Orca Birthday Ideas

That is awesome! Love it! Well, I'm not really sure, I do love a good theme party but this is tough! I think you'll have to go with your black and white/underwater theme. It's cute. You can serve hot dogs that are like octopus...cut the bottom of the hot dog in vertical strips about half way up into 8 little tentacles, then spread it out, poke some eye holes in with a toothpick and stick it in the oven for a few minutes to get warm. Make some submarine sandwiches, you can even put olives on the outside with a toothpick or a dab of cream cheese to look like windows. They also make whale crackers, they are a knock-off of Goldfish and I think I've seen them at Wal Mart.

When I googled "orca toys" a bunch of stuff in all price ranges came up so you can check out some of that for party favors or game inspiration. I suppose you could also watch the movie Free Willy! I'm thinking you could make up a ton of games that sort of go along with the tricks that whales do at places like Sea World and stuff...maybe give each kid a balloon and see how can keep it off the ground the longest with only using their head and noses. You could also maybe set up some sort of obstacle course using hula hoops so they have to jump through hoops??

You can do a lot with it, you just have to really think about it! Good luck and have fun!

you could modify standard party games to fit the theme - pin the fin on the orca instead of pin the tail on the donkey, change "duck, duck, goose" to something like "fish, fish, orca!", maybe make a bean bag toss where the object is to toss the bean bag "fish" into the open mouth of a cardboard orca target, play "hot potato/pass the parcel" where the 'potato' is a small plush orca, etc.

On a large sheet of paper or cardboard, draw a huge Orca whale. Then on a smaller sheet of paper/cardboard draw and cut out a spray/spout of water. Then you can play pin the spout on the whale!!! Also there is a cute new Free Willy movie with Bindi Irwin in it - we just rented it. If you're kinda crafty, you could make your own pinata shaped and painted like an Orca.

Cute and original idea!
Check out some local pool stores, too, for inflatable toys that are probably on their end of season sale lines.
For her invitation, 'Have a Whale of Time' at my birthday party!
The cake would probably be easy, too, especially if you can find a non-copyrighted photo of a whale that can be 'painted' on the cake. Or, get black and white frosting with plain cupcakes and have the kids design their own.
Try emailing Sea World in Florida, Texas and California and let them know that your daughter wants for her - maybe they will send you a cute b-day card from their friendly animal staff.
OrientalTrading.com might have ideas as well.

That sounds so fun! We would have a blast with that theme.

Here's what my sons and I do for their birthdays. About a week ahead, we start having craft time to make decorations for the party. I try to think of things they can do, like my son had a planet party, and I let him trace plates on construction paper, then cut them out draw on them to make them look like planets. I also cut out stars and a did a few planets myself so we could tell what the rest of the circles were ;) I let the birthday boy tape them all around the eating area where we'd be having cake.

Here's what I would do, mostly with construction paper. If you cut swirls out of blue paper (especially a few different shades), then tape one end to your ceiling, they hang down and would make it feel sort of watery. I'd also cut out some sea stars and tape them to the ceiling or walls, some tall sea weed to the walls near the baseboards, etc. This is mostly ocean or underwater so far. I would also go to the dollar store and get a big sheet of foam board, then draw or print out some fairly large Orcas (18") and glue them onto it. Cut them out and hang them from the ceiling with string, so they're "swimming" through the blue dangling swirls. I have a hot knife that makes cutting out the foam super easy, but I guess you could do the same thing with posterboard, too, and it would only require scissors. Make sure you flip your image and glue it on the other side so they'll be double-sided.

I would also get a blue table cloth. We decorated a $1 plastic table cloth with star stickers for my son's space party. You could just tape on some seaweed or sea star shapes, but those tend to get caught and rip off. I think the dollar store has some seashell wall stickers that you could stick on, too.

If you want balloons, paper plates, napkins, etc, I'd go with blue, especially if they have light and medium blue, those would look great together.

I don't know what you usually do for a cake, but I'm sure you can hand a bakery a print out of the same Orca you used for decorations, or they may be able to draw one themselves. If you make your own, I suggest buying black frosting. It's terribly difficult to make black yourself. Or you could make a blue round cake with seaweed/shells around the sides and get a small plastic Orca toy to set on top. If it could be leaping out of the water, even better! Ooh, that's what I would do. And I'd use crumbled vanilla sandwich cookies for "sand" all around the bottom edge of the cake.

For invitations, if you know how to use a graphics program on the computer, you can design them yourself and print them as 4x6 photos. I'm sure you can find Orca stickers somewhere, too, and use them to decorate index cards or plain cards for invitations.

This is such a super fun idea! I think my boys would love it! I just might suggest it to my 6 year old for his next party!

Black and white would be great for
Decor. You should check out discovery channel for info this season's shark week they had a whole show on orca's and there might be some info on Sea World's website too. At least some fun party favors. Hope this helps tough theme! But creative games are always a good thing.

Do you have a Party city or Party anything type store in your town or area? I would try them, Big Lots, Dollar General, Family Dollar......any time I need something a little off the wall, they are great!!! I'm sure your zoo gift shop would have a bunch, but that would cost............on the internet, http://www.partywedding.com/Page.aspx?nid=78&productI...

You should also try to go to oriental trading company.....they have all kinds of things........

I'm sure you will find more.....take care and good luck.