Updated on: Sep 01, 2024
Any extravagant event that calls for a celebration also calls for happy guests and big smiles. A happy face theme party is a perfect event to lift the spirits of kids and adults! Transfer the smiles from your décor to your guests’ faces with these happy face party theme games and ideas. Follow our tips, downloadable budget tracker, and checklist to throw the happiest party around.
Happy Face Theme Party Decorations
1. Pin It
Cover the walls with happy face posters. For memorabilia, create a poster where the guest can write what makes them smile. This is perfect for any kid's party!
2. Hangin' Around
Looking for a smiley craft? When decorating, most forget how useful the ceiling can be. Utilize the space in a corner and hang happy face cutouts and other decors. Get creative and cut out other colors to make flowers, suns, etc. for the party.
3. Balloons
Buy plenty of balloons in the color of your choice and use a permanent marker to draw on happy faces. Write the party guest’s name on the back and encourage decorating their balloon or having a contest!
4. Happy Face Banners
To make these decorations, pick your style of paper: matte or glossy, and either trace or print out a circle (do so on 10 pages). Decorate the circle as a happy face and punch a hole on each side. Use string to tie the faces together, creating a banner. This can also be made into the shape you used for your hanging cutouts.
5. Flower Power
Decorate mugs, pots, and old jars with happy faces to hold flowers for a centerpiece. This will be a fun craft!
6. Happy Face Candles
These beautiful scented happy face candles will definitely bring positive vibes to your party.
7. Smiley Chalkboard
Be sure to have a chalkboard at your event. This way your guests will be able to leave you meaningful comments that will later give you the biggest smile! The party host will know how much they mean to their guests! Be creative about where the chalkboard is placed.
8. Happy Face Centerpieces
Your table decoration will look "cool" with these happy faces with sunglasses centerpieces. Place them at the center of every table to add some fun.
9. Years of Smiles
A heart-warming handy craft can be picking out the best pictures of the party host giving their best smiles to the camera! This year of smiles banner will remind friends and family how fast the years fly by. The moments captured in each picture will bring a different mood to the party! Have fun going down memory lane when creating this project.
Happy Face Theme Party Favors
10. Don't Worry Be Happy
Treat your guests to these cute and adorable happy face stress balls. They come in many colors that will surely relieve stress away by triggering positive and happy chemicals.
11. Happy Face Goodie Bags
Simply fill a smiley face cellophane bag with your favorite goodies! You can do an assortment of treats that will make your guest smile.
12. Happy Face Candles
These candles will surely bring joy into your guest's home! They are customizable by color and scent to match any theme.
13. Happy Face Keychains
Keychains are a fun accessory and these happy face keychains are no exception.
14. Sticky Notepads
Sticky notes are a great way to quickly jot down ideas or simple to-do lists. With these happy-face notepads, your guests will always think happy thoughts.
Happy Face Theme Party Food Ideas
15. Chicken Tenders or Nuggets
For food idea basics at smiley theme parties, go with this! Display these tasty finger foods in the shape of a smiley face on a yellow plate!
16. Happy Face Pizza
Using your preference for sauce and toppings, make a personal party pizza. Create a happy face with toppings such as mushrooms, pepperoni, peppers, sausage, and more!
17. Lemonade
Serve this cool refreshing drink in a glass dispenser with fresh lemon slices. It’ll be a hit on the menu.
18. Happy Cake
Bake a round yellow cake and decorate it with icing the color of your theme. Use black icing to make the eyes and smile! You don't have to only have sugary content; there are plenty of ideas out there for health-conscious desserts!
19. Jars of Candy
Fill candy jars with colored candy or yellow. Using a black permanent marker, draw happy faces on the jars.
20. Super Happy Popsicles
Enjoy homemade lemon popsicles that will be sure to have everyone smiling! Making these popsicles will be wicked easy to make.
21. Lemon Meringue Pie
Decorate this delicious dessert with shavings of lemon peel.
Happy Face Theme Party Activities
22. Dart a Smile
A spinoff of the game darts, but instead of counting points we’re counting smiles. Tape or glue happy face wrapping paper to a piece of plywood or bulletin board. After the paper is secure, have guests throw darts and try to hit a smile. Create a theme contest by adding different throwing distances. The one who gets a smiley in each distance gets a grand prize.
23. Ball Drop
For the party guest who’s not scared of a challenge, try other game ideas such as ball drop. Use 12 clear glasses, either plastic or glass, and fill half full with water. Place happy face stickers on the bottom of the glasses. Arrange glasses in the shape of your choice (diamond, triangle, square). Using a ping pong ball, have the guest drop the ball at a determined height into the glass, allowing a certain number of attempts. The person who gets the most balls into the glasses that smile wins!
24. Guessing Game
Want more trivia activities for smiley parties? Use a large clear jar to house happy face pins. Have each party guest guess the number of pins in the container. The person who can guess the right number, or the closest to it, wins the jar and gets to give out smiles! Take the game a step further; whoever gets the most pins wins a prize.
25. Bursting' Balloons
Blow up balloons these happy face balloons and place them around the floor. Players will then crawl around on their hands and knees trying to pop as many balloons as possible. The catch is that every player will be blindfolded! Have a scorekeeper to keep track of the number of balloons each player pops. The one with the most popped triumphs and wins this smiles event!
26. Piñata
This is a classic activity that never gets old. You can find a variety of happy face piñatas and fill them up with treats! You can make this as challenging as you like and have the challenger blindfolded.
Happy Face Theme Party Supplies
27. Cupcake Toppers
Top off your favorite dessert with these fun and adorable cupcake toppers. They will surely brighten everyone's day.
28. Dessert Stand
Perfect for adding depth and layer to your food table. This addition will definitely make your favorite dessert stand out!
29. Tablecloth
Keep the theme consistent all throughout with this happy-face tablecloth.
30. Party Plates, Utensils & Cups
This whole set comes in a vibrant yellow color that will go perfectly with the rest of your decorations
31. Clear Serving Trays
When serving up your menu, we recommend sticking with simple, clear serving trays. This will blend in with the rest of your decorations and will highlight your menu.
Happy Face Theme Party Invitations
32. Happy Face Balls
Think outside the envelope and use happy face balls as an invitation. Whether you prefer beachballs, dodgeballs, or blow-up balls, this is a fun way to send a smile. Use a black permanent marker to write all event details. Be sure to include gift ideas or a registry so your guest will know what to bring.
33. Smiley Face Cards
This package comes with a gold embellished smiley face. You can customize them however you like and write down the details inside.
34. Funny Invitation Cards
Bring joy and laughter with this funny smiley face card. If you have a lot of invitations to send out. We recommend preparing all your party details on your computer, then printing them out and inserting them inside the cards.
35. You Make Me
Let someone know how they make you feel.
36. Silly Happy Face Cards
Our happiness can come from many places and these invitation cards show us just that!
Happy Face Theme Party: Conclusion
We hope you enjoyed these Happy Face Theme Party ideas. It is a perfect theme for any event even if it is a simple get-together it's a great way to spread positivity.
Written by Anjelica Lapi and Sydney Fallon; Contributors: Nitchell Royce Legaspi and Ana Fabijanic