A child's birthday is a reason to organize happy holiday. The task of adults is to create an inspiring atmosphere, think through the scenario of the event and choose a good children's menu. The mood of the guests and overall success largely depends on what the birthday table will be like. A lot of resources can be saved if you carefully plan, prepare and decorate your dishes yourself. In this post we talk about what a table can be like at a children's birthday party in order to celebrate it in an original way.
Ideas for organizing a children's birthday party
To celebrate a birthday in a fabulous setting, you need to choose the right general theme for the event so that the program is exciting and interesting for children. Here are the latest solutions:
- birthday in pirate style;
- Spider-Man;
- PAW Patrol;
- party in style Hello Kitty;
- birthday in Teremka;
- a school birthday for a first-grader to say goodbye to childhood;
- event in the style of the fairy tale about Pinocchio;
- birthday with Carlson;
- children's Halloween;
- adventures of the inhabitants of the Emerald City;
- Alice in Wonderland;
- based on the cartoon Cars;
- holiday in the country of Smeshariki;
- birthday with Dasha the traveler;
- Rapunzel's or Princess Sofia's birthday;
- party for little models with a fashion show;
- an event with the change of seasons;
- travel by time machine;
- cosmic birthday;
- Luntik;
- Cinderella;
- Harry Potter;
- children's quest (based on your favorite computer games);
- party with Winx;
- birthday in safari or cowboy style.
To understand how to organize a children's birthday at home, you need to start from the preferences, lifestyle and hobbies of the hero of the occasion. For example, a holiday in ballet, boxing, art, wushu themes with appropriate paraphernalia and prizes. This approach will allow you to spend an unusual birthday according to an individual plan.
Hello Kitty style design
To further decorate the room with goodies, it is worth adding a Candy bar - this is a candy or sweet table that can be decorated in accordance with the general theme of the event.
It is worth thinking in advance about who and how will say congratulations and present gifts to the birthday boy and guests. It is necessary to learn and perfectly rehearse songs and dances, collect suitable music, and prepare everything necessary for holding competitions.
It’s better if photos and videos are taken by a professional, this way it will be possible to capture all the participants in at its best and save the best unique moments in your memory. You can set up a photo zone yourself or with the help of a photographer.
To fill children's party with a special flavor, and save yourself from the need to invent entertainment, invite animators. These are artistic specialists in children's shows who bring a fairy-tale world, magic and a lot of positivity to any event. Today you can order animators via the Internet or by phone; guests will definitely like this idea, and the hero of the day will feel in the center of attention.
To give special significance to the upcoming birthday and hint to guests to also prepare well, you need to thoroughly think through the text of the invitation and send out beautiful invitation cards to everyone in advance.
Gifts for guests can include photo frames, postcards, sweets, toys, key rings, various stationery and children's items.
Among other entertainment activities, add a win-win option - a game of forfeits, and it is better to select tasks in it in accordance with the general theme of the holiday.
To amuse and teach children simple skills, you can organize master classes in creativity, cooking, dancing or other interesting areas.
First you need to decide on a theme and decorate the room according to it, create inflatable and paper decorations and backgrounds, purchase small prizes and large gifts. Also, costumes for presenters and guests are selected according to the theme, makeup is applied to participants, musical accompaniment is selected, and refreshments are decorated.
Children's birthday table
Holiday menu components
The best option is to make a buffet or buffet table. That is, participants eat at will, take treats independently from common containers, and can stand or sit while eating. In this case, serving is extremely simple and will not cause problems. If you manage to decorate children's dishes beautifully, then they will be pleasant to eat and your guests will have unforgettable experience. What can be included in your holiday meal:
- first courses (freshly prepared, light puree soups, cream soups, served on a separate dining table with seating);
- children's sandwiches (can also be tartlets, canapés);
- fish and meat (good for salads and sandwiches, prepared in small portions so as not to overload the child’s body);
- vegetable dishes (curly cuts from raw and boiled vegetables can be successful; they are created using special molds and beautifully laid out on large plates, from which compositions are constructed - animals, vehicles, cartoon characters);
- children's delicious salads (nutritious dishes prepared from fruits with yogurt or various light ingredients);
- delicious pastries and sweets (cakes with holiday decorations or inscriptions, ice cream, all kinds of sweets and confectionery);
- children's drinks (non-carbonated soft drinks).
Decide for yourself what to set on the table will be best in your case. At your discretion, you can add or remove dishes, prepare different variations of them, the most important thing is that there should not be dishes from a large number of ingredients.
What should be the food for a child's birthday party?
Many experts classify sausages and sausages as harmful products, so this food is not for children.
IN children's menu There should not be a lot of garlic, mayonnaise and pepper. Dishes should be simple and familiar, do not mix a large number of ingredients. Exotic, untested products are not suitable.
The holiday menu should not contain potentially allergenic products. You should not experiment with adult desserts that are not suitable for baby food. Do not serve fish with seeds, berries with seeds, or fruits with rough skin.
It is advisable to exclude fatty foods, too salty and spicy dishes, and smoked foods.
Recipes for children's birthdays
If you don’t know what to cook for your children for the holiday, then use simple recipes with photos from our article.
Sun Cream Soup Recipe
Components:
- first fresh chicken fillet - 50 grams;
- water - 500 milliliters;
- sweet pepper and potatoes - 1 piece each;
- pumpkin pulp - 150 grams;
- cream or sour cream - 50 milliliters;
- onion - half an onion;
- salt and parsley.
Boil broth from meat, peel and cut pumpkin and potatoes. Remove the center of the pepper and chop coarsely. Peel the onion, cut in half. Remove the fillet from the prepared broth, add onion, pieces of pepper, pumpkin and potatoes into it. Cook all this for another half hour. Chop the parsley. Remove the peppers and onions from the soup, add the fillet and herbs again, and process the whole mass using a blender. The finished dish takes on an orange color. In each plate, use cream or sour cream to draw any image, for example, a smiley face, the sun. Serve cream soup with toast.
Delicate fruit salad
Components:
- banana, pear and apple - one fruit each;
- fruit sweet yogurt or yogurt product - 150 grams;
- green grapes must be seedless - 1 cup;
- chocolate.
Fruit salads fit harmoniously into the sweet table and contain vitamins. Peel the pear, apple and banana, make medium cubes. Cut each grape into two halves and make chocolate chips using a grater. Place all the ingredients in a dish, pour in the yogurt, sprinkle chocolate on top of all the ingredients.
Orange tartlets
Components:
- base for tartlets - dough cups purchased in the store or baked yourself;
- milk;
- oranges;
- semolina and sugar.
Remove the peel from the oranges and grind their pulp in any way - this can be done with a sieve or blender. Heat the orange mass, add an arbitrary amount of semolina and granulated sugar, cook for about 5 minutes, cool. Heat milk until boiling. Put a little salt and sugar in it, then add semolina and continue cooking until you get a thick porridge. Pour the porridge into molds and cool. Make arbitrary pieces of semolina porridge, layer them with orange cream mixture, this pudding will serve as a filler for each tartlet. Decorate homemade cupcakes with slices of fruit and berries.
Children's rainbow cake
Dough components for 15 servings of cake:
- flour, yogurt, milk and sugar - 200 milliliters each;
- eggs - 2 pieces;
- baking powder - 3 small spoons;
- vegetable oil - one and a half tablespoons;
- vanilla - 2.5 teaspoons;
- butter - 75 grams.
Cream components:
- vanilla - 2 small spoons;
- powdered sugar - 350 grams;
- butter - 110 grams;
- milk - 4 large spoons.
A cake in the shape of a bright rainbow will definitely decorate a children's table. The cooking process takes about 2 hours. First, beat the vegetable oil, butter and sugar until fluffy. Then add the eggs and shake vigorously again. Next, add baking powder and flour, pour milk, add yogurt and vanilla. Beat the dough again and make 6-7 equal portions. Each cake needs to be given a color, for example, the colors of the rainbow. To get orange and red, we use carrot and beet juices. Other tones can be achieved using special culinary paints.
We bake the cakes for about 10 minutes in the oven at 180 degrees. To make the cream, mix all the above ingredients. If you stack multi-colored cakes one on top of the other, smearing the gaps with cream, you will get a cake in the colors of the rainbow.
If you wish, you can make a delicious cake with mastic; there are many video recipes on the Internet on how to create masterpieces. If you don’t have time for the process of preparing delicacies, then it is better to buy an original personalized cake and other confectionery products with festive decor. It may take time to bake and decorate the sweets and you will have to order the product in advance; this should be taken care of.
Sandwiches for children's birthday
An excellent snack option is small sandwiches. They should be spectacular and very tasty. What you need to create quality sandwiches:
- whole grain bread (bread with whole grains, bran, wholemeal);
- cooked meat;
- greenery;
- oil;
- fruits;
- cheese mass;
- curd;
- vegetables.
Sandwiches should be designed in such a way that it is convenient for guests to take them and eat them quickly. It is necessary to prevent the fillings from falling out and leaking out. For example, use curd mass to glue vegetables to bread. Hard cheese is replaced with Zdorovye or Mozzarella cheese.
Holiday sandwiches should be small. A round or curly shape is welcome. Adorable hearts. At the holiday, sweet sandwiches, in the form of mini-pizzas, fish, meat, with vegetables and herbs, are in demand - the main thing is that the contents are suitable for children.
All components of sandwiches are thoroughly washed, seeds and skin are removed. For the best appearance We cut the food right before serving. To make the oil easier to apply to the surface, it must be ground. Instead of harmful sausages, it is advisable to choose turkey fillet, pieces of beef, and chicken breast.
Canapes for a children's holiday table
It doesn't matter who the hero of the occasion is - a boy or a girl. To develop a child’s aesthetic taste, it is worth involving him in preparing sandwiches or canapés. The weight of one serving is only 60-80 grams.
Each mini-sandwich, held together with a stick, should be easy to eat whole without getting your hands dirty.
Suitable ingredients for cooking include ham, beef, duck, boiled pork, and chicken. The composition will be complemented by salad and other greens, pieces of vegetables, and olives. If you try, then guests in the form of beautiful canapés will be able to consume a lot of healthy foods that they do not eat, for example, peppers, carrots, onions.
No less interesting fruit canapés. The best ingredients are bananas, peaches, kiwi, apples, pears, seedless grapes and nectarines. The fruit will not darken if the canapes are made right before consumption and sprinkled with lemon juice. Wash the fruits, from which the seeds and peel have been removed, dry them a little on a towel, cut them in different forms. You can make not only cubes or mugs, but also use molds in the form of silhouettes of animals and plants.
To make healthy mushrooms, take half a cherry tomato and combine it with a quail egg, from which the top part has been cut off. It turns out to be a charming mushroom, on which all that remains is to apply sour cream dots with a toothpick. It is also worth adding greens.
Before setting the table at home, you need to plan everything; for this you will have to ask about the tastes of the guests and take into account their age. The menu for a year will be significantly different from the menu for 3-4 years. For little ones, it is advisable to select the appropriate, most delicate foods, but for older children, the diet is much wider and more varied. Children aged 5, 6, 7 are able to make sandwiches and canapés on their own; they like to cook and decorate food - this activity can serve as one of holiday entertainment. Meals for guests aged 9-10 years are as close as possible to an adult table, but still, at the holiday you cannot offer them alcohol, soda, sausages, spicy and allergenic dishes.
Perhaps one of the most important and long-awaited holidays for parents is the child’s birthday. You always want this moment to be solemn, fun and memorable. More and more often, adults have recently organized a separate table decoration for a children's birthday. This allows parents to prepare special meals for children and adult guests. From this article you will learn ideas for decorating a children's room.
Where to begin
Children's birthday table decorations should start with the list of guests. List on paper the names of all those invited. If your child is not yet ten years old, then it would be advisable to invite his parents to visit. In this case, do not forget to prepare a separate menu for adults.
Make a list and think about what the interior should be like. It will depend on this. If your child loves any cartoon characters, then you can decorate the room with balloons and posters with their image. When the overall interior is thought out to the smallest detail, it will be much easier for you to come up with beautiful design children's table. It should not only be bright, but also interesting.
How to choose dishes
Where to start when decorating a children's birthday table? Of course, with cutlery. Everything here will depend on your desires and capabilities. If you don’t want to end up with a mountain of unwashed dishes after the celebration, you can purchase plastic and paper cutlery. Kids will really like these plates and glasses, because they depict their favorite characters.
Also, such a children's birthday table decoration will allow you to avoid broken dishes. After all, children can often hit a plate or knock over a glass while playing.
Hot dishes
Children's birthday table decoration, which involves serving, should be as follows. Do not place all prepared foods in one bowl. After all, this is exactly what most adults do. Children may be embarrassed to serve themselves something hot and will remain hungry. Also, some kids won’t want to eat at all while waiting for dessert. This is why it is worth making an individual submission.
Place a little hot product in each plate and serve to each child separately. It is better to choose children's cutlery for such food. If you need to use knives for meat or other dishes, you should first cut the food yourself. This must be done for the safety of the children.
Table decoration: snacks
A child's birthday party should consist of more than just serving hot food. There will definitely be appetizers and salads on the table. You can make sandwiches in the shape of interesting animals. So, take a slice of round loaf and grease it with butter. Place a piece of red fish on top and cover everything with half a tomato. Make dots on top using chopped olives. As a result, you will get something resembling a ladybug. Even children who do not have a special appetite will be happy to eat such sandwiches.
You can also make canapés. For this you will need so-called skewers. Cut the bread into small cubes. Process cucumbers, tomatoes, olives or any vegetables in the same way. Place the cubes on skewers one by one and place them on a common plate.
If you plan to serve salads, you can also decorate them beautifully. Use small tomatoes, herbs and whatever comes to your mind for this. If desired, you can place the salad itself on a dish in a certain form. It could be a dog, a turtle, or a number that indicates the age of your baby.
Beverages
Decorating a sweet table for a children's birthday involves the presence of drinks. Make sure they are not too cold. Otherwise, kids can easily catch a cold. As a drink, you can serve juice, lemonade, tea or whatever the kids like.
The liquid should be placed in a separate decanter, but it is better not to leave it on the table of small children. If your children have already reached the age of ten years, then they will be able to independently serve themselves and add a drink to the glass if necessary. Lemonade and juice can be decorated with fresh fruit. To do this, place the treats in the carafe.
Sweets
For dessert, you can use whatever kids love. These can be cakes, cupcakes, candies of various types and colors. All this can be made publicly available and children will independently choose what they want to consume.
The cake is best served at the very last moment. Otherwise, kids simply won’t want to eat hot meals and snacks. Currently, there are a lot of craftsmen who will make a cake according to your wishes. If you want to prepare your own dessert, then purchase mastic and a variety of pastes for decoration. In large supermarkets you can purchase ready-made figurines of cartoon characters, which you just need to place on the prepared pie.
Fruits and nuts
There must be fruit. At the same time, they need to be cut and beautifully arranged. If you have a kitchen machine, it will not be difficult to select an attachment and shape apples, pears and bananas. When preparing a dish yourself, you can use original ideas.
Make a hedgehog out of pineapple. To do this, peel the fruit and cut off half. Divide it into small pieces and place on a plate. Insert toothpicks on top, onto which you need to plant grapes. A hedgehog's face can be made from bananas, kiwis and any other fruits. You should not decorate the table with several different figures. Otherwise it will turn out bulky. If you have made a hedgehog, then the rest of the fruits can be placed around it in sliced form.
You can often find nuts on children's tables. Serve them only if you are sure that the children do not have allergies. Otherwise, you will have to be responsible for the health of the kids. You can simply pour nuts into a beautiful bowl as an assortment. Children can enjoy the product themselves if they wish.
DIY children's birthday table decoration: features
You need to decorate the table in such a way that the children are as comfortable and comfortable as possible. You already know about serving individual portions. However, all other dishes and treats must be within easy reach.
If the kids want to take something from the table and cannot, it will not be very good. Don't make a two-meter table. If there are a lot of invitees, then it would be better to organize several small areas for food.
In the very center, place a stand on which to place fruits, nuts and sweets. Drinks and snacks should be nearby. Place canapes, salads and sandwiches a little closer to the little guests. Immediately after these dishes there should be individual plates and cutlery. Don't forget the napkins. There should be enough of them. Place large paper towels for little ones to place on their laps. Also place individual napkins near each plate. They can be depicting the same favorite cartoon characters.
Summing up the article
You now know how to decorate a table for children's day birth. Don't forget about costume design. Currently, every major store has a department with a variety of decorative elements. Visit it and choose something special for your celebration. Happy holiday and good luck with your cooking!
Your baby is growing, and the next celebration of his birth is coming. Are you going to organize children's birthday table child? I would like to please both the birthday boy and his guests - but there is so much trouble ahead! We will help you with ideas for decorating a children's feast and selecting a menu.
Table decoration: bright ideas
To make the children's party a success, you will have to work hard: the children must be entertained and fed with various delicacies. What exactly - more on that a little later. In the meantime, we have an important task ahead of us - decorating the children's table.
If you are organizing a themed children's birthday party, then the table decoration should match: plates, cups, napkins and other attributes for young princesses or Winx fairies will clearly differ from the table accessories of pirates, fixies or Smeshariki.
We don't need elegant adult tablecloths - kids will obviously ruin them. Bright options made of oilcloth, even paper, are perfect - you can decorate them with applique or invite children to draw something as a gift for the hero of the occasion.
It is better to prefer plastic dishes; they come in a wide variety of colors.
Elegant paper napkins Children use them for their intended purpose, and at the same time they are an excellent table decoration.
Candles and vases with fresh flowers are certainly beautiful, but we’ll leave them for adults, and decorate the children’s birthday table with bouquets of lollipops and candies, such as M&M’s, scattered between the plates.
It is better to serve children's dishes not in large plates and salad bowls, but to place many small dishes with treats on the table to make it easier for the children to get them.
Favorite sweets, such as jelly, can be served in creatively decorated baby food jars.
The main thing is to decorate the children's table so that it is not only elegant and beautiful, but also comfortable. Let every child be able to easily get that cheese basket or that funny hedgehog (an animal-shaped cutlet).
Children's holiday menu
When thinking about what you will serve at the children's birthday table, you can choose different variants: appetizers, salads and dessert, only a sweet table or all of the above plus main hot dishes.
Children will not eat a lot; the entertainment part of the program is more important to them. But a caring housewife, of course, wants to feed her little guests deliciously.
Note that it is better to prefer familiar dishes for children; something new may scare the child away. But cutlets, chicken, mashed potatoes, sandwiches - the kids will be more willing to eat these.
If hot dishes are not planned, then let there be more options for snacks on the table - pies, salads in tartlets, pancakes with different fillings, sandwiches.
Fun snacks
When choosing the products from which you will make dishes for the children's holiday table, remember the age of the guests - kids do not need canapés made from smoked sausages. It’s generally better to offer them tartlets (safer).
If the age of young guests allows you to use skewers in serving dishes, you can hold a competition: let the children themselves make canapés from the proposed products, which you will cut into cubes or circles in advance.
Children will be interested in stringing pieces of olives, cheese, sausage, cherry tomatoes, and quail eggs.
What would a children's birthday table be without sandwiches! There are no limits to imagination here - funny animal faces, ladybugs, fish, stars - treats decorated in this way will be eaten much more willingly.
For example, ladybug you can make it using half a cherry tomato and a piece of black olive, and it will sit on a slice of red fish covering a cheese bed.
Children's salads
We will make children's salads from delicious products - cheese, eggs, chicken, crab sticks. They must be designed in an original way. Interesting decoration of dishes can be very different - all sorts of flowers, butterflies, fish and funny faces. Or bees:
A children's birthday table will also be decorated with cheese baskets with a delicious salad inside. To make the baskets, you need to melt the cheese in a Teflon frying pan, let it harden slightly and place it on the bottom of an inverted glass. When the basket has cooled completely, remove it and fill it with salad.
How do you like the idea of cute mice: you will need crab sticks, hard grated cheese, garlic and mayonnaise. We mix the ingredients and sculpt rodents from this mass, make ears from carrots, and decorate the composition with greens.
Continuing the mouse theme, we suggest making animals from boiled eggs with cheese ears, and they will live in any salad, for example, the traditional Mimosa.
Main dishes for a children's holiday table
You shouldn't get carried away with hot dishes. Let it be one thing, but brightly and unusually decorated.
From any minced meat - meat, chicken, fish - we make hedgehog-shaped cutlets. Spaghetti will serve as needles. We bake the animals in the oven - the kids will definitely like them.
Chicken skewers are a popular option for the main children's birthday dish. Almost a win-win - tasty and healthy.
What about the side dish? Let it be colored pasta or multi-colored mashed potatoes.
By the way, even if the child does not eat vegetables, you can mix them a little into the puree by grinding them in a blender. How to color the side dish - juice of spinach, carrots, beets.
Desserts for children
This is something that no child will refuse - sweet desserts: marmalade, jelly, marshmallows, pastries, cake, muffins, donuts.
If the main sweet dish for a birthday is cake, then make more fruit desserts so as not to overload children with high-calorie sweets.
These can be fruit slices, canapés, jelly with berries, yoghurts with pieces of strawberries, bananas, kiwi, peaches.
Fruit salads and canapés are well served using large fruits - melons and watermelons - instead of plates.
Juices in packages should not be placed on the children's table. Cheerful colorful jugs are much better suited for this. It’s good to decorate cups and glasses with sprinkles, or sugar frost. Don't forget about decorative umbrellas either.
It is better not to offer grapes and berries with seeds to small guests, so that no one accidentally chokes. They also don’t need fruits that have a thick skin - babies should eat all children’s dishes without any difficulty.
Decorating a children's birthday table and preparing delicious dishes will, of course, require time, effort, and imagination from you. But you really want to give your child a bright and cheerful holiday!
Delicious recipes for a children's holiday table - in this video:
A child's birthday, like any other event, has its own characteristics of table setting and organization of the holiday in general. Also, the design of the celebration is influenced by fashion trends reflected in the decor and rules of its implementation.
But all parents have the opportunity to arrange an unforgettable and bright holiday, which will not only be saved in shared memory, but will also fit into the budget.
To arrange a magical birthday for your child, first of all, you need:
- Choose a general theme for the holiday. It could be your favorite cartoon, which will immediately determine the color scheme, holiday attributes, and even the child’s outfit. Today, “Frozen”, “Minions”, “Smeshariki” are especially popular, and classic Disney princesses or comics also remain relevant. The theme of the holiday can be a hobby or the child’s desire for some kind of work;
- Choose a room in which a children's table will be organized. This can be the children's room itself, the living room and the kitchen, if its size allows.
- Create a menu with suitable recipes. The table must have an assortment of sweets and all sorts of healthy goodies that will not be difficult for children - mini-formats, tartlets, skewers, canapés are desirable;
- Prepare small gifts for little guests. These can be toys in the general theme of the holiday, sweet gifts, etc. It’s not bad if children can use them immediately during the celebration, and then take them with them - magic wands, pipes, headbands or decorations, etc. You can put them on plates.
The main thing is to start preparing for a children's party as early as possible, so that you have time to check the selected recipes, use or make your own decor, and find everything you need. At the same time, you need to remember that the children's table is not the place for spicy, fatty, overly salted and smoked dishes, plus it is important to find out in advance from the parents of the little guests whether they are allergic to any foods and exclude them from the menu.
There is no need to come up with overly sophisticated dishes, because children may refuse them - they only eat familiar, traditional food with pleasure. And under no circumstances should you try to force one of the children to eat, because such behavior from adults can lead to hysterics, which will ruin the entire holiday.
Table decoration for a children's birthday
Decorating a children's table for holiday gatherings has its own requirements:
- Maintaining the overall color scheme. Regardless of whether a specific theme is chosen for the holiday (cartoons, professions, hobbies, etc.) or a neutral design in the form of stars, hearts, polka dots, etc. is chosen, it is important that the entire table setting matches 2-3 primary colors or shades of choice;
- Decorating the space around and above the table. These can be “Happy Birthday!” garlands, paper decorations, paper or fabric backgrounds, figurines, flowers, etc.;
- Selecting the right cookware. You will definitely need plates, cutlery, glasses, shelves for sweets and fruits, a cake stand, vases for sweets, and trays and more dishes may also come in handy. But for reasons of convenience and safety, it is better to choose paper or plastic dishes, which can be made in color scheme holiday. No - universal white will do;
- Making a festive tablecloth. It should also fit into the color scheme, so you should not purchase a tablecloth separately for one holiday. It can even be a disposable oilcloth, if it suits the theme, but even the simplest white tablecloth can be easily decorated with frills or a garland (using a stapler), or painted with watercolors, adding inscriptions and drawings;
- Making decorations for the festive table. We are talking about themed napkins, vases, placemats, decorations for straws, cutlery, cakes and desserts, candlesticks, etc. – all this can be made from scrap materials;
- Decoration of chairs. Chairs are an important attribute of the festive table, for which they need to be draped, tied with bows, decorated with balls, or name plates and other attributes corresponding to the theme should be hung on them.
Children's birthday party table: menu planning and recipes
A child's birthday is a celebration of the belly (including for parents), its menu must be composed of simple but very tasty dishes.
Nuggets, French fries, baked potatoes with stuffing, macaroni and cheese, salad tartlets, etc. have the greatest chance of being eaten, and not complex meat or vegetable dishes.
A children's table can even consist entirely of snacks - small sandwiches, mini-burgers, pies, spring rolls, etc. As an option - a sweet table of donuts, muffins, cookies, cakes, macaroons, lollipops, marshmallows, marmalade, sweets and , of course, a cake with candles.
You can supplement sweets with fruits, berries, nuts and yoghurts (including frozen ones). Naturally, you also need juices or soda.
Healthy nuggets
Required ingredients:
- 0.5 kg chicken fillet;
- 0.25 liters of heavy cream (above 20%);
- 70 gr. breadcrumbs and sesame seeds;
- salt and pepper to taste;
- vegetable oil for frying.
Cooking time: 30 minutes plus 4 hours for marinating.
Calorie content: about 70 Kcal/100 g.
First you need to marinate the chicken fillet, cut into small pieces, in cream with salt and pepper for 4 hours in the refrigerator. Then roll each piece of meat in breadcrumbs with sesame seeds and fry in vegetable oil at both sides. You can serve with any sauce - cheese, sweet and sour, homemade mayonnaise, vegetable gravy, etc.
American macaroni and cheese
Required ingredients:
- 300 gr. pasta cones;
- 100 gr. smoked bacon;
- 100 gr. hard cheese (cheddar is best);
- 100 gr. mozzarella (in extreme cases, you can replace it with suluguni);
- 200 gr. frozen green peas;
- 400 ml cream 20%;
- 50 gr. butter;
- 2 tbsp. spoons of wheat flour;
- a pinch of grated nutmeg;
- salt to taste.
Cooking time: 50 minutes.
Calorie content: about 330 Kcal/100 g.
You need to start by boiling the pasta and simultaneously preparing the sauce, which requires melting the butter, pouring flour into it, quickly mixing until smooth and pouring cream. Boil until thickened, season with nutmeg and salt.
Cut the bacon into small pieces and fry in a dry frying pan (it will render a lot of fat), grate the cheese. Mix together cooked pasta, bacon, peas, cheese and place the mixture in a baking dish. Cook in the oven at 200 degrees until crusty.
Children's birthday buffet table: menu planning and recipes
If it is clear that the birthday boy and his guests are active children, and it will be difficult for them to sit still at a festively set table, it is appropriate to opt for a buffet table option, in which many portioned snacks such as canapés will be placed on a separate table. Usually, such table setting delights the children, and they eat everything with appetite.
Canapes with sausage and tomatoes
Required ingredients:
- 1 baguette (preferably grain);
- 200 gr. boiled sausage;
- a bunch of cherry tomatoes;
- 150 gr. processed spreadable cheese;
- lettuce leaves.
Cooking time: 20 minutes.
Calorie content: about 210 Kcal/100 g.
For squeezing out small circles, a thick-walled glass, a baking mold, or even half a Kinder Surprise container is suitable. And they need to be squeezed out from baguette and sausage cut into thin slices, although the sausage can be cut into very thin pieces and simply folded in four.
Each piece of bread should be greased with melted cheese, covered with a small piece of lettuce and put on a skewer. On the same skewer put another piece of sausage and a cherry tomato (you can use half). Ready!
Meat balls
Required ingredients:
- 0.5 kg mixed minced meat;
- 1 pack of puff pastry;
- salt to taste;
- vegetable oil for lubrication.
Cooking time: 40 minutes.
Calorie content: about 250 Kcal/100 g.
You need to salt the minced meat and roll it into small meatballs, and defrost the puff pastry and cut it into thin strips according to the number of resulting meatballs - you need to wrap them around them. Place the resulting balls on a greased baking sheet and bake in the oven for about 20 minutes at 200 degrees until crusty.
This is the simplest and most versatile recipe - you can put any salad your child likes into tartlets, including traditional Olivier salad and crab salad. The tartlets themselves can be bought at any store, or made from puff pastry or shortcrust pastry in muffin tins. As a result, the children's buffet table will be greatly supported.
Sweet table for a children's birthday: menu planning and recipes
It's no secret that desserts are the most anticipated dish for both little birthday boys and guests, and (even if secretly) for their parents. A sweet table can support the main meal or be an independent holiday menu, but the scope for serving it is truly limitless. And you can't go wrong with him.
Curd and pineapple dessert
Required ingredients:
- 0.4 kg cottage cheese;
- 0.2 kg sour cream;
- 1 can of canned pineapple;
- 0.5 l pineapple juice;
- 0.5 cans of condensed milk;
- 25 gr. gelatin;
- a packet of vanillin.
Cooking time: 15 minutes plus time for hardening and soaking.
Calorie content: about 150 Kcal/100 g.
Initially, you need to soak the gelatin in pineapple juice for an hour, and then dissolve it over low heat, without bringing the liquid to a boil. Next, the preparation is simple - all ingredients, except pineapples, need to be whipped with a blender and combined with pineapple pieces and the cooled gelatin mixture. Pour the mixture into a mold or molds and let it harden.
Buckwheat sweets “A la truffles”
Required ingredients:
- 200 gr. buckwheat flour (you can make it yourself in a coffee grinder);
- 200 ml natural yogurt;
- 2 tbsp. spoons of cocoa powder;
- 1 tbsp. spoon of sugar;
- 5 tbsp. spoons of prune puree;
- 5 pieces. whole prunes;
- 5 tbsp. spoons of liquid honey;
- 0.5 teaspoons of soda;
- 1 tbsp. spoon of vegetable oil;
- sesame seeds for sprinkling.
Cooking time: half an hour.
Calorie content: about 300 Kcal/100 g.
First you need to mix all the dry ingredients, and then mix them with prune puree and yogurt, as well as sunflower oil. Finely chop the prunes.
Make small cakes from the finished dough, put some pieces of prunes in them, close and form into balls, which need to be placed on a baking sheet and baked at 180 degrees for 10 minutes. When cool, they will need to be dipped in honey and sprinkled with sesame seeds.
Required ingredients:
- 0.5 kg of “Anniversary” cookies;
- 200 gr. butter;
- 2 tbsp. spoons of cocoa powder;
- 1 glass of milk;
- 100 gr. Sahara.
Cooking time: 20 minutes plus 6 hours for hardening.
Calorie content: about 420 Kcal/100 g.
The cookies need to be divided into two parts and crushed one in a blender, and the second broken into pieces by hand. Melt the butter with milk, add cocoa powder and sugar, then bring the mixture to a boil.
Pour in the ground cookies, remove from the heat and knead the resulting mass well, eventually adding the remaining pieces of cookies to it, and place on cling film or parchment paper, forming it in the shape of a sausage. All that remains is to put the dessert in the refrigerator for several hours and cut into slices before serving.
How to decorate a children's birthday table: ideas, photos
Some of the most relevant themes in children's party decor today are “Princesses” and “Frozen” for girls, “Pirates” and “Minions” for boys.
You can create a fabulous atmosphere of a Disney holiday for your little princess with the help of bright and lush decorations - grapes. balloons, pink bows and ribbons, streamers with inscriptions, draperies of chairs, tables and lampshades, paper garlands. In this case, it is advisable more flowers in design - both living and artificial, and even in pots, as well as cardboard models of castles and towers or posters with drawings of them.
The cartoon “Frozen” won the hearts of all girls, so a holiday in this style will certainly make them the happiest in the world. Here blue and white colors, as well as any imitations of snow and ice.
Snowdrifts made of padding polyester or other material, cardboard figures painted with glitter paint or covered with shiny adhesive paper, snowflakes made of New Year's decorations, cookies of the same shape, cupcakes with blue cream and sprinkled with silver confectionery sprinkles... And balls.
You can throw a pirate party for your little birthday boy using bandanas, vests and pirate hats, which are sold in many children's stores. You can also find toy daggers and treasure chests there. The treat includes bananas, chocolate coins, snacks with seafood and caviar (you can imitate it).
“Minions” are adored by all children, so decorating a children’s birthday party in this style is suitable not only for boys, but also for mixed celebrations. It is advisable to find minion hats or masks for all guests, but you can simply print their images from the Internet and hang them on the walls.
You can write wish cards in the distorted language of the minions and distribute them to children, learn a funny dance with them. Bananas are also a must in the treats, as well as all kinds of images of these creatures.
And some more ideas for dishes for a children's birthday in the next video.
Setting a children's table for a birthday or any other event has its own characteristics, rules and even trends. For example, in recent years, candy bars and themed table decorations have become fashionable. Let's figure out how to arrange a magical and bright holiday for your child at home with your own hands: what to treat little guests, how to decorate a festive table and/or candy bar, and also how to manage everything and fit into the budget.
10 tips for mom
So, to organize and decorate a children's holiday table, you need:
1. Choose a theme or style
Children have excellent imagination, which is why a themed children's party is doomed to success - your baby and his friends will be happy to plunge into Magic world, for example, your favorite cartoon. And it will be easier for you to come up with colors, decorations, a child’s outfit and holiday attributes.
- It is better to choose the theme of the holiday together with the hero of the occasion, and if you are sure of his preferences, then a themed birthday can be a wonderful surprise.
There are a lot of themes for children's parties, here are three groups of the most popular themes:
- Themes of cartoons, films and books. For example, it could be the classic “Alice in Wonderland” or “Cinderella”, or it could be the modern and very popular “Frozen”, “My Little Pony”, “Harry Potter”, “Smeshariki”, “Minions”, etc. For examples of this type of party design, see the following selection of photos (scroll through).
- Topics of interesting professions and areas of activity. These could be: scientists, ballerinas, pilots, astronauts, firefighters, farmers, detectives, etc. You can also focus on your child’s hobbies - does he like to draw, sing, dance, read, is interested in animals, history, geography, etc., All hobbies can be used to decorate a children's table.
- Topics from different historical eras and cultures of the peoples of the world. This could be the design of a children's table, stylized on the theme of Indians, Vikings, medieval knights, pirates, etc.
On the other hand, it is not very easy to comply with the chosen theme in everything and oblige guests to dress up in certain outfits, so you can simply choose some interesting motif (hearts, stars, stripes, etc.), style and color palette.
2. Maintain the color scheme
Regardless of whether you want to have a themed birthday party or just decorate the table beautifully, you need to maintain a certain color scheme of 2-3 colors - this very condition is almost the main secret of successful table setting. Ideally, all elements - from napkins to drinking straws - should match the selected shades.
3. Choose a suitable room and prepare furniture
- A children's party at home can be held in the children's room, living room or kitchen.
- If you want to set up a candy bar, then a chest of drawers, a coffee table, or a mobile serving table can serve as a table. You can place it in front of a window or in a corner if there is not enough space.
- If the size of the room allows, then you can divide the guests into two companies and set two tables - one for parents, the other for little friends.
4. Hang ceiling and wall decorations above the table
You need to decorate not only the table itself, but also the space around it. Almost all the decor can and should be done with your own hands:
- A garland with the words “Happy Birthday!” or the child's name;
- Paper decorations: colored pompoms, flowers, figures, stars, hearts, etc.;
- Background for a table or candy bar made of paper or fabric, etc.
5. Choose suitable dishes for sweets
You will need to prepare:
- Plates and cutlery;
- Shelves for sweets and fruits;
- Glasses. Instead, you can use jars and bottles of a suitable size, for example, baby food. They should, of course, be decorated and filled in advance;
- Cake tray (cake stand);
- For a dessert bar you will need dishes and trays for treats.
Tip: for reasons of safety, economy and beauty, use disposable tableware - paper or hard plastic. You need to try to find it in a certain color, but if you don’t find it, take universal white sets.
6. Make an elegant tablecloth
There are no requirements for a festive tablecloth for a children's table other than compliance with the chosen color scheme. Therefore, it is not necessary to buy high-quality finished goods and spend time on neat sewing.
- A tablecloth for a candy bar can have a slight overhang or be floor-length. This kind of banquet can be made literally in 1 evening from taffeta, organza, mesh or packaging film. To fix and drape the fabric, in addition to sewing, you can use a stapler, glue web or just tape as shown in the photo on the right.
- On the festive children's table you can lay a colored disposable tablecloth or oilcloth, which is now easy to find in regular stores;
- The most ordinary white tablecloth, which is in every home, can easily be creatively modified. You can just lay a fancy runner on it desired color, colored disposable tablecloth or. The following photo can give you some ideas.
7. Make or buy decor for serving and treats
Decorations for a children's holiday table play a very important role, and you can also make them yourself from scrap and natural materials.
- Vases;
- Under plates;
- Napkins (paper, not textile);
- Decorations for tubes, skewers, spoons, etc.;
- Decoration for cake and desserts;
- Various table decor, including themed ones;
- (can only be used for decoration; candles should be lit with caution).
Here are some ideas you can take note of.
8. Create a menu and find suitable recipes
A birthday for children is a celebration of the belly, when the table is covered with their favorite sweets and not-so-healthy goodies. Your task is not only to brightly decorate the dishes, but also to serve them in a form convenient for children: in mini-formats, in glasses, boxes, in the form of canapés, on skewers, on sticks and in tartlets. And most importantly, don’t overdo it – kids don’t need a lot of food while having fun.
Here is a list of dishes from which you can create a menu:
- Sweets (for the main table or candy bar): cupcakes, donuts, eclairs, pancakes, cookies, macaroni, gingerbreads, cake pops (glazed sponge balls on sticks), lollipops, marmalade, marshmallows, gingerbreads, beautiful sweets and, of course well, cake. Sweets can replace/supplement fruits, berries and nuts in the form of canapés, sliced or with yoghurt in a glass. The photo below shows an example of decorating cupcakes and fruits for a pirate party.
- Second, stuffed baked potatoes, French fries, chicken nuggets, and mac and cheese are more likely to be eaten.
- The children's table can be set only with snacks: spring rolls, pies, small sandwiches, mini sandwiches and burgers, crackers, salads in tartlets.
9. Decorate the chairs
Chairs can also “participate” in the creation of the holiday. To do this, they can be decorated, draped, tied with a bow, tied with a ball, hung with decorations, name plates or any thematic attributes.
10. Prepare memorable gifts or compliments for guests
If desired, in memory of the event, prepare mini-presents or compliments for guests and place them on snack plates as shown in the photo below. These could be carrots with sweets, toys or attributes that match the theme. For example, tiaras for princesses, magic wands for fairies, blindfolds for pirates, pipes, caps, etc., that is, something that children can immediately use and then take home.
And the last piece of advice is to start preparing for the holiday as early as possible, then you will have more time to make your own decor, search for and “rehearsal” recipes, etc. So, if you want to organize a party with a candy bar, then you should start preparing 6-2 months in advance, depending on the size of the table. Well, that's all, we wish you pleasant creative troubles, creative ideas and their successful implementation!