Finding Nemo Birthday Party Ideas To Create Cool Underwater Adventure!

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FINDING NEMO FISH-SHAPED INVITATIONS - Cut Nemo fish shapes from orange card stock. Cut white stripes and black tail from white and black card stock and glue to fish. Add wiggly eyes. On reverse side, write party details. Put invitation into envelopes, decorate and seal with Finding Nemo stickers.

FINDING NEMO BIRTHDAY PARTY BEACH INVITATIONS #1 - Cut piece of blue card stock that will fit inside snack-sized Ziploc bag. On one side write: "Dive Into (Name's) Finding Nemo Birthday Party Fun!" On reverse side write:

Casting Away On: (Date) Dive Time: (Time of Party) Catch The Wave At: (Party Address)

R.S.V.P. To: (Name & Phone Number) SEA You Soon!

Add some sand, small seashells, and small plastic starfish, turtle, fish. Put invitation into blue envelopes, decorate and seal with Finding Nemo stickers.

FINDING NEMO BIRTHDAY PARTY BEACH INVITATIONS #2 - Prepare invitation as outlined above. Laminate blue card stock leaving 1/4" lamination around all edges to waterproof. Add water along with all sea-related items noted above. Eliminate envelope and hand-deliver invitations.

FINDING NEMO BIRTHDAY PARTY PHOTO INVITATIONS - Either dress your child in a Ninding Nemo costume or pose them with their favorite Finding Nemo toy and take a picture. Cut 8 1/2" x 11" card stock to match costume or toy into 2 pieces and fold in half. Using decorative scissors, trim edges of photo so it is slightly smaller than the card stock. Glue photo to front of invitation. Put above photo, "(Child's Name) & Nemo invite you to..." and below the photo put, "An Underwater Sea Adventure. On textured white paper (finished size 4 1/2" x 7 1/2"), either type or handwrite in calligraphy party details.

EMBELLISH READY-MADE FINDING NEMO BIRTHDAY PARTY INVITATIONS - Buy ready-made Finding Nemo invitations and embellish picture with orange, black, and white glitter and wiggly eyes.


FINDING NEMO BIRTHDAY PARTY IDEAS FOR COSTUMES

Have guests wear Nemo character costumes like Nemo, Dory, Squirt Sea Turtle, etc. or have them wear Finding Nemo t-shirts and provide Finding Nemo cone hats.


FINDING NEMO BIRTHDAY PARTY IDEAS FOR DECORATIONS

Decorate the party room like a giant fish bowl or create an underwater sea adventure using some of the following Finding Nemo birthday party ideas. The best Nemo colors are orange, yellow, blue, and lime green.

• Decorate ceilings with twisted streamers and clusters of balloons with curling ribbons.

• Create a boat bottom from a refrigerator box and paint it brown. Hang it from the ceiling. Make an anchor from cardboard scraps and paint it in your party colors. Hang it from a rope off the boat. Also, create some fishing poles to come off the sides with plastic fish dangling from the lines. Then add blue balloons around the boat bottom to create the surrounding water.

• Decorate room with Finding Nemo characters. Attach balloons or put party hats on stuffed animals.

• Cover tables with disposable Finding Nemo tablecloths and tie corners with curling ribbons.

• Use party colors to select plates, cups, napkins, and utensils.
• Make Finding Nemo cone hats using solid color hats in party colors and decorate with Finding Nemo stickers.

• Add Finding Nemo birthday party banner on wall.

• Create jellyfish balloons by taping a ring of streamers around clear or white balloons. Hang from ceiling that is covered with twisted blue streamers.

• Enlarge pictures of Nemo characters, laminate the pages, and use them as placemats and favors for your guests to take home.

• Enlarge pictures of Nemo characters and hang on walls.

• Attach Finding Nemo mylar balloons to birthday child's chair and helium balloons in party colors to guests' chairs.

• Create Nemo character posters and hang on walls.

• Create a photo-op corner by hanging blue, foil fringed curtains against the walls in a corner. Decorate with large, laminated Nemo characters, Nemo mylar balloons, and an inflatable shark. You can hang some of these decorations from the ceiling.

• Create a photo-op by lining a wall with a vinyl, tropical scene setter.

• If you are artistically-inclined, create a shark standee out of cardboard, paint it, and place it so kids can put their head inside the mouth and have their picture taken. Not artistically-inclined, then buy a standee from a party store.

• Use water gossamer to cover your furniture, walls, ceiling, tables, etc. to create an instant ocean feeling.

• Cover windows and light covers with blue cellophane to create the ocean atmosphere.

• Fill ceiling with blue balloons to create the underwater atmosphere.

• Create a center piece using a large fish bowl, fill with live fish, and attach Nemo Mylar balloons to the bowl.

• Sprinkle small seashells on table tops.

• Create table centerpiece using a large Nemo Fish in a basket with napkins in party colors, curling ribbons, and helium balloons.

• Hang dark blue streamers all around the party room to create "waves."

• Hang streamers of various lengths from the ceiling and attach small plastic fish to the ends as if they are swimming in your "fish bowl" room.

• Decorate archways or doorways with blue streamers.

• Hang fishnets and white net lights on the walls and then add a few plastic fish to the nets.

• Use a few well-placed palm trees to create a tropical atmosphere.

• Decorate circumference of tables with grass garlands.

• Lighted strings of fish and sea shells can be placed around door frames, windows, or hanging from ceiling.

• Put a large Nemo fish on your front door to welcome guests.

• Have a bubble machine at front door so guests go through sea of bubbles as they enter.

• Put party colored balloons outside to alert guests of party location. Attach to mailbox, hang from tree, or tie to car antenna.

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FINDING NEMO BIRTHDAY PARTY GAME IDEAS AND ACTIVITIES

Here's an entire page with nothing but Finding Nemo Games and Activities, such as:

• Gill Says
• Free Play In Fish Tank
• Pin The Fin On Nemo
• Fishing For Nemo
• Name Tag Fishing
• Sea Life Mural
• Octopus Tag
• Fish, Fish Shark
• Hot Sea Sponge
• Musical Chairs
• Fish Beanbag Toss
• Water Relay
• Tornado Tubes
• Nemo Pinata

Here are some Finding Nemo birthday party cuisine ideas to fill-up your little characters:

OCTO-DOGS - Cut hotdog in half lengthwise leaving 1"-2" end intact for head. Cut each long section in half again until you have 8 octopus legs. Cut 3 holes with knife point for eyes and mouth in head. Boil until legs curl and hotdog is cooked through. Serve with goldfish crackers.

"SUB"MARINE SANDWICHES - Set out various meats, cheese, spreads, lettuce, and bread and let everyone build their own subs.

SEA SNAILS - Unroll refrigerator croissant dough and fill with sliced hotdogs cut lengthwise and strip of cheese. Roll croissant and bake until golden brown.

JELLYFISH SANDWICHES - Peanut butter and jelly.

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FISH STICKS

TURTLE TREATS - Place large lettuce leaf on plate. Place pear half in center of lettuce to create turtle shell. Cut apricot into quarters to create 4 legs. Place 2 on each side of pear. Place apricot half at top of pear half to create head. Press chocolate chips into apricot to create eyes and nose.

JELL-O FISH BOWL - Make blue Jell-O. Scoop into fish bowl and press gummy fish into Jell-O. Top with whip cream and gummy life preservers.

JELL-O STARFISH - Make pan of orange Jell-O and cut out starfish shapes with cookie-cutter.

JELL-O MOLD - Make a Jell-O mold using green, blue, and yellow layers. Mix into each layer a filling, e.g., mandarin oranges, pineapple tidbits, marshmallows, or cherries. Make a layer, refrigerate, when firm add another layer, repeat process until done. Turn out mold onto platter. Decorate with plastic Nemo characters.

GOLDFISH - Serve small fish bowl of goldfish crackers or rainbow goldfish crackers.

SEA SHELL SNACKS - Fill sea shells with various snacks, e.g., goldfish crackers, dried fruit pieces, pretzels, crackers, Animal Crackers, Teddy Grahams, Cherrios, rainbow Pringles, Chex Party Mix, M&M's, Jelly Bellys, gummy fish, gummy worms, gummy sharks, etc.

FISH CRACKERS & CHEESE - Serve fish-shaped crackers with fish-shaped cheese created with cookie cutters.

SHARK PUNCH - Day before party make shark ice by placing gummy sharks or fish into ice cube trays, add water, let stand for 30 minutes to remove air bubbles, and freeze. Day of party prepare blue Kool-Aid according to package directions and place in punch bowl or large fish bowl. Add 2 liters of ginger ale. Right before serving add shark cubes.

SEA KELP JUICE - Lemonade with green food coloring.

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Use some of the following Finding Nemo Birthday Party ideas to create a Nemo-rrific birthday cake!

SEA SHEET CAKE - Make a white sheet cake and frost white. Add an edible sugar cake art image of an ocean fish scenery to make your cake look spectacular.

NEMO CUPCAKES #1 - Make cupcakes and frost in aqua blue for water look. Decorate with Nemo cupcake picks or white chocolate shell candies.

NEMO CUPCAKES #2 - Make cupcakes and frost with white frosting. Dip in blue edible sugar and place a goldfish crackers in center.

NEMO PHOTO CAKE - Take picture of your child in a Nemo character costume and have bakery put it on the cake.

NEMO CHARACTER CAKE #1 - Bake white sheet cake and frost white. Decorate sides with multi-colored sprinkles or edible colored sugar. Decorate with plastic Nemo characters topper.

NEMO CHARACTER CAKE #2 - Make cake using a Nemo character-shaped pan and decorate according to pan's directions.


FINDING NEMO BIRTHDAY PARTY FAVOR IDEAS

The following Finding Nemo birthday party favor ideas will put smiles on your little characters as they leave:

Fill cellophane bags decorated with Nemo stickers or plastic sand pails with plastic fish, water bombs, little towels that expand when they get wet, bubbles, Nemo stickers, fish squirts, fish card game, small stuffed sea animals, goggles, sunglasses, sea life putty, gummy fish, gummy sharks, Swedish fish, goldfish crackers, Nemo fruit snacks, etc.


FINDING NEMO BIRTHDAY PARTY IDEAS FOR PARTY SUPPLIES

Here's some great Finding Nemo birthday party supplies including ideas for partyware, invitations, favors, and lots of decor!

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This party won't be complete without a fun colorful Finding Nemo pinata.




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