Birthday in the marine style gives great scope for creativity and involves a lot of fun and interesting contests, which makes this theme very popular. Especially vivid and memorable are the holidays for children. Preparing for a birthday in a marine style will not be difficult, but it will require imagination and time.
Holiday invitations
Of course, you can invite guests to a child’s birthday by phone or in person. But if you want to give the upcoming holiday special significance and solemnity, then make invitation cards. You can do them with your child - the kid will really like the creative work.
Postcards can be issued in the form of fish, anchors, shells, starfish, ships - it all depends on your imagination.
Production of scenery
For a birthday in a marine style to turn out unusual and interesting, it is necessary to make details and decorations that are typical for this topic. The most striking subject of marine paraphernalia is a life buoy. The presence of this detail in the festive interior will give any room a shade of a ship's atmosphere. In addition, the production of a lifebuoy will take no more than an hour: it is enough to have cardboard, foam rubber, and also ribbons of white and red or blue on hand.
First, cut a circle of the diameter you want from cardboard. Then wrap it with foam rubber, fixing the edges with thread or glue. After you have obtained the circle of the desired shape, wrap it first with a white ribbon, and then make the same pattern as on lifebuoys using a red or blue ribbon.
Just as easily, using disposable plates and Christmas tinsel, you can make marine jellyfish. A cardboard tray from eggs will be an excellent material for making fish.
With a little imagination, you can easily make turntables, starfish and even a pirate ship.
The main thing is that you can find all the materials for the scenery at home. The only thing you have to buy is acrylic paints and colored paper.
Costumes for the holiday
It is better to warn guests in advance that they will visit a birthday in a marine style. So they will have time to search not only for a birthday present, but also for the purchase or manufacture of a marine-themed costume. If your plans do not include burdening guests with additional preparations, just buy vests for all the children. The hero of the occasion can be dressed in a captain’s costume or chosen for him the outfit of the pirate beloved by all children - Jack Sparrow. Depending on what character the kid wants to play at his party, the scenario of the event and the concept of the decoration of the room will depend.
The scenario of the celebration
The success of any holiday, especially for children, depends primarily on how interesting and fun the guests will be. Therefore, deciding to organize a birthday in a marine style, the celebration scenario should be thought out especially carefully, including games and contests with prizes in it.
You can start a children's event with the game “Guess Who I Am”. To do this, children are given leaflets with sticky edges on which they write the names of marine inhabitants, after which, without showing the inscription, they are glued to each other on the forehead. The meaning of the game is to guess what is written on a piece of paper. To do this, the guys take turns asking each other questions that can only be answered with “Yes” or “No”. Using leading questions, you need to guess the name or name of which hero is written on a piece of paper. Which of the guys will guess faster, he won.
Also, children love the game "Crocodile". To conduct it, you need to prepare cards with drawings on the marine theme in advance. The bottom line is this: the children are divided into two teams and choose their captains. The presenter shows the captain a card, and he must depict the object painted there with gestures and facial expressions, so that his team guesses what he means. The group that gave the most correct answers wins.
All games can be accompanied by fun marine-themed music. It can be both songs from cartoons and movies, and the work of pop singers. A little later, the same musical selection will come in handy at a children's disco.
Interior decoration
The room where the celebration will take place can be decorated with a striped streamer with congratulations, hanging on the walls an imitation of lifebuoys, as well as photographs of sea landscapes and ship equipment. In addition, with the help of green paper tapes on the walls, you can arrange algae, complementing the scenery with small cardboard fish. Table design should also be done with elements of marine themes.
When determining the general concept of the holiday, do not forget about the choice of color for the upcoming holiday. White, blue, blue, red - the colors that best decorate the birthday in a marine style. The design of the room with wooden elements will also harmoniously fit into the interior, as it will symbolize the deck of the ship.
The general orientation of the style of the sea holiday will be determined by the gender of the child, his age and hobbies. So, for example, depending on the desire of the baby, your house can turn into both a romantic world of mermaids and a pirate ship.
Festive table, treats
The event, organized in the style of this theme, involves an abundance of fish dishes and snacks. But since not all kids love fish, it is better to cook more meat dishes for a children's birthday in a marine style, giving them the shape of the inhabitants of the deep sea .
As for the fish treats, you can make sandwiches with red caviar and fry cutlets in the form of small fish. Also, sushi and rolls, which, as a rule, are loved by modern children, will fit into the holiday menu in a marine style.
And of course, a marine-style child’s birthday cannot do without a gorgeous cake. In order to make it not only tasty, but also unusual, use mastic. It can be purchased at the store or cooked at home. To decorate the cake, prepare figures of chocolate and cream in the form of items of marine attributes.
And do not forget that, having shown imagination, you will not only please the baby on his birthday, but also give happy memories that will remain with the child for life.