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Bug Birthday Party Ideas
Having bug birthday party is a great choice! Most kids seem to be fascinated by little critters, so why not make that your party theme? This page will aid you in planning everything from invitations to party food. Use your imagination and have fun!
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Invitations
You can purchase small plastic bugs from a dollar store and superglue them to bug birthday invitations or plain white cards. Write your bug birthday party details around the insects and place the cards in envelopes.
Drop a few more bugs into envelopes for added surprise and mail the invitations to guests.
You bug party invitation wording can say "Butterflies, beetles, slugs and worms! Nets, canisters, and everything that squirms! Every rock unturned next a pile of dirt."
"Huge holes in the garden, gross stains on my shirt. Yes, it's me - (your child's name) - that would be my name. My love for bugs is quite insane!"
"I'm turning (age). Let's celebrate at my bug birthday party! Creep by on (date). Infestation Time: (time). Buzzzz us at (phone number). Please RSVP in advance."
For a different bug birthday invitation idea, you can create your critters from black construction paper. Trace or draw bug shapes on black paper. Cut out the shapes and glue them onto sheets of white paper.
Write details (names, origins, favorite foods) about each bug. Add you bug birthday party details, and mail to future entomologists.
Decorations
The best colors for bug birthday party are green, yellow, and blue.
Use a sidewalk chalk to draw huge insects marching to the front door. Decorate your yard with balloons and paper streamers.
Fill the party room with plastic bugs, insects, warms, and other creepy and crawly things. Sprinkle plastic ants on bug birthday party table, hang spiders from the ceiling, and spread bugs all over the floor. You can also hang bug birthday theme posters on the wall.
Hang giant bug Mylar balloons and have spider webs all over the area! Tuck some insects into a few surprise places to give children a little jolt when they reach for a napkin or sit in a chair. Hint: Don't put plastic bugs inside anything that kids might eat. Be sure to tell them when the bugs are edible, too (see food and drink).
Cover the table with green or yellow table cloth. Spread out some bug-shaped confetti. Hang personalized "Happy Birthday" banner in the area.
Guest Arrival and Introductory Activities
*Bug Coloring Pages: Separate the pages of nature activity books. Lay out some pencils, crayons, etc. Have the kids color bug coloring pages while waiting for others to arrive.
*Sticky Bug Craft Fun: You can get a craft kit from a party store and have your guests occupied in this fun bug birthday party activity.
*Colorful Bugs: Offer the kids small pompoms, wiggly eyes, pipe cleaners, felt and glue. Next, let the children make their own bugs.
Favors
Send the nature lovers home with plastic bugs, spiders, worms and other critters. Other bug party favors can include insect sticker sheets, birthday bubbles, bug robot transformers, magnifying glasses, etc.
Bug Birthday Party Games
*Bug Everyone: This is a great bug birthday party activity to get the kids into games. Put a bug sticker on every child's back. Get them to guess what the sticker is by "bugging" other children with 'yes' or 'no' questions.
For example, the questions can be: "Do I crawl?", "Do I hop?" or "Do I fly?", etc. Provide some hints for a younger group of kids.
*Run, Ants, Run!: Tell children they are ants walking in a line. Have them follow the leader around the yard. (If you like you can set up obstacles for them to go around - chairs, cones, etc.)
As children walk, the leader performs other actions for the "ants" to copy, such as hop on one foot or raise both arms up high. When the leader suddenly calls out "Run!", children run to an area designated as "home."
The leader then tries to tag one or more children. Tagged children are out. The last person tagged becomes the next leader.
*Going Buggy Memory Game: Here is a great bug birthday party activity to test memory of your guests.
Pack large plastic or glass jar with fake spiders, bugs, and small toys such as marbles, jacks, and other things.
Ask the kids to sit in a circle on the floor. Place the jar in the middle of the circle and tell your guests to study the jar for about 1 minute.
Remove the jar and ask children to write down as many things as they can remember (time limit of about 5 minutes). The person with the most correct items is the winner!
*Bug Hunt: Before your bug birthday party, hide plastic insects around the yard. Give each guest a baggie and set them on a bug hunt. The purpose of the game is to find as many plastic critters as they can.
They may trade bugs at the end of the activity and take them home as bug party favors.
*Bug Magnet Creations: Provide your guests with bug-making materials including small pompoms, felt, wiggly eyes, pipe cleaners, feathers, cotton balls, clothes pins, etc. Get the kids to cut out felt shapes to use as foundation for their bugs. Have them make various bugs with the materials provided.
When the bugs are complete, give each child a strip of magnetic tape (available at craft or hardware store) cut to fit the length of the felt foundation. Peel off paper, and stick the magnetic strip to the bottom of the bug. When the bugs are finished, watch them stick to the refrigerator!
*Spider Web Threads: Before bug birthday party, attach small insect toys to 20-foot pieces of yarn (you should have one for each guest). Hide the toys in various places like cupboards, drawers, under sofa, etc. Attach names of party guests to another ends of yarn pieces.
Create massive "yarn web" by stretching the yarn pieces all over your party room, wrapping around furniture and tangling with other pieces.
At party time, get the kids to find their names and look for toys by untangling their yarn pieces.
*Bye-Bye Fly: During this bug birthday party game, the kids get the opportunity to be spiders and wrap up their "dinner" in spider webs.
Divide your bug birthday party gang into teams. Get the team members to decide who will be the "fly" in the group. Provide several (equal amount) rolls of toilet paper. Get "spiders" to wrap up the "flies" using every bit of toilet paper provided. The team to finish first - wins!
Tip: Be sure to explain that "spiders" must not wrap around the head or throat, making their partners as comfortable as they.
*Caterpillar Catch: Get the group to form a caterpillar that tries to catch its end. Choose one player to be the head and one - the end of the caterpillar. Everyone else is the caterpillar body part.
Attach scarves (or material pieces) around the waist of the person playing the head. Ask "the body parts" to form a line holding a person in front of them by the waist. The person playing the end must hold on to the person ahead of him or her with one hand.
He or she must move sideways (still holding with one hand) and catch the "head" person by the scarf. The 'caterpillar body' must twist and turn but cannot break. The "head" must avoid being caught. When the "caterpillar end" succeeds, he or she becomes the "head", and everyone else shifts one spot back.
*Watch a Show: At the end of the party, invite the kids to watch an episode from "A Bug's Life" movie.
Food and Drink Bug Birthday Cakes:
*Bug Cake: Bake a sheet cake and cover it with chocolate icing. Tint shredded coconut green with food coloring and sprinkle it on your bug cake.
Make colorful flowers and leaves using frosting tubes. Arrange the gummy worms, spiders, and other candy bugs on top. Tell your bug birthday party guests to watch out for bugs inside the cake, too!
*Dirt Cake: Here is a bug birthday party cake idea that doesn't require baking! You'll need a clean, plastic pot (about 8"), foil and silk flowers with plastic stems.
First, prepare an instant pudding mix (1 pkg.) according to directions and refrigerate. Second, crush 16-20 oz. of Oreo cookies (to look like soil). Set aside a cupful of crushed cookies. Pour 1/2 cup melted butter over the remaining cookies.
Put foil at the bottom of the pot to cover drainage holes. Press prepared mixture into the bottom. Add several gummy candy bugs and worms. Stir 6 oz. of whipped topping and 8 oz. of cream cheese together. Next, spoon the mixture on top of cookie layer.
Stir several bug candies into pudding and spoon on top. Lastly, combine extra 6 oz. of whipped topping, some gummies, and remaining Oreo cookies and top the "cake" with the mixture. Refrigerate and serve to you bug birthday party goers. Bug Birthday Party Food Ideas:
*Burrowing Worms: Take a package of hotdogs. Cut six or seven slits along one half of each hotdog. Make the cuts about 1/4" apart and 1/2" deep. Turn each hotdog over and make six or seven cuts on the opposite side.
Cook the hotdogs and serve them on buns with kids' favorite condiments.
*Crackernids: Spread peanut (or almond) butter on a round cracker. Lay 4 pieces of black string licorice across the peanut butter. Trim licorice if necessary - so each Crackernid has 8 evenly sized legs.
Spread peanut butter on a second cracker and sandwich both crackers together. Add 2 raisins for eyes on top of the cracker, helping them stick with a little more peanut butter. The Crackernid is ready to be served.
*Sand and Ants: Crush four graham crackers per each bug birthday party guest and place in individual baggies. Add 1 tbsp of chocolate sprinkles to each bag and mix well.
*Anthill Apple-Raisin Salad: For this bug birthday party food idea, you'll need 2 medium apples (cut into chunks), 1 cup red or green seedless grapes (cut in half), 1/2 cup raisins, 1/2 cup tiny marshmallows, one 8-oz carton strawberry or banana flavored yogurt.
Combine apple chunks and grapes in a medium bowl. Use a wooden spoon to stir in the raisins and marshmallows. Add the yogurt and stir until fruit is coated.
*Peachy Critters: Line the plates with lettuce or cottage cheese. Arrange 3 peach halves across each plate for the bug's body. Add six peach slices for legs - three on each side of the body.
For eyes, dip 2 raisins in frosting and glue them on the "head". With a toothpick, make 2 holes in the head and insert two 2" licorice pieces for antennae.
*Ants on a Log: Here is a great bug birthday party kids' snack for your guests.
Cut celery in 5" slices and fill with almond butter. Put raisins (ants) on top and serve.
*Critter Mix: Set out bowls of nuts, seeds, cereals, crackers, pretzels, raisins, dried fruit, marshmallows, chocolate chips, etc. Give bug birthday party guests plastic baggies. Then let them pick and choose tablespoons of "critter mix" from various bowls.
*Gummy worms and other edible candy bugs. Bug Birthday Party Drink Ideas:
*Beetle Juice: Put raisins (beetles) into ice cube trays and add a few drops of green food coloring. Fill the trays with water and freeze overnight. Tint lemon-lime soda with food coloring, pour into a large punch bowl, and add ice cubes. Finish by adding lime sherbet.
*Buggy Ice Cubes & Party Drinks: Place edible candy bugs in the bottom of an ice cube tray, add water and freeze. When ice cubes are frozen, add them to your bug birthday party drinks.
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