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Bug & Flower Garden Birthday Theme
The Bug and Flower Garden theme is great for birthdays celebrating twins, siblings or any child who likes nature. We've even included a free nature scavenger hunt if the weather is nice outside.
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Invitations
Make fun flower garden / bug themed birthday invitations for your party using blank cards and scrapbooking stickers/cutouts. Use a picture of the birthday kids and make it into an invitation using a garden background. Print out your party information - 4 to a page - cut them out and wrap the paper scroll style around the stem of a fake flower. Secure with pipe cleaners. |
Decorations
Cut green crepe paper streamers into 8 - 10” lengths and tape one end
to the top of your birthday
party tables so they hang down and look like grass.
Cut the strips in different lengths.
On the birthday cake or present table cover the top of the table with a sunny yellow tablecloth to make the center of a flower.
Cut out large colorful flower petals from construction paper or poster board and tape them around the outside of the table. Sprinkle plastic bugs or bug confetti around the top of the table.Add large artificial flowers all over the room (we’ve found super size flowers at the dollar store that were 12” wide).
Blow up helium balloons and tie them with long strings of curling ribbon. Attach butterflies, dragonflies or any flying bug to the end of the curling ribbon. Let the balloons float to the ceiling and the butterflies and bugs will “fly” around the party area.
Fun Ideas
A great way to combine the two interests of bugs
and flowers is to have a Nature Scavenger Hunt. The
Nature Scavenger Hunt can be used at a park, lake, pond or backyard.
Each guest receives a nature scavenger hunt list and collection items
(see below). They then are sent off in pairs or groups to look for
the items on their list. Have a prize for the winning team who
finds the most items. Take care of any potential hazards such as
fire ants and poisonous plants before the children arrive. Give
each hunter a gallon size plastic baggie, bucket and spoon to collect
their items.
Free Nature Scavenger Hunt List
to print out
Bug and Flower
Games
Bug and Flower
Hunt
Hide the plastic bugs and flowers all over the backyard, inside
the house or park
(where ever you want the birthday guests to hunt) and
have a bug / flower
hunt. Divide guests into teams or let them find the items
individually. Announce that there are bugs and flowers to be found
and show them a sample of what you have hidden. Tell the guests to
find as many as possible before the time runs out. Set a timer for
15 - 20 minutes. When they have finished collecting the items give
prizes for the guests who collected the most. Tip: Count
the bugs / flowers before you hide them to know if they have all been
found.
Variation: Hide special bugs and flowers around the yard which will earn the finder a special prize. Before the party buy several small items to use as prizes and assign them a number. On several of the bugs / flowers that are hidden write a number that corresponds with the prize number. When a child finds a bug or flower with a number they get the prize that matches that number.
Cocoon TP Wrap
You’ll need 2 - 3 rolls of new toilet paper for each team. Divide
guests into teams of 3 to 4 players. Each team
chooses who will be the caterpillar (the one who gets wrapped up).
Give each team member - other then the caterpillar - a roll of toilet
paper. At the go signal teams have to wrap up their
caterpillar in the toilet paper as
quick as they can. The team that uses all of it’s toilet paper first wins.
Hint: Use the cheap single rolls of toilet paper.)
Pin the bug on the flower
Played just like pin the tail on the donkey only use a large
poster of a flower and bug stickers. Buy or draw a flower on a
poster board. Make sure the flower has a stem and leaves and
doesn't take up more then 10% of the poster. Mark a spot on the
flower with a sticker or marker in case more then one player gets their
bug on the flower - the player closest to this mark wins. Attach
the poster to a wall. Give each party guest a bug sticker with a
number written on it. If you can't find stickers then you can make
ladybugs and beetles out of construction paper.
Have the birthday guests form a single line about 10 feet from the poster. Blindfold the first player in line and spin them around (skip this step for younger children) three times. Point them in the direction of the poster and have them try and get their bug on the flower. The guest who's sticker is closest to the flower (or mark on the flower) wins a prize.
Bug
Landing
Younger children love this game.
Cut large leaves out of poster board or felt
- at least large enough for two children to stand on. Make one leaf per guest.
Place
the leaves around the floor of the area
you will be playing in. Tell
birthday guests that they are going to pretend to be
bugs.
When the music plays they will pretend to fly around the room, but
when the music stops they must find a leaf to land on.
If you are giving away prizes:
Before the party buy small prizes - enough for each guest - with a
bug / flower
theme. Number each prize. On the back of each leaf write a
number that corresponds with the a number on a prize. When the last
round of the game is played
tell players to pick up their leaves and
find the number on the back. The
players get the prize that corresponds to the number they have on their
leaf.
Activities
Make bug antenna's with headbands, pipe cleaners and Styrofoam
balls.
Decorate sunny yellow foam visors to look like flowers.
Paint picture frames green and then paint on bugs or flowers. An easy way to make bugs is to have them dip their index finger in paint and make dots on the frame. Then come back when dry with a small paint brush and paint on dots, eyes and antenna’s. You can also let them decorate the frames with stickers, jewels or foam cut-outs.
Decorate clay pots with paint. Then fill with dirt and add few flower seeds.
This makes a great party favor for the guests to take home.Bug Pet Rocks - Find or buy several (more then the number of guests so they will have a choice) very smooth round flat rocks. Let the party guests paint their rocks to look like bugs. Glue on googly eyes if desired. Then let the guests name their pet rocks and take them home for a party favor.
Food
Cut
Jell-O jigglers with a
bug, butterfly or flower shaped
cookie cutter.
Sandwiches cut with
flower or bug shaped
cookie cutters.
Honey Bee crackers.
Bow tie pasta - it looks like butterfly wings!
Cheese (cut with butterfly cookie cutter) and crackers.
Make dirt / garden cupcakes. Fill
individual cupcake liners 1/2 way with chocolate pudding. Crush
Oreo cookies and sprinkle them on top of the chocolate pudding to fill
the liners. Place gummy worms in the cupcakes and a pretty plastic
flower on top. This a also a fun activity for the party goers to
make!
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Party Favors Bug Nets Magnifying glass Plastic bugs Stickers of flowers and bugs Small terra cotta pot with a packet of seeds Small toy rake or hoe Any item that the birthday party guests have made as a craft |
Goody / Loot Bags
Bucket
Terra Cotta pot filled with party favors
Brown party bags with colorful helium balloons attached
Small plastic wheelbarrow
Cute watering can
Bug or flower themed cup
