Hello Kitty Party Ideas

Hello Kitty likes her tea parties, her scrumptious sweets, and her crafts. At a Hello Kitty tea party, you can have plenty of all three!

Hello Kitty party invitations can, interestingly, involve a combination of these qualities. How about a Hello Kitty cookie with a message written on it in thin, swirling icing, and an assemblage factor?

Consider sending little cloth-made clothes or hats or ribbons to put on the Hello Kitty cookie? Here, you have an invitation that is also food and a craft form (something you make into a unique presentation—a work of art!).

This would be fun, tasty, and challenging for you to make. What better way to get the guests’ interest than to send them food? And the kids would love dressing it (before devouring it, of course).

Decorations for a Hello Kitty party would go along the flower/heart motif, since Hello Kitty LOVES both. Her world is made up of them, so your Hello Kitty party should, too! You can make flowers out of various materials, like construction paper, cardboard, pieces of canvas, or plastic strips. The kids can even get in on it.

See the Hello Kitty Decorating Kit for all the needed supplies. As for costumes, you have a couple different ways to go. First, go with the same flower/heart theme and ask that everyone where something with a cheerful flower/daisy/heart pattern (or any one of these). Since Hello Kitty always wears a bright ribbon in her hair, you can either send a ribbon (or ribbons) with each tasty invitation or hand them out as the guests arrive.

The second way you can go is to request fruit outfits. Hello Kitty has a variety of these—a pineapple outfit, a watermelon outfit, a strawberry outfit! In this way, each kid would be unique and still fit in. Some soft and cheerful music, perhaps created at home, would add that desirable Hello Kitty spirit.

Food? There is plenty! Rock cake, apple muffins, honey fruitcake, star-shaped cookies, lemon biscuits, and chocolate squares are all Hello Kitty favorites!

Hello Kitty Party Game & Activity Ideas

Crafts—some of Hello Kitty’s favorite crafts include embroidery, friendship bracelets, dolls, box-making, and homemade cards. You can supply the necessary accessories and have the kids and their parents work on their own projects together.

Games—Play Hello Kitty’s Sandcastle game—her version of “hangman” —where you create a phrase or the name of a person or thing and then have the kids guess the letters. You can play a variety of Hello Kitty games--including “Find-the-Friends,” which involves finding matching pictures. You can download many from the Internet. Give prizes for each one!

Here is another variation, submitted by LaChrisa from TX:

I recently threw a birthday party for my newest niece who turned 1 years old. We actually had it planned since she was 4 months old. We used Hello Kitty asthe theme since the mother absolutely loves Hello Kitty and it has recentlycame back into the stores. We luckily found a lot of the decorations, partyfavors, and other HK items on sale/clearance through out the year.

I made invitations for all the guests, but downloading a HK graphic and placing it on a Microsoft Word document. I made 3 (8.5 X 3) invitations per page with flowers and butterfly graphics. I placed on the pertinent information as you do on an invitation. I took the same graphics and printed then on standard white envelops. Unfortunately we did not use these. However we did create anEvite using some HK images and the mother took a picture of the Birthday girl with a huge Hello Kitty and we posted it on the Evite for the guest to see.

I researched all the websites that have Hello Kitty, including sanrio.com. Ifound many crafts, print outs, and ideas from these sites and came up with somethings on my own as well.

Let’s get to the decorations starting from enteringthe front door. We had a party favor table set up with white tablecloth, pinkhelium balloons, and a big picture of the birthday girl that I created. It wasa white square frame with a large mat and a 4X4 picture. I put flower foamstickers that spelled out her name and “one” with a HK Graphic we printed acut out by hand, even the whiskers, on the mat. That was for the parents andtold them I will make one for them each year. The party favors were 3X2 whitew/ silver polka dot picture frames (purchased at Target for $0.10 each) withthe picture that was on the Evite and another pose as well to choose from thatlay on either side of the big picture frame. This was for the adults. The kidsreceived a goody bag that I will describe in the Craft section of thissubmission. Helpful Hint: Under this table held all my supplies for craftsand games along with the prizes for easy access and out of the way.

In theformal dining/living room combo, we placed a pink plastic table covering overthe coffee table and fuchsia one on the dining table. They have one wall thatis just a mirror, so we hung a HK shower curtain (purchased at Target for 75%off) with suction cup hooks in the middle. I covered the suction cup hookswith alternating pink and white air blown balloons. On each dining room chairI tied more pink helium blown balloons. Then I tied together 4 to 5 pinkballoons (petals) to one small round white balloon to make a flower that lay inthe center of the dining room table. I purchased HK egg decorating dye kits(Garden Ridge after Easter for 90% off, so I cleaned the place out) that had anegg holder with HK body in different clothes and scenarios and a HK “face” togo with the body that you placed on an egg. It had 6 different styles,princess, ballerina, bicyclist, hula, aviator, and bunny. I used pink,fuchsia, purple, lavender plastic eggs from Easter. I put a few these aroundthe balloon flower on the table.

On the coffee table we laid our crafts down. We purchased pink w/ white flowers and pink w/flowers and butterflies plasticEaster buckets (Target for $0.09 each) that where about 5 to 6 inches tall andround. We also had some other buckets with the same design that were 2 inchestall and about 10 inches in diameter. We used them for various things, such asholding markers, colored pencils, glue, foam shapes, hello kittygraphics/stickers, and so on. Crafts that we had available for the kids, andsome adults that participated, create your own HK goodie bag, make a birthdaycard for the Birthday Girl, paint a picture frame, and HK coloring pages. Ofcourse the kids were real creative and created more things with the cardstock,construction paper, and HK graphics. Let me give some detail on each craft. First, HK goodie bags were white lunch sacks purchased from Wal-Mart. Weoriginally wanted to print HK image that they could color, but it would notprint correctly on the bag, so we came up with them decorating the bag how theywanted. As stated above we had every craft supply imaginable for them to use. Once they were done we put them to the side to dry after writing their name onit.

Second, Birthday card was simple card stock in various colors, HK graphicsprinted out and cut out, and all the other supplies. They turned our very cuteand creative. The parents enjoyed having these for memories of her 1stbirthday. Third, we had wooden 5X7 wooden picture frames, 3-D paint in variouscolors, and creative minds. The kids made one for themselves and one for thebirthday girl. A few adults joined in on this craft project as well. I alsotook some of the HK images and placed them in the picture frames before theystarted. The picture frames were placed in a bucket.

Last we had free timewith HK coloring pages, HK maze, and HK crossword puzzles that were alldownloaded from various websites I visited. These all were in buckets as well. Back to decorations, before we get into the games. In the breakfast nook andthe pass bar we placed an obscene, but very pretty, amount of HK and pinkdecorations. I found this “clothesline” with 12 mini clothes pins that hadpink and yellow flowers on them at Ikea ($0.99). I had the mom print a picturefrom each month from birth up to the birthday month (12 months). She went theextra mile and did a montage of each month with some really cute and funnypictures. We strung this along the buffet they had set up on the kitchencounter and pass bar.

A lot of the guests had not seen the baby since she wasborn or a few months old, so this helped them catch up on her growth throughout the year.

On the actual bar and counters we placed more plastic pinkcovering and laid various buckets the held plastic ware, cups, napkins thatwere not HK themed to tie them in to the theme. Around these buckets we had HKparty plates and napkins. I also bought monogrammed paper napkins to spell outher name. I also made some “centerpieces” using the buckets, foam, tissuepaper, and floral foam. The one on the bar had her name cut out from white foamsheets with hello kitty stickers on the letters. I used fuchsia straws to holdeach letters and stuck them in the floral foam. I placed white paper shredover the floral foam to hide it.

I also purchased large swirl lollipops(Target for $1 each) that I stuck HK images and sticker on the front and back,so I put one of those in there. We also placed Fairy wings on the back of thebarstools that look so cute.

On the breakfast table chairs we tied pink bows,from her aunt’s wedding chair cover business. Since hello kitty wears bows wefound this tied the wooden table into the theme. We covered the table withmore pink plastic covering, added fuchsia tissue paper in the center and placed3 levels of cake plates in the center for the cakes. Yes, Cakes. We purchased3 sample cakes from a wedding bakery ($2.50/each) and then decorated themourselves with various HK graphics, HK egg decorating masks/bodies, HKmarshmallow pop, flower/star/butterfly shaped lollipops (Party City 3/$99),pink ribbon/bows, and pink piping. We put “happy” on one cake, “birthday”on another, and the last one had her name. I found a pink “1” candle withflowers on it for her to blow out. I placed tulle around the cake plates forsome more frills and some HK figurines that mommy already had.

I took 8 white8 pink helium blown balloons tied them at various heights from the lightfixture overhead to add color and hide the chain in the pictures. Of course wehad a HK ‘HAPPY BIRTHDAY’ banner that strung in the window sit behind thebreakfast table, added the huge HK plush and some more pink and white air blownballoons that would be seen in the pictures taken at the time of the cake. Webought a HK bowl/plate/cup set for the BDAY girl’s place setting and a HKtiara for her to wear when she “blew out” and “cut” her cake. I placed onmore “centerpiece” I made on the family room coffee table.

This was one ofthe short buckets with her name cut out in pink foam and stuck in floral foamwith wooden party picks. I put purple pipe cleaner around the picks and placedtissue paper over and under the floral foam. I put another large swirllollipop with HK image and “1” cut out in foam stuck on it in the mix. Iused white paper shred again to cover any holes puncturing the tissue paper. Itook some plastic Easter eggs with the HK masks and laid them in front of hername. Pink plastic table covering was put on the coffee table/ottoman to hidethe brown leather.

In addition to all these different areas, I made a gifttable using a card table covered in pink plastic table cover that ‘wrapped’the table like a gift. I covered various sizes of floral foam with wrappingpaper, ribbons, and made a centerpiece with another bucket, lollipop, tissuepaper, HK images, and bows. I also tied helium blown balloons in pink andwhite to the table. After the goodie bags were all dry, I had all sorts of“goodies” in the same pink Easter buckets we used through out the house. Let’s see, we had HK Easter egg filled with jelly beans, HK gummies, HKplastic cups, HK pop tarts in HK sandwich Ziplocs, and jelly beans in HK snackZiplocs. I also gave the boys bug and dog stickers with a plain colored cupinstead of the HK cup.

We played pin the bow on Hello Kitty, that was downloadfrom a website that shortly after removed it. We actually had 3 winners, sothey all got HK chocolate from Easter. We played Pass the Kitty (Hot Potato)with a small HK plush and that winner won a HK art backpack.

I had a couple ofNON HK prizes for any boys that won, but none of them did. I also had GuessHow Many Kisses in a Jar. I found pink wrapped Hershey Kisses in the clearanceaisle at Target and got a food canister from Ikea. I table “HELLO KITTY”from one of the gummy candy boxes and cut some small pieces of paper from pinkcard stock for guest to write the guess. We put these in a HK plush Easterbasket to be tallied later. We had 2 of these plush baskets (Target Easterclearance for 90% off) for prizes, but ran out of time to give them away.

Another game we intended to play was HK puzzle race. We found Hello Kittyjigsaw puzzles at Ross and were going to have team race each other to put ittogether. We ran out of time for this game, so I gave it to the Mom toexchange for some clothes for the baby.

As for the food, since 1-year-oldparties are mainly for the adults we served traditional party food, which allthe kids eat. The birthday girl’s grandmas made all this for the party.

There was stir fried noodles, spring rolls, egg rolls, beef stew, soup, porkmeatballs, and some other dishes. It was a feast. In addition to all of this,we took tons of pictures that we are sending to the guests for memories at theparty through Yahoo photos with tons of Thank You’s.

I had lots ofcompliments and kudos as guests left on the party. I also had a lot of adviceto go into party planning, but I just like doing it for friends and family fornow.

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