How to Plan a Hello Kitty Birthday Party

Hello Kitty is a favorite among young girls and makes the perfect birthday party theme since there are products galore based on this famous kitty. Hello Kitty can be incorporated into every aspect of the party -- the invitations, decorations, activities, food and favors.

Instructions

1. Make your own invitations using plain stock cards, Hello Kitty rubber stamps, ink and colored pencils. Keep the design simple or go crazy. You might include the line: "You are invited to a purr-fect party!" Seal the envelope with a Hello Kitty sticker.

2. Make Hello Kitty candy faces for the tops of cupcakes. Hello Kitty face candy molds are available in the baking department of most hobby stores or online. You'll also need a cake decorating bag and the smallest writing tube, white chocolate melting wafers and food color pastes (black for eyes, pink for nose and other pastels for her hair bows). Melt the chocolate wafers, create the colors you'll need, and fill the molds. Place the molds in the refrigerator for about 30 minutes. Ice cupcakes with any color butter cream icing, or use white and sprinkle with EDIBLE cake and cookie glitter. Set the Hello Kitty faces in the icing.

3. Decorate the party room with pastel streamers and balloons. Decorate white paper tablecloths with Hello Kitty stickers or stamps, and set the table with Hello Kitty plates and plates.

4. Serve pink punch from a glass punch bowl decorated with Hello Kitty stickers.
   To make pink punch, mix ½ gallon semi-softened raspberry sherbet with 2 liters ginger ale.

5. Let the kids make their own artwork with the rubber stamps and colored pencils you used for the invitations.

6. Play "Find Hello Kitty." Designate one child to be the kitty and blindfold her. The other kids are mice. They "squeak" and scatter about while the kitty locates the mice, eliminating them one-by-one by touch. The last mouse standing gets to be the next "kitty."

7. Send your guests home with a party favor bag filled with Hello Kitty stickers, necklace or bracelet, and candies.

References

• Cornell University Cooperative Extension: Planning Birthday Parties for Children