Children are filled with energy and no matter the weather, they always have plenty of tireless hours of fun and laughter just waiting to be energized. That is why having birthday party plans for indoor fun is important. Since people have birthdays throughout the year and weather can readily be inclement, it is important to create wonderful indoor plans for birthday bashes any time of year.
Not every child birthday party ends up in having a sleepover, but in many ways an indoor sleepover birthday party makes for much easier planning. They offer less time constraints with definitive wind down times. But overnight or daylight, these Top 10 Indoor Birthday Bash Themes, give parents plenty to choose from.
Top 5 Sleepover Birthday Bash Themes
- Glow in the Dark Bash – Kids are always fascinated with glow in the dark. This is an easy trip to the party store and dollar store for Glow sticks and glow in the dark face paint. For added ambience, glow in the dark star packages can be placed on ceilings. This could be a great time for ghost stories, glow in the dark painting and glow in the dark playdough projects.
- Movie Night – Making movie night can be great fun. This can be good for all ages because there are always different movies for kids of different ages to choose from. Having some pizza and homemade popcorn drizzled in butter, caramel or chocolate can top off the hours of fun for kids.
- Indoor Camping – This can be great fun if given the right atmosphere. Using indoor grills can be perfect for making hamburgers and hot dogs and creating a great atmosphere for singing campfire songs and learning Native American crafts, indoor nerf archery and more.
- Night at The Museum – This is a great way to fill a child’s imagination. First the atmosphere should be created in a room where it can look like a museum with dinosaurs, pirate costumes and themes, and more. Children can dress up and be a character from the movie. Each child takes a half hour to learn more about the history of their character and then acts it out in front of the other kids and the night is topped off with the movie.
- Game Night – If there is a sizable family room or basement play area, this can be a great deal of fun. This is a great theme party. The group is separated into two teams. Games such as traditional leapfrog, potato sack races, limbo lower and musical chairs can be a blast for any age group. Snacks should follow since they’ll be quite hungry from all the exercise.
5 Top Indoor Daytime Birthday Party Bash Themes
- Carnival Day – This is a great way to spend a birthday bash with a host of different carnival type games, from: ring tosses, automated mini race car races to Hasbro’s Pie Face game or Hit the Mole math games there is sure to be hours to the laughter and fun. Stuffed animal and game prizes can be easily purchased at the dollar store for winners.
- Treasure Hunt – This is a great way to spend hours searching the house with a parent made treasure map for hidden prizes. It is easy, inexpensive and can offer loads of fun.
- Sports Themed Party – This is an easy one to set up from indoor basketball, to darts, to Nerf themed games such as Nerf darts in the “Knock the Tower Cups” game. It is usually wise to have 3 or 4 games set up so they go from one station to the next to give them hours of fun.
- Indoor Festival Games – This is easy to set up from Twister and Toss Across to indoor miniature Golf. These can be fun and have prizes awarded to each game player who competes.
- Themed Scavenger Hunt – This can be great fun and easy to make. Whether it’s a Space theme, Marvel Theme, Animal theme or Nature theme kids will have a blast. Kids can spend several hours in two sets of themed scavenger hunts with games and prizes for each team at the end.
