Practically everybody loves baked goods. This makes it nearly impossible for a bake sale to fall flat. Even so, a truly profitable fundraiser will require some planning and forethought. Here are a few tips and things to keep in mind for planning a bake sale.

How to Run a Bake Sale…

Find a Venue

You’ll need to know where you’re holding the event first. Many organizations and businesses are perfectly receptive to having bake sales on their grounds. Grocery stores, college sports events, and malls are good choices. The building of the organization you’re fundraising for (such as a church or school) may already function well as a location for the sale, of course, so don’t rule that out either.

Timing

Next, it’s critical that you choose a good time for your sale. For example, if you’re running it at a play, you absolutely have to be there before the event starts and at the intermission, and you may be able to pick up a few more sales afterwards as well. If you’re selling at a grocery store on a weekday, it’s much better to be there at a rush hour than when everybody’s at work; at a college, try to be present during changes in classes. Ask workers, students, or regular attendants for their opinions on the best time for you to be present.

Variety

If you only have sugar cookies, you’ll only attract people who want sugar cookies at the moment. Plan to have a wide variety of different baked goods. Many times, potential customers will wander over to see if you have something specific and simply walk away if you don’t have it. If you’re running your bake sale in a relatively low-traffic venue, you may want to limit yourself to the most popular items: chocolate chip, peanut butter and sugar cookies, cupcakes, and other difficult-to-resist treats that nearly everybody loves. At higher-traffic venues, you’ll have a wider range of tastes and budgets to cater to, so bigger items like pies and cakes have a much better chance of selling.

If you’re working with a group, make absolutely certain everyone knows what everyone is making, and try to play to people’s strengths. If everybody loves Amanda’s fudge, ask if she’ll bring a batch to the event before allowing others to decide what they’re making. Try to get everyone to prepare different things unless you feel you need so much of one item that it’s a good idea to have multiple people baking it.

Quantity

It’s important that your tables look full—people will get the impression that they’re buying leftovers or stale goods if there are only a few things scattered across a large table. However, keep in mind that it’s unlikely you’ll sell everything either. Don’t make more than you’ll be able to find a use for afterwards, and always have a backup plan for the leftovers.

Use Your Cause to Your Advantage

Let everybody know exactly what you’re raising money for. If you have a good cause, put up a sign that explains the problem and how their money will help your organization make the world a better place. Often, passersby who’d be reluctant to part with their money will stop to make a purchase if you pull at their heartstrings well enough—and since they’re going to get something delicious out of the deal, why wouldn’t they make a purchase?

Portability

Too many times, a potential customer will arrive at a bake sale, take a look at some mouthwatering cupcakes, and decide to buy a dozen to take home… until they realize that they’re going to end up with frosting all over the seats of their car. You can solve this problem with cupcake boxes and cake boxes that will keep your baked goods safe all the way home.

A Quick Tip from Personal Experience

You might be tempted to put whipped cream on some of your items before putting them on the table for sale. Do not do this—it may lose its consistency within an hour or two, and soon you’ll end up with a once-beautiful pie drowned in liquid cream. Believe me, that pie will be impossible to sell!

If you follow these tips, your bake sale should be a smooth, profitable, and rewarding experience. Your cause will benefit, and the time and effort of everyone involved will be worthwhile.

Every holiday brings its own form of chaos to the kitchen, and if you’re unprepared for it then the big day can bring incredible amounts of stress. Things will go much more smoothly if you plan and start baking ahead of time. Here are a few tips for taking off the pressure so you can actually enjoy your next holiday:

Reduce Holiday StrBaking Aheadess by Baking Ahead…

Decide what to Make

Nearly every family has holiday baking traditions. Make a list of everything your family just has to have, and ask around to make sure you aren’t forgetting anything. Once this is done, you can decide whether or not you want to get creative. Are you itching to try something new this year? Is there something you saw on TV or while flipping through a cookbook that looked too good to resist? Have you forgotten about that incredible chocolate cheesecake recipe your neighbor gave you? Add anything you want to make to the list.

When you have your completed list in hand, make sure you have all the recipes bookmarked or printed out and kept in a place where you know you won’t lose them. Write down all the ingredients, and compare them with what you already have in the pantry. Find out what you’ll need and head over to the store now so you can beat the holiday rush. But as with any recipe, it’s important that you read these instructions all the way through before getting started, so don’t hurry over just yet!

Prioritize

Some things need to be served fresh-baked on the day of the event, but others are just as delicious days later. Look at your list and figure out which ones will last and which ones will have to be done on the holiday itself. For example, cookies can last several days, but frosting can easily turn hard and crusty. For a batch of after-dinner Christmas Eve sugar cookies, you could schedule the cookies for December 21st and the frosting for right before you begin working on the big dinner. After dinner, you can make a family event out of decorating the cookies.

Know Thy Family and Know Thyself

Some people have a lot of self control, some don’t. Are you and your housemates going to be able to look at that delicious pie in the fridge for a week without touching it? Is all of the fudge still going to be there on Easter… or any of it, for that matter? If your family has the discipline, just tell them not to touch anything until it’s time. But if you know they’re going to be slipping their hands into the cookie jar every time you turn your back (or that you’ll be the one reaching in when nobody else is around, for that matter), then plan for it. Bake at least twice as much as you normally would of anything that you’re making ahead of time. Make sure to account for this when figuring out what ingredients you’ll need!

Transportation

Not everybody celebrates their holidays in their own home. If you’re planning on traveling to a relative’s house, you’ll need safe ways to transport everything, especially tricky things like cakes. Cupcake boxes, Christmas tins, Tupperware, and cake boxes are all wonderful tools for getting your mouthwatering confections to their destination safe and fresh.
If you follow these tips, your next big celebration should be much less stressful and far more enjoyable. Happy holidays, and have fun baking!

If you’re in charge of a group of children, such as at a preschool, church, or camp, you may occasionally be asked to come up with ideas for crafts. The following guidelines can help you lead an enjoyable, tear-free session, tailored to your unique lesson plan:

Creating Original Crafts for Children’s Groups…

Supplies

The first step is to figure out what supplies you have available. These will be your only real limitations. Do you have construction paper? Glue sticks? Safety scissors? You might be able to get more things from outside if you’re living in a rural area as well, such as pine cones (you can use the scales as shingles for miniature houses) or flowers or colorful leaves (for pressing).

It can also be a great idea to have things like cupcake boxes and cake boxes available in bulk. There are unlimited craft possibilities in small boxes like these: you can use them to make little houses, paint them like stone blocks and guide the construction of a miniature castle, or cut them apartto get a good, strong construction material you can use for virtually anything.

Think Theme

Now that you know what you have, think about what your group has been working with lately. Have they been learning about animals? Reading a specific story? Talking about a point in history? Let your imagination run wild on the subject—think of anything that would be fun to build and try to imagine a way to build it with your materials. Write down everything that comes to mind. Next, it’s time to consider:

Skill Level

Always take the children’s hand-eye coordination into account. Some people seem like they could construct a house of cards at the age of five, while others can be reduced to tears of frustration trying to cut out a paper rainbow. While you don’t want to hold back the star students, allowing too much freedom can quickly lead to competition that leads the less-skilled students to feel ashamed of their work in comparison to what others have built. Try to create a project that everyone can keep up with, and provide hands-on help and instruction for anyone lagging behind.

Practice Beforehand

Once you’ve settled on an idea, make sure to practice what you’re going to have the kids make first! If you can’t make it easily, they probably won’t be able to either. You can also use the one you’ve made as an example: simply put it on display so they can see what they’re trying to make.

When it’s time to start crafting, provide instructions in the simplest way you can, and demonstrate the building process for them. Soon, your students will all have works of art that they’re proud of—and you’ll be proud to have helped them explore their potential. Do not forget to include cupcake boxes as part of your arsenal, it is a fun and affordable option to consider.

If you’re a parent, this situation may sound familiar: you buy your child an expensive toy they’ve been begging for, and they’re thrilled when they open it. You help them with the setup and leave them to enjoy it… then come back two hours later to discover that they’ve abandoned the gift and built a fort out of the cardboard box it came in.

This phenomenon is part of the premise behind Alice McLerran’s famous children’s story Roxaboxen: children create an entire town of their own by playing with nothing but boxes, sticks and rocks. Another famous example is Calvin and Hobbes, in which Calvin often uses a cardboard box to defy the laws of physics. For a child’s creative mind, boxes have unlimited potential to become anything and everything they want them to be.

While it’s unlikely that your children would give you a shiny-eyed thank-you and a big hug for buying them a few boxes (and you certainly don’t want to give them as a wrapped gift on a birthday or Christmas!), many will be unable to resist the siren call of the possibilities offered by these simple blank, empty containers. It’s just like a blank piece of paper: it can be absolutely anything a moment later. Maybe that paper’s destined to be a crayon portrait of the family dog, or perhaps it’s meant to be the first story your child ever puts to paper; maybe it’s even destined to become a paper airplane. In exactly the same way, that box could become anything from storage for a rock collection to a robot suit to the Great Wall of the Living Room.

All you have to do to for your children to make incredible memories is to make the boxes available to them. Don’t tell them to play with them or try to give them ideas at first. Simply tell them where the boxes are and let them know that they can do anything at all that they want to with them, within the regular rules of the house. Most children’s curiosity will get the better of them, and soon they’ll be testing the limits of “anything” and having the time of their lives inventing new uses for this simple, everyday item.

While everyone collects a few boxes over the course of regular shopping, they’re often damaged, covered with tape, or heavily printed with instructions and product images. These can put a damper on a child’s imagination: tape can make it impossible to draw on parts, damage can ruin what the child was hoping to do with it, and it’s difficult to imagine that the box is actually a time machine when it’s got a picture of a refrigerator on it. This means it’s a good idea to buy boxes specifically for your children to use, and in every size: from cupcake boxes to cake boxes to boxes several feet across. With more sizes, there are even more possibilities.

Boxes can allow a child’s imagination to soar more freely than nearly any toy, game, or organized activity. Make them available to your children, then sit back and watch imaginations soar.

Sometimes, you find yourself at an event where you can’t just provide some packaged baked goods without feeling a twinge of guilt—which is a problem, because the last time you tried making cookies they turned out like burnt muffins. Still, when you’re preparing for a child’s birthday, a holiday, or a bake sale, you need to get across some feeling of personal attention and effort. What’s a non-baker to do?

Baking Ideas for Non-Bakers…

Customize Store-Made Baked Goods

You can get across a real feeling of personal attention with nothing but some frosting and decorations by letting a store do the actual baking part. If you have a steady hand, order a plain, unfrosted cake from a bakery, then buy some icing tubes with various colors and nozzle attachments and some frosting. Once you bring it home, let your imagination take the lead. Picture the way you want the finished cake to look and consider making a sketch that you can use as a guide before starting. Make sure to keep a few quality cake boxes on hand so that you can safely store and transport your finished cake. After all, you wouldn’t want all of that hard work to end up smeared across the car door!

If sculpting frosting doesn’t sound any easier than baking, then consider buying some premade sugar cookies, gingerbread men, or unfrosted cupcakes instead. Simply apply a solid layer of frosting to the top, then decorate with anything you can think of: candy, colored icing, crumbled cookies, bits of fudge, whatever comes to your mind. Soon you’ll have one-of-a-kind baked goods that look entirely homemade.

Get Creative with Mixes

You don’t have to let the instructions on the back of a mix dominate how you bake, and you don’t need to make everything from scratch in order to make unique, eye-catching baked goods. Why not make a chocolate-and-vanilla swirl cake? Just find one mix of each type, make sure that they need to be baked for the same length of time, and make each batter in a separate bowl. Next you’ll need two containers you can easily pour from, like measuring cups with spouts. Fill one with vanilla and the other with chocolate; pour them into the baking dish in patterns. This is a lot of fun and incredibly easy, and before you know it you’ll have an artfully swirled cake. Even if it doesn’t come out right, it’ll still taste great, and you can just slather it with frosting to hide the mistakes.

For a first time, it’s better to do this with cupcakes instead of a full-sized cake so that you can see how it comes out without risking all of your batter. Just be sure not to drip it all over the tin, or else you might end up with some sort of cupcake octopus monster! Once they’re done, you can put them in cupcake boxes to make a nice display of your works of art, and allow people to decorate them at the event.
Another great option is blending ingredients like melted fudge, cream cheese or peanut butter into a brownie batter—warm the ingredients until their easy to spread, then push them through the batter with a knife to make patterns and swirls. People will be amazed by your sudden creativity and wonder when you went to culinary school.

Other Possibilities

There are plenty of other things non-bakers can do to add that homemade touch to baked goods. Many stores offer frozen cookie dough that you can bake at home without any extra preparation; use it with some of the tips above to bake fresh, one-of-a-kind cookies in an instant. You can make your own icing by adding a little water, food coloring, and vanilla extract to confectioner’s sugar (just add the water to the sugar while stirring until you’ve reached your desired consistency) in order to add that homemade touch with only a minute’s worth of work.

Once you get comfortable with the sort of things mentioned above, the cookbook probably won’t seem quite so scary anymore. You certainly don’t need to be a baker to make one-of-a-kind, personalized baked goods, but making them just might turn you into a baker!

It might not be a traditional image, but everyone in the family will be happy to see their father or husband baking! Whether it’s something you do on a regular basis or something you’re just considering starting now, you’ll be bringing smiles to the faces of everyone in the house by breaking out the oven mitts.

Birthdays

If there’s a big event like a holiday or birthday coming up, baked goods are simply expected. Focus on the event and try to keep everything in a theme. If it’s your child’s birthday, make sure you know what will make them happy. You might feel like you already know, but you may not, and there’s nothing wrong with that—what will be a disaster will be if you don’t know and don’t ask! Talk to your kids in the days leading up to the event about the flavors, colors, and theme they’ll like best. Your son may have thought dinosaurs were the best thing in the world at his last birthday, but decided since then that dinosaurs are for little kids and sharks are the cool thing now. Tastes change, so make sure to keep up!

Once you’ve figured out what they want, it’s time to get creative. An easy way to make a party unique is to cut a simple sheet cake into a theme-specific shape. Afterwards, you can crumble the sections you’ve removed and use the cake crumbs for other recipes, or simply cover them in frosting and let the kids eat them. Make sure to invest in cake boxes to keep your sculpture safe until the big day.

Another possibility is to simply leave tradition in the dust. Most kids will want and expect a cake with their birthday, but if yours would rather have cherry pie, why not make cherry pie? Of course, friends will simply expect cake, so it might be a good idea to bake a small one on the side. Whatever you settle on, just make sure you can put candles in it!

Dinner

Homemade garlic bread can make a boring spaghetti dinner feel like a trip to the fanciest Italian restaurant in town. Investing in a bread machine and spending some time practicing with it can be a great way to make meals more exciting. If your better half does most of the cooking, she’ll be happy to have some of the pressure taken off her shoulders—and if you’re already the head chef in the household, you’ll simply increase your repertoire without much additional effort.

Spontaneity

Everyone’s looking to be a little more spontaneous and exciting. This doesn’t have to mean jumping off the couch and shouting “Let’s travel across the country!” You can make the entire family happy just by engaging in random acts of baking. If your kids or wife have friends over, surprise them with a batch of brownies or cupcakes displayed in cupcake boxes. You’ll make a good impression on guests and your family will appreciate the gesture.

Whether it’s a bon voyage party, graduation or simply a weekend blast, a nautical theme party will create a night to remember!

Theme Party Decorations

What better way to get the party started than by greeting your guests at the entrance with lots of nautical party supplies and a huge Life Preserver Arch? You could also use it as a cool backdrop for some nifty souvenir photo shoot! And why not add a customized nautical banner at the entrance as well?

Have the crowd enter under Nautical Arches as everyone presents their party “passports” or “cruise tickets.” You could even be dressed as Captain Stubing of “Love Boat” and ask all the guests to dress as cruise tourists.

Nautical Party Supplies

Decorate the room with an ocean or tropical mural to bring in the romantic, salty air and designate the main area as a dinner & dancing spot. Also include blue, white, and some touches of yellow, plus many red streamers and balloons to complete your nautical theme. Along with traditional nautical party supplies, find a decorative fishing net and scatter everything across the room to make guests feel as if they are at the fishing docks.

How about hanging 3D seagulls from your ceilings and spreading cool sea creatures all over the venue? You could also use party supplies nautical items and some fish balloons to create floating decorations to accent the under-the-sea party decor. Make your room look like a seaside escape with all these nautical party supplies and also hang some fishnet over the tables and walls for an exciting seafaring appeal.

Nautical Party Paper Tableware

Make sure to match your tableware paper supplies to the rest of your theme party decorations. Don’t forget your personalized napkin rings and other themed nautical party paper products. Also, cover the tables with a nautical themed tablecloth and use either fine white china for a classy look, or choose some colored plastic tableware for a real nautical appeal.

Assign everyone’s seats using a sand dollar for each guest and write their names on them with a paint pen. Then put one sand dollar on every plate to serve as a seat card and scatter some sand and shells across the table for a more dramatic effect.

Nautical Party Cake Ideas

A 3-tiered themed cake is just what you’ll need for your nautical theme party. Decorate with blue and red icing, miniature lighthouses, green seashells and edible cake toppers. These items, along with nautical party supplies such as drink umbrellas and colored streamers will make your party a blast! Another idea is to decorate cupcake boxes to suit the theme and have use them as part of the table decoration with one placed at each setting with an individual cake for each guest.

Nautical Party Food Ideas

The most obvious choice for a nautical party would be seafood of any type. Here are some suggestions:

• angel hair pasta with shrimp and basil
• shrimp cocktail
• seafood and vegetable stir fry
• crabmeat-stuffed flounder
• and… a huge Popeye’s spinach pie!

You could also make the punch into a large bowl and add a floating mini sailboat on top.

Nautical Party Invitations

The sky is the limit to what you can use when it comes to nautical party supplies and nifty party invitations! If you want to send out something more traditional, a formal boat-themed invitation can be mailed. If you’d like to craft the invitations yourself, you’ll need some parchment paper found at any craft store.

Or, if you’re feeling creative, why not send out “message in a bottle” invitations? Buy small glass bottles and place a bit of sand and a piece of paper with the party details inside. Your guests will love the idea and your nautical party supplies, plus they’ll end up keeping the “invitation” as a souvenir!

Masquerade or masked parties were very popular among European aristocrats who wanted to hide under a mask and try out a different persona for a few hours. Masquerade party ideas are still popular party themes and with some nifty masquerade party supplies you’ll too be able to host a very memorable event.

In fact, planning a masquerade party is quite a lot of fun for everyone who loves masks and costumes. If you’re planning on hosting a grand masquerade ball, here are a few tips to help you set the scene!

Masquerade Party Supplies

Give your guests a sense of aristocratic opulence by covering the table in exquisite damask fabrics and decorating them with lush floral centerpieces.

Transform your contemporary interior design into timeless pieces by covering them with fabric throws and hiding all the hi-tech gadgets and modern appliances beneath lavish linens. Decorate the dinner table with fine cloth napkins, gold flatware and glittering china.

Masquerade Party Decorations

If you want to have some dim lights for the night, get some multi-colored lights and maybe even some candles.

How about using a bunch of helium balloons and weighing them down on the floor with a rock covered in tissue or paper napkins? You could even add some glitter to the balloons with silver spray glue.

You may want to consider the colors for your mardi gras party. It is best to use 2-3 colors, with one of the colors being silver or gold. Some suggested combinations for a masquerade party

• black and silver
• black, white and silver
• red, purple, and gold
• red, black, and silver

If you’re on a budget, then you should probably have lots of balloons, streamers, confetti, Mardi Gras beads and other such masquerade party supplies.

Masquerade Party Costumes

Half the fun of a masquerade party is dressing up and striving to camouflage your identity. Be sure to invite guests to join in on the fun and conceal who they are, while getting into character with a fun, colorful costume.

Masquerade Party Food Ideas

Finger foods are a great choice, as you can make them ahead of time and allow the guests to mix and mingle while eating. Here are some great food suggestions to keep in mind when buying masquerade party supplies:

• shrimp and spicy cocktail  sauces
• stuffed mushrooms
• finger sandwiches with cream cheese filling
• Caesar salad served with Parmesan cheese
• quiche with cheese

fruits (e.g. strawberries, kiwi, grapes, melons, raspberries with some whipped cream for dipping)

Masquerade Party Tableware

If you’ll have a large crowd, you may want to assign guests to seats by using personalized seating cards. Decorate the table with masquerade party supplies and purple, green and gold fabrics and add gold paper supplies and gilded china to make the table sparkle!

Add enchanting Mardi Gras beads, coin necklaces and lots of confetti to brighten up your table! One centerpiece suggestion is to make a large bouquet of feather-decorated masks and add some Mardi Gras balloon clusters and other masquerade party decorations.

Masquerade Party Cake

How about making a rectangular cake and frosting it using your party colors? Top it off with a nicely decorated mask or even two masks, one happy and one sad. You could frost each one in a different color to create some contrast and add stars, curling ribbons and a “Happy Birthday” message.

Masquerade Party Favors

Offer each guest a small party favor as a thank-you note for coming. Some ideas include colorful mardi gras beads, decorated masks, party photos and other masquerade party supplies!

Your little girl would absolutely love an Alice in Wonderland birthday party and it’s in your powers to make her wish come true! Alice in Wonderland party supplies are the best way to create something truly magical for your little one, a birthday party that she’ll always remember.

Have your girl and all her friends slip down the rabbit hole into the whimsical wonderland of Alice, the Mad Hatter and the wicked Red Queen. All you need is a bit of creativity and a bunch of cool themed party supplies.

Alice in Wonderland Decorations

There are so many ways to tackle an Alice in Wonderland birthday party and probably the best place to start is with the right set of Alice in Wonderland party supplies. You can elegantly decorate the room or have a wild tea party and stir things up. Here are a few thoughts on how to make your party stand out:

• draw huge letters on the driveway saying “this way to Wonderland” and draw a few arrows pointing in the right direction
• design crazy garlands from huge playing cards and colored paper flowers
• post funny tags saying “drink me” on the tea cups
• have paper lanterns hanging over the table
• scatter pink flamingos, white rabbits and other stuffed animals on your lawn as decorations

Party Tableware

Set the party atmosphere with lovely Alice in Wonderland party supplies, including themed tableware, such as Alice in Wonderland plates, napkins and a cup and saucer for every guest. Make it even more fun and buy mismatched cups for the party, you’ll probably find some of these Alice party supplies at yard sales or discount stores. Don’t forget to decorate the table with teapots filled with many lovely big flowers.

Fun Tea Party Activities

For a memorable party atmosphere, put on a small production of Alice in Wonderland. Have the little guests pick their favorite roles or have some volunteer actors if the little ones are shy and have the cast come up with their own lines. Once the play is over, reward the little actors with Wonderland birthday party supplies.

Alice in Wonderland Birthday Party Invitations

Get creative and create some unique Alice in Wonderland party supplies and invitations for the big date. If you plan to make your own party invitations, here are a few wonderland party ideas:

• attach a playing card or a tea bag to each invitation
• assign each guest an Alice in Wonderland costume to wear at the party (e.g. Mad Hatter, Alice, Red Queen, the Rabbit, Tweedle Dee, etc.) and give prizes for the best ones

Alice in Wonderland Party Food

Here are a few suggestions for the party menu:

• serve using colored trays and tiered plate stands
• make finger sandwiches with jam, sliced cucumber, cheese and ham fillings
• serve tea and lemonade in teapots
• have other finger foods like muffins, pretzels and fruit

How about making a heart-shaped birthday cake for the Queen of Hearts? Or maybe create a traditional cake with pink frosting like the one in the story. You might even replace the cake with cupcakes and write the words “eat me” in frosting.

Alice in Wonderland Party Favors

Some Alice in Wonderland party supplies to include in the goodie bags:

• beaded necklaces
• white gloves
• stickers
• notepads
• playing cards
• crocheted hats

One other thing… have the guests wear name tags and spell their name backwards and everybody should address each other with their spooky names! Kids will love the party and all the fun Alice in Wonderland party supplies, just like the story itself.

Your 20s are almost over and you’re done with the crazy partying and loud music! They all keep saying one thing: grow up! Right? No way! The partying doesn’t stop, it just gets better. Some cool 30th birthday party supplies are waiting for you to put together a fabulous party!

Yes, turning 30 is a big milestone, but who says you have to chill and settle down? You’re about to embark on a new chapter in your adult life, plus a 30^th birthday party doesn’t happen twice in one’s life, so use some crazy 30th party supplies to make it special!

30th Birthday Party Supplies

Use all your creative juices to throw a wild 30th birthday party: find cool stuff from the ‘80s to decorate your room, anything from Atari video games, pop wheels and Walkmans to Star Wars figurines, Bionic Woman stickers and more!

Put on some baggy jeans and a Republic or Benetton T-shirt and pull out your Metallica or Cyndi Lauper CDs and get down to planning the party. You may even create a DVD playing videos from what happened in 1981.

30th Birthday Party Invitations

Make something really special for your 30th birthday celebration: a caricature invitation. Pick a crazy photo of you and have it turned into a cool caricature arty invitation. When the party is over the caricature can be repurposed for who knows what other crazy event? Or, make some personalized ticket invitations to the best party ever! It is a great invitation idea and you can use your favorite colors to design invitations that look just like a real concert ticket.

30th Birthday Decorations

From all the 30th birthday party supplies, what a better way to greet everybody than having a life-sized cardboard cutout of… you? Stand-ups are always fun and make a great birthday party souvenir. Don’t forget to take loads of photos!

Add a welcoming “Happy birthday” banner to the entrance of your party and as everybody arrives, greet them at the door with a cool drink. Maybe offer some martinis in light-up colored martini glasses – the glasses can double as great party favors.

Use some 30th birthday party supplies to add more fun: there are some amazing milestone birthday party paper supplies you could hang on the walls and ceiling. My favorite is the “The Party Continues” theme: it’s fun and keeps your spirits high!

No party is complete without balloons! Get ones that match the paper goods, and what better way to enjoy the balloons than to have them come out of Happy Birthday hats?

30th Birthday Party Favors

Use cool birthday party supplies like personalized trivia magnets or playing cards as party favors, everybody will love them! Also, fill the goodie bags with lots of crazy stickers, tattoos, jellybeans, weird key chains, yo-yos, hats, blowouts, jewelry and more!

Don’t forget the cups and the napkins… they are also great party favor ideas! You can also customize some other 30th birthday party supplies such as some nice cups and add something like “Why grow up? Bottoms up!” or “So I’m 30. Do I look like I care?” There are also some great party supplies such as these little pens that can be customized with a rotating message like “Bob is 30 On December 9^th,” which your guests will love to take home with them.

30th Birthday Party Cake Ideas

Finally, the cake! Turning 30 is a big deal for many people so put your last efforts into creating a very memorable 30th birthday party cake. Choose something unique, something that you’ve always wanted to have for your birthday. Make it a soccer ball, a nifty iPad, a huge six-sided die, your dream car or the perfect mad hatter cake!

No matter what 30th birthday party supplies you use, make sure you have a great time and take a lot of pictures!