Celebrate your child's birthday with this Care Bear™ birthday party plan including party games, crafts, decorations and activities for kids!
BIRTHDAY PARTY INVITATIONS
Mail your invitations 3 - 4 weeks beforethe party.
Purchase your invites or use cardstock to make birthday party invitations. Print this on each invite:
Show you care by coming to _______'s Care Bears™ birthday party!
BIRTHDAY PARTY DECORATIONS
Turn your home into Care-a-Lot, with Poly-fill clouds Care Bear stuffed toys, rainbows on the walls, and rainbow colored streamers and balloons. Cover your table with a white tablecloth and scatter, rainbow colored candies or confetti on the table. Add matching plates and/or napkins. Create your own centerpiece with a bouquet of balloons tied to a large, stuffed Care Bear™ as a centerpiece.
BIRTHDAY PARTY GAMES AND ACTIVITIES
Face Painting
Upon arrival to the party invite each guest to have their face painted.
Use kid-safe face paint to paint the Care Bear™ symbols on each child's cheek. Paint shamrocks, hearts, rainbows, stars, suns or flowers.
TIPS: Draw the symbols with markers on a piece of paper before your party. The children can use these pictures to select their symbol.
Consider hiring a teenage friend or relative to do the face painting for you.
Need a face paint recipe? Use this one.
Find Your Care Bear™
Before the party make Care Bear™ cards by cutting several squares of paper (four for each child). Place a Care Bear™ sticker on each card so that you'll have 4 Tenderhearts, 4 Grumpy Bears, 3 Love-a-lot etc. Hide all of the cards except one for each bear. At game time, hand out one card to each child. The object of the game is to find the three matching Care Bear™ cards that corresponds to the card they are holding.
Example: If a child has been given Tenderheart bear - they will search for the Tenderheart cards. Variation: If you could also give each child a Care Bear™ figure to match the cards.
Musical Clouds-Play like Musical Chairs
Before the party cut clouds from poster board, quilt batting, or white fabric. Cut one for each child. At game time, place the clouds randomly around floor. Play music while the children move around the room. When the music stops, they run to find a cloud to stand on. If you are playing with younger children we do not recommend the traditional musical chairs concept of one child remaining with out a cloud. Play the game several times.
Bring the Fun back to Funshine!
Funshine Bear can't help you have fun without her sunshine; in this game, the children will help her find it!
Before the party, draw a picture of Funshine Bear on a large piece of yellow poster board. It doesn't have to be perfect a simple bear shape will do. Glue on a white paper circle for her tummy. Then, cut out a yellow paper sun for each child. On the party day, add a piece of double stick tape to the back of each sun with the child's name on the front. Place your Funshine Bear on the wall. Blindfold each child one at a time and gently point him or her towards the poster. The player that places their sun closest to the center wins.
Tip: Not all children like being blindfolded. Be prepared to have the children close their eyes instead. Remember everyone gets a small prize!
Try these party games for kids to keep your guests entertained!
BIRTHDAY PARTY ARTS AND CRAFTS
Birthday Poster
Materials:
- 1 very large sheet of white butcher paper
- crayons
- markers
- stencils
- stickers
- glitter
- glue
Directions: Before the party, at the very top of the banner, write Happy Birthday (your child's name)!
At the party, lay the poster on the floor or use a table. Put out the crayons, markers, stencils, stickers, glue, glitter, and other creative tools, and let your guests create their own masterpieces by adding a little, drawing, design, or message on the poster. Ask the kids to add their names and ages beside their drawings for a finishing touch, and encourage them to write special messages to the birthday child!
Care-a-Lot Placemats
Materials:
- die cut bears (you can find these at your local crafts store)
- glue sticks
- stickers
- markers
Directions: Give each child one sheet of construction paper or cardsoick and invite the children to decorate their sheets using the art supplies. Once each child is satisfied with his deorated sheet, make them into waterproof placemats by covering each sheet with contact paper or laminating sheets. The children can take these home as party favors!
Try these arts and crafts project for kids.
BIRTHDAY PARTY FOOD
Try these party cake recipes for cupcake recipes that kids will gobble up at the party!
