When making your own birthday party decorations, you can do wonders with things you have around the house. You can wrap your way into a decorating scheme that is distinctive and festive. Your affair will be talked about for years when you use these birthday party decorating ideas. Does this Spark an idea?
Wrapping Paper Decorations
To get into the party mode, why not wrap the room up as a birthday present? You can do this by buying some theme-appropriate wrapping paper and covering a wall with it. You can get ribbon and make a giant bow to top it off. If the guest of honor is a man, you can get some masculine paper in a theme that speaks to his personality. If he likes fishing, you can get wrapping paper with fish, fishing poles or rowboats on it. If he is a sports fanatic, then paper depicting his favorite sport would be suitable.
You can use this wrapping paper as a table covering for all the tables you will be using for this party. You can even cover the front door in this wrapping paper with a ribbon garnish, conveying to all your guests that the party is here.
You can wrap empty boxes in wrapping paper and hang them from the ceiling with a clear fishing line. These decorations will finish off the party look from top to bottom.
You can wrap your lampshades with this wrapping paper to give the room a darkened ambiance. You need to be careful to avoid wrapping paper over the top of the lamp and to keep it away from the light bulb to prevent the paper from catching on fire.
Traditional Decorations With A Twist
Balloons make a festive accent to your decorations. You can use them as party decorations and then give them as party favors to the guests when they leave. You can put a lottery scratch ticket in enough of the balloons so each guest gets one. They will want to bring the balloons home when they hear of their hidden secrets.
The birthday cake itself can act as a decoration for your party. Making it in the shape of a football for a sports fan would be a touchdown for a sports fan guest of honor. You can decorate a cake to look like a high-heel shoe for a woman guest of honor. Many local supermarkets are now carrying these novelty birthday cakes.
You can make an aromatic festive centerpiece with strings of colored Christmas lights. You can gently coil colored Christmas lights in a dry punch bowl. Then, mix in some dry potpourri into this bowl. The colored lights will look sparkling and they warm up the potpourri, filling the room with some appealing scents.
You can make a "Happy Birthday" banner on your computer. You can use the Photoshop program to plant the guest of honor's face onto something funny and hang the printout up with the banner. You can have a man's face on a woman with a bikini, or a woman's face on a weightlifter's body. You can do something that speaks to the personality of the guest of honor when doing this, such as putting a biker on a kid's tricycle for a funny picture. This will have all of your guests laughing.
If you have a decorating theme for the birthday party such as fishing. sports, or for a woman, high-heel shoes, you can hang items that fit this theme from the ceiling: for example, fishing wire, fishing poles, fishing flies and fishing boots for a fisherman birthday theme. For a woman you can hang pocketbooks and high-heel shoes. This will look like a room that is really ready for a party.
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