Elmo Birthday party Ideas

Children love to party and they go wild over their favorite creature, Elmo. Mix the two into a delightful cocktail and make Elmo the central theme for your kid's birthday party. This red and furry little monster's infectious giggle will cheer up the kids and the party will vibrate with their divine laughter.

Let Elmo have his rendezvous with the kids in your own home where you will be in full control. Send out innovative homemade invites. Create Elmo's jolly face by cutting an oval from red card paper. Give him two large plastic eyes, an orange nose and a happy smile. Inspire your birthday kid to write a caption, like Come and have a ball with Elmo in colorful crayons. Children will adore it.

Turn the venue into a cheerful world that Elmo would love to inhabit. Let the central theme pervade everywhere - on the birthday table cover, plates, cups and napkins. Pile on it plastic spoons, forks and knives in bright red colors. Tie a bunch of balloons to the birthday child's chair. Fill more balloons with helium in different colors and let them float in the room at different heights. Drape a multi colored banner across the room with the legend Elmo loves you printed on it. Scatter a profusion of Happy Birthday confetti around the party area.

The birthday child is the only one to dress up as Elmo. Offer the guests appropriate costumes and let them appear in their favorite Sesame Street characters. Welcome guests with Hurray for Elmo blowouts and party hats and lead them to the birthday table for the cake-cutting ritual. Take a lot of photographs.

Make the party games full of fun and frolic. Select a few games from websites. One game that the children will enjoy is the Sesame Street Scavenger Hunt. Hide printouts of several characters in different places within the house. Give them loot bags and ask them to locate their favorite characters. Give a prize to the kid who finds the most.

Breaking Pinata is the most enjoyable part of the event. Find an Elmo-shaped or - if you prefer - a tortoise or a fish-shaped Pinata and fill it with goodies. Blindfold the guests and provoke them to break the Pinata open with a bat or a stick and retrieve candies and toys stuffed inside. Encourage them to fill their party bags with these.

Elmo loves to eat and so do the children. Let their eyes light up with delight and offer them Elmo themed cakes and also lots of pizzas.

Elmo likes to rhyme and he challenges the kids to rhyme words that sound the same at the end. Rhyming with him is a unique learning experience besides being a great fun. Have all the kids sit in a circle and play the rhyming game. Encourage the children to hear and identify similar word patterns. The game ends when the kids are no longer able to match rhyming words.

End your party by thanking your tiny tot guests in a novel way. Make use of the snaps you had taken earlier in their respective Elmo character regalia, mount them on cardstock and write Thank You notes on the back. The kids will love the souvenir. After returning home they would torment their parents demanding equally enjoyable birthday celebrations!