Cute Strawberry Shortcake Birthday Party

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Celebrating with a Strawberry Shortcake birthday party is a good way to enjoy your little girl's birthday and to make her special day a memorable event. Of course, maintaining the theme will be less challenging if you follow these helpful planning tips.

Invitations

Starting kid birthday parties off on the right foot starts with choosing the perfect invitations. Here are a few ideas you might consider for those cards:

• The strawberry shortcake invitations/thank you cards combination pack is one idea. These postcard-style invites make a nice choice. Because they are combined with the thank you cards, you'll have one less thing to purchase and you'll already have the cards for your little ones to send to guests.

• Choose pink or red invitations in honor of Strawberry Shortcake's signature colors. Find a strawberry-scented air freshener and give each piece of stationery a spray before dropping them into the envelopes and mailing them.

• Purchase card stock stationery and cut the pieces in the shape of a large strawberry. Use hot melt glue to attach some green paper at the top to represent the tip of the berry. You can either handwrite the party details on each invite or print the information on the paper before cutting out the designs.

Regardless of the invitations you choose for the Strawberry Shortcake birthday party, you should buy a few extras in case you make errors or need to invite additional people.

Dressing Up the Guest of Honor

When you're throwing a party for a little girl, she wants to stand out and be special at her big event. You can let her be Strawberry Shortcake, at least for this day. You can find a deluxe strawberry shortcake costume for her, as well as a matching pink strawberry shortcake wig to complete the look.

To complete the party, ask all of the other guests to come as their favorite Strawberry Shortcake characters. Or just ask all of them to wear pink or red to the event.

If you don't want to spend money on a costume and wig, you can make the birthday girl feel special by purchasing her a birthday tiara or sash that she can wear throughout the party.

Entertaining the Guests

Depending on the age of the guests at your kid birthday parties, you may find keeping them entertained to be a big challenge. Here are a few ideas you might want to use for your Strawberry Shortcake birthday party:

• In honor of the theme, have a fruit tasting contest. Divide the party goers into two or three teams. Cut pieces fruit into small chunks and blindfold members of each team. Ask them to taste the fruit and name what kind it is. The team getting the most correct responses wins prizes.

• A strawberry shortcake pull string pinata is another entertainment option. Like a traditional piñata, this one is filled with candy or small toys (you need to add whatever gifts you want). But instead of hitting the piñata, guests pull the string at the bottom and one lucky guest will have treats pouring down on their heads.

• Showing a family-friendly movie can also be fun for the party guests. Make big bowls of popcorn and other snacks and let the girls have the television to themselves so they can watch favorite movies, perhaps even some cartoons starring Strawberry Shortcake.

Refreshments & Foods

Strawberry Shortcake birthday party guests are going to expect some tasty and probably fruit-flavored refreshments. Here are a couple of choices you could serve:

• Create cupcakes infused with strawberry-flavored gelatin and topped with vanilla icing and a tasty strawberry.

• Make a fruit pizza. Take rolled out sugar cookie dough that has been cooked and cooled, top with whipped cream, cream cheese, or icing. Sprinkle liberally with colorful fruits that represent the different Strawberry Shortcake characters.

• Serve fruit parfaits. Use clear glasses, layer pudding, whipped topping, and colorful fruits in the cups and chill.

• Let the guests have a sundae party. Serve each guest a bowl of ice cream then set up a small section where you have bowls of crumbled cookies, sprinkles, nuts, cherries, chocolate syrup, strawberry topping, and whipped topping so guests can create their own favorite creations.

Of course, you could also create a birthday cake in a strawberry-shaped mold and decorate it with strawberry icing and sprinkles.

You need to also choose some way of serving all of the delicious treats you have to share with your guests. Choosing strawberry shortcake napkins, dessert plates, and nine ounce cups that are the perfect size for young guests would be a good choice.

Giving Birthday Favors

Most kid birthday parties' hosts also pass out favors to all of the guests. Typically, these favors should match the theme in some way. You can choose these favors and purchase them individually if you want, or you can purchase pre-made sets for each guest that includes everything you could want. For example, the sweetheart favor box comes with a necklace and stick-on earrings, a plastic ring, Strawberry shortcake stickers and a blowout combined in a heart-shaped pink bucket.

Other favors could include Strawberry Shortcake dolls, Strawberry Shortcake stickers, treat bags of candy treats, crayons and coloring books, or bottles of bubbles.

Decorating for the Party

As you try to decorate for the Strawberry Shortcake birthday party, you can use some ordinary items, such as pink and red balloons tied onto the backs of chairs or made into lovely balloon bouquets which decorate the tables. You could take pink, red, and white streamers to decorate the walls, the staircases, or other parts of the party room.

You can decorate the tables with Strawberry Shortcake table cloths or you can choose a pastel colored plain cloth. Another idea is to take a plain white cloth and place it on the tables. The guests can entertain themselves by drawing on the cloth with crayons. Consider investing in washable crayons just in case they end up drawing on your furniture while you're occupied elsewhere – that's one of the risks of hosting a party for kids.

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