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Sports Birthday Party Ideas
Sports birthday party theme is perfect for active kids. This page will help to organize your event! Take a look at some fun ideas for creating invitations, decorations, and so on.
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Invitations
Make your Olympic party invitations to look like gold medals. Cut out cardboard circles and cover them with gold foil or spray-paint them with gold paint. Attach a colorful ribbon so the kids can wear their medals around their necks.
Write sports birthday party details in permanent felt-tip pens on one side of the medal. Write "Winner" on the other side. The wording for Olympic party invitations can say: "Let the games begin! Please join us to participate in the Olympics for (your child's name) __th Birthday! Opening Ceremony: (date and time) Hosting Country: (address)."
For a different sports party invitation idea, you can cut out award ribbons from red, white, and blue ribbon fabric. Attach a gold seal to the top, cut the bottom into an inverted V shape, and write the party details in permanent felt-tip pen on the front of the ribbon.
If you choose, you can order ribbons from a local sports supply company. They can personalize them for your special event!
Decorations
For your sports birthday party decorations, start out with getting lots of balloons and streamers in Olympic colors: blue, yellow, black, green, and red. Play Olympic music in the background to greet the guests.
Hang medals and prize ribbons from the fence and trees. Make big flags from poster board and hang them along your fence, deck, house, or garage.
Make a big sign that says "Olympic Games" from crafting foam. Cut out each letter from a whole sheet of foam and punch two holes in the top of each letter. String them together side by side using plastic lacing or ribbon.
Display any Olympic memorabilia that you might have in the party room to set the mood. Fill the ceiling with helium balloons. Put posters of sporting events or favorite sports figures on the wall. Hang flags of various countries.
Cover your sports birthday party table with Olympic theme tablecloth. Have small trophies to set on the table at each place setting. Use a large trophy as a centerpiece.
Guest Arrival and Introductory Activities
*Athlete Check-in Table: As your guests arrive, direct them to the "Check-in Table," where they are assigned a country to represent. Pin the name of the country (or mini-flag) to their shirt. (Have the birthday child represent your home country so there are no hard feelings.)
*Flag Activity: Give the kids squares of white fabric, approximately 2x1 feet, attached to a small stick to form a flag. Set out felt-tip pens and let the kids color the fabric and design their own national flags.
*Sports Door Hanger: Here is a great sports birthday party activity for your guests. Get a craft kit from a party store, and get the kids to design their own door hangers. When the door hangers are complete, they become party favors.
Favors
For your sports birthday party favors, hand out chocolate "gold Medals", ribbons, trophies, posters, sports stickers, Frisbees, Hula-Hoops, or other inexpensive sporting equipment.
Sports Birthday Party Games
*Opening Ceremony: Get the birthday child to carry "Olympic torch" as all the sports birthday party guests follow him or her around the backyard. (For "Olympic torch" use a lantern, a pre-maid torch with streamers for "fire", etc. - just be creative and fire safe. You can have cone shape pieces of construction paper and a piece of tissue paper to be used as a torch with flame.)
Introduce all the athletes and their countries as they march around the yard. Then they gather around and the Olympics are announced to be officially open.
*Balance Board: Wrap an 8- to 10-foot length of 2-by-4 board tightly in an old blanket or sheet. Use electrical tape to keep this padding from slipping. Balance the board on a couple of bricks.
Have the contestants walk across the board one at a time. Anyone who falls off is out. Increase the difficulty of the walk with each round by having the kids walk sideways, backwards, with their eyes closed, etc.
*Sack Relay: Divide the kids into two teams and have them line up behind the starting line. Have the first player on each team stand in a sack or pillowcase. The first players must hop to the finish line in the sacks, step out of them at the finish line, run back to the starting line with their sacks, and pass them to the next players in line. The race continues in this manner until every player on one team has completed the challenge.
*Blind Snakes: Set up a number of sprinklers in between a starting line and a finish line. Have the kids try to run from one end to the other without getting sprayed.
Have one of the kids control the faucet, turning it on and off at random. Award ribbons to the kids who play the longest without getting wet.
*Body Mechanics: Design a series of athletic events that the contestants must perform, such hopping on one foot ten times, walking ten steps backwards without looking, crab-walking, skipping backwards, jumping over a hurdle, throwing a ball up in the air while turning around and catching it, and so on. Award prizes to the best athletes in each event.
*Egg-on-the-Spoon Relay: For this very popular sports birthday party game, hard-boil some eggs. Divide the kids into two teams and give each player a spoon.
Give the first players on each team an egg (don't tell the kids the eggs are hard-boiled). Have them walk as quickly as possible to the other side of the room, around the chair, and back to the starting line, balancing the eggs on the spoons.
Once the players reach the starting line again, they must carefully pass the eggs to the next players in line. The race continues in this manner until every player on one team has completed the task. (If a player drops an egg, she must get a new egg and continue from where the egg was dropped.)
*Cross Step: Draw a 10-by-10-foot grid on the sidewalk or patio with chalk. Have each player stand on a different square. One at a time, each contestant must move to a new square after crossing out the square he or she was formerly standing in.
The trick is that the players cannot step into a square that is occupied or crossed out. If a player cannot move to a new square, he or she is out. The game continues until there is only one player left.
*Decathlon: Create ten different challenges for the contestants to perform. Give points to the players based on how well they do in each event, then award prizes for the best combined scores.
The challenges can include such events as running around the block as fast as they can, seeing how far they can throw a ball, shooting ten baskets, hitting a baseball, long or high jump, swimming ten laps, spinning a hula hoop for as long as possible, and so on.
*Gymnastics: Set out a pad or mattress. Have the kids do stunts on the pad, such as somersaults, rolls, cartwheels, knee-walks, handstands, and so on.
*Obstacle Course: Set a series of obstacles and have the players run through them. Include such things as crawling through a tunnel, climbing over a table, wiggling under a carpet, and so on.
*Team Golf: Divide your sports birthday party guests into two teams. Line up each team behind a lightweight plastic golf ball placed on the ground. Have kids take turns flicking the ball with thumb and index finger.
The team whose ball goes the farthest - wins. (If you have lots of space, you can use a child's set of golf clubs to move the ball and to have a "real" golf competition.)
Food and Drink Sports Birthday Cakes:
*Gold Medal Cake: Bake two round layer cakes. Tint white frosting with yellow food coloring. Frost one layer with yellow frosting, and then top it with the second layer. Next, frost the top layer with the yellow frosting.
Attach a large ribbon or length of fabric to make the medal's neckpiece. Write the words "Happy Birthday, Winner!" across the top of the cake. Set tiny flags around the outside edge of the cake.
*Olympic Rings Cake: This sports birthday party cake is very simple. Make a sheet cake. Frost it with white frosting. Decorate the cake with five Olympic rings using decorating gel. Sports Birthday Party Food Ideas:
For your Olympic party food and drinks, have around-the-world theme: assign each food item a country of origin, and then put a small paper flag (on a toothpick) of that country near the food item.
*Pizza from Italy
*Baguette Bread Sandwiches from France
*Hamburgers from USA
*Hotdogs from USA
*Sushi from Japan
*Nachos from Mexico
*Pirogies from Poland
*Sorbet from Turkey
*Food on the Go: Give the athletes snack bars on the go: PowerBars, fruit bars, granola bars, etc. Sports Birthday Party Drink Ideas:
*Gatorade
*Bottled Water
*Powerade
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