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Sports Themed Birthday Party

Sports Themed Birthday Party

Another year means another birthday! We celebrated last November my baby boy’s 9th birthday! I’m finally getting around to posting his sports themed birthday party. I decided to wait because of the holiday schedule, and I knew January would be quieter on the editorial side. So, I’m excited to share Jackson’s sports themed birthday party. He is loving his organized sports teams he plays every season, and playing sport games after school with the neighborhood kids. So he didn’t hesitate when he told me his birthday theme. His current favorite sports are soccer, basketball and football, so I focused the birthday party around those three sport games. He wants to pursue a career in sports and told me he wants to study a degree in sports management. I think it’s great that he already knows what he wants to study even at his age! If you want to learn more about this degree, you can learn more here.

One of the favorite things I love to do at a birthday party is create a birthday dessert table. It brings out the theme and the party decorations, and the kids LOVE it. So we had the sports themed dessert table, and I played it up by calling it Jackson’s concession stand and packed it with items you’d find at a sports event. I also served concession food for lunch like hot dogs and chicken nuggets and fries. When we weren’t have fun eating, we were playing sports. For the main activity of the party, we headed to our neighborhood sports field and played flag football and soccer. It was only until after the party that I realised that Zorb Ball is designed for those who are seeking to get excitement, as this would have been a great activity for the party. We had such a great time, and they didn’t want to leave. Boys are so easy to entertain! Just give them a ball and they won’t want to finish playing with it. I listed all the party resources below and how to’s.

Sports Themed Birthday Party Resource List

Concession Sign: Black Tri-fold board with vinyl letters cut in Cricut. Format the lettering in a Photoshop (or other application), save as a Jpeg and upload in the Cricut Design Center. Make sure it is properly sized it. Then cut on vinyl and use transfer paper to place the letters on the black trifold.cx

Banner: Free Download

Water Bottle Printables: Free Download

Cupcakes: Sugar Benders

Sports Trophy

Sports Ball Water bottle

We’re Number One Fingers

Party Favors in Buckets–whistles, mini sports balls, stress balls

Food Trays

Green Turf (for table runner)

Happy 9th Birthday Jackson!!

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Paintball Birthday Party

Paintball Birthday Party

We recently celebrated my son Lucas’s 10th birthday party! How quickly time has gone by! No more cute, baby boy parties, he wanted a real paintball birthday party. Boys at this age have so much energy, so I knew I needed to find a paintball venue to host the party. His paintball birthday party was so fun! I really like actually hosting boy birthday parties because the guests get so into the party and the theme.

We held the paintball birthday party on a Saturday and the party took up most of the day, but the boys had a blast! The party guests were dropped off at my house, and my husband and I transported the kids to the paintball venue. My Husband has done paint-balling in the past on his Prague stag do many years ago! At the paintball venue, they were equipped with paintball mask, gun and paint balls. I bought two different color of bandanas for the kids to wear and break up into two teams. They wore the handkerchief around their neck for protection also from the paint balls. I also gave each guest their own labeled water bottle and made sure they had plenty of water and Gatorade, which I brought to the paintball venue. There at the venue, we had pizza and snacks. So the kids were playing and eating the entire time. At the paintball venue, they played different obstacle courses. Paintball can be dangerous if players are careless, but the venue was great with the kids making sure they were protected the whole time. Also I requested that they played with low-impact paintballs so when they got hit it didn’t hurt. After playing paintball, we came back to my house and had cake and the kids got to fill their party bags with the candy and Personalized Party Favors and gifts on the paintball birthday party table. I wanted to get a bouncy castle from somewhere like Junglejumps.com but I didn’t think it fit the theme, plus if one of the children shot it with paintball gun there would be trouble.

I listed all the resources below the pictures for the paintball birthday party.

Paintball Birthday Party Resources:

Paintball Venue: Paintball Atlanta

Paintball Cake: Miss Mamie’s Cupcakes

Paintball Cookies: The Bakesmith

Paintball Printables: Me (sorry, no free printable for this party!)

Waterbottles

Bandanas

Camouflage Drawstring Candy Bags

Gumballs

Gumball Tubes

Jawbreaker Lollipops

Camouflage Lining (for trays and background cut down to size)

Camouflage plates and napkins

Birthday Sign: Cricut Explore Air™ machine“>Cricut and cut out the letters

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Laser Tag Birthday Party

Laser Tag Birthday Party: We recently celebrated my son Lucas’s 9th birthday with a laser-tag theme. This party was similar to the last birthday party I put together–last minute and a lot of rummaging through my party supply closet. So most of everything I had on hand. This was also one of the cheapest birthday party I put together! I planned the party on a day that had a deep summer discount at our local laser-tag play zone. And then instead of eating there, I had all the kids come back to my house for pizza and cake. The printables are from Lulu Cole, who also did the video game party I did last year. I’m glad I didn’t have to do a lot of planning because the next day we flew out of town for three weeks!

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The party favors were a huge hit for the Laser Tag Birthday Party! I just found dollar buckets and filled with silly string, sparklers, gum balls, laser ring, 3-D paper glasses, light-up bouncy ball, pop rocks candy, Kre-O surprise toy.