37 Ladybug Party Ideas

Are you stuck trying to come up with a great party theme for your child? Well, if you’re looking for a theme that is both fun and requires a lot of creativity, a ladybug theme party is a great choice that offers tons of ladybug party ideas! Ladybugs are probably the favorite insect for many people, especially among children because of how small and pretty they are. Whenever a ladybug flies onto a child’s arm or hand, you almost always see their face immediately light up with a huge smile. Also, when you go to a store or shop online, the ladybug’s design is on lots of clothes and other items, so there’s no denying the popularity of the insect. There are so many ways you can incorporate the beauty of ladybugs into a wonderful theme for your child’s party, and this article will lay out a list of 37 ideas to help you throw a party that makes all other insects jealous.

Ladybug Party Ideas: Decorations

Decorations are essential for any good party, especially when portraying a theme. Here are some great ideas for decorations that will help accentuate the overall ladybug theme. These work for any party site you choose, whether it be your home or something more formal like a banquet hall or country club.

1. Ladybug Balloons

This is a great, simple idea to enhance the ladybug theme and make the room pop (well hopefully not). If you can’t buy any red balloons with black dots on them already, all you need to do is buy some red balloons and put a bunch of black dots all over each of them to resemble a ladybug. There also balloons with actual pictures of ladybugs on them if you would prefer that, or if you can't decide you can get a bundle of ladybug balloons that mix both kinds. You can either cut out the dots using black pieces of paper and glue them onto the balloons, or you can just draw the dots with a marker or even paint.

2. Ladybug Photo Backdrop

If you want to create a section of your party space where all of your guests can take some great photos, then a backdrop is a great idea. You can either get a ladybug-themed backdrop or you could even get one with plain grass to give off the nature theme. You could also get a customizable ladybug-themed backdrop that has the name of, or a message for the person being celebrated.

3. Banner

Another good idea is to print out a large premade ladybug-themed banner to hang up at the entrance that guests will see when they are walking in, or you could make one of these on your own. Whether the banner hangs outdoors or indoors, it should be festive and inviting to your guests. When it comes to what you should write on the banner, you could either go the simpler route and wish whoever the party is for a happy birthday, or you could put a fun phrase such as “Ladybugs Welcome,” or “Calling All Ladybugs!”

4. Ladybug Cupcake Toppers

You can find some really cute ladybug toppers for both cakes and cupcakes, and they will add a nice touch not only to the individual desserts but to your whole set-up as well.

5. Paper Ladybugs

Having paper ladybugs sprinkled around your party space would be a great addition. You can find some already made ones, or you can make them yourself. All you need are black and red pieces of construction paper, or even tissue paper to give them more of a three-dimensional design. You cut out a red circle for the body, and then a bunch of tiny black circles for the dots to glue on top of the red circle. You also could cut a slightly bigger black circle for the head.

6. Ladybug Lawn Decorations

If you are throwing your party at your house and want to make sure both indoors and outdoors are ready for the celebration, you can add some nice lawn decorations. You can line up a bunch of ladybugs along your walkway, have them placed all around your yard, or add some fun signs that fit with the theme.

7. Ladybug Costume

Who says you can’t be a part of the decorations yourself! One way to take your decorations to a whole different level and create a sure topic of discussion would be to dress up in a ladybug costume. Your child obviously can as well, and to make it even more memorable you could have all guests come to the party dressed up as ladybugs. It would make for some wonderful pictures!

Ladybug Party Ideas: Favors

We all know the only reason people come to parties is for the favors they get to take home afterward. I’m just kidding of course, but here are some super cool favors that your guests are sure to love and get a lot of use out of.

8. Ladybug Headband

A ladybug headband is a fun party favor for your guests to take home, and you have a number of premade options you could buy online. You can also go the homemade route, and luckily they are very easy to make. All you need is a plain black headband, two black pipe cleaners, some black or red pom-pom balls, and glue. You wrap the pipe cleaners around your finger to turn them into curly antennae, and then you glue a pom-pom ball onto the top of each pipe cleaner. These will have your guests running around their backyards pretending to be ladybugs themselves!

9. Live Ladybugs

What better party favor to give to your guests at a ladybug-themed party than actual live ladybugs! You could purchase thousands of ladybugs online for cheap and put a few of them, along with leaves, into any kind of small jar, such as a baby food jar. Then you would poke holes into the lid, and decorate the jar however you like to make it resemble the ladybug theme. You could even write the name of each guest onto a jar. This would be a very popular gift amongst the children, and you could either have them all release the ladybugs outside at the end of the party together, or you could let them go home and release them there!

10. Ladybug Stickers

You can’t go wrong with some cute ladybug stickers! These would be a great item to put inside a goody bag if you choose to provide them to your guests. Some other potential items include candy, pencils, and more!

11. Magnifying Glass

An interesting observational item to include as a party favor are magnifying glasses. These will help your guests when they are out searching for ladybugs or other insects on their own, and these items are sure to leave your guests entertained by being able to look at objects much more closely.

12. Seeds and Flowerpots

If you want to send your guests home with tools for their quest to find their own ladybugs, what better way to do so than to give them seed packets and flower pots so they can grow plants that help them attract ladybugs? You could even have your guests paint and decorate their flower pots as a fun activity! You could even have your party at a painting studio and throw a ladybug-themed paint party where you paint flower pots and more!

13. Bug-Identifying Books

If you want to go the educational route, a favor you could provide is a bug-identifying book. This is another item, along with the magnifying glass, that would help if your guests want to go out and search for ladybugs and other insects on their own, and it will also teach them a lot of interesting facts.

Ladybug Party Ideas: Food Ideas

Food is widely considered to be the most important aspect of a party, and with a theme party you want to make sure the food highlights the theme. Here are some delicious snacks and treats that you can make that will have everyone talking (and eating).

14. Ladybug Cupcakes and Cookies

How about we start with dessert! If you want to make ladybug cupcakes, you could make vanilla or chocolate cupcakes, or both, and use red frosting on top as well as chocolate frosting for the head. For the dots, you can use chocolate chips or candies such as mini M&M’s and even Skittles if you want to incorporate more colors than just red and black. You could also bake some ladybug cookies, either sugar or another type, and you could use cool ladybug cookie cutters to help them look more like ladybugs.

15. Ladybug Cracker Appetizers

A healthy, creative DIY snack that looks amazing and tastes delicious. You start with a Ritz cracker or any other round cracker, and then you either spread a thin layer of hummus or cream cheese, or you put a small piece of mozzarella cheese on top of the cracker. After that, you place a small piece of lettuce on top and then you cut a cherry tomato in half and put one half on top of the lettuce. You then put an olive in front of the cherry tomato half to serve as the head, and you stick two chive pieces in the olive for the antennae. Finally, you sprinkle black sesame seeds or even just put some black food coloring across the tomato halves for the dots.

16. Ladybug Cake

As everyone knows, having a great cake is crucial for any successful party, especially theme ones. To create a killer ladybug cake, you make two circular layers to serve as the body and the wings of the ladybug. The bottom layer is covered in chocolate frosting, while the top layer should be in red frosting and sliced down the middle to make wings. For the dots, you could use candies like Junior Mints, cookies like Oreos, or even just chocolate frosting to make them. If you want to add a face and antennae, you could use tiny candies like M&Ms or gumdrops for the eyes, and licorice for the antennae. You could also add some cake toppers, and there are even edible ones as a fun alternative.

17. Ladybug Pizzas

Everyone loves pizza, and this ladybug pizza is a delicious snack that is easy to make. The pizzas consist of English muffins, cheese, tomato slices, and olives. You sprinkle shredded mozzarella cheese on the English muffin slice, then put the tomato slice on top, and then you top it all off with the olives to serve as the dots on a ladybug. If you or your guests aren’t fans of olives, you could substitute it with any topping that could resemble the dots, even if they may not be black in color. Potential alternatives include sausage bits, bacon bits, or even pepperoni, among others. Once you finish putting together your pizzas, put them in the microwave for a few minutes to melt the cheese and make the bread crispier. Then, take them out for everyone to enjoy.

18. Ladybug Sandwiches

Another cute snack that fits the theme is “ladybug sandwiches.” All you need to do for this is cut a piece of bread into a circular shape, top the piece of bread with a thin layer of jam that is red, such as strawberry or raspberry, and then put raisins on top to serve as the dots. If you want to balance out the sweetness with a little savory, you could also start by adding a thin layer of peanut butter before adding the layer of jam.

19. Chocolate Covered Strawberries

Another fun dessert option you could do is the traditional chocolate-covered strawberries. You could either order them online or make them in advance, or you could put out a bowl of chocolate dipping sauce and have your guests dip the strawberries themselves. Then, you could have red or multi-colored sprinkles out for them to add to their delicious treat.

Ladybug Party Ideas: Games/Activities

Every party needs fun things to do! These games and activities will definitely create a lot of laughs and happy memories amongst you and your guests.

20. Musical Spots

This fun twist on musical chairs is where you place six spot markers, numbered from 1 to 6 on the ground, and then you have all the guests run around the area while the music is playing. Once the music stops, each player runs to a spot and you roll a dice. Whichever number the dice lands on, the person in the spot with that number has to do something goofy like dance, sing a song, do jumping jacks, or anything else you can come up with! If you have more than six people, you can create however many spots you will need and then use a different method of deciding which number gets chosen each round, such as an app on your phone.

21. Pin the Spot on the Ladybug

This is your classic ladybug-themed spin on “Pin the Tail on the Donkey.” You can get a large piece of poster paper and draw a big ladybug on it, or you can print out a large picture of a ladybug. Then, you give each guest a black circle, or “spot,” and have them take turns trying to put the spot on the ladybug. Each guest will be blindfolded when it is their turn. An alternative to this is you can have a giant flower instead, and give each guest a little ladybug cut out to try and place on the flower. Either one would be a lot of fun.

22. Create Your Own Ladybug

This fun arts and crafts activity would be a blast for guests of all ages and allows everyone to showcase their creative abilities. You can cut out big red paper circles to serve as the base and give to each person, and then you can put out a table of different arts and crafts supplies they can use to create their ladybug. These include markers, pom-pom balls, black paper circles, googly eyes, glitter, pipe cleaners, stickers, and more! At the end, everyone can share their magnificent creations!

23. Bean Bag Catch

For this game, you can either buy a bean bag or create a homemade ladybug-themed bean bag. If you are creating one, you can use a red bean bag and glue circles made of black fabric onto the bean bag. Then, you have your guests pair up and have both members of each pair stand across from each other. The members of each duo toss their respective bean bags to each other, and the last pair to drop their bean bag wins. Or, you could just have no competition and let them have fun playing catch with each other. If your guests are older, you can make it more challenging by having one member of the pair take a step backward each time they successfully complete a toss.

24. Ladybug Spoon Race

For this game, you split up the players into two separate lines. Give the first person in each line a spoon and a ladybug button or some type of ball, such as a golf ball, and have them race to a certain point and then back to the line while balancing the button or ball on the spoon. Once they return, they then pass it off to the next person in line and so on until every person in one of the two lines finishes first.

25. Ladybug Toss

This is a game where you set up several buckets on a platform, and you blow up an inflatable ladybug ball or you could use a ladybug bean bag. You have the guests stand in front of the platform and try to toss the item into one of the buckets. They will have a blast! If your guests are a little older, you could have them stand farther back when tossing and you could assign a point value to each bucket, and whoever finishes with the most points wins.

26. Lady, Lady, Bug!

This is simply a ladybug-themed version of Duck, Duck, Goose. Have all your guests sit in a circle on the ground, except for one who will be tasked with going around and tapping each person on the head while saying “Lady” each time. Then, the person will randomly say “Bug,” when tapping a person’s head, and that person who was tapped will then have to get up and chase after the person who tapped them. If the person tapped tags the tapper before they sit in the spot of the person tapped, then the tapper continues being the tapper for another round. If the tapper gets to the spot before being tagged, then the person who was tapped becomes the new tapper.

Ladybug Party Ideas: Party Supplies

Here are some ladybug-theme versions of party supplies necessities that you can buy to help you further enhance the theme in different ways.

27. Tablecloth

When it comes to tablecloths, you can purchase a cute red tablecloth with black polka dots on it to resemble a ladybug, or you can get a tablecloth with ladybugs flying around on it. Also, if you want to get a little extra creative, you can put a green tablecloth or one with flowers down to resemble nature.

28. Tableware

Now that you have the tablecloth, you need stuff to put on top of it! could get ladybug-designed, or just red and black, tableware items such as plates, napkins, cups, and eating utensils. If you decide to put a green tablecloth down instead, then you can put the ladybug-themed items on top of it to make it resemble ladybugs in nature.

29. Centerpiece

For a centerpiece, you can buy a ceramic or stuffed ladybug, or you could create your own and place it in the middle of the tables. These will really help you set the overall theme of the party and provide a pretty compliment to all of your other supplies and decorations.

30. Labels

You’re going to need labels to tell everybody what each of the snacks and desserts is, and you could also replace the regular water bottle labels with fun ladybug-themed ones. You could even have a message written out on each of the labels, and it will without a doubt make an impression on your guests.

31. Streamers

You could get red and black streamers to hang throughout the party site. You could also mix in some green streamers, as well as other bright colors to resemble flowers and nature.

32. Boxes for Party Favors

You can order red party favor boxes or bags with black polka dots on them. You could also make them yourself by getting a red paper bag or box and cutting black circles from construction paper or some type of fabric, and then gluing them on. These would be a nice touch to add as something for your guests to bring their favors home in.

Ladybug Party Ideas: Invitations

We can’t forget about the invitations! How else are people going to find out about the awesome ladybug party you’re throwing? Here are some ideas for different invitations you could go with.

33. Ladybug Design

The most obvious choice for your ladybug party invitations are, you guessed it, ladybugs! There are a whole host of ladybug invitation designs that you can choose from, ranging from more standard ones to more creative ones. If you have more time on your hands, you can also make your own!

34. Invitation with a Poem or Catchy Phrase

Another route you can go with your invitations is by adding a cute little rhyme or catchy phrase to attract your guests. It doesn’t have to be anything long or flashy, but something short and cute to make your invitation stick out.

35. Flower Invitation

If you don’t want to go the ladybug route, a nice alternative that incorporates the ladybug theme, as well as the general theme of nature, is a flower-themed invitation.

36. Traditional Invitation

Lastly, if you want to keep the theme a surprise and not give too much away right off the bat pr are just having trouble finding good ladybug invitations, you could always go with a safer, more traditional invitation.

37. Digital Invitation

You could also opt for a customizable digital invitation, and there are many great professional-looking templates to choose from that work with any theme, such as this one.

Final Thoughts

So, as you can see, there are many great ladybug party ideas out there. Infinite possibilities also exist in terms of new ideas or variations of existing ones that you can come up with on your own. There are no right or wrong ways to approach throwing a good event, as you have the creative freedom to do as much or as little as you please. Regardless, allow this article to provide a foundation of ideas to assist you in putting together the ultimate ladybug party!

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