Coolest Kid Birthday Party Theme Ideas - Backwards Birthday Party

The Backwards kid birthday party theme is one of my favorites because it lets you and your guests go completely wacky and silly.

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For this kid birthday party theme there are lots of creative invitation ideas. First off, you can send "thank you notes" saying "thanks for coming to my backwards birthday party" and putting all the birthday party info on it….

You can have the invitation open backwards and the information can be on the outside and it can all be in backwards writing so they have to read it in a mirror. You can also tell everyone to dress backwards (if it's inside-out, turned around, etc.). You can also tell them to get ready for backward walking, talking, playing, eating etc.

It's great family fun to make your own kid birthday party theme decorations. An excellent way to start is to find some clipart that'll give your imagination an artistic boost (Here's my hand-picked selection of great backward kid birthday party theme pictures and clipart to get you started...)

You can start by making your house into a backwards house. Pictures can be turned around or upside down along with all kinds of items in the house as well.

You can put streamers on the floor and hang balloons upside down from the ceiling (they definitely don't need helium). You can then have the chairs facing out at the table, and can put the tablecloth on the floor under the table putting down the silverware first, then the napkins and the plate (upside-down) over both. You can also have the cups put upside down. And now the kids have to sit on the floor (under the table!) to eat…

For this kid birthday party theme, you can have an "EXIT" sign on the front door, and an "ENTRANCE" sign inside on the back door (written backwards if you'd like). Print out banners that are written in backwards language (!emocleW and !yadhtriB yppaH)….

You can have backward playing music in the background (if you have some music stored in your computer, just open a simple program called "Sound Recorder" which is on most computers and select to have the songs play backwards. Easy!)

Now, you have to get your hands on a great song called "The Backwards Birthday Party" in Tom Chaplin's Zig Zag CD. It fits perfectly into our kid birthday party theme and an excellent choice to play in the background! You can even listen to it online!

You can have your guests enter through the back door or have them enter backwards through the front door. When they come say "Goodbye, it was nice having you, I'm glad you could come!!" And when they leave say "Hello, welcome to my party". Everything should be backwards: "yes" is "no" and "no" is "yes" etc.

You can start the backwards kid birthday party theme by opening presents, then eating cake and desert, then the real food, and last the games and activities. When opening the presents, your kid can open the present first and then the card….

You can take backward pictures where everyone has their backs to the camera and put these up as pictures on your wall for the party… If you have a digital camera, you can take backward pictures during the party as well and print these out with a color printer to give as the kids leave. Another type of backward pictures is to take pictures of each kid standing on their heads (they can put their head on a pillow and lean against a wall).

Your whole family can dress backwards and inside-out, with ponytails on your foreheads, zippers and buttons in the back, sun-shades or glasses on the back of your head, different pairs of shoes on, a watch around your ankle, your underwear over your clothes, the zaniest and silliest things are best!!!

As each kid arrives (walking in backwards), you can tape their backward names on their back and call them by their backward name.

*Inside out Pinatas: Have each kid blow a balloon up and tie it (you should have extra balloons to replace the popped ones). Then dump a huge bag of wrapped candy on the floor (or so that the kids won't fight over the candy, give each kid a bag of candy). Then give the kids scotch tape and let them cover their balloons with candy (Voila!! An inside out pinata!). You can then hang these backwards from the ceiling (to be part of your decorations) and later give each kid a pi?ata balloon to pop and take home the candies….

*Ball in the Bucket: Kids need to stand with their back to the bucket and try to get balls into the bucket.

*Backward Songs: Play songs backwards and have the kids try and guess what songs they are…

At this kid birthday party theme, you'll serve the cake, ice cream and desserts before whatever you're serving (most likely it will be the first time anyone has ever eaten their desserts first!! Kids love this and find it so wacky!!!).

You can have an upside-down cake or cupcakes. Just take your cake or cupcakes, frost them as usual and put them upside-down on a see-through plate. Write on it in backwards writing.

You can print the words to the backwards happy birthday song so everyone can sing backwards ("you to birthday, happy!" Note: If the guests are old enough to read, you may want to type up and print out the words to make it easier to sing).

For food, you can serve backward hot dogs where the bun is between a weenie sliced in half or have pizzas and put them in the cups!! Anything will do for this party, just make everything backwards and flipped over!!

For a drink you can have 7-up. Make it 7-down by turning the cans upside down and poking a hole for the straw!! You can do this with any canned softdrink.

The zaniest things will do: Silly putty, silly string, backward pictures (as mentioned before) etc. Another excellent option is to personalize items in backward language.

You can practically take any game and make it a backwards game….. it's great fun and can be hysterical!!! (Note: this kid birthday party theme is recommended for kids who are 7 years of age and older, when they know what 'backwards' really is…)

*Backwards Pinata: For this peculiar birthday party theme you can take any pinata and hang it upside-down!!

Take a look at this complete page filled with the coolest Backwards party games. You'll also find several VERY important tips to help you survive (and enjoy) party time.

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Coolest Ideas for a 'Backwards' Birthday Party Theme