111 Kids Birthday Party Themes - the Ultimate List Of Party Ideas

The much-awaited children’s birthday is just around the corner and you have absolutely no idea what you want to do? Party themes are an ingenious way to make a child’s birthday special. Another plus according to our experience: a theme makes it easier to come up with ideas. We have collected the best 111 kids birthday party themes on our list of ideas.

Fairy dance tea, pool party, superhero party – themes are a tremendous help in coming up with ideas for the birthday program. It takes practically no more work to create a theme party than a “normal birthday” because decorations, games and program are needed anyway. In my experience, everything is easier if you decide on a theme at the beginning (together with the birthday child), the appropriate decoration, games, guest gifts and invitation ideas arise from the theme by themselves. You don’t have to overdo it, many games, for example, can be easily adapted to the theme. The older your child is, the more their current interest should be taken into account.

What is a good party theme? Clearly, the answer varies depending on how old your child is and whether they have a particular preference for a theme! That’s why we’ve roughly divided our list into kids birthday party themes for 3-6 year olds and around 6-12 year olds. Since, in our experience, the interests of 6-12 year olds are sometimes already very clearly typically boy or girl, we have subdivided them again accordingly and also listed unisex themes. But of course there are also girls for whom excavators and soccer are the greatest and boys who go for Frozen and horses and after that you should go.

Generally a tip: less is usually more and nothing has to be! It is important that you have prepared a little program, because so it will not be stressful at the party and the birthday will be special. For some of the most popular children’s birthday themes you can also find extra pages on our blog with ideas for games, decorations, invitations, crafts, treasure hunts to create the theme party. All linked theme party ideas lead to extra articles with lots of ideas and tips and it’s worth clicking through to get some inspiration.

101 Exciting Kids Birthday Party Themes for 3-12 Year Olds

At the earliest from 3 years, a theme party for a child’s birthday is a super thing. As a rule of thumb, we usually stick to inviting as many children to the birthday as the child grows old. For three or four year olds, simple themes like bubbles, rainbows or favorite animal are evergreens. In most cases, the child doesn’t want a party until his or her 3rd birthday at the earliest anyway, even though in our experience, children’s birthday parties at the KiTa and kindergarten are a big deal before then and very important to the kids. Young children love fantasy characters, have their first favorite characters from books and series, but are usually not yet committed to a particular field of interest.

From about 6 years (of course, children are different in development and this is only a rough guide) girls and boys already have clear interests, on which you should orient the selection of the children’s birthday theme. Who will be invited to the birthday is a big issue. We have listed here the most popular kids birthday party themes, absolute classics to unusual themes for boys and girls. The older your birthday child is, the more you should definitely involve him or her in the party planning, because this is super fun from making the invitations together to shopping for supplies for the games and decorations!

Party Themes for 3-6 Year Olds

1. Zoo party
2. Fairy tale
3. Bubbles theme party
4. Dragon party
5. Favorite animal party
6. Marybird theme party
7. Farm theme party
8. Rainbow theme party
9. Fantasy party
10. Squeaky ducks
11. Colors party
12. Strip party
13. Points party
14. Little Caterpillar theme party
15. Jungle theme party
16. Paw Patrol party
17. Winnie Poo party
18. Peppa Pig party
19. Gruffelo party
20. Picnic party with cuddly toys
21. Forest theme party
22. Balloon party
23. Noah’s Ark
24. Favorite Toy party
25. Craft party

The Best Birthday Themes for Girls up to 12 Years

26. Witch party
27. Unicorn party
28. Mermaids theme party
29. Butterfly theme party
30. Ballet theme party
31. Creative! theme party
32. Dream trip
33. Tea party at Alice in Wonderland
34. Bibi Blocksberg theme party
35. Rapunzel party
36. Princesses party
37. Moonlight party
38. Pippi Longstocking theme party
39. Ice princesses theme party
40. Back theme party
41. Motto ice skating
42. Ballerina theme party
43. Cinderella party
44. Fairy tale party
45. Crazy dress up party
46. Frozen party
47. Glitter party
48. Fairy party
49. Party theme horse
50. Photoshoot party

The Best Themes for Boys up to 12 Years

51. Firefighters theme party
52. Aircraft theme party
53. Race car party
54. Robot party
55. Excavator, Bulldog, Construction Worker theme party
56. Bob the Builder theme party
57. Craftsman
58. Cowboy party
59. Researcher
60. World Space Theme party
61. Motoparty train
62. Ninja party
63. Ghost party
64. Pirate party
65. Monster party
66. Indian party
67. Lego party
68. Viking theme party
69. Scary party
70. Dinosaur theme party
71. Football party
72. Knight party
73. Karate party
74. Magician party
75. Ahoy! party

Gender Neutral Party Themes for Kids up to 12 Years

76. Superhero theme party
77. Avengers party
78. Beach party
79. Jungle theme party
80. Pool Party for kids
81. Bowling party
82. Circus party
83. Costume party
84. Inverted World party
85. space party
86. Detective party
87. Cobber and Gendarm theme party
88. Scavenger Hunt themed party
89. Riddle party
90. Time travel
91. Middle Ages theme party
92. Gaming party
93. 1001 Nights
94. Fantastic Beasts theme party
95. camp party in the garden
96. Overnight party
97. Crazy picnic in the nursery
98. Harry Potter party
99. Movie Night Sleepover party
100. Pyjama party
101. Neon party
102. Lights party
103. Underwater party
104. Home Olympics
105. Treasure Hunt
106. Egypt theme party
107. Escape Room theme party
108. Disney theme party
109. Disco Party
110. Baking party
111. Halloween Party

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