Barn Birthday Party
Theme parties are always a hit with kids and adults in my opinion. We did a rainbow themed party for my daughter’s first birthday. For her second birthday we decided to do a farm themed party at our house.
[Updated: For our daughter’s 5th birthday party we had it at an actual farm so I’ve included the party bag favors I made]
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I went to a few party stores and had a very hard time finding farm themed decorations. I was regretting not going with an easy to shop for theme such as Mickey Mouse, princess, or Bubble Guppies.
I had already had custom farm themed party photo invitations sent out. Walmart had some great options.
I would have to resort to ordering most of it online. Lots of the decorations were pricey, so that wasn’t going to happen. My inner DIYDS (do-it-your-darn-self) kicked in. I went crazy looking for ideas on Pinterest, Etsy, and Google.
FARM THEMED PARTY DECORATIONS
The farm themed party decorations were my favorite thing to make.
I used a bunch of balloons and construction paper to make different farm animals. We had pigs, cows, chickens, and sheep.
I put out toy tractors and farm animals that I had picked up at a rummage sale for $4.
I picked up plastic picnic table cloths, red cups, red plates, and red utensils. They had a lot of these supplies at the dollar store and Walmart.
We picked up a cow and 2 horse balloons from the party store, which were the only decorations we bought.
The chalkboard only cost me $1.
My husband picked up a few bales of hay for the photo op section of the yard. I made a barn, horse, and chicken photo props using construction paper, tape, and wooden dowels.
The labor of love was the piñata I made, which I based off of this cute one I saw at on Etsy. They do tons of custom orders, from Disney characters, Paw Patrol, mermaids, Shopkins, and an adorably cute unicorn (it’s so fluffy!!!), all at very good prices. So if you don’t feel like spending hours on a farm themed party piñata I definitely recommend them.
Using two cardboard boxes I cut out the number 2.
After decorating over several days I made this (drumroll please):
It was made with construction paper, glue, tape, and lots of candy.
I didn’t want it to break too easily so I used a lot of glue, tape, and tissue paper on the outside. It was extremely heavy from all of the candy. When we went to whack it outside it was actually too strong. LOL
FARM THEMED FAVOR BAGS
I’m not one to toot my own horn often, but this is one of those times.
I found inspiration online. These babies cost me less than 36 cents to make!
FARM THEMED BIRTHDAY PARTY FOOD
We had approximately 30 people over. I cooked enough food for over 60 people.
We had chips, dip, cheese platter, stromboli, 3 types of macaroni salad (because 1 isn’t enough), meatballs, pulled pork, pigs in a blanket, hamburgers, hotdogs, etc. The list could go on and on.
Here are a few of the recipes of what we made that day. No one wants to spend the entire day in the kitchen. I prepared and prepped as much as I could the day before.
For dessert we had a farm themed party cake that my mother-in-law bought. This fit the theme so perfectly and saved me so much time as I was actually crazy enough to think about making my own farm themed cake.
For dessert I also made brownies decorated with chocolate farm animals. I used this mold to make them.
I bought this farm animal chocolate lollipop mold. It had a rooster, pig, cow, and barn mold. I tried not to go overboard.
As if that wasn’t enough I also made farm themed party favors using a moose crunch mix my sister bought for me. To do this cut out rectangles from different colored pieces of paper that match the width of the cellophane bags you are going to use. You can use a decorative edger along the width side of the rectangle if you want it to look even nicer. Put your candy or mix into the bags and then staple the rectangle along the edge. Sorry I don’t have a good picture, but if you search DIY candy favor bag you’ll see what I mean.
I also made sugar cookies and cut them out using a number two cookie cutter. After they were cooled I covered them with white icing and colored in black and brown spots to resemble a cow.
How cute are they?! I wrapped them up individually in cellophane bags as part of the favors.
Throwing you own farm themed party doesn’t have to be time-consuming or expensive. See what you can scrounge up at the dollar store first. The balloons and construction paper made up the majority of the decorations. If your kids are older they can even have fun helping.
For food you can do pretty much anything. To make it even “farmier” you can label the food with fun names like “piggies in a blanket”, “garden patch veggie platter”, popcorn “chicken feed”, etc. Get creative!
If you are planning on throwing a themed party have fun. Leave a comment below if you have any questions or need help.
Wow! What a cute idea for a party! All kinds of easy, fun ideas that come together to form a super-party!
You are an amazing “Do-It-Yourselfer”! Everything you did is sooo cute! The Number 2 cookies are awesome and so easy! Congrats to a great party!
thank you, I try. I’m planning something small to do for my son’s birthday coming up. Something smaller with less clean up lol
I’m reading your post and am awed by your creativity. I so could have used this post six months back when I threw a party for my two-year old son! I love the balloons. I found a farm pinata on Amazon, but yours is way cuter. Congrats on a great party theme execution!
thank you! I love being creative, but definitely time-consuming
This is so adorable. I love the balloon animals especially. What kid doesn’t love balloons. That would be a great item to send home with a goody bag at the end of the party too. LOVE this!
OMG those balloons are adorable. Such a cute idea!!
Aww, those decorations are so adorable! So creative!! Considering this theme for my son’s 2nd birthday
I liked the idea of doing something not as common and my daughter loves all animals.
Oh my goodness, those farm animal balloons are so cute! Such a neat idea. I LOVE the pigs. Your little must have had the best day. Decorating for kids parties are so much fun. My son had a Paw Patrol party last year. We too had a ton of leftover food!
Lol yes food for days
What a fun party theme. Thank you for taking pictures of it and how fun it will be for you to look back on it as she grows older! The pinata is so cute – maybe you could do a detailed tutorial on how to make one? Great job! I’m saving this to Pinterest!
I would love to know how you made the piñata? I’ve been looking for one for my sons farm theme party but am having a tough time!
I took 2 pieces of cardboard and drew the number two on one of them. Then cut out the number from both pieces. Then cut out a long skinny rectangle piece of cardboard for the width of the pinata. Then taped everything together. Hard to explain, wish I had more pictures. Here is a good example.