When planning a 50th anniversary party, we love to focus on the memories and the love between the happy couple. While our 50th anniversary invitations are designed to begin your event in this way, we have also gathered ideas to make your party planning easier throughout the entire event!
- Ask each guest to bring a fabric square of a memory of significance to the couple and have them sewn into a quilt.
- Ask guests to write out their favorite memories of the couple, which can then be assembled into a scrapbook as a keepsake.
- Choose a menu evoking items from their first date or wedding meal.
- Top the anniversary cake with the topper from their wedding cake if possible.
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Decorate the party location with checkered flags, as well as plenty of black, white & red balloons & streamers!
Have races outside on a track made out of landscaping edging or traffic cones (use bikes, walkers, push toys, tricycles, etc). Use a kids play traffic light
For a fun activity, do wheel paintings with matchbox race cars using a bucket of cars, paint and paper. 
Dip a variety of cars in washable, non-toxic kids paint and drive them across the paper. The different treads and tire sizes in different colors makes for interesting results and a fun take-home piece! If you have older guests, they can paint and assemble model wooden cars (found at your local craft store).
For party favors, use lucite race cars filled with M&Ms, a matchbox race car, and a race car baseball cap all in a checkered flag bucket with a shovel wrapped in cellophane & tied with ribbon in the party colors.
Be sure to check out all of our photo birthday invitations for your event also, including a Racing Cars Photo Birthday Invitation Collage Card, a square Checkered Flag Race Car Photo Birthday Invitation and more!
Here is a collection of all of our undersea, ocean & fish birthday party ideas that we posted over the past few days, feel free to add your own ideas in the comments below also. We have several photo birthday invitation designs in our galleries for your party also, or you may adapt any of our other designs to add undersea & fish theming for your party.
Party food ideas:
For the punch bowl, use blue kool-aid & sprite with gummy sharks frozen in ice cubes to look like fish swimming around!
Set out a bowl of fish-shaped crackers for your guests to snack on during the party, or as an appetizer while you prepare other snacks.
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To begin, guests stand in a circle, facing inward. Choose three underwater creatures and walk around the circle naming the kids in sequence – whale, shark, turtle, whale, shark, turtle, etc., so you have several of each underwater animal standing at intervals.
When you call out the name of a group, the kids in that group go for a “swim”. This means walking around the outside of the circle and listening to your instructions. If you say the sea is rough, they must jog around the circle. When you say it’s getting rougher they run faster and if you say the tide turns, they turn and run in the other direction. When you say STORM, they must run back to their original places in the circle. The last to arrive is out and sits in place, facing outward. To make the game more fun, call out more than one group at a time. Continue the game until there is only one player left (who gets a prize, of course!).
Be sure to check out the rest of our Undersea Fish Themed Birthday Party Ideas and all of our Photo Birthday Invitations for your party!
Make a fish-shaped name tag for each guest using thick, colorful paper. Decorate with markers and attach a paper clip to the mouth of each fish. Place all the fish in an empty kiddie pool or decorated box. As each guest arrives, hand him or her a fishing pole (sturdy stick with a yarn “line” and a magnet “hook”). When a fish is “caught”, write the child’s name on it!
Be sure to check out the rest of our Undersea Fish Themed Birthday Party Ideas and all of our Photo Birthday Invitations for your party!
This refreshing drink has a surprise *bite* lurking just beneath the surface! A day before the party, make shark ice cubes by freezing bite-sized gummy shark candy in ice cube trays filled with water. Let the trays stand at room temperature for an hour to remove the air bubbles before placing them in the freezer. The candy will dissolve slightly while freezing, tinting the cubes a soft pastel color.
Then, prepare blue drink mix according to package instructions (Kool-Aid works well). Pour the blue drink into a punch bowl and add 2 liters of ginger ale. When serving, place two or three shark cubes in a tall, clear glass for each child and fill with punch!
Be sure to check out the rest of our Undersea Fish Themed Birthday Party Ideas and all of our Photo Birthday Invitations for your party!
Party guests will have lots of fun testing their accuracy with this fun outdoor game! Set up several empty plastic pop bottles at a distance 8-10 ft from the place where players will stand. Lay a jump rope down for the line shooters must stand behind. Give each guest a squirt gun, and see who can knock down the most bottles! For younger children, decrease the distance between the bottles and the shooting line.
Be sure to check out the rest of our Undersea Fish Themed Birthday Party Ideas and all of our Photo Birthday Invitations for your party!
