Army Birthday Parties The Perfect Choice For A Kid's Birthday!To Help You Plan The Perfect Party!
To help you get into the Army birthday parties frame of mind, we've put together links to the best party supplies: Special Forces Army Supplies CAMOUFLAGE INVITES - Take an 8 1/2" x 11" piece of camouflage scrapbook paper and cut it into two pieces that are 4 1/4" x 5 1/2". Print out your party details on tan paper that is slightly smaller than you camouflage paper and glue to the center of the camo paper. Add a sticker of a tank or airplane on one of the corners of the invite, along with sealing the camouflage-trimmed envelope with an appropriate army sticker. IN-PERSON SOLDIER INVITES - Mom, Dad, a drama student, or a professional hire will go to each of your child's guests' homes dressed in full army soldier attire and personally invite each of your child's guests to the birthday party. The soldier could "bark" out the invite. Something like: "Private Bob! You have been recruited by Sergeant Joe Kendall to his Army Birthday Party. You are hereby ordered to appear on (Date) at 1400 hours. Report to Camp Kendall." Ultimately, the soldier will hand each guest a personal invitation to the party. IN-PERSON UNCLE SAM INVITES - Once again, Mom, Dad, a drama student, or a professional hire will go to each of your child's guests' homes dressed in an Uncle Sam costume and personally invite each of your child's guests to the birthday party. Uncle Sam, while pointing his finger at the child, could say something like: "Joe Kendell wants YOU to come to his party! It is your duty as one of Joe's best friends to make it a priority in your life to attend this once in a lifetime party. Ultimately, Uncle Sam will hand each guest a personal invite to the party. ARMY POSTCARD INVITES - Put your party details on the back of army postcards and mail them to your guests. ARMY BIRTHDAY PARTIES - PARACHUTE INVITATIONS - Get the old-fashioned plastic parachute Army men that have the parachute that opens up attached to their backs. Write all of your party info on the parachute using a permanent marker. Fold it back up and mail or hand-deliver to your guests. UNCLE SAM INVITES - Download a picture of Uncle Sam in his traditional pointing pose onto a piece of cardstock and put above or below the picture, "I Want You At My Army Party!" On the inside, put all of your party details. DOG TAG INVITES - Cut oversized dog-tag shape out of silver cardstock and put "Operation Birthday FUN! on the front and the party details on the back. Put a small hole in the top and run a string through the hole. Suggested Wording For Army Invites: Attention Troops!
You are hereby summoned to participate in a top-secret birthday mission OR We are on a mission to celebrate (Name's) birthday. Official Orders For Private (Guest's Name) Write "TOP SECRET" on the outside of the envelopes and add some army-theme stickers.
If your child wants to look like an authentic army person, here's some Army Costumes to consider. For some more army costume ideas for your army birthday parties, check out our ARMY COSTUME photos and how-to tips. They are nothing less than fun and fabulous! Create an Army base, Barracks, Mess Hall, or jungle atmosphere using army green, tan, brown, and black. You can also add a bit of good ole' American patriotism with some red, white, and blue decorations. Here are some Army birthday parties ideas to help you create your party atmosphere:
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PRINTABLE GAMES - Here's a great site for some fun Print & Play Birthday Party Games that would be a perfect party game add-on: Printable Birthday Games Ages 3-5
Here's an entire page with nothing but Army Party Games and Activities, such as:
ARMY BIRTHDAY PARTIES - PARTY FOOD IDEAS Here's some ideas for your Army birthday parties grub:
ARMY BIRTHDAY PARTIES - IDEAS FOR CAKES Army birthday parties just naturally lend themselves to several options for a birthday cake. Depending upon the amount of time you have to devote to making a cake, or perhaps you might want to opt to order one, here are some ideas to get you thinking:
Ingredients:
Bake your choice of box cake, I used a marble cake mix and dyed part green, chocolate brown and regular cake mix so that the inside of the cake was camo as well. (3 boxes; 2 9X13; 1 8X8 cake pan) Using regular icing, I put both 9X13 cakes together and the 8X8 on top of that. I then mixed the remaining icing with dye until I found the color I wanted, I used a green, tan, and brown (chocolate icing). I then cut the cake to the shape of the Military Vehicle LAV. Then I used the back of a spoon to help create the random shape of camo all over the cake in the different shade icing. To finish it off, I put a Marine toy of my son's in the top and a brown cereal straw out the front and mini chocolate donuts on the sides as the wheels to the vehicle...and your done! ARMY CUPCAKES - Make or buy cupcakes and frost them with tan, green, brown, and black frosting in a camouflage fashion. Place a plastic army soldier on the top of each cupcake. ARMY SHEET CAKE - Make or buy a sheet cake and frost it in a camouflage fashion using black, brown, green, and tan frosting. Decorate it with an Army cake topper or create a battle scene using plastic Army men, tanks, and trucks. GRENADE CAKE - Bake your cake in a circular pan. After it has cooled, cut off a strip from two of the sides to make your cake oval shaped. In the alternative, if you have an oval pan, just bake your cake in this pan and skip the above. Frost your cake in Army green and using Decorator Icing, draw the crosshatch pattern on the grenade. AMERICAN FLAG CAKE - Make or buy 18 cupcakes. Frost 6 blue, 9 white, and 9 red. Going from top to bottom, make four rows of cupcakes as follows to create your flag:
Place red, white, and blue star picks in the center of each cupcake. If you need more than 18 cupcakes, then just double the recipe and you're flag will be twice the size! AMERICAN FLAG CUPCAKES - Make or buy cupcakes and frost them white. Add an American Flag pick in the center of each cupcake or make an American Flag out of fondant and lay on top of each cupcake. ARMY PHOTO CAKE - Take a picture of your child in their Army attire and have a bakery put it on the cake. QUICK & EASY ARMY CAKE DECORATING KIT - Make or buy a white sheet cake and cover it with white frosting. Then add this fun Army Cake Decorating Kit that includes flags, helicopter, tank, and a vehicle, along with super simple decorating ideas. EDIBLE SUGAR ART ARMY CAKE - Make or buy a white sheet cake and cover it with white frosting. Add an edible sugar art image of a Patriotic Sugar Art Image to jazz up the sides of a round cake and leave lots of options for decorating the top. Here's some great cake photos of AIRCRAFT CARRIER CAKE. Here's some great cake photos of ARMY BIRTHDAY CAKE. Here's some great cake photos of CAMOUFLAGE CAKES. Here's some great cake photos of FLAG CAKES. Here's some great cake photos of GUN CAKE. Here's some great cake photos of HELICOPTER CAKES. Here's some great cake photos of TANK CAKES. Army birthday parties just aren't complete without Army-themed favors. Fill camouflage printed bags or use clear bags decorated with Army stickers with any combination of the following party favors: Camouflage pencils and notepad, water guns, glider planes, mini flashlights, tattoos, compass, whistles, mini binoculars, canteen, Army green t-shirts, parachute men, glow sticks, and Army men. Tie the bag up with dog tags. You can also use a helmet as your favor container. Here's some great Special Forces Army Supplies. Here's a terrific all in one Camo Value Kit. There are lots of options for Army Party & Cake Supplies with this company. Here's another all in one
American Heroes Kit-N-Kaboodle Party Supplies Here's one last option to consider for Camouflage Party Supplies.
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