Airplane Birthday Party

This Airplane Birthday Party was originally hosted by Judy from Cutest Little Things.
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I love airplane themes. You can have so much fun with it. Tickets for invites, creating your own “airline”. So many possibilities and Judy took advantage of every one of them. I absolutely love everything she did!

Enjoy Judy’s Airplane Birthday….

I had so much fun planning my son’s 3rd Birthday party this year!  His dad chose the theme this year – airplanes.  Since there isn’t much that’s commercially available aside from Jay Jay the Jet, I had to do a lot of custom design work to do to make the theme cute!

It all came together based on the invitations that I purchased from a seller on Etsy!  They were so adorable – airline tickets with map envelopes!  AP Airlines stood for my son’s initials!

I made fondant-covered cookies in 3 coordinating designs for favors: airplanes, giant planes and number 3s with tiny airplanes!
For the kids, I made favor boxes to look like little suitcases decorated with scrapbooking paper and Martha Stewart travel stickers on clearance, and filled each one with a passport, crayons, airplane stickers, an airplane lollipop, and a foam airplane glider.

The cookie favors I put in a super cute suitcase with a sign above that read, “Baggage Claim.”
A closeup of the sign in the suitcase:

Outside I hung a giant number 3 balloon and an airplane mylar balloon on the mailbox, along with a giant gold number 3 balloon on his playhouse.

I handpainted cloud-shaped directional signs that I made out of inexpensive foam core to stake along the route to our house to help our guests navigate their way to the party…

and using Adobe Illustrator, made signs throughout the house…

Above the table, I made an aiplane mobile out of gliders hung from fishing line…
For the kids, I made my own trail mix and served them in cute little plastic cups that I decorated with handmade labels and a little handmade sign:
In addition to the buffet of food, I served fruit kabobs, giant Rice Krispy treats w/ M&Ms on jumbo popsicle sticks tied with red, grosgrain ribbons, giant lollipops tied with ribbon stuck in fountain glasses acted as centerpieces and favors for the little ones.  I found airplane chocolates and airplane gummies at a specialty candy shop.
The cake was a double layer cake decorated with fondant clouds, airplanes, a giant number 3 on top, and a fondant banner with his name on it:
Everything got rave reviews and lots and lots of compliments for its originality and attention to detail!

Most importantly, my son loved it!

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Comments

  1. Vanessa says:

    Very cute! Love all the wonderful details.

  2. I love everything about this party!

  3. Jill says:

    SO STINKIN CUTE! I hate flying, but I LOVE this party idea =)

  4. That might be the cutest birthday party I have ever seen. Love the details!

  5. Brenda says:

    What a wonderful party. The ticket invites are great, the cookies look yummy & the baggage claim is the best. Great job! Love all the details. Would love to do something similar for a girl party.

  6. kathy says:

    we are doing my son’s 1st b-day party in july as an airplane theme…love your party!!! where did you get that stinkin’ cute suitcase?

  7. stephanie combado says:

    Wow, what an outstanding job you did. I am all about themes! My son is turning three and I am currently working on his airplane themed birthday party. I love the suitcases. Did you make them, how? or Did you buy them, where? And the little airplanes in the number three cookies, where did you find those?

  8. Tasha says:

    I just wanted to give a huge shout-out to Judy for this awesome party. I totally used this party as inspiration for the airplane party I just threw. You can see mine here: http://diyingtobedomestic.wordpress.com/2010/11/15/airplane-birthday-party/

    Way to go Judy! Excellent attention to detail.

  9. darlene says:

    love this! Really beautiful work! I am doing a travel bridal shower for my sister and I just got inspired with some of your ideas! Would you mind telling me how you went about making the suitcase favor bags??
    thanks! :)

    darlene

  10. Molly Jean says:

    You did SUCH an amazing job!!

  11. Rebecca Hudgins says:

    Seriously! Those suitcase goodie bags are adorable! Where did you find the bags?

  12. Mom2 says:

    The suitcase bags are really awesome…please let me know where you got it from I am planning 5th bday for my son and would like to use that idea.
    Thanks

  13. Jeanette says:

    I loved the theme it’s so original and diferent!! I would like to know how you did the invitations and suit cases everything because I’m planing in doing my son’s 3 years old birthday party of airplane theme.

  14. Karin Sparks says:

    I love all your great ideas. You are very creative. I wish I had found your site when I planned my son’s plane party. I would have added a few of your great ideas. For my son we ended up getting personalized melamine plates for each guest and sending them home with the guests as their favor too. It was a little expensive, but I only had four kids coming. The parents haven’t stopped talking about how much their kids love their new plates. Here is the link to where I bought them: http://www.partyallready.com/premium-parties/boy-theme-parties/high-end-airplane-party.html
    Thanks for all the great ideas! Maybe next time :0)

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