How to Decorate a Birthday Party With Candles
Birthday parties are fun for people of all ages. Whether it's baby's first birthday or a fiftieth celebration, birthday parties give us the chance to blow out the candles, eat some cake and feel like a kid again. Since they're a traditional decoration for the birthday cake, candles are a great way to decorate a birthday party. Here are some tips for decorating a birthday party with candles. Does this Spark an idea?
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Incorporate the cake's theme. A great way to give a birthday party an expertly decorated look and make sure it reflects the guest of honor is to use the decorations on top of the cake in all your other decorations. If the cake is frosted in certain colors, such as the colors of the birthday person's favorite football team, decorate the rest of the party with candles in similar hues. Using colors or themes from the cake in the candles you use to decorate the rest of the party will make the whole event unique and fun.
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Use the guest of honor for inspiration. Decorate the birthday party with candles that reflect the hobbies, interests or characteristics of the birthday boy or girl. Think about what activities or memories they are widely known for and build your candle-decorating theme around that. If the person celebrating a birthday is a golf fanatic, buy candles in the shape of golf clubs and balls from a party supply store to reflect this. If the person is involved in horseback riding, find candles in the shape of boots or cowboy hats to make the entire party about the guest of honor's special interests.
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Let them eat cake--and smell it, too. Scented candles are now available in just about every scent imaginable. There are now candles made to smell like clean linen, daffodils and even freshly cut grass. Buy scented candles made to smell like birthday cake or ingredients in the cake, like chocolate or strawberries, to enhance that fun birthday atmosphere.
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Decorate with cake candles everywhere. A fun idea to make a birthday party whimsical is to use the small striped or numeral-shaped candles everyone expects to see on top of a birthday cake to decorate the entire party. Combine numbered candles to create the guest of honor's age--as long as they're not sensitive about the number, that is--and place them around the room. Use a hot glue gun to glue small birthday cake candles around a larger pillar candle to create a colorful birthday arrangement.
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