Blueberry Birthday Party
August 12, 2015 5:10 PM Subscribe
My son's first birthday is coming up! I want to throw him a blueberry-themed party. I need help!
For some reason I didn't think it would be hard to find blueberry decorations.
We're going to have the party at home, mostly in the backyard/deck area if the weather cooperates. Ideas I already have:
- blue paper lanterns
- blue balloons, streamers, plates, etc etc etc
- that's about it
I have limited time and energy for making my own things/crafting. I can handle a couple of relatively low effort high impact projects. I'm thinking about cutting out a zillion blueberry silhouettes and making a garland since it's pretty mindless and I can work on it 5 minutes at a time. That's about the best idea I have at the moment. :/
For food we'll obviously have blueberries, although I am worried about finding fresh ones at the end of September. I'm going to make a vanilla blueberry shaped cake and either cover it with fresh blueberries or make blueberry frosting depending on blueberry availability. Blueberry ice cream. MAYBE oatmeal blueberry cookies to take home. I'm not quite sure what to do about something savory... paninis with blueberry jam?
This is way not good enough and not my style at all! When I throw parties, I go all out. And this is a big occasion! I know my kid won't remember it, but that's not really the point :)
For some reason I didn't think it would be hard to find blueberry decorations.
We're going to have the party at home, mostly in the backyard/deck area if the weather cooperates. Ideas I already have:
- blue paper lanterns
- blue balloons, streamers, plates, etc etc etc
- that's about it
I have limited time and energy for making my own things/crafting. I can handle a couple of relatively low effort high impact projects. I'm thinking about cutting out a zillion blueberry silhouettes and making a garland since it's pretty mindless and I can work on it 5 minutes at a time. That's about the best idea I have at the moment. :/
For food we'll obviously have blueberries, although I am worried about finding fresh ones at the end of September. I'm going to make a vanilla blueberry shaped cake and either cover it with fresh blueberries or make blueberry frosting depending on blueberry availability. Blueberry ice cream. MAYBE oatmeal blueberry cookies to take home. I'm not quite sure what to do about something savory... paninis with blueberry jam?
This is way not good enough and not my style at all! When I throw parties, I go all out. And this is a big occasion! I know my kid won't remember it, but that's not really the point :)
Is his name by any chance Peter?
posted by Hermione Granger at 5:24 PM on August 12, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Hermione Granger at 5:24 PM on August 12, 2015 [1 favorite]
The song/story Mors lilla Olle has a blueberry/boy theme.
posted by alexei at 5:27 PM on August 12, 2015
posted by alexei at 5:27 PM on August 12, 2015
Blueberry turkey burgers are a thing and actually pretty tasty. You could make mini-sliders. Blueberry lemonade is a pretty good drink. You could even make regular lemonade and just put blueberry ice cubes in it and toss some blueberries on top. How old are the kids? Basically anything that has a "round" aspect to it will be okay. TetherBlueberryBall. Pin the crown on the blueberry. Cornhole but with blueberry beanbags. Face painting but with all blue colors (could be whales, flowers, waves).
And yeah amro is right, Buy and freeze. You can freeze them on sheets and then pack them in bags and have as many blueberries as your freezer can hold.
posted by jessamyn at 5:29 PM on August 12, 2015 [2 favorites]
And yeah amro is right, Buy and freeze. You can freeze them on sheets and then pack them in bags and have as many blueberries as your freezer can hold.
posted by jessamyn at 5:29 PM on August 12, 2015 [2 favorites]
You could expand to include 'blueberry picking' which would mean baskets, straw bales, and other rustic-farm type decorations. For a savory, maybe a green salad with goat cheese, nuts, and blueberries, and grilled chicken would work on that too. Or a blueberry barbecue sauce on BBQ chicken.
posted by AliceBlue at 5:29 PM on August 12, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by AliceBlue at 5:29 PM on August 12, 2015 [2 favorites]
You could do cedar-planked salmon with a blueberry sauce. That was my favorite dish at McCormick & Schmicks when I was a kid. This apparently is the recipe.
posted by acidic at 5:33 PM on August 12, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by acidic at 5:33 PM on August 12, 2015 [1 favorite]
Some fun stuff searching for blueberry party on Etsy.
Too bad you're not doing a strawberry party, Oriental Trading has a bunch of stuff for that!
posted by bleep at 5:44 PM on August 12, 2015
Too bad you're not doing a strawberry party, Oriental Trading has a bunch of stuff for that!
posted by bleep at 5:44 PM on August 12, 2015
Go to the craft store or the toy store, buy a bunch of blue balls (or regular styrofoam balls and paint them blue, whatever) and have a blueberry hunt! Like easter eggs but with blue balls. The party favors could be little blue playground balls the kids find.
80 billion little blue pompoms from the craft store = BLUEBERRY FIGHT. From experience, 1-year-olds LOVE to have handfulls of pompoms thrown at them. (They will try to eat them, tho.)
I see a lot of cute kiddie art where you draw a basket and have little kids make blue fingerprints to make a "basket of blueberries."
posted by Eyebrows McGee at 5:51 PM on August 12, 2015 [6 favorites]
80 billion little blue pompoms from the craft store = BLUEBERRY FIGHT. From experience, 1-year-olds LOVE to have handfulls of pompoms thrown at them. (They will try to eat them, tho.)
I see a lot of cute kiddie art where you draw a basket and have little kids make blue fingerprints to make a "basket of blueberries."
posted by Eyebrows McGee at 5:51 PM on August 12, 2015 [6 favorites]
Blue -on-blue polkadots would works with your theme. Toppers for food and cupcakes. Straws. Tissue balls! And also you don't have to cut out... there are plenty of blue circle garlands.
posted by DarlingBri at 6:13 PM on August 12, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by DarlingBri at 6:13 PM on August 12, 2015 [1 favorite]
Easy, cheap, and cool looking (no pun intended) : blueberry ice cubes
posted by NoraCharles at 7:52 PM on August 12, 2015
posted by NoraCharles at 7:52 PM on August 12, 2015
Blueberry scented markers must be featured!
posted by Tandem Affinity at 8:44 PM on August 12, 2015
posted by Tandem Affinity at 8:44 PM on August 12, 2015
Croquet, but everybody's ball is blue. Freestyle no-table pingpong with blue pingpong balls and blue paddles. Twister, but all the dots are blue. Blueberry ballpit (fill a kiddie pool with blue plastic balls, insert toddlers).
Blueberry-themed spa concoctions for adventurous but sports-averse adults:
http://skinfitnesstherapy.com/blueberry-tini/
http://www.cybercucina.com/blog/blueberrytini-cocktail/
posted by Don Pepino at 7:19 AM on August 13, 2015
Blueberry-themed spa concoctions for adventurous but sports-averse adults:
http://skinfitnesstherapy.com/blueberry-tini/
http://www.cybercucina.com/blog/blueberrytini-cocktail/
posted by Don Pepino at 7:19 AM on August 13, 2015
Have the kid or kids (or adults) do some sort of cute little craft with blue bingo markers.
posted by mermily at 9:06 AM on August 13, 2015
posted by mermily at 9:06 AM on August 13, 2015
Shoot, just was going to say ball pit with blue balls but Don Pepino beat me to it! We just did a one year birthday party last week and the kiddie pool ball pit was a hit and super easy.
posted by pennypiper at 4:09 PM on August 13, 2015
posted by pennypiper at 4:09 PM on August 13, 2015
Was just reminded of this song: Blueberry Pie by Bette Midler
posted by NoraCharles at 1:35 PM on August 14, 2015
posted by NoraCharles at 1:35 PM on August 14, 2015
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