Donuts Are My Love Language: Birthday Party Edition, PART 1

Party planning may be another love language for me. I seriously love doing it. Most of the time I have to reign myself in because I WAAYY over do it. But, I truly think it’s so fun to execute all the cute ideas I see out there or come up with through the huge amount of inspiration that is out there these days.

I have planned and thrown so many parties over the years. It’s so funny how life takes you through the many stages of parties, too. It started with wedding showers and birthday parties for friends, than quickly moved to planning SO.MANY.BABY.SHOWERS! (Still do quite a bit of those) NOW, it’s turned into kids birthday parties! You can see the first party I did for my blessed first born here. And then her waaaaayyyyy more simple 2nd birthday party here. Keep in mind, I was 38 weeks pregnant at that time.

I was really busy this year trying to plan Ezra’s 1st BLOWOUT, that I was really hoping to just go to a party place and make things easy, but I couldn’t decide on anything and it was kinda expensive and could invite limited amount of friends. So, I bit the bullet and decided to just have it at our house and do it myself.

I had this “donut themed” idea rolling around in my head for awhile and Eden LOVVEESS donuts. It’s kind of a family thing to go get donuts on Saturday mornings. We happen to live across the street from 2 amazing donut shops, so it’s just inevitable. See below for the details I added to make this a special day for my big girl.

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DECORATIONS & PRINTABLES:

Printables are much needed when planning a party. You need these things to put on cups or banners to bring home that theme. You can buy these types of things on Etsy or Design yourself. I designed all of mine myself and offering them to you for FREE! All you have to do is sign up for my email list.

Donuts: I cut these out and taped them to the fruit cups and popcorn boxes. See details below:

Download the donuts here.

Donut hole box (fry cup): This is the shape of a traditional fry holder. I printed, folded and taped so they could hold the donut holes.

Download fry box template here.

Flags: I used these to stick into donuts and sausage balls.

Download Donut Flag Template here.

12×12 signs: I love making fun signs to use throughout my parties. Usually, they are used to mark a specific area or activity. I saw all these fun puns related to donut parties that I thought would be cute to display throughout. I designed the signs, cut out a template with my cricut and traced onto boards.

Download 12 x 12 Sign Images here.

Donut banners: I designed the image and uploaded into my Cricut design space and used that to cut these. I taped them to some string and hung as a banner for decorations!

Download donut image here.

Favor: I will admit that I kind of forgot about the favor until the last minute. I quickly designed these “thanks for coming” tags and used Washi tape to tape on a bag of candy. Everyone loves candy, right?? Thankfully they were already selling Easter themed candy and the candy wrapper went perfectly with the theme!

Download Favor Template Here.

Download Food Sign Template Here.

ACTIVITY:

I learned pretty quickly that you MUST have a fun activity at a kids party. You can see the “Make your own Guitar” craft I had at Eden’s first birthday party here.

I decided to have the kids make their own donut!

I found these wooden “O’s” online and bought enough for every kid to have one. I painted the “icing” on and put out at the tables with sprinkle stickers and markers, so they could decorate however they wanted. I also put out some donut themed coloring pages for kids to color.

See below for the details of that: