Ellie's Football Birthday Party!

I was pleased when my turning-5 year old chose a Football party theme. Her birthday falls shortly after Superbowl, so I wouldnt have to change the decorations, and since we host every year, we had a lot of decorations already.

Plus the food is easy! Concession food, like hot dogs and nachos:


 Gatoraid to drink:

these were going to go in the goodie bags, but ended up not fitting (we did have red, which was the favorite color)


using the big orange drink cooler was fitting for a football party, and easy! My in-laws got this small football shaped cooler at a garage sale awhile back, which worked well for water bottles.

For a "guest book" Ellie wrote a request, and I got this football shaped/textured paper from the scrapbook section of the craft warehouse.

Some of the decorations:


The goodie bags were brown paper sacks that Ellie turned into footballs with strips of paper and glue:

inside the goodie bags were some foam footballs, referree whistles, cracker jacks (Ellie's only experience with sport game food she requested) and football candies. The babies got goodie bags with football socks and squeeze apple sauce.



For activities, we had football shape-themed sugar cookies for the kids to decorate their own megaphones, jerseys, footballs and helmets.


We also had a beading activity (Ellies request) and sport themed beads.

The birthday girl's outfit:

Headband is from etsy, "jersey" is from Zazzle and the pants are part of a pajama set I got on sale at Kmart. He referree whistle was from the goodie bags. Purple hair courtesy of Ellie's aunt.



Cake by Pink Princess Cakes 


Ellie helped make football shaped chocolate cookies, which was a chocolate cookie mix dough spread out and cut with a cookie cutter, then baked and threads piped on in candy melts.




My headband from my sister's Etsy shop
More pictures of the decorations

For table runners I reused the astroturf "grass" i bought for Penny's Bug birthday as table runners and added football themed Easter eggs and small finger football toys that I found at the dollar tree.