unique birthday party themes for kids

Coming up with a unique birthday party theme can be quite a task! While anyone can pick their child's favorite character and make that the theme, using a less 'commercialized' concept can make party planning so much more fun! We've compiled a list of our favorite party themes that allow for a little more creativity in planning… (Starred items have quick details below about our own customers' parties!)

Airplane Birthday Party	Ice Cream Party (or, I Scream!)
Art in the Park Party*	Lego Birthday Party
Bakery Shoppe Birthday	Lemonade Stand Birthday
Ballerina Birthday	Mermaid Party
Barnyard Birthday Party	Movie Night Party
Birthday Parade	Neverland Party
Bubbles Birthday	Outer Space Party
Circus Birthday Party	Pirate Treasure Hunt Party
Construction Party	Robot Birthday Party
Cowboy Rodeo Birthday	Safari Birthday
Cute as a Button Birthday	Sock Monkey Birthday*
Dinosaur Party-Saurus*	Surfer Birthday Party
Fire Truck Party	Sweet Shoppe Party
Football Tailgate Birthday Party	Take Me Out to the Ballgame
Gator Party*	Tea Party Birthday
Golf or Mini-Golf PAR-TEE*	Train Ticket to Bday Party Express*
Hawaiian Luau Birthday	Under The Sea Party
Hula Hoopy Birthday Party	Zoo Animal Birthday

Host an “Art in the Park” party by setting up art projects for the kids to do at a local park. Lots of creative fun!

All aboard! This vintage train ticket invitation sets the tone for your train themed party. The party date is punched out on the invite, just like a train ticket!



Host a golf “PAR-TEE” complete with buckets filled with powdered sugar donut holes as golf balls. This party was held in the morning, and invited guests to “join us FORE breakfast, play & cake!”

Who doesn’t love a preppy gator? These gator themed invites are perfect for boys or girls! Hosting a sock monkey party is another theme that works for boys and girls.


A good stand-by will always be a dinosaur party… such as this one, for Tyler-Saurus, you can turn pretty much any name into a dinosaur name! This party was dino-riffic!

The Notes Nest is continually updating our invitation design gallery, so check out some birthday party invites that we've done for other customers. If you have a theme in mind you'd like us to design an invitation for, drop us a note and tell us about it!

*Matching thank you notes are available with all of the invitations featured on this page!

boarding pass wedding invitations

Remember the boarding pass wedding invitations we mentioned in our weddings galore post but couldn’t let you see yet?? Now that the wedding is over, we can share the finished product with you! The Notes Nest custom made these invitations for Lindsay and Greg, who got married in Mallorca, Spain at the end of May. They wanted to do something unique for their wedding invitations, so when they decided to do a destination wedding, they knew sending their guests each their own boarding pass was the way to go!

Arriving in a tropical green envelope with a salmon colored liner, the guests to this wedding knew this wasn’t an ordinary invitation. Inside, the wedding invitation boarding pass included the bride and groom’s names wedding date and destination on the first page, along with a seat assignment. The second page of the boarding pass invitation listed their wedding website to find accommodation information, and then included a perforated tear away postcard to be used as the response card. The mailing address was pre-printed on the back, so the guest just had to tear along the perforated edge and drop the postcard in the mail! 

Here are some digital images of the invitation; we will share the professional images from the wedding photographer as soon as we receive them.

These boarding pass invitations aren’t just for weddings, if you have any event that has a travel theme, these would be the perfect touch!

weddings galore...

The Notes Nest is currently working on four different weddings & just loves the fact that each bride is doing something totally different.

One of our brides is having a destination wedding, so we are putting together a boarding pass wedding invitation. Who knew you could make a boarding pass look so beautiful!? The second page of the invitation, which contains the travel information, even has a tear away response postcard that can be dropped in the mail as is. We look forward to posting this board pass invitation once the wedding has passed!

Another one of our brides was looking for a custom monogram that she could carry throughout her save the date, invitation, stamps, favors, etc. We were able to come up with a very distinctive monogram that we are dying to share. The Notes Nest is confident that not a single person who receives these invitations will think for a second that they were ordered through a big box invitation site.

We love doing custom design work for our brides, making their weddings truly unique.

Are you looking for wedding invitations? ... Whether you’d like to look at the designs we’ve already done or need a custom design, we’d love to talk to you! We have a number of beautiful card stocks available, which can be printed on a regular press or with THERMOGRAPHY. The Notes Nest is happy to piece together your invitation with other components such as belly belts, backing, seals, enclosures, etc. Please contact us today to learn more!