AIRPLANE PARTY IDEAS

AIRPLANE INVITATION IDEAS:

• Use a standard pastel color card stock and type up an official looking “boarding pass”. All of the wording can be customized to the party details like Joey’s Airlines as header and passenger name, flight #, seat #, flight time (party start), and departure time (party end). You can even take it farther with lines like: Passengers are allowed 2 carry-on parents if desired, Please confirm your flight with Joey Airlines by calling 555-5555, your ticket is non-transferable, and your flight will depart at Joey 3 Terminal at 5555 Elm St., etc.

• Find an easy line art airplane on the Internet, and place a photo of your child cut out and looking out the airplane window. On the back you can place party info.

• Cut out a cloud shape out of white card stock. Find in your local scrapbook section an airplane die-cut to place on the cloud. Put in the clouds, Take off with Bobby on a high-flying birthday party! On the back of the cloud, write in all of party details in a “ticket” format.

• If you do not have a lot of guests to invite, you could handwrite or type out the party info on a piece of paper and then fold into a paper airplane and drop into your guest’s mailboxes.

AIRPLANE DECORATION IDEAS:

• Section off your party area with signs labeling different terminal areas. Terminal 3 – outside on lawn or inside when guests arrive. Check in – punching a hole in ticket stub, name tags, etc. Baggage Claim – where guests place their gifts.

• Tie off 5-6 clumps of balloons in different areas around the ceiling of your home to look like clouds. Add large airplane cut-outs made from poster board throughout the clouds.

• Use your child’s toy airplanes with helium balloons tied to them as centerpieces for the table.

AIRPLANE GAME IDEAS:

• You can find inexpensive toy gliders from various party supply stores. The guests can decorate their own glider and put together and have challenges to see whose glider can fly the furthest.

• Fill a child’s wading pool with cotton balls, packing peanuts, or white tissue paper and hide small toy airplanes that the kids can search for.

• Search for small airplanes or die cut airplanes around the house to see who can collect the most.

• Have an old-fashioned paper plane challenge.

• Give awards to:

* Pre-bake (or buy) sugar cookies shaped with an airplane cookie-cutter and have the kids have fun with decorating their plane.

* You can usually find at the dollar store those little plastic parachute men. Give one to each guest, find a drop off (banister or porch) and see if the guests can drop them down into a bucket or bowl. Whoever has the best aim and is most consistent will receive a prize.

AIRPLANE FAVOR IDEAS:

• Fun toy gliders that they can take home and decorate on their own (or decorate as an activity during the party that they could take home)

• Book on how to assemble the perfect paper airplane

• Flashlight to practice the guests air-traffic control skills

• Plastic parachute men (often found at dollar stores)

• Airplane pens, pencils, key chains, stickers, coloring sheets, stamps and anything else with an airplane theme.