasion. They may want to organize a fun, exciting birthday party that is likely to bring a big smile on their child’s face and create lasting memories.

Some exciting party ideas for 2-year-old can be:

1. Glow-in-the-dark Party

You can convert your living room into an exciting place by adding some glow sticks or stickers, a strobe light and tunes. Kids can enjoy painting themselves or each other’s faces with glow-in-the-dark colours. Glow-in-the-dark play-dough can be a good take away gift.

2. Mud Run Party

You can organise some muddy fun for your kid and his friends as most kids love to play in the mud. In an open space, you can set up several obstacles and let the kids race and have a blast getting dirty.

3. Bugs Crazy Party

Kids of this age tend to love bugs. You can design colourful invites by cutting oval shapes out of decorative paper and glueing it on the card. Draw head, antennae, and legs with a coloured pen to create a bug. As a party activity, kids can make easy DIY bug magnets by glueing pom-poms or coloured cut-outs on craft sticks. They can add googly eyes too.


4. Rock-and-Roll Musical Party

You can make a homemade party invite by pasting coloured copies of your kid’s photo on the card’s cover along with party details. Structured yet simple games like passing the parcel, musical statue work well. The birthday cake can be your child’s favourite musical instrument. Child-sized inflatable guitars or saxophone can make good return gifts.

5. Party-Based on Shapes

Kids of this age understand simple shapes like a circle. A circle birthday party can include polka dots, lots of balloons, bubbles, cheerios. Kids can splash in an inflatable kiddie pool filled with colourful plastic balls or can have some noisy fun with bubble wrap.