I’ve got a couple of little boys who are obsessed with football. They wear football jerseys to school every day, play it at recess and snuggle their footballs at night. Neither of them can seem to get enough football.

So when one of their birthdays rolls around, I know exactly what kind of birthday party to throw! Football everything! These fun football party ideas could be used for a kids football birthday party or for a big game party or really just any football party you want to throw!

Whether you love football or not, you’ve got to admit that this football party looks fun to throw! And if you’ve got little ones that love it like mine, this football birthday party is perfect for them.

Football Birthday Party Ideas:

I had a ton of fun pulling together all of these fun, easy football birthday party ideas-from decorations to invitations, treats to party favors, if you want to throw a football party, I’ve got you covered!

Here’s a peek at the full football birthday party spread:

Who doesn’t get excited for football looking at that fun party?!

Football Party Invitations:

These football party invitations might be my favorite part of this party! They are made to look like football tickets but with all the party info printed right on them. How fun is that?

Here’s a football themed party invitation template that you can use and customize for your own party.

To use this football invitation, right click and save it to your computer. Then, open in a photo editing program (like PicMonkey) and add your own text. Need help with how to do that? I’ve got a tutorial here.

Hopefully, that was easy for you!

Football Party Decorations:

There are lots of easy and fun ways to decorate for a football themed birthday party. I used black foam board for a backdrop and added little green pennant flags. Then we added some fun touches.

My favorite are these letters spelling out Game Day!

And they’re easy to make!

Supplies Needed:

• Scrapbook Paper (Hobby Lobby had that cool paper that looks like a football and even feels like one!)
• Metal Letters (at the craft store)
• Glue or tape

All you need to do is trace the letter on the back of your scrapbook paper. Make sure that your letter is face down on the scrapbook paper’s back. Trace around it, cut it out and glue or tape it to your metal letters:

I also added some fun touches like this cute football paper lantern from Oriental Trading:

Football Party Food:

You’ve got to have some fun treats at a football party right?

I made a fun Game Day popcorn to celebrate the big game. Super easy and tastes amazing! Bet you can’t stop eating it.

It’s SO yummy! I made it with green and brown M&Ms to look like football colors, but you could also make it with your team’s colors! Here’s the recipe:

Game Day Popcorn Recipe:

Ingredients:

• 2 bags of cooked microwave popcorn
• 2 sticks of butter (1 Cup)
• 1/2 C light Karo syrup
• 1 1/3 C sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 small (7 oz.) container of marshmallow fluff
• 2-3 C mini marshmallows
• Colored M&Ms

Instructions:

Cook your popcorn. Try to remove as many unpopped kernels as possible. Set this aside in a large bowl.

On the stove in a small pan, mix your Karo syrup, sugar, butter and vanilla over medium-high heat until it boils. Boil for 1 and a half minutes.

Stir in the marshmallow fluff until totally melted.

Pour this over your popcorn and mix and mix until it’s all coated. Let it cool for 3-5 minutes, then add the marshmallows and mix them in. Top with M&Ms.

Let it sit for a couple of hours before eating for best results!

Football Party Cupcakes:

Cupcakes are a must for most fun parties for me. What makes these special are the simple little chocolate footballs on top for our football birthday party so that they birthday kid had something fun to put candles on.

Want to make some of these football cupcakes? Here’s how:

Supplies Needed:

• Melting chocolate-brown and white
• Sandwich baggie
• Silpat mat or wax paper (affiliate link)

Heat up your melting chocolate (the brown first). Once it’s totally melted, pour it into your sandwich baggie and snip off just the very tip of the bag (just a tiny bit).

On your Silpat mat or wax paper, pipe the shape of a football and fill it in. As it begins to set up you can smooth it out a little with the tip of your baggie.

Once it is hardened, peel it off your Silpat mat and flip it over. Then heat your white chocolate, put it in a baggie and pipe the stripes. Ours were VERY not perfect but still looked cute.

Then just make cupcakes and pipe frosting on and add your little footballs!

Football Party Drinks:

Another fun idea for your football themed party is to make your drinks cute! I simply used our scrapbook paper to create drink wrappers. Then we wrapped a whistle around the top of the bottle. I also have drink wrappers that you can print and use here.

So simple but such a nice football party touch!

Football Party Favors:

Want to have some fun football themed party favors for the guests? I’ve got several fun football party favor ideas-use one or use them all!

I got these cute football bags from Oriental Trading and filled them with some fun things, then tied them with a whistle!

Inside I put candy, mini footballs and little notebooks and chalk. I used Silhouette chalkboard vinyl on tiny little notebooks to make them playbooks.

I also made these cute football party poppers!

Love these! Aren’t they cute?

Supplies Needed:

• Paper Towel roll or toilet paper roll (if using paper towel, cut it in half)
• Brown tissue paper
• Football scrapbook paper
• White paper (sticker paper is ideal) or vinyl for the stripes
• String
• Tape
• Candy

To make these, cut a piece of tissue paper so that is about 2 inches wider than the toilet paper roll and big enough to wrap around the toilet paper roll about twice.

Roll it around and tie one end with string. Fill it with candy and then tie off the other end.

Cut your scrapbook paper to exactly the width of your toilet paper roll and just enough to wrap around it just more than once. Roll it around and tape it.

Cut your white sticker paper to make the stripes and put them in place and you’re set!

You can also get these cute football favor boxes from Oriental Trading. Fill them with favors or fill them with food, either way, they’re fun!

I also found these fun football suckers at Zurchers and used them as favors (plus they looked cute on the table).

That’s a good look at all of my fun football party ideas. If you’re looking for more ideas that are perfect for hosting a football view party, check these fun football party ideas here.

Have FUN throwing your football birthday party!

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Big hair, lab coat, safety goggles, and a crazy look in his eyes…I have just described my friends hubby (minus the big hair)!  When one of the Fun-Squared ladies is married to a scientist you know I have to throw a mad scientist party.  Being married to a chemist gives my friend all kinds of insight into a madman on the hunt for the next discovery.  So grab your safety glasses and join us as I show you how to put together this fun party.

How to Throw a Fun Mad Scientist Party:

This party is perfect for a birthday party, Halloween party, or for any aspiring scientist.  I have everything you need to make your party a success.  As every good scientist knows, to make the perfect formula there are steps that need to be followed.  Let’s break this down step by step.

Mad Scientist Decoration Ideas:

The color scheme for this party is orange, green, and purple.  I wanted it to have a bright, fun flare and also loved that this could work for a Halloween party as well.

I have these fun periodic table letters for you to print off and use as a background.  The letters come straight from the periodic table and spell out Science. (I had to get a little creative with Europium to make it work in the word science.)

Here’s a PDF with the letters ready for you to print and use:

Science Periodic Table Letters

I also thought it could be fun to use some quirky textbooks as a decoration, so we created some goofy book titles, then wrapped some books in paper (matching our party colors) and glued the textbook titles to them.

If you’d like to print these, I’ve got a PDF with them as well:

Mad Scientist Book Labels

I also used some of our game pieces as decorations for the party. We have a fun game using flasks, but they worked great as party decor until we were ready to play the game:

It was the same for the test tubes-I used them as a party favor, but they worked great as decorations during the party as well:

Mad Scientist Party Games:

Science Bingo:

Kids always love a good round of Bingo (and as moms I love it too because it’s so easy to pull together). I’ve put together some simple printable Bingo boards covered in all things science. There are 8 Bingo boards, so if you are playing this with a larger group (like a class) you’ll need to break them into smaller groups to play.

Then, all you need to do is print the boards. The last page has little playing cards that you can cut out and draw from to call out for the kids. Then the kids mark each science picture on their board as you call it out. The first one to get five in a row wins.

Here are the Bingo boards for you to print:

Mad Scientist Bingo Boards

Guess the Potion:

This is such a fun party game.  Your guests need to be a little bit brave for this game, but I promise not to make them squirm too much! 

Basically, this game involves taste testing “potions” and trying to guess what they are.  You will need 5-10 different types of drinks.  Keep your drink selection simple if you are playing with a younger crowd, but if you have an older group go ahead and make it a little harder. 

I used flasks to pour our “potions” into because they are so cute and keeps things anonymous.  If you don’t have flasks, you can take off the labels or use pitchers. (I got my flasks at Michael’s-here’s some from Amazon.)

Give each player a small cup, and start by pouring one of the drinks in each cup.  Each player will then taste it and mark on the game card what their guess is making sure to number each drink.  Repeat this process until you have tasted each one.

Reveal the names of the drinks and let each player correct their game card.  A fun addition to this game is adding fun drink names to each drink.  For example, you could have Sprite as the drink and name it “phosphorous solution.”

Get your game cards here in PDF format-

Guess the Potion Game Cards

Mad Scientist Party Activities:

Making slime seemed like an obvious choice for a science-themed party. Because this is a mad scientist party, it can be fun to add something creative like Slime Ballz or glitter or make it glow in the dark for an extra “mad” scientist twist.

I just used an easy recipe for the slime that I found online, but you can use any recipe that you love. Let the kids make this with you as a fun activity to do during the party, then they can take it home with them at the end. And storing it in a beaker just adds to the fun.

Mad Scientist Party Food:

Food is the center of every party…right? I’ve got a few simple and fun food ideas for you.

Build Your Own Pizza:

If you’re throwing this party in your home with a smaller group of kids, it could be fun to let them get crazy and create their own concoctions-just like a mad scientist does with his solutions (or his monster). Give each child a pair of safety goggles and even a lab coat and let them go to work concocting. Give each child a pizza crust and have the toppings ready and let them create their pizza.

Want an easier way to do this? Try it with a cookie or a cupcake. Give them the base and let them frost and decorate how they want.

I also have some cupcake toppers that you can use if you want to make cupcakes ahead and serve them at your party. Simply cut out the toppers, tape them to a lollipop stick and stick them down into the frosting.

I added some fun sprinkles to make them look quirkier.

Here are the cupcake toppers for you to print and use:

Mad Scientist Cupcake Toppers

Mad Scientist Party Favors:

No party is complete without a fun party favor for your guests. I fell in love with these test tubes and knew I needed to incorporate them into my party. It was such an easy fit to use them as my party favors and they could not be simpler. I have this cute science tag for you all ready to print, all you need to do it fill the test tubes with candy and add the tag. 

Mad Science Party Favor Tags

Have FUN throwing a mad scientist party!

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