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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Continued from our Baby Shower Invitation Wording Ideas, we have so many different shower wording ideas from our clients that we have more to share today! A lot of these are perfect for gender neutral, surprise & co-ed showers, or can easily be adapted to suit them. Each wording suggestion is followed by one of our matching baby shower invitation designs (feel free to look around, as they can be used on more than just one of our custom party invitations, of course!).

1. Someone tiny and so sweet, will soon be here for you to meet! (Blue Flower Maternity Photo Shower Invitation)
2. In the jungle, the mighty jungle, a baby sleeps tonight. We’re WILD with excitement! ____’s tummy is expanding, the time is drawing near, let’s shower her with love and gifts before baby gets here. (Jungle Safari Baby Shower Invitation)
3. All Aboard, Precious cargo on the way! Let’s get _____ prepared for the big day! (Choo Choo Train Themed Baby Shower Invitation)
4. Come on a Rainforest Adventure – Who knows what you will see? Could it be a toucan or a monkey in the tree? Please come celebrate and share in the joy – To honor ____, our very special mommy-to-be. (Green Rainforest Baby Shower Invitation)
5. Like a sudden rain on a garden of flowers, we want to shower our mommy-to-be with expressions of love and good wishes at a Baby Shower. (Trendy Butterfly Baby Shower Invitation)
6. Boy or Girl? Cars & Trucks or Ribbons & Bows – What are they Having? Nobody knows!  (Stitched Flowers Ultrasound Photo Shower Invitation)
7. Hide and Seek behind a leaf… Someone wants to tickle two little feet… Or play frog with a little one who will want to leap! (Bamboo Rainforest Gecko Shower Invitation) Read more

We see so many adorable baby shower invitation wording ideas from our clients, that we wanted to share them with you. Here are some of our recent favorites – each wording suggestion is followed by one of our matching invitations (feel free to look around, as they can be used on more than just one of our party designs, of course!).

1. Bottles and Booties, Diapers and Pins, This is where a Princess’ life begins!
2. God has blessed them with two bundles of joy – A very special gift… A girl and a boy!
3. Popsicle kisses and big bear hugs, Little red wagons and jars full of bugs, Grass stains, football games, lots of toys, oh the joys. It’s a boy!
4. We’re Wild with Excitement! The time is drawing near, the King of the Jungle is almost here! ______’s tummy is expanding so let’s shower her with gifts and cheer! (Bright Safari Themed Baby Shower Invitation)
5. Here comes a baby boy from Heaven above, Come help us shower _____ with love! (Tiffany Blue & Brown Baby Shower Invitation)
6. We are excited to say, a baby girl is on the way! (Pink & Brown Polka Dot Ultrasound Photo Shower Invitation)
7. A Little Ladybug will soon be here for you to meet! Join us for a Baby Shower for mommy-to-be _____! (Red & Green Ladybug Baby Shower Invitation)
8. It’s a ___! Let’s Go Bananas! Join us to monkey around with… (Cute Monkey Baby Shower Invitation)
9. There’s a new dinosaur coming to play… Come shower him with prehistoric gifts at… (Cute & Colorful Dinosaur Baby Shower Invitation) Read more

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 to start and finish every event. Prizes can be plastic trophy cups filled with hershey’s kisses and gold-foil wrapped chocolate medals for all the racers!

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.

Starfish Cake

Worms in a Blanket

Turtle Shell Treats

Shark Punch

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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!