Host a Charity Focused Birthday Party With These Ideas
Seven Ways to Throw a Charity Focused Birthday Party that Gives Back.
When school starts, the round of birthday party invitations begins. Yet, it got me wondering. How can a typical birthday party be atypical? How can it be an opportunity to be good while doing something good? How can the kids be social while promoting social endeavors? A birthday is a great time to teach our children to think beyond cake and about charity. So consider holding charity birthday parties!
So I devised seven ways you can throw a ‘Birthday Party That Gives Back.’ Just make sure to reach out to any organization in advance for approval.
Charity Focused Birthday Party at a Food Pantry
Make part of your birthday celebration at a local food pantry. Ask for canned goods and sundries in lieu of gifts. All the kids can bring the donation to the local food pantry, and then they can stay and help stock shelves or prepare deliveries.
Cupcakes for Cops Party
When ordering cupcakes for the party-goers, stock up on extras. Have the kids head to the local fire station or police station and pass out the sweets. (Reach out to your local fire and police departments in advance and have a backup plan if they are out on a call.) Not only will they get to see the cool rescue vehicles, but they can give treats to these community helpers to say thank you for their service.
Donate The Birthday Day Gifts
Instead of asking for gifts for your girl or boy, ask attendees to bring a toy for donation. Kids can bring the toys to a local charity or Toys for Tots. Another option is a site called Birthday Wishes, which gathers toys to bring birthday parties to children in homeless shelters.
Donate Used Toys
Sometimes, you have to start small, and little ones may not understand why they are not getting presents! If you cannot make the party into a community service opportunity or donate gifts to causes, ask your children to select a few existing toys they own to give to a local shelter, church, or other non-profit organization. It teaches them that not all children get to have new things, so we need to appreciate what we have.
Charity Focused Birthday Party Crafts
One thing we often have to do at a charity focused birthday party is an activity to keep the kids entertained before pizza and cake. Make the party a charity craft opportunity instead of kicking around a ball in the backyard. Enchanted Makeovers has a program called Capes for Kids. Children can make a superhero cape, decorate it, and then ship their supercapes to children in shelters who need to know they are superheroes daily! Just gather supplies on like affiliate Amazon pre-made capes or large pieces of fabric that you can cut out into capes with fasteners (there is a template on the website), and then add items like fabric glue, ribbon, and other embellishments to decorate the capes. Send the finished creations Enchanted Makeovers. They also have dolls, pillowcases, and knitting projects too.
Service and Smiles
Another way to make a charity focused birthday party an opportunity to do good is to clean up a local beach, paint a fence, or help plant trees at a nearby park. Most towns have a recreation department or department of public works. Reach out to your local town office and find out what opportunities are available that kids can help with as an opportunity to support their hometown.
Caring Cards
Lastly, have the kids make cards and decorate them. Affiliate Crayola makes some really fun products that inspire kids to have fun while being artistic! They can take their creations to a local nursing home and pass out the cards! Maybe even find out if one of the residents has a birthday and has had the kids since the birthday song! Or ship overseas to members of the military.
Spread Kindness
Hopefully, one of these ideas will inspire your child to do something unique for their next birthday bash! Do you have other ideas to share? Share on social media @PlayroomChronicles on Instagram and Facebook!
