Throw a great kids garden party with our Garden Party Ideas! Our planning guide uses a garden party theme for creative garden invitations, decorating ideas, indoor and outdoor garden games, plus easy garden crafts to keep the party moving. We have the planning ideas and garden party supplies to make your party a blooming success!

• Create a flower shaped invitation from cardstock so the petals fold down into a circle. When the petals are opened, it should resemble a blooming flower. Add the party details in the center, so they are revealed when the petals are opened.
• Another option is to use a standard card style invitation, and tie it with floral ribbon to a small terra cotta pot with a packet of flower seeds tucked inside. You will need to hand deliver these invitations.
• Seal the envelopes with garden stickers.
• For a special touch, let us print personalized invitations for you! We’ll include your child’s name and all the party details with a background design that complements your garden party theme. You can also take a look at the blank invitations we offer. These are quick to fill in and mail, which is perfect when you want to send your invitations quickly. Check out all of our garden party invitations.

• Choose vibrant colors like green, pink, lavender and yellow for the decorations.
• Cover your tables with colored tablecloths, and use small terra cotta plant pots lined with napkins to hold the cutlery.
• Hang colored streamers from tree branches in the yard. They will float in the breeze and add to the party atmosphere.
• Form a canopy over the party table using green and yellow streamers. The streamers should cascade from a bow in the middle (attached to the chandelier or the ceiling) out to the sides of the room.
• For table decorations, line miniature clay flowerpots with green plastic wrap and fill with small candies such as Skittles or M&M’s; then place a round lollipop standing up in the center of each pot to resemble a flower.
• Fill the party area with huge tissue paper flowers. See our easy Tissue Paper Flower Kit, or purchase your own supplies and use our instructions for making tissue flowers. Arrange groups of flowers on tables, floors, hanging from the ceiling, or tied to chairs.
• Use tin pails or watering cans to hold flower arrangements.
• Create a scarecrow to put near the door to greet your guests. Stuff an old pair of overalls or jeans and a flannel shirt with newspaper. Tie off the ends of the legs and shirt sleeves with twine or rope. Set a hat down over the collar to make a scarecrow. Sit your scarecrow in a chair outside the door, or stand him in the front yard by placing a shovel firmly in the ground and running the handle through the back of the pants and shirt.
• Fill a toddler pool with a small amount of water and lots of green plastic frogs and yellow rubber ducks to create a pond. If you have toy boats, add them, too. Be sure to place your pond where it can be supervised at all times, to avoid any accidents.


• Select several round rocks from your garden, or purchase stones from a craft store. Before the party, spray paint the rocks bright red, and allow them to dry. As your guests begin to arrive, give each a rock and a black permanent marker. Have the children add black spots and faces to make ladybug decorations for the table. Write your guests' initials on the bottom of their ladybugs so that they can find their critters to take home at the end of the party.
• Balloons always say “party” to children! Tie groups of helium balloons together and anchor them in place with balloon weights. For greater impact, combine shaped balloons with colorful latex balloons. Tie a balloon to the back of each chair, and tie a group of five balloons to the birthday child’s chair!
• Consider a pull-string piñata if you would rather not have small children swinging a bat. We offer a selection of both traditional and pull-string piñatas, but any traditional piñata can be converted to a pull-string using our easy instructions.
• Ask an older child or adult to make balloon animals for the children. Use our easy Balloon Animals Kit that includes an instruction book, balloons, and balloon inflator. There’s no need to master the entire book! One or two basic shapes will delight young children.
• Make a banner that says “Welcome to [child’s name]’s Garden Party!” and hang it near the party entrance. See our selection of banners and let us do the work for you!

• Start the festivities with a sugar cookie decorating activity. Use various cookie cutters to bake sugar cookies shaped like flowers, butterflies, bunnies, frogs, and birds. Set out small cups of colorful icing, sprinkles, candies, and other edible decorations and let the children decorate their own cookies as an icebreaker activity. Alternatively, you can give your guests cupcakes iced with green frosting, and let them create bee, butterfly, ladybug, and flower designs on them using candy and tubes of food coloring gel.
• Serve the party food in wicker baskets and clean terra cotta pots.
• Prepare jam sandwiches and cut with a flower cookie cutter.
• Serve cut fruit in clear plastic goblets.
• Turn your vegetable platter into a Vegetable Patch by arranging the cut vegetables in little rows. Add a small metal pail of dip in the corner.
• Flies on a Log-Fill celery stick logs with peanut butter or cream cheese, and add raisins on top as the flies.
• Green Jell-O Frogs-This recipe will create firm jello that can be cut into shapes and does not melt. Combine 4 envelopes (1/4 oz. each) of unflavored gelatin with 3 packages (3 oz. each) of lime flavored gelatin in a large bowl. Add 4 cups of boiling water and stir until dissolved (about two minutes). Pour the mixture into a lightly greased 9” x 13” pan and chill until set (at least one hour). Either use a cookie cutter to cut frog shapes, or simply cut the jello into triangles and press in two mini chocolate chips for the eyes.
• Ladybug Fruit Treats-Cut a red apple in half, and cut out the core and seeds. Push chocolate chips point-first into the apple's skin to make the ladybug's spots. (Note: You may want to poke small starter holes using the tip of a knife, making it easier to push in the chocolate chips.) Serve each Ladybug on a leaf of romaine lettuce.
• Worms in Dirt-Fill a clear plastic cup with a layer of chocolate pudding, another layer of crushed chocolate cookies, and gummy worms on top. Serve with miniature plastic shovels from a local craft store as spoons.
• Pour lemonade from a clean, new watering can.
• Make flower-shaped crispy rice cereal treats, with colored sugar sprinkled on top.
• Serve flower shaped cookies! Simply prepare sugar cookies cut with a flower cookie cutter, and slide a wooden popsicle stick under each cookie before baking. Bake as usual, and frost as desired. Wooden craft sticks are sold at most craft stores. Try using our Sugar Cut-Out Cookies recipe, your own favorite recipe, or ready-made cookie dough from the grocery store.
• Create a lollipop flower garden using sheets of colored foam from the craft store and wrapped lollipops. Cut flower shapes out of the foam and poke a hole through the middle. Slide the foam flower onto the lollipop stick to create a flower, and add a green leaf, if desired. Push all the lollipops into the ground and label the area (your child’s name)’s Flower Patch. Let the children pick and eat the flowers.
• Serve drinks with shaped silly straws.
• To make a really cute flower cake, start by baking a standard 8" round cake for the center. For the petals, you can bake a sheet cake and cut petal shapes, or use Hostess Twinkies for a quick solution! Ice the flower's center in yellow and the petals in pink. Place the cake on either a large cookie sheet or a piece of cardboard covered in tin foil. Use green icing to "draw" the stem and leaves onto the cookie sheet or cardboard.