47 Fun Spring Birthday Party Ideas

Are you a springtime baby? The weather is beginning to warm up, and you will want to throw the best birthday party ever. We’ve thought of some wonderful spring birthday party ideas that you can use to make it easier for yourself! There are ideas ranging from indoor to outdoor party ideas, party favors, supplies, foods, activities, and decorations too!

Spring Birthday Party Ideas: Outdoors

1. Outdoor Fun for Everyone

Spring birthday party ideas can be difficult to come up with, but not this one! Plan a party at your local park. The weather is between being too hot and too cold, it is just perfect. If it’s a child’s party, plan to have them fly kites with their friends, do an arts and crafts project, and of course, play on the playground.

2. Easter Party

Is your birthday right around Easter? What better way to celebrate than by throwing a party for both at the same time! Children love to do egg hunts and sweet treats. You could even hire someone to come dressed up as a bunny.

3. Flower Power Party

Make your spring birthday party ideas decorative, and it doesn’t hurt to have them smell great also! Set up in a flower garden with tables, chairs, and a tent to protect your guests from the sun. Plan activities like coloring flower pictures or making your own flower crowns!

4. Backyard Party

This is the easiest place to throw your spring birthday party. The weather is just warm enough for you to be able to set up a tent in your backyard with some tables and throw an awesome party! You can set up games like cornhole or frisbee for everyone to play, but don’t forget to plan to have great music.

Spring Birthday Party Ideas: Themes

5. Butterfly Party

Butterflies begin to come out during the springtime, and children love to chase them in the gardens. That makes this the perfect opportunity to decorate the entire house or wherever the party is taking place in butterfly decorations and give the kids activities like coloring their own butterfly.

6. Cinco de Mayo Party

Spring birthday party ideas should have a festive twist and you can do this by making it a Cinco de Mayo theme! Decorate with red and orange colors, have food like chips and salsa and tacos, and hang up a piñata! Kids love piñatas, and this makes it a great activity for them to do.

7. Rainbow Party

There is always a rainbow at the end of a rain shower, so what better way to celebrate your spring birthday with a rainbow party! Everyone knows that there is a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, so this party theme will most definitely bring smiles to everyone’s faces. Decorate with rainbow colors, provide fun colored food, and have the kids decorate their own pots of gold!

8. Bug Out Party

Bug out with the critters that buzz around in your garden. Provide food that resembles bugs like gummy worms or gummy spiders. Hang up decorations that resemble bugs like dragonflies, butterflies, and fireflies.

9. Watermelon

During the warmer months, people love to snack on watermelon. When the weather is just beginning to warm up, the beginning of spring is the perfect time to celebrate the new season with this refreshing fruit. Decorate your party in shades of red and pink while providing different foods and drinks with watermelon flavors or watermelon in them!

10. Golden Bash

The days slowly begin to start earlier and last longer as spring comes around the corner. The golden glow from the sun makes it the perfect theme for a spring birthday party. Decorate the party area with gold and bright yellow items like streamers and suns. Hand out fun yellow food/drink items like lemonade, cupcakes with yellow frosting, and bananas.

11. Beautifully Made

This springtime birthday party theme can be stemmed from making art. With spring comes beautiful images ranging from rainbows to flowers to beautiful butterflies. Create fun activities like having the kids make splatter paint napkins, splatter paint canvas, or even their own cup labels! They can also paint their own rainbows, flowers, butterflies, or anything they want. It is all about creative freedom at this party, so make sure you provide enough materials.

12. Ice Cream Social

Start the warm weather right by eating a cool treat. This party theme is made for springtime. Decorate with fun decorations of ice cream treats all around. Don’t forget to provide everyone with the yummy treats, though! You can make your own ice cream sandwiches (or buy them premade) or have a fun selection of sundae options (keep in mind nut allergies).

13. Bee Day

The buzzing sounds of bees beginning to come out are often associated with springtime. This makes it the perfect theme to decorate a spring birthday party with! Get creative with it and hang up cartoon bees around the event space with yellow and black streamers. You can also provide fun bee-shaped food like Twinkies decorated with black stripes.

14. Popsicle Party

Children love popsicles, so what better way to celebrate a birthday party than by throwing a popsicle-themed party! It is the perfect warm-weather treat to give out, so have some fun with it by mixing different fruit juices to make the ultimate popsicle. Decorate the event space in fruity colors like reds, pinks, and purples!

15. Springtime Hoedown

Spring birthday party ideas should include everything that happens starting in the beginning spring months. Farms all around the northern hemisphere begin to come to life as spring rolls around the corner. Decorate your event space with bandana prints, hay bales, and different farm animals! Have the children participate in games such as a rope toss or pin the tail on the donkey.

Spring Birthday Party Decorations

16. Photo Backdrop

Today people always love taking pictures and posting things onto social media - so a perfect decoration for any party is a photo backdrop so people can get those pictures taken!

17. Photo Props

What's having a photo backdrop to take pictures without any props? These spring-themed photo props will definitely be sure to liven up things and make this party fun.

18. Flowers

Looking for an easy and simple way to freshen up and brighten up the room? Flowers are a very simple decoration that just adds some life into the space. After all, springtime is all about re-birth and things coming back to life.

19. Leaf Garland

Leaf garland is a very simple yet effective way to add to your theme's aesthetic. Get some leaf garland and even add some fairy lights and hand the garland around the doorways to the house and you have yourself and simple decoration that adds some character to the space.

20. Happy Birthday Banner

Banners are a very fun way to spruce up and add to a room! A happy birthday banner with something like butterflies is a great birthday decoration to add a simple spring touch to the party.

Spring Birthday Party Favors

Party favors and gifts are always an important part of the party, so here are some party favors ideas for your next spring event.

21. DIY Bandanas

Provide each party guest with their very own bandana and a few items for them to decorate it with. They can either wear it themselves or put it on their favorite animal at home!

22. Fly Away With a Kite!

Spring birthday party ideas are hard enough to think of, but the party favors that make it even better are important to think of as well. Even though the party has ended, the fun doesn’t have to stop! Send your party guests home with their own kites, so they continue their outdoor adventures.

23. DIY Flower Crowns

With April showers come May flowers, which makes DIY flower crowns the perfect party favor to send your guests home with. Provide them with the material for the actual crown and then a few different types of flowers to attach to the crown piece!

24. Flowerpots and Seeds

Springtime is the perfect time to plant your own flowers and watch them bloom, which makes this a great party favor. Provide your guests with a flowerpot and seeds to start their own garden! It is a fun activity to keep the kids outside rather than spending all their time inside.

25. Spring Coloring Book

Make it fun, but keep it simple! Provide your guests with a fun spring coloring book and crayons or colored pencils! This way, they have something to keep them busy once they get home.

26. Rainbow Stickers

Once again keeping it simple and provide your guests with some fun colored stickers. Give everyone a small booklet of stickers that are rainbows or rainbow colors! They can decorate whatever they like with these at home.

Spring Birthday Party Activities

27. Easter Egg Hunt

If you're planning a spring birthday party and it happens to be close to Easter, a fun idea for an activity is an easter egg hunt. This is a very easy and simple activity to plan. Simply buy some plastic easter eggs and some candy and hide the plastic eggs with candy inside around the house and yard and you have an activity that the kids will enjoy!

28. Baseball

For many, the spring season is an exciting time of year as spring means the start of the new baseball season. If this spring-themed birthday party is for a boy who enjoys baseball, a fun activity could be playing a game of baseball, or even just watching and enjoying a game of baseball on tv. Something simple yet entertaining for everyone.

29. Egg Painting

Another fun close to easter activity you can do is egg painting. Like having an easter egg hunt, this activity is something fun and inexpensive that will be sure to let the kids use their imagination as they paint eggs. Egg painting is a great idea as all the supplies you can find easily as well. A trip to get your egg painting supplies and a carton of eggs and you have an activity to keep everyone occupied for a while.

30. Guess the Number of Jelly Beans

Grab and a bag of jelly beans or any spring-themed candy/treat and count them and then put the jelly beans into a clear container. When guests arrive, have them guess the number of jelly beans in the container and at some point during the event announce who is closest. The winner can get a prize or the whole container. A simple but fun little activity I'm sure the younger kids will love.

31. Egg Toss

This last spring birthday party idea is sure to be a fun one. An egg toss is a fun way to get everyone interacting. Have the guest pair into teams of two and hand one person on each an egg. Have them toss the egg to each other and if the other catches it they move on and take a step back from each other. Last team without breaking the egg wins.

Spring Birthday Party Food Ideas

What's a party without food? Here are some simple food and snack options you can use for your next spring birthday party ideas

32. Peeps

Come springtime, another food idea I always think of is peeps. Nothing says Easter and springtimes like snacking on the tasty combination of sweet-colored sugar and fluffy marshmallow candy. This just always creates an unforgettable experience!

33. Bloomin' Onion

When I think of the spring season, one thing that comes to my mind are things blooming, so a perfect food idea that kind of goes along with that could be a blooming onion.

34. Lemonade

All of those sweet and salty snacks and food are bound to make anyone thirsty - so a perfect beverage option to quench that thirst is lemonade. This is a delicious and refreshing drink that everyone will enjoy.

35. Easter Snack Mix

A unique and fun snack idea can be an easter mix. This is a very simple idea. All this requires are some snacks such as Chex mix, pretzels, and chocolate eggs, and here you have an effortless snack people will not want to stop eating!

36. Food Picks

If you're expecting to have a good amount of people over for your next spring birthday party or special event, a good idea when it comes to food would be to have some spring-themed food picks. This not only makes things a bit sanitary but also adds to the theme of the event.

Spring Birthday Party Supplies

37. Table Covers

Why opt for a plain table cover when you can get a spring-themed one? Spills and messes are bound to occur with guests, so be prepared but also make it fun while you're at it.

38. Plates and napkins

Plates and napkins are crucial items you need for any birthday party/event. Brighten things up and make your party more fun with some spring plates and napkins.

39. Cups

Serve your guests with these cool spring-themed cups! There are so many designs you'll be sure to have a party that is decked out with cool decorations and supplies.

40. Centerpiece

Whether this is celebrating a birthday or even some special milestone event such as an anniversary, a floral number centerpiece makes for an adorable and fun decoration for your party!

41. Cake/cupcake Toppers

You can't have a spring-themed party without some cool cake and cupcake toppers! These toppers will be sure to be the center of attention.

Spring Themed Party Invitations

42. Butterfly Invitation

A super cute and fun idea for an invitation. An invitation that has butterflies on it or is shaped like a butterfly is for sure a fun way to shake things up and go for something more fun and creative as opposed to your typical card invitations.

43. Flower Invitation

For a flower invitation, you can get creative with this too. If you want, get some paper and then you can cut the paper into flowers, and on the petals of the flower you cut simply add all the party information, and then you're good to mail them out. This definitely will make for creative spring birthday party ideas for your invitation aspect of planning.

44. Clock Invitation

Do you have a birthday or event that is close to daylight savings time? If you do, this will be a unique invitation idea for you. You know the saying, "spring forward, fall back", so why not do something unique like a clock invitation to invite your friends and family to your event that may fall close to daylight savings.

45. Baseball Invitation

If you have a baseball fan as the guest of honor and perhaps a game of baseball is in the plan for the party, then a baseball invitation is a great idea. You can even add a saying like "Swing into this springtime party" to add more to the whole spring theme.

46. Online Invitation

Another great alternative to physical paper invitations is online ones. This is a good way to be environmentally friendly and do your part to help save the planet. This is also a good idea to look into as there are so many ideas and templates.

Spring Birthday Party Ideas: Conclusion

Trying to figure out a cool and fun theme for a party is hard, but as there are so many different party theme ideas, but we hope this helped and you enjoyed the ideas! No matter the age or gender, these can even be an adult party idea as well! They are super easy, budget-friendly, and fun to set up. Make sure to have fun with it and make this the best spring birthday party you’ve ever had!

Written by Mercedes Loescher and Meghan Lehouillier; Contributor: Jack Leduc