When it comes to making your kid’s birthday special, we know you have tons of choices. We’ve gathered some of the most creative and entertaining birthday party ideas to help you make your kid’s party truly memorable!
From ages 6 to 8, parents have the most options - whether your kid is jumping on trampolines, splashing at a water park, riding a pony, participating in a science show, or taking a museum tour, we know your little one will be smiling from ear to ear.
With kids ages 9 and 10, your kid might prefer leading their team to victory in a laser tag tournament, playing paintball, scaling the side of a rock climbing wall, driving go-carts, or racing model cars and boats.
Kids 11 and older may enjoy drone fights and virtual reality battles, or master classes in robot programming or 3D engineering.
There are many places where you can have an interesting and often quite inexpensive celebration of a child's birthday. We have gathered the most unusual ideas for entertaining children and making the party truly memorable.
You will find ideas for all ages here. So for anyone from 6-8 years old almost any option will do - jump on trampolines, splash in water parks, ride a pony, participate in science shows, take informative tours in museums, and master classes. With kids 9-10 years and older, one can bravely fight in laser tag and paintball, climb on walls, pass the quest rooms, drive go-karts, and drift on models of racing cars or models of racing boats. Finally, anyone over 11 years old might be interested in drone fights and battles in virtual reality, as well as master classes in robot programming or 3D.
From the list below you can choose ideas both exclusively for winter or summer, or for any season and weather outside.
Educational parties can be held in museums, zoos, and aquariums, in city parks, and at master classes where the kids will acquire new practical skills.
For an active birthday party, go play laser tag, quasar, paintball, or bumper ball. Vigorous celebration awaits kids, a rope park and trampoline center at the rock climbing wall, at the water park, go-karting, and at the rock climbing wall.
Entertainment centers concentrate a lot of rides and games for all tastes and ages. Stylized quest rooms with interesting plots and a variety of virtual reality games will bring an unusual experience to the birthday party. Children's cafes with special game rooms are great places to hold a children's event, and in some anti-cafes, the kids will communicate with cats or even owls.
Professional entertainers and various show programs will help you make children's birthdays original and exciting: you can order them at your home or at any other place for your party.
Laser tag and quasar
Laser tag is an alternative to paintball and airsoft for those who do not want to get dirty in paint or walk around with bruises. The point of the game is to hit the enemy with "laser" shots. Special sensors mounted on the player's clothing, fix the infrared beam emitted by the "weapon" of the opponent or team members of the "enemy".
Laser tag is held both indoors with special shelters and obstacles, and in outdoor areas or recreation centers across the country.
Entertainment centers
In the entertainment centers, there are many attractions with mazes, trampolines, and playgrounds. For a birthday party, you can organize an entertainment program with animators, master classes and shows, a festive table, and a children's menu.
Go-karts
Go-karting is a great fun for birthdays. There are no traffic lights on specially equipped tracks and every driver, regardless of age, can feel like a Formula 1 racer.
Unlike a normal car, a kart has no suspension, and even a child can drive it. For children, there are special, less powerful karts that provide maximum safety for the young racer. The celebration can be concluded with a festive awarding ceremony on the pedestal and a tea party in the cafe.
Virtual reality
The unusual format of children's festivals in virtual reality is unique game locations and a lot of different subjects and worlds for teleportation.
The voyage begins with virtual reality glasses and provides a full immersion in an exciting game of different genres, the exploration of the depths of the oceans, the mysteries of distant planets, and the secrets of the human body. Read more
Nerf arenas
The game resembles paintball, but thanks to the use of special blasters it is absolutely safe. Instead of balls with paint - foam bullets are very light and do no harm on impact. The blasters themselves are specially designed for children from 6 years old, light and bright, they are devoid of sharp corners. The only condition is to wear safety glasses at the site.
Races on models of motor and sailing boats
Water zone, from an exciting motorboat race with remote control to a graceful model boat ride! A favorite attraction for all ages! Read more
Art Parties
The organizers will arrange a bright and fun party for children, where they'll discover the magical world of creativity. Together with art instructors, children will draw fairies, unicorns, animated cartoon characters, heroes, dragons, and more. The choice of topics is huge, especially for the party you can pick up themes from the gallery.
At the art party, they paint with environmentally friendly, water-soluble paints. The paint is bright, has many colors, and is easy to wash off from hands. Professional artists will help paint a real picture, and the host will not let the kids get bored. Colorful pictures are the best memories you'll get after the art party. Such a party will be remembered for a long time. Each child takes his or her masterpiece in a branded bag.
Culinary Birthday Party
How to cheer up children, organize interesting and useful leisure for them and give yourself the few hours of relaxation that you deserve? You can celebrate a child's birthday as a culinary master class.
Under the guidance of a professional, cheerful, kind chef children will prepare dishes, a variety of desserts, cocktails, and drinks. The chef will entertain children during the whole event: show spectacular shows, make jokes, and tell interesting stories. Full involvement is guaranteed! Little participants will feel like real chefs, make lots of culinary discoveries, taste the dishes, get an unusual experience, new impressions, creative realization, and diplomas.
Drift and off-road racing on model cars
This event gets the birthday boy's heart beating harder than good old-fashioned radio-controlled car racing. Race or drift your car around our exciting track and see who will achieve glory in your group! Read more
Kids Cafe
The children's cafe offers a delicious children's menu, cakes, a sweet bar, and a play area with games, slides, trampolines, and aqua makeup. Here you can organize creative and culinary master classes, various shows, mobile contests, and animation programs.
Quest rooms
A reality quest is a special adventure for a child where he or she becomes a character in the story (like in a movie, favorite book, or game). Children in a small group are in a real room (quest room): the interior and decorations create a certain atmosphere, and the thematic plot and fascinating tasks plunge them into the history from which children need to find a way out, including their ingenuity and logic.
Outdoor activities
Trampolines and a variety of inflatable attractions will be a great addition to a children's birthday party outdoors. This is an option for an active holiday that will be fun and healthy for the kids. And sparkling ground fireworks fountains are a great idea for a spectacular ending to a children's party that will be remembered by young guests for a long time.
Event Lofts
The ideal presentation of a children's birthday party is a chamber and cozy atmosphere, just like at home, but the space is much larger and there is no need to clean up after themselves. And it's quite realistic - you only need to rent a venue for it (loft, art space, hall, etc.). Such sites can be found in all corners of the city, you can choose the one that is close to home, or in an insanely beautiful place.
You can arrange a party completely to your own taste - from snacks and desserts to decor and entertainment - create the child's happiness with your own hands because no one knows him/her better than you!
Parks: Rides and boats
In the parks of the city, children's birthday parties can be organized on their own. Major parks offer special picnic areas with barbecues, tables, and benches, where you can order delicious food with delivery, as well as a large number of rides, children's and sports grounds, and even rope parks.
You can ride boats and catamarans, horses, bicycles, electric cars, and roller skates, as well as arrange a whole field party with animators, contests, and quests. Some parks have ready-made programs available for a birthday party for a child and his friends.
Themed birthday parties
Themed birthday parties are a non-standard solution for a children's party. You can hold the event in a loft space: you rent a room that can be decorated in accordance with the chosen theme, invite animators and presenters, a photographer, and a DJ, and organize a festive table.
Event agencies provide a ready-made program with animators in thematic costumes, paraphernalia, decorations, and everything necessary to create a children's party in the desired style at your place.
Anti-café
Anti-café always has free sweets and tea, and board games and payment depends on the time spent there. You can rent a hall in the anti-cafe where animation and interactive programs, popular show parties, quests, and master classes will be arranged for the kids.
You can also spend your birthday talking and playing with affectionate cats in a cozy cat cafe, or get acquainted, feed, and take pictures with real owls.
Quests
A quest in a box is a ready-to-play kit, a quest can be easily organized in your home.
For the offsite event, you choose the location of the quest: nature, office, cottage, parkland, or other space, where a few hours before the event the quest organizers will arrive and prepare the site. Bright scenery, artifacts, puzzles, props, and accessories as well as a fascinating story and tasks that will not let the kids get bored are waiting for you.
The value of the gift is increased many times over, if you unpack the package before searching, running from cache to cache, and unraveling codes. To organize such quests easily, kits are complete with all the necessary materials and ready for use.
Animators
An animator is a professional, experienced actor and host of a holiday event who dresses up as a character from books, movies, cartoons, or games. His duties include creating a cheerful atmosphere at the party and maintaining a good mood in all those present, holding a certain event scenario, games, contests, and competitions.
For children's birthday parties, you can order one or more animators dressed up as children's favorite characters for your home or another place of celebration.
The show
Children's shows are original performances at birthday parties for children of different genres. These can be shown with elements of acrobatics, circus tricks with animals, spectacular science and chemical experiments, rousing shows with fire or fun paper parties, magical soap bubble shows, and much more.
Children's show programs are held both at home and at any other location for your event.
Workshops
Events held in a creative workshop format will diversify a child's birthday party. There is a huge selection of event formats and topics: master classes from chefs, creative programs to design aquariums or stylish t-shirts, bath bombs, pottery or cartoon shoots, and even soap making.
Master classes are usually held in the organizer's studio, but there are also retreats that can be booked on your own property - at home, in a loft, or museum.
Theaters
Children's birthday party in the theater will allow the birthday child and his guests to plunge into a magical theatrical atmosphere, where children become active participants in theatrical performances along with their favorite characters from cartoons and books, solving interesting puzzles and passing funny tests, and can even create their own play on stage with real actors.
Theaters offer both ready-made scenarios of the event and individual programs that take into account the interests, age, and preferences of the birthday child.
Museums
A child's birthday at a museum is a great way to spend time that is not only fun but also informative. Special holiday programs include a fascinating introduction to the vast exposition of museums, combined with dancing, poems, creative tasks, and interesting quizzes. And young fans of computer games are sure to enjoy the museum with the working gaming machines of the Soviet era. At the end of the celebration, there is an opportunity to end the event with a traditional tea party.
Scientific Holidays
Diversifying the holiday for your child will help a fascinating science. Special educational programs with scientific experiments show, and spectacular effects will long be remembered by the young kid and his guests.
During the holiday children have an opportunity to learn in practice how cartoons and movies are made, and how chocolates are cooked, they will investigate crimes, learn to do tricks, and learn by experiencing the mysteries of physical and chemical phenomena. And at the end of the rich program children will have a traditional tea party.
Zoos and aquariums
Children love animals, so a great idea would be to hold a birthday party at a large zoo with guided tours, animators, and even a theatrical program. For a closer interaction with the animals and a chamber celebration, go to a contact zoo for a birthday party.
For young lovers of the sea world and an unforgettable experience in all weathers, arrange a children's birthday at the oceanarium with fascinating science shows, animated tours, and quest parties.
Ethno and Eco Parks
Ethno- and eco-parks that organize children's birthdays offer a unique opportunity to get acquainted with the ethnicity of other nations, spend time in nature and learn more about history and culture. Animators are available for fun events, and programs with quests, games, and excursions have been developed.
Parks
The festive program in the parks is planned individually for each event, based on the available programs of the museums and taking into account the wishes, and creative activities of the birthday child, his age, and the time of year. The program of such a birthday party includes tours and art programs, as well as fascinating master classes.
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Paintball
Paintball is a team game using pneumatic markers, shooting gelatinous balls with water-soluble paint that breaks when hitting an obstacle and coloring it.
As the game is rather traumatic, it is important that before and during the game instructors instruct children and explain safety techniques and monitor the battle. Clubs should use modern equipment, special protective equipment for children, and reduced power "weapons".
Modern paintball clubs offer special programs and scenarios adapted for children and fun birthdays.
Rock Climbing Clubs
At rock-climbing walls, the festivities are held in the format of moving competitive games with sports excitement, competitive spirit, and striving to the top. In a playful and exciting way, instructors teach children about such kinds of sports as rock climbing.
At the same time, an active program does not require special physical training of holiday participants. All contests and games are absolutely safe, children are constantly supervised by qualified instructors.
Rope parks
In the rope park children have adventures with puzzles, and unusual tasks, and search for artifacts and treasures - "on high" and in absolute safety. The park can organize a holiday, the program of which includes not just a set of standard competitions, but a set of fascinating tasks and sports, which will involve motor skills, logic, and thinking of the child.
Trampoline Centers
A birthday party in a trampoline center contains a very rich, active program, which children especially like. Jumps are replaced by various contests, relay races, and other activities, so the time spent in the trampoline room will seem diverse and will fly by quickly and pleasantly.
Equestrian clubs.
A kid's birthday party on horseback? Not everyone can boast of something like this. The event usually includes a birthday program with horses and ponies, as well as a tea party with cake. If you wish, the script of the birthday program can be supplemented, and the celebration can continue with your own food or use the services of a cafe.
Water Parks
Waterslides and water rides, pools with warm water in any weather, funny themed programs and fantastic characters, delicious food, and other entertainment at modern water parks will make your child's birthday joyful and unforgettable.
Bumper ball
Bumper ball is a game in which inflatable balls are put on the players. Transparent balls allow you to see everything around, move around the field, bump into each other, roll, and turn upside down without risk of injury.
In the game it is allowed: to collide, push, and obstruct opponents, knock the opposing team off the field, and not allow them to return to it. Bumper ball can also be called soccer because you can play by the rules of soccer.
Bowling
In children's bowling, every child regardless of age, bowling experience, and physical fitness can feel like a strong player - because for children the lanes have raised boards, and a special lightweight ball thrown even by a small fragile girl can strike out.
For the little ones, there can be slides with a pool of balls, and for cozy gatherings next to the lanes, there are tables where you can eat, ordering a delicious pizza in the cafe nearby.