I threw my daughter a movie themed birthday party and it turned out to be one of the best parties she ever had! I’m sharing all of the details, including what we did at the party and the types of treats and party favors we had for inspiration in hosting your own movie themed birthday party.
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There are so many fun movie-themed invitations out there – you can either order personalized invites that get shipped to your house or if you’re in a time crunch like I was, many shops have printable version that are emailed to you within a day or two of ordering so you can print them out at home. The exact invites that I used are no longer available but these are a few of my current favorites (click image to shop):
Some other favorite movie-themed party supplies are theses that I used for the party are these water bottle wraps, printable cupcake toppers, sugar cookies, banner, and straws (click image to shop):
For a party activity, we created a homemade version of a photo booth. I picked up a lightweight laser cut frame at Michael’s
painted it black with some craft paint and hung it with ribbon on a rolling clothes rack:
As party favors, the girls were each given a disposable camera and some props (hats, lips, masks, etc.) that I glue gunned to wood dowels. Let the photo session begin! They had fun taking turns posing for pictures and being the photographer – it ended up working best to turn the frame horizontally so that they could more easily pose with their buddies!
The “movie theater” was our family room and my youngest daughter and her friend decided to dress up as security guards, ensuring that our party starlets made it into the theater without getting bombarded by the paparazzi!
The security guards checked to make sure that each of our stars had their ticket and only then were they allowed past the red velvet rope divider (crepe paper and sparkly gold scrapbook paper cut in the shape of an end cap and hook) into the theater.
Before the movie, they stopped at the concession stand to grab some popcorn and candy:
The popcorn is in red and white containers that can be found {here} and the candy is in yellow & white boxes (available {here}) and red & white favor boxes (available {here}) that I cut the top few inches off of to make them shorter and create a tiered effect:
After the movie, the plan was to have marshmallow “popcorn” cupcakes but the girls had eaten so much popcorn and candy that they were full so they were each sent home with one instead. (For the full post on how to make the popcorn cupcakes, click {here}).
The other party favors were arranged in tall red & white striped favor boxes:
I found plenty of cute, inexpensive movie-themed favors:
2. Mini Playing Cards (Michael’s)
4. Photo props
5. Boot with Mani/Pedi kit inside (Target)
(These are so cute! The top of the boot opens to reveal a mirror and 3-piece mani/pedi kit.)
6. Sparkly NYC Nailpolish (Target)
So I’ve got one party down and one to go – my daughters’ birthdays are three weeks apart so as soon as I’ve gotten one done, it’s time to start thinking about the next one. My youngest daughter would like her party to have a circus theme so I’ll have to see what I can come up with for that (any ideas??)! Have a great weekend everyone!
Update: We did a circus / carnival theme for my other daughter’s party and I wrote all about it {here}
Stacey {steward of design} says
April 26, 2013 at 11:24 amThis was such a cute party idea! I did this years ago for one of my daughters but it wasn’t as cute as yours! All 3 of my daughters beats are 4 weeks apart, so I understand the whole one down and another to go. 😉
Have a great weekend!
Anonymous says
April 26, 2013 at 2:14 pmVery cute party ideas. As for the circus theme, IKEA has a circus tent (under Children’s furniture) for $20. Birthday Express also has lots of circus/carnival paper goods. Good Luck!
Kris @ Driven by Décor says
April 26, 2013 at 9:12 pmI’m loving you Anonymous! The IKEA circus tent idea rocks – thanks!
Carla @ Inside Home Living says
April 26, 2013 at 7:17 pmHi Kris! I love your party idea and it all looked fantastic. Loved the candy bar! You saw what I did last month for my 13 year olds, its gets harder each year I’m telling you, that may have been my last themed party for them 🙁 But might pinch your idea for the photo frame next time.
Kris @ Driven by Décor says
April 26, 2013 at 9:11 pmYou’re more than welcome to pinch my photo frame idea as long as I can pinch your sock monkey favor idea 🙂 – Love that!
Anonymous says
May 28, 2013 at 2:40 pmI love this idea for my daughter, do anyone have ideas for a 9 year boy birthday my kids birthday’s are 2 weeks a part 10/29 and 11/14. I have done Halloween parties to combine them but now they would like something different.
Anonymous says
January 9, 2014 at 11:59 pmI love this party idea! What did the girls put their candy and popcorn in?
Kris @ Driven by Décor says
January 10, 2014 at 12:17 amThanks! This was a small party with just four girls so they each took one of the popcorn containers that are in the picture of the candy bar and then they had little red and white striped cups to put their candy in.
Anonymous says
February 12, 2014 at 10:06 pmWhere did you find the “IN LIGHTS” font?
Kris @ Driven by Décor says
February 12, 2014 at 10:41 pmIt’s a Picmonkey font!
amber watson says
August 13, 2015 at 9:03 pmthank you soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much this helped