Kite Birthday Ideas

Give each guest a kite to take home as a memento of the party.

Throw your child a kite birthday party for some high-flying fun and excitement. Incorporate kites into the invitations, decorations and activities. A large backyard or a park is an ideal location for a kite party, since there is plenty of room for everyone to fly a kite. A few kite birthday ideas and some inexpensive supplies are all you need to get the party started.

Invitations

Use construction paper to make kite-shaped invitations. Write the party details on the back and attach a string tail. Another idea is to print a picture of a kite and type the party details on it. Make a small replica kite using tissue paper, toothpicks and string. Attach the miniature kite to the party invitations and hand-deliver to each one of your party guests.

Decorations

Make several small, medium and large replica kite using tissue paper, construction paper, wood dowels and string. Hang the kites all over the party area. Tape paper kites to the sides of a paperweight to use as a centerpiece and for balloon bouquets. Place rolls of bright-colored kite string on the party tables to use for decoration, as well as later on in the party when guests will fly kites.

Food

Get a kite-shaped cookie cutter from your local retail store or online and use it to make kite cookies, kite sandwiches and kite pizzas. For the kite cookies, use plain sugar cookies. Once the cookies cool, allow the party guests to use icing, sprinkles, candy and strings of licorice to make their own kite cookie.

Activity

Give each party guest a kite to take outside to fly. For more fun, allow the party guests to make their own kites using wooden dowels, glue, tissue paper, construction paper, string, glitter, markers and paint. After the kites are complete, take them outside for everyone to try to fly their own kite. Award prizes to the most creative kite, the first kite to fly, the kite that flies the longest and the best overall kite creation.

Games

Besides the kite contest, play a couple of kite games. Take the kite replica decorations and hide them all over the play area. Tell the guests to hunt for the kites and find as many as they can. The player who finds the most kites wins the game and a prize. Use the same replica kites to play a game of musical kites. Scatter the kites on the ground (use one less kite than you have players). Play music and tell the party guests to act as if they are flying with the kites. When the music stops, each player must grab a kite as quickly as possible. The player left without a kite is out of the game. Remove a kite and keep playing. The last player to grab a kite wins the game.

References

• Peppers and Pollywogs: Kite Flying Ideas
• Betty Crocker: Let's Go Fly A Kite
• Perfect Party Games: Build A Kite