Book Parties for Kids

As you may have gathered, I’m rather a fan of book themed parties. Seriously what’s not to love? The theming is done for you, often there are enough food mentions in books that the catering ideas are done, and the dress-up ideas are organised. Below is done a roundup of the parties we have had so far, plus the flower fairy party of one of my nieces and the EJ12 party of an older niece and one by the fabulous Hey Bubbles – you can click through to read the full posts on all of them, I hope they inspire you. Nothing fancy happening here – just fun kids parties!

Of course no party post for children would be complete without a mention of the quintessential children’s birthday cake book, ‘The Woman’s Weekly Birthday Cake Book’ which you can read my gush about here. 

I’ll start with the parties we have had for The Wild Thing/ChickPea…

Bad Tempered LadyBird Party

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ChickPea had a rough start to life with a horrid bout of reflux that saw her screaming her way through her first year of life. PudStar and I used to read her ‘The Bad Tempered Ladybird’ LOTS. So there you have it – she had a bad tempered ladybird birthday.

Where the Wild Things Are Party

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From a first year full of screaming, ChickPea turned fairly destructive and soon became known as The Wild Thing. She pounded through her second year of life destroying all in her path. A ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ party was on the cards for turning two. And for her third birthday (below) she had a – a Stomping Brontosaurus Party. I suspect The Wild Thing will never have a fairy party.

Stomping Dinosaur Party

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The Wild Thing AKA ChickPea loves a dinosaur book or twenty. For over a year we’ve been reading ‘How to Grow a Dinosaur’ and ‘Edwina: The Dinosaur Who Didn’t Know She Was Extinct’ every.single.night and she STILL gets excited about them (we do not!). So there was no other choice for her third birthday but a party based on her favourite dinosaur books.

PudStar’s birthday parties have been a little more sedate!

Miffy Party

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I had purchased Miffy postcards in Holland for a child’s bedroom long before I was even married. There was simply no question that my children would love Miffy. I have all my Dick Bruno books from my childhood and I adore them. My girls have had no choice but to adore Miffy and I’ve even let them adore the Miffy DVDs – I don’t mind a Book-ish DVD! While she was too young to have an opinion on such things, I threw PudStar a Miffy Party for her first birthday.

Possum Magic Party

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This one was really more an afternoon tea party to celebrate PudStar’s birthday and the 30^th Anniversary of Possum Magic. But the wonderful Jackie at My Little Bookcase has full coverage of her son’s Possum Magic Party here.

Pearlie in the Park Party

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PudStar is not a Wild Thing. She is a collector of beautiful and tiny and shiny things – hence why she and I adore the Violet Mackerel books. Her lovely aunt (possibly the best present giver in the world) gave her a Fairy Door one Christmas, and we gave her the only fairy book series I can cope with – ‘Pearlie’ by Wendy Harmer. A love affair was born. PudStar planned her fairy party for months – her first with friends. It was simple but fab.

Magic Faraway Tree Party

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Anna from Hey Bubbles is a party planner from way back and I love, love, love seeing the planning process which goes on behind the scenes for each of her children’s birthdays. They are stunning but simple – the best kind of party.

Flower Fairy Party

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My sister and I grew up pouring over the Flower Fairy books by Cicely Mary Baker, so it was no surprise to me that when her little girl requested a fairy party, it was heavy on Cicely Mary Baker! This Flower Fairy party had all the right ingredients and was a low key and relaxed family and close ‘village’ members event – given my sister is two weeks out from having a second baby!

EJ12 Party

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My niece recently turned nine and was super-keen on a disco party and a microphone cake. I of course was able to tie this into a book – and the EJ12 party was born. The microphone cake was surprisingly easy and to be honest our family is more into the taste of the cake (orange and cardamom with cream cheese icing if you’re interested!) than the appearance – fondant fanciers we are NOT.

Have you hosted a book themed party or what book would you or your child choose?!

Linking up with Jess from IBOT!