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Baseball Birthday Party Ideas
I can't leave out America's favorite pastime! Baseball birthday party will be a hit among many baseball enthusiasts.
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Invitations
Make your baseball birthday invitations look like tickets to the major league game. The invitations can say "Take me out to the Ball Game... It's a Baseball Birthday Party for (your child's name)! Help this slugger celebrate his (or her) __th birthday in true baseball style!"
For the ticket seat (row and section), you can put birth date of your child. For example, Seat 12 Row 29 Section 98 would tell that your child was born on December 29, 1998.
You can make your kids' baseball party invitations look like baseball cards. Take a picture of your child in baseball uniform. Underneath the picture write "All Star." Put the picture on the front and write your party details on the backs of the invitations.
Ask each baseball birthday party guest to come dressed representing his or her favorite team (wearing jerseys or hats). Remind the kids also to bring their baseball gear.
Decorations
For baseball party decoration colors, I suggest you use red, blue and white. But even a better idea is to incorporate the color scheme of your favorite team. Play "Jock Jams" or other sports-themed music during the baseball birthday party to add excitement and atmosphere.
Hang balls, bats, gloves, and other baseball items from the fence and trees. Hang a banner in front of your yard saying "Welcome to the (your child's name) Field!" Place a sign saying "Paid Parking at the Ball Park!"
Decorate the walls of your party room with baseball memorabilia. Hang up pennants from various teams, posters of all-star players, jerseys, hats, and other baseball related items. Blowup a picture of your child, and then put it on the wall with a sign "(your child's name) is Safe on Third!"
Fill the ceiling of the kids' baseball party room with helium balloons. Decorate the house by hanging red and blue paper streamers. Hang a personalized "Happy Birthday!" banner in your party area.
Cover the baseball birthday party table with a theme tablecloth. Make a large baseball card place mat for each guest using a blowup of their photos (ask their parents about photos in advance). Laminate the mats with clear contact paper and set around the table. Make a centerpiece out of baseballs placed in a large bowl.
Guest Arrival and Introductory Activities
*Autograph Station: Take digital (or Polaroid) pictures of guests as they arrive. Have one of the helpers print their pictures using printer right away. Have the kids autograph their pictures. When everyone is ready, create a collage of pictures on the poster board.
*Baseball Coloring Pages: For the younger kids in your party group, have baseball activity books scattered on the table. Provide pencils, crayons, and let them color in baseball coloring pages.
*Ball Player Craft: Outline each child using large sheets of butcher paper. Let them color or paint themselves as baseball players.
Favors
For the baseball birthday party favors, have the guests take baseball accessories home. The items can include whistles, baseball bat pens, baseball cards, balls, mesh bags, bats, gloves, sticker sheets, baseball tattoos, pennants, posters, etc.
Baseball Birthday Party Games
*Blindfolded Baseball: Before the baseball birthday party, draw a baseball field on a large poster board. Draw and cut baseballs out of construction paper.
Blindfold the kids, and then have them pin a baseball on the "field." They get certain points for different plays: if they pin their ball near first base - one point, at home plate - four points, etc.
*Baseball-on-the Spoon Relay: Decorate ping-pong balls as baseballs for this game. Divide the kids into two teams. Line the teams up, and have the players carry the ping-pong balls on the spoon to the opposite side of the party room, around chair, and back to the starting line.
Then they will pass the spoon to their teammates, and the game continues in this manner until all players had gone. If the player drops the ping-pong, they must pick it up, and resume the game where the ball was dropped. The team to finish first - wins.
*Spring Training: Everyone needs to get in shape before the season - this baseball birthday party activity allows the kids to do just that. Start the game with doing jumping jacks, pushups, crunches and some sprinting drills. Then move on to throwing, batting, and catching a ball. Be sure to have some stopwatches and whistles handy.
*Weird Baseball: Play a game of baseball without baseballs! Substitute other items for the baseballs, such as tennis balls, ping-pong balls, Nerf balls, sponges, sock balls, soccer balls, and beach balls. Alternate the balls constantly so that everyone has to hit a different type of ball.
*Pass 'N' Catch: Have the kids form a circle. Give each player a different ball. On the command "Go", all the kids throw their balls across the circle to another kid, while trying to catch a ball coming back.
*People Ball: Play a game of baseball using people as balls! Have the pitcher shove the "people ball" to the batter, who shoves the "people ball" out to the field while he or she runs for first base.
The outfielders must catch the "people ball" and run him or her over to the base to put the runner out.
*Hey Batter, Batter: Here is another baseball birthday party relay with two teams.
The kids have to run to one end of the party area, put on a baseball shirt, helmet, and a glove. Then they shout "Hey Batter Batter", take it all off, then run back so the next teammate can do the same. The first team to get all its players across the finish line - wins!
*Design Your Own Jersey: Provide white T-shirts to all your baseball birthday party guests. Put newspaper pieces inside the shirts to prevent color bleed-through.
Have the kids design their own baseball jerseys by decorating t-shirts with puffy paints, markers, felt-tip pens, decals, etc.
*Three-Inning Baseball: For this mini game, follow the rules of regular baseball with these exceptions: use a plastic bat and a Wiffle ball (no mitts needed) - and a lawn chair placed behind home plate (exactly where an umpire stands).
The seat's backrest marks the strike zone - if the ball hits it, it's a strike. Each team is at bat for just three innings.
Food and Drink Baseball Birthday Cakes:
*Baseball Cake: Mix batter according to package directions. Grease a two or three-quart oven-proof bowl and pour in batter. Bake a little longer than the recommended baking time.
Flip cake onto large platter. Sprinkle platter with green-tinted coconut to form the playing field. Frost the cake white and use red licorice strings for baseball stitching.
*Baseball Field Cake: Bake a square cake, and frost it with green frosting for baseball field. Draw grid lines as needed. Use plastic players for baseball cake toppers, and line them up on the field as though they're playing a game.Baseball Birthday Party Food Ideas:
*Rice Krispie Baseballs: First follow the Rice Krispie recipe on the box. Then shape the mixture into balls, instead of pressing it into a pan. Serve with carrotstick or breadstick "bats."
*Hotdogs
*Brats
*Meatballs
*Burgers
*Peanuts
*Popcorn
*Licorice
*Cracker Jacks
*Nachos
*Cotton Candy
*Sundaes Baseball Birthday Party Drink Ideas:
Serve your party drinks in baseball sport bottles.
*Serve various soda flavors
*Sports Drinks like Powerade
*Bottled Water
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