Party Agony Aunt - Rainbow Party

Hello All,

I was contacted by  the lovely Mummy and Landlady to some help with ideas for a rainbow party which is a fantastic idea and below is the response I gave her.




Hello Mummy and Landlady,
Wow a rainbow theme party what a great idea! and I know what you mean about the states they are celebration crazy!

Well there are lots of things that spring to mind, so I'll start at the beginning the best place to start I've been told ;)

Invitations: Use brightly coloured paper and different colour envelopes to send the party invites maybe even sealed with a rainbow sticker.

Decorations: Cheap and easy paper chains in again lots of different coloured paper (set your boys to work on this and challenge them who can make the longest!)You can also buy some fantastic PomPoms (partypieces.co.uk) sell these they come in all different sizes and look fantastic.
Place settings why not get some plain white paper plates and leave some felt tip pens by the side so the children can design their own rainbow party plates (this idea also works great with party bags too!). If you can get to a good ole fashioned cash and carry they have a great array of napkin and cup colours, or why not ask other Mums to see if they have any odds and ends left over from previous parties to make a great range of colours.

Food:
Well youve got the healthy choice made here a platter of fruit covering the colours of the rainbow would look fantastic. Also little mini jellys in a range of colours too would round the meal off nicely with hundreds and thousands on top (best bit of the jelly).
And with your cupcake idea sprinkle some popping candy on top always fantastic food having noisy food.

Activities:
If you wanted to put a craft table together for those who don't want to join in games you can decorate party bags (paper bags) or a cheaper option is making their own rainbow masks ...they could be rainbow superheroes!! (you can buy great value packs of colour masks at supermarkets like Tesco, Asda and Sainsburys for example and provide the kids with some stickers and viola happy children playing superheroes!)
ooh what about bubble pictures too ... get a tray fill with bubbles and food colouring the children use straws blowing into the mixture to create bubbles then place the paper on top to see their pictures.

Games:
I love a good ole fashioned treasure hunt, and for the rainbow theme I would go an get a box of quality street or similar you know the ones where the sweets are wrapped in coloured paper and hide these all over the venue for the kids to find ( though leave out the nutty ones just in case of allergies).
Theres also colourful corners, a great game where you mark four corners out with a colour, the children have 10 seconds to choose a corner (you close your eyes during this bit) and when they have chosen you call out a corner colour if they are in that corner they are out.

Party Bags:
For his age group you can't go wrong with plastine and playdough. Why not buy some cheap tupperware pots and put some playdough in them but all the colours of the rainbow (playdough is super easy to make if you dont want to buy let me know and can post the recipe) with that add a colourful lollipop and viola once again done and dusted.