Help!!! 5yo unisex birthday party themes

DD really wants a party this year. It's her 5th birthday in a different house (poor kid), but she's finally established a little network of friends, and TBH I'm more than happy to oblige her finally.

DH lives and works away, so it's just me to make it all work.

She LOVES Tinkerbell, but wants boys there as well, and at 4-5yo I can't see them being impressed with fairies.

I wanted to do a few crafty station type things....but I'm stumped for a general theme. If she had said just girls I was going to do crowns and fairy wands type of thingos, and will do a cupcake or cookie decorating type station.

I also don't want the parents to stress out with a particular dress up type theme.

Actually while I was typing this I thought of a favourite colour theme.....do you think that would work?
Come dressed as your favourite colour, different fully coloured foods.....


hmmmm hit me anyways with your ideas....please!!!

My sister had a old style picnic birthday party for her DS a couple of years ago. They did sack races, egg n spoon races, tunnel ball and 3 legged races etc. She cooked sausages in bread, fairy bread and jelly in plastic cups for dessert. For drinks she bought some of those 5lt water bottles with the taps on and poured cordial in them, there was a red and a green one. It was fantastic. All the parents commented on how great it was, yet it was SO simple and the kids had an absolute BLAST!

a friend of mine just had a toy story unisex party for her sons 5th birthday

id do tinkerbell and pirates (captain hook)

Jungle
Circus
Alphabet
Teddy bear's picnic
Beach

What Olive said! That is what are likely doing for DD this year. Otherwise you could do owls, jungle/farm animals, garden creatures, circus, stars etc

Oooh heaps of great ideas. I shall present her with a list.

Teddys bear picnic
Animals
Finding Nemo
Toy story
Superheros
Witches and Wizards

Princesses and pirates ( we went to one of these and dss was a great pirate ) and ever kid got involved nomatter what age..

In the backyard ( where they come as anything in a garden , bugs, fairies, beetles etc) ZF actually threw a great bug/butterfly party i hear :) with bug catchers etc

Fairies and firemen ? or Fairies and something boyish starting with F...... its late sorry :)

DD just had her 3rdc bday party so because of agre differneces not sure this will work.

we did fairytales and superheros so that there was a theme for boys and girls and more costiumes for the guests to choose from.

you can do fairys and wizrds if youwant.

I went with a yellow theme colour even though dd loves pink. In thr end she didnt mind that everything was yellow

I had yellow everythng. For the lolly bags I had yellow tshrts with the kids names printed on and their skills.

I also had a very exxy art station with lots of stuff the kids can make but that was a failure lol.

Games included egg and spoon, easter egg hunt and musical chairs.

It was very successful so I heard lol

Very Hungry Caterpillar

Peter Pan - we went to a little boy's 5th birthday that was Peter Pan themed. There were pirates, lost boys, tinkerbelles, Wendy and DD2 went as little brother John. It was great - they did treasure hunts and pirate games. It was really fun.

we are doing a circus theme this year for jacks 5th

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The messy party (lots of craft)
the messy party « the happy home

This blogger is awesome inspiration!

A wizards party. That way she gets the wands etc. but it can be good for both boys and girls.

We did a Jungle Party for my DD's fifth birthday.

I did a craft table (I thought it might rain) and had masks with paddle pop sticks - so they could make animal masks, or scary jungle masks (or whatever - most of them seemed to just use as much of the provided stuff as possible LOL!). I had heaps of ideas offered for games, we went with Pin the Tail on the Monkey and your general party-type games. I wanted to do a 'Safari' hunt for prizes in the front yard, but the weather looked dodgy so I didn't bother.

We had green and orange as our colour themes. And decorating was easy - green vines from crepe paper and every animal picture I could find strung around. The cake was awesome, thanks to the lovely BBer who provided the recipe and Christy who helped me get it done. I can PM you the pic if you like.