Army Birthday Party Ideas
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Boys (and Girls) love Army Parties!
My son loves all things military, so we decided to have an Army party to celebrate his eighth birthday. A military birthday party is a fun and easy party. With a few boys, some "boot camp" training and a little bit of rough and tumble, you too can throw an easy party that the boys will all be talking about. It's a great do-it-yourself party that doesn't require too much work. As each boy arrived at the party, we outfitted him with an Army helmet and a dog tag. We also invited the boys to wear any camouflage clothes they had to the party.
Make an Awesome Tank Birthday Cake
A tank cake is easy to make. Bake two cakes--one in a 9x13 pan and the other in a loaf pan. When they are cool, put the loaf cake on top of the rectangle. I used brown and green frosting--the brown frosting was chocolate and the green I colored with green and yellow food coloring. I used a cereal straw covered in icing as the gun. For the treads--use oreos as the wheels and pieces of Hershey's chocolate bars for the treads. Simple and everyone loved it. I topped the cake with a plastic army man. Boys (and Girls) Love the Military
Wouldn't this be a great birthday party for your kid?
Easy Activities and Games
Soldier Says (like Simon Says)
Paper Airplane Contest (make and fly paper airplanes)
Obstacle Course
Pin the medal on the soldier
Bomb Pop (sit on balloons and pop them--treat inside balloon)
Rescue MIA soldiers (like an Easter egg hunt--hide plastic army men and have each boy find 6)
Water gun battle (or in cold weather, use water guns to shoot over plastic army men)
Target Practice (bean bag toss at army tank w/ holes cut into it)
Parachute drop (drop plastic paratrooper from atop a stool onto target)
Tug of war
pinata
Army Party Favors
Pin the medal on the soldier
Water Gun Battle
My son's party was in mid-November. By then it was a little cold to play with water guns. So as an alternative, I set up lots of plastic army men on the front step and lined the boys up to shoot them over with their water guns. Then the water guns became one of the party favors. Tank Target Practice
Army Pinata!
Of course every party needs a pinata. I made my own army themed pinata for under $5. You can make a pinata for any party theme. The lens below tells you how.
Save Money by Making your own pinata!
Find More Army Party Ideas
- Army Party Ideas
- This is a page of army parties--ideas for games, inivitations, food and more. Lots of great ideas here!
- Kids Party Guide to Military Parties
- Ideas for favors, invitations, crafts and activities here.
- All kinds of Tank Cakes
- Find pictures and how-tos to make your own tank birthday cake.
- Free Army Coloring Pages to print
- Print out some pages to use as an activity at the beginning of the party while you are waiting for all the guests to arrive.
- Thrifty Fun Army Party
- Here is another site with a sample party. Some more great ideas here.
- Kids Army Store
- Here you can purchase all kinds of Army gear for kids--toys, costumes, supplies and more. Check out this link for some great gift ideas!
Search for Army Party Supplies on Amazon
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SunsineMac
Apr 26, 2012 @ 1:39 pm | delete
- Thanks for sharing. Busy with my 6 year olds army party and you gave me some nice, easy ideas.
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naheedahsan
Mar 12, 2012 @ 3:51 pm | delete
- thanks for the interesting party idea
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hermaniv
Feb 21, 2012 @ 1:06 pm | delete
- Great lens. We're planning my son's army party now! Loved the ideas for some of the games. Thank you.
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