Rainbow theme party

After ideas for food. So far I have:

coloured popcorn
jelly in diff colours
m&m's
skittles
fruit platter
cookies in diff colours
freckles
fairy bread

Need ideas for party bags to take home too!

Pinterest have heaps of rainbow party ideas.

Rainbow sandwiches (eg layered tomato, cheese, spinach leaves)
Zucchini slice with carrot, capsicum, spinach, bacon
Fruit skewers/toothpicks (strawberries, blueberries, orange, grapes, kiwi etc)
Coloured water ice cubes for drinks

Rainbow layered birthday cake (or a cake tower of cupcakes dyed different colours/in coloured cases with coloured sprinkles of choice)

Party bags - coloured balloons, stretchy animals in different colours, small pack of Smarties or jelly beans, coloured eraser or sharpener, pack of colouring pencils, coloured notebook, rainbow pencil (you know, the ones with lots of different colours in the lead)

Rainbow fruit skewers.

Rainbow Bunting or rainbow order balloons.

I would check pinterest so many inspirations on there!

Pinterest started doing my head in!
Thabks for all the ideas... Hopefully I can pull off this party.

Will you attempt the rainbow layer cake with white icing on the outside?? DD1 had a rainbow party when she was little and I bought a slab of sponge from the bakery decorated it with blue butter icing and made a huge rainbow out of smarties it looked awesome!

platter of dipping things/bitey things in rainbow pattern
- cherry tomatoes (red)
- snow peas/broccoli (green)
-cheese (yellow)
- kabana (
-eggplant dip (purple)
- orange pieces/cheeses/dry bikkies (orange)
etc

Usually I get a cake made, but I'm going to attempt my own cake this time!

Rosetti - I like to make my own cakes, but have no talent whatsoever. That's why the individual cupcakes are a winner for me! I also loved ladybirdflies idea - I reckon even I could handle that, lol! ;)

I've been on YouTube 'learning'. I can see a disaster forming, but my friends know I'm not the worlds most talented baker. Thinking of doing a trial run this weekend lol

You could make a big platter of fruit in the shape of a rainbow, each strip of colour is comprised of various fruits or vegges in that colour.

I'm having a rainbow themed party for my baby shower :)

Sooooooo many ideas of Pinterest - but even google images has heaps too!

Rainbow pinata!

Or pinata cupcakes filled with rainbow colours (lots of examples of Pinterest)

If you have a table set up for the little ones to sit around while eating make their names up in multi coloured alphabet fridge magnets or you can get alphabet crayons from Etsy or Ebay. Could become part of their take home party favour gift.

we had a rainbow theme for one of our DDs birthdays. we had a rainbow layered cake and little cups of rainbow layered jellies. i think had cupcakes topped in different colours and arranged on the stand with little paper rainbow toppers that i made.

for the take home bags it was again paper rainbows that i made stuck onto paper bags with rainbow ribbons tying them up. inside were glitter glues etc.

for party prizes i went to smiggles and had as the Big Prizes those rainbow pencil cases as they had a 2 for 1 deal happening at the time. they were a HUGE hit for both the boys and girls.

Ok I need to stop posting here but just saw a rainbow theme party on the site Babyology. If you go into the section 'show us your party' it should be near the top.

How about making red cabbage indicator, then let children play at magic colour changes outside with acids and alkalis? (I mean lemon juice, vinegar, bicarb, soap etc. Not 2M HCl. Colour change chemistry is so much fun for small children and this is not harmful.)

Ok, not for them to eat but still food related. Except soap.

I made a rainbow cakes for ds3's christening. Instead of layering I just added colours alternatively into the centre of the cake tin then let it cook. Turned out a awesome. I then did chocolate ganach and put blue fondant stars all over it. But the cake was most impressive

I'm so excited about rainbow themed party now and I haven't even Googled or been onto Pinterest! And I've just realised DS is 4 in less than two months....wonder if I can convince him to have a rainbow party theme...;)

Another idea for the party or take home party bags....Coloured curly straws, or, do what I always do and buy bendy straws then print out little pics, punch holes and attach (like bought ones but way cheaper and for any theme).