Unusual Birthday Party Ideas

Birthdays mark the beginning of a new year in a person's life. To celebrate this occasion, most of us plan birthday parties and invite our close family members and friends to them. Besides the food and some well-planned games, there are a lot of other things that a person can do to make this day even more special and unique. Let's have a look at some unusual ideas for a birthday party suggested below...

Theme Party
Having a theme party and revolving everything, right from the invitations to decorations to food and activities around it can lend an all together different feel to the entire party atmosphere. Some of the popular birthday themes for adults are Hollywood, retro, Hawaiian, Las Vegas, Rock and roll and Hippies. For children's birthdays, some of the interesting theme options are Alice in wonderland, Christmas and Jungle safari.

Invitation CD
This idea fits the bill perfectly for a unique birthday party. You can get a local music band and record a song inviting your guests to the party. Have a CD made which has this song plus your personalized message to the guests and get it delivered to everyone, as a special invite to the birthday party. However, if you do not want to spend much on the invites, another idea is to add some birthday confetti to the regular paper invitations, before sending them out to the guests!

Customized Party Favors
The trend of giving the guests customized party favors as a token of appreciation for attending the party is fast catching up. One of the most unusual of such return gifts is a personalized chocolate candy bar, which has the name and age of the birthday boy or girl printed on it! So, you can consider giving this to your guests at the party as a sweet memory of the good time they had with you!

Dance Floor
Another unusual idea is to have a dance floor, complete with strobe lights and a DJ at the party venue. The guests will have the time of their lives dancing to some good dancing numbers. To make it more fun, you can keep prizes for the best dancer, the most energetic dancer and even for the one who dances for the longest time!

Chocolate Fountain
Set up a chocolate fountain at the dessert table. Around the fountain you can keep some cookies, cut fruits, marshmallows and all such things that both adults and kids can dip into chocolate and savor.

Floating Balloons
Scattering a few balloons all around the party venue lends it a very imaginative and dreamy appeal. So, you can do the same at the party venue by keeping a number of balloons in all colors here and there. The kids would simply love playing with them while adults can enjoy the color they lend to the venue.

Wine Tasting
Planning a wine tasting during the birthday party is ideal for all those who want to keep the event elegant and classy. Here, a good idea is to ask each of the invitees to get their favorite brand of wine. You can keep some appetizers, cheeses and breads to go with the wine. Once the guests arrive they can all taste a variety of wines, while joining in the birthday celebrations at the same time!

Shows and Artistes
If it's a party for kids, some of the unique things that you can consider to do are having a magic show or a puppet show, inviting a tattoo artist and having a dummy photo studio installed where kids can pose for photographs which they can later take home, etc.

After going through them, I am sure that now even you will agree that these are indeed some of the most unique ideas. So, incorporate a few of these in your party and surprise your guests with them!