Butterfly Birthday Party Ideas
For Fluttery Fun!

butterfly birthday party face painting

You'll love these butterfly birthday party ideas just as much as girls love butterflies (and parties)! Your daughter wants a butterfly theme party, so what can you do to make the day extra-special?

Don't worry, because there are lots of exciting and fun butterfly birthday party games and activities for this party theme, too!

By the way, this doesn't have to be just a girl party. Young boys can easily have fun at a butterfly birthday party, especially if you can arrange a trip to a nearby butterfly exhibit or plan some energetic outdoor activities as part of the party plan!

Everything You Need for a Butterfly Party:

Party Tips
Games and Activities
Food Ideas
Butterfly Cake Ideas
Party Invitation Ideas
Favorite Decorations and Party Favors

Butterfly Party Tips:

Use the following ideas to help you "Keep It Simple" as you plan this party with ease.

Since we think of spring when we think of butterflies, keep your activities focused around spring items. These types of activities go well with a butterfly theme.
If you know that you are going to have a butterfly birthday party ahead of time, be on the look out all year for great deals on dress-up wings. You can find these very cheap after Halloween and at times on ebay.
You will also need some face paint for this party. Be sure to pick some of this up after Halloween as well.

Butterfly Birthday Party Ideas for Food:

Deciding what type of food to serve for a butterfly birthday party is not the only thing that is fun. It is also so much fun to prepare and serve the food as well. Try some of the following ideas.

butterfly and flower shaped sandwiches
bumble bee shaped graham crackers
Rice Krispie treats in the shape of flowers with pastel sprinkles on top
flower shaped sugar cookies with pastel icing

A fun thing to do is to serve all flower shaped food items on top of a bed of coconut that has been dyed green using green food coloring. It looks like a bed of grass.

Butterfly Birthday Party Ideas for Cake

Some favorite sweet treats to serve at a butterfly birthday party are butterfly and flower cupcakes. This is so easy and yet so very cute! Start by spreading green coconut all over the table. Then frost cupcakes using white icing.

With pastel gel icing writers or other pastel icing, draw simple butterfly or flower shapes on top of the cupcakes. When done, sprinkle colored sugar or pastel confetti candy around the flower or butterfly. Set the cupcakes all around the table in the coconut grass.

Butterfly Birthday Party Invitation Wording and Ideas

Obviously, your party invitation needs to have a butterfly theme if possible, or at least a springtime, flowery theme. Use our example of butterfly birthday party invitation wording and butterfly invitation ideas to start your creativity for homemade invitations.

Party Favors and Decorations

Contributor Party Tip

Be on the lookout during the year for inexpensive things that would go well with a butterfly or springtime flower theme.

One time I picked up plastic garden flower pinwheels at an after summer sale for $ .25 each. You can't get any cheaper than that. These made great party favors and decorations.

Butterfly parties can be so easy to decorate. You can use anything from things available at your local garden store or some great birthday party stores online to make it into a butterfly paradise!

As mentioned on the butterfly birthday party games and activities page, there are many fun things that you can use during the games and activities at your party to send home as party favors. These include the flower pots, plastic bugs and/or rings, shovels, and so forth.

Some other fun butterfly birthday party favor ideas might be some plastic flower pinwheels, pretty pencils with flower erasers on top, flower or butterfly barrettes, or fun flower and butterfly fingernail stickers.

Some of our favorites are included below, but many of these online stores have literally hundreds of butterfly-related decorations, trickets, party favors and more! Even the busiest parents will not have trouble finding a quick and easy way to throw a great butterfly birthday party!