Princess bouncy castle party games and ideas. If your little princess wants a birthday party, there’s no better way to entertain the children than with a themed event for their special day. Here at Huff n Puff Bouncy Castles and Events, we hope that your child has the time of their lives at their birthday party. With this in mind, we would like to present a few princess party theme ideas that could be useful when your child’s birthday comes around.
With our Enchanted Garden Princess Bouncy Castle or Fairytale Princess Bounce n Slide, your child’s dream party will be an enchanting experience for all the guests! Candy floss would be the perfect accompanying snack as you could make it a range of colours fitting to your theme. Here we will give you more hints and tips on what games and activities you could include at your princess themed party.
Invitations are easily made for princess themed parties. You could either cut pink card into a tiara or crown shape to write your invitation on, or write your invitation along the lines of “The King cordially invites you to the Royal celebration in honour of Princess/Prince _______’s birthday” and scroll up the invitation, tying it with coloured tinsel or ribbon.
Food is a vital part of any royal celebration, so make sure you have plenty! It is easy to theme the food in either a coloured way (e.g. a pink theme, so snacks such as pink smarties candy floss and cupcakes with pink icing will be served) or in a princess theme (e.g. sticky toffee apples could be named as ‘poison apples’).
Costumes are not limited to princess attire only! Other costume ideas include knights, jesters, heroes (such as Robin Hood), butlers, servants, fairies, witches, villains (such as the ugly stepsisters) and genies.
Decoration of the party area could include a cardboard castle, cut outs or posters of princesses and princes, banners, flags, ribbons, balloons, glitter, red carpets, fairy lights, roses or other flowers, a cardboard ’wishing well’, glass slippers (glittery high heels), ’poisoned’ apples, love letters from “princes” and much more. Colour schemes can include pink, lavender, white, cream, baby blue, yellow, gold and silver. Red and grey are good colours for if you want a more medieval themed party (for example if some boys are attending).
Party games could include:
“Pin the kiss on the frog” – Simply print out a large picture of a frog/cartoon frog and also print enough picture of lips or a lipstick mark for each child at the party. Place the picture of the frog on a wall or post where there are no hazardous objects. Place a piece of double-sided sticky tape on the back of each of the lips pictures. Blindfold each child with a piece of cloth and give them one lips picture. Tell them to try and stick the lips as close to the Frog’s lips as possible. Either give a prize to each child at the end or award a prize to the children who placed their lips picture nearest to the frog’s mouth.
“Save the princess”- If you have both girls and boys at your party, you could dress someone up as a dragon and have the girls put on one side of the garden/room and boys on the other. The ‘dragon’ stands in the middle and the boys have to get past the dragon and holding one princesses hand, run with her back to the other side of the room in order to save her. The game ends when all the princesses are saved or if the game is taking too long. Prizes could be awarded to all the boys, or everyone.
“Bob for the poisoned apple”- Like the traditional game of bob for the apple, just fill a fairly shallow tray with flour or water and insert apples into the tray. If you have a tray of flour, try to cover the apples as much as possible. Get the children to take it in turns to try and pick the apples out of the tray with only their mouth. The ‘poisoned apple’ could have a piece of green ribbon tightly tied around the stalk. A prize could be awarded to all children, or one prize to the child who picked out the most apples and a special prize to the child who picked out the ‘poisoned apple’
“Find the Pea” – Get a green tennis or golf ball and hide it under a pillow in the room. Get a selection of other pillows or cushions and place them around the room. Ask the guests to dance around the room as the music plays and when the music stops, sit down on the nearest pillow. Play music and stop it at a random interval. When all the children are seated, ask them who thinks they have something under their pillow. When the child sitting on the pillow with the ‘pea’ under it presents the ‘pea‘, award them a prize. If no one sits on the pillow with the ‘pea’ underneath it, start the music again.
“Decorate the cupcake” – For a fun-filled activity, why not allow your guests to decorate their own cupcakes and then eat them? Make enough plain cupcakes for each guest and give them an array of pre-made coloured icing in bowls or tubes and some decorative sweets such as smarties, chocolate shavings, sprinkles or silver balls. This could be done with other foods such as iced buns, or you could alternatively get the children to decorate something else such as their party bag with glitter, stickers and colouring pens. For a competitive twist, you could get the adults to judge which is the ‘best’ cupcake or simply award a prize to all children.
If you do not want to buy parts of your child’s costume, costumes suitable for princess themed parties are easily and cheaply made.
If your child already owns a dress, it is easy to glue or sew on rhinestones or small jewels in order to make the dress look more ‘royal’. A ribbon tied around the waist of the dress also adds a lovely effect.
To make your own crown, simply take craft wire and circle it around the child’s head to make sure the crown will fit. Then take smaller lengths of craft wire and attach it to the circle, making several triangles which point upwards. Then glue card around the wire and simply spray paint it silver or gold. Adding some rhinestones or jewels to the top of the triangles and around the bottom of the crown, or adding cotton wool to the bottom and sticking small triangles of black card onto the cotton wool adds special royal effect.
If you want a sceptre, take a plastic or wooden rod and spray paint it gold or silver. Then take a polystyrene ball and stick it to the end. Cover it with tin foil and add rhinestones to the foil.
Capes for either knights or princesses can be made using velvet or silk material.
For the middle of the party, you could set up a room or area with a mirror as a pretend ‘salon’ and enlist the help of the adults or older guests to give the children some great prince/princess hairstyles. If you don’t mind a bit of a mess then glitter hairspray is the perfect way to add a little more magic! Then, if possible, you could make an older guest or adult dress up as a prince, royal butler, or princess and teach the children how to act and speak like true princes and princesses or tell them a fairytale story.
Leaving party bags and prizes could include: cupcakes, pieces of cake, princess shaped cookies (e.g. castles, hearts, wands), sweets, fairy wands, foam/plastic swords, tiaras, crowns, plastic jewellery, hand puppets, colouring books, make-up, glitter, witch hats or small toys.
