Rainbow Party Theme

Kids love rainbows and the best way to celebrate a rainbow theme birthday party would be at a pool. You can combine the pool party with rainbow being the main theme. You can have a fish rainbow party, alphabet rainbow party, rainbow party at the pool, etc…

Ideas for Making the Card

1. One way of making the rainbow card is through sun. Make a card out of white or any other colour paper by cutting the paper into a rectangle and then folding it in a card way. Use golden glitter paper and make a sun out of it by cutting it in a shape of a circle. Put glue on the top backside of the sun and stick it in the centre of the card on the first page in a way that it can open from the bottom. Inside you can write, “Meet me at the Rainbow” or “Catch a Ride on a cloud with me and follow the rainbow to X's _th birthday party.
2. Another way to make the card is by cutting a white construction paper into a semi-circle and make rainbows on it and colour them with rainbow colours. Behind you can write the details of the party with colourful markers.

Poem for the Birthday Card

Play with Rainbow, wear the Rainbow
Ride the Rainbow high and low
Spread the colours of Rainbow

While X turns (age)

At (venue) from (time) on (date)

Gifting Ideas

There plenty of gifts that you can give in the rainbow theme. Rainbow colour pencils, magic colours, paints, are all one form of gifting.

You can also gift bags wih rainbow colours on it. You would have to do a bit of hunting for that and may be you may find something better at a nearby dollar shop.

You can use a bag of skittles, marbles, m&m’s for the winners of the games.

Decoration

1. Use colourful streamers, ribbons and balloons for the decoration.
2. Make huge clouds with construction paper and stick them on one of the walls (preferably centre wall) and make a big rainbow popping out of the clouds by cutting a semi-circle from construction paper and colouring it in the rainbow colours with a smiling sun at one end. Make raindrops by cutting blue colour paper in the shape of raindrops and fill the entire bottom of the wall with it. Make sure to cut the cake in front of this wall.
3. Use a colourful table-cloth for the cake cutting.

Welcome Note

To welcome your guests and set up a rainbow effect you can give each guest a rainbow lollipop.

Make rainbow cut-outs and let the kids colour their rainbows while waiting for the other guests to come.

Fun Games

1. Rainbow Skittles: For the elders you can have a transparent jar filled with colourful skittles at the entrance. Let the guests guess the number of skittles and write it on a colourful piece of paper on their arrival with their name and put it in another jar or a rainbow basket. At the end after all the guests have arrived you check the chits and the guest with the closest guess gets a prize.
2. Make sure you count the skittles and make a note of the number in the jar before hand.
3. Gold treasure hunt: you can hide gold coins made out of golden paper in different corners of the venue. Ask the kids to go and hunt down as many gold coins that they can. The child with the maximum gold coins wins.
4. Rainbow Throw: have colourful balls and a basket. Place the basket at a distance and ask the kids to aim the ball in the basket. Give every child 7 turns and the one who has the maximum balls in wins.
5. Pin the Clouds on the rainbow: you can make a number of small clouds and one big rainbow out of the construction paper. Give each child 30 seconds to 1 min to clip the clouds on the rainbow. The child who is able to clip the maximum clouds wins.
6. Tug of war: you can a colourful rope and play tug of war by dividing the guests into 2 groups. You can make a rope with colourful ribbons.
7. Rainbow Dance/musical chairs: Play some nice rainbow music and make the kids dance on it. You could also play musical chairs with the rainbow music. You can also stick rainbow colour circles in a line on the floor and ask the kids to run around the coloured circles when music stops each child must stand on one colour. The child without a circle is out. Keep removing one circle as the kids get lesser.
8. Couple Dance: you can make big circles of coloured paper and make couples among the kids. Ask each couple to stand on a circle. When the music starts each couple dances on their own circles and when music stops they have to fold the circle into a semi-circle and try to fit themselves in the semi-circle. In the next round they have to fold the semicircle into a cone and fit themselves in that cone and so on. The couple that steps outside their paper is out. You can play this game with elders.

Food ideas for the rainbow theme

The food has got to be colourful as the theme is rainbow.

1. Cake: Order or bake a rainbow colour cake. You can also have the picture of you child on the cake with rainbow colours in the background.
2. Sandwiches: you can bake different colour sandwiches at home by using colour. You can use different jams like pineapple, strawberry, blackberry etc and make sandwiches.
3. Layered Jelly: You can use different colours of jelly layer.
4. Fruit Kebabs: Firm fruits such as melon, pineapple, kiwi and oranges work well. For the skewers, you can simply use plastic drinking straws. To make each kebab, pinch the end of a straw and push it through a piece of fruit. Slide the fruit to the other end of the straw. Add more fruit to fill the skewer with a range of colors. Individually cover each kebob with plastic wrap and refrigerate.

1. Colourful Chicken Tikkas: you can make different colour chicken pieces like yellow, red, green and purple and put them in a bowl. Let the kids select their colour chicken piece and enjoy.
2. Rainbow Fruit Salad: Another healthy first birthday idea (also using fruit) is to chop up a big salad using different colored fruits.
3. Rainbow Punch: Rainbow Punch goes the best with this theme.
4. Ice-Cream: You top vanilla ice-cream with colourful skittles and m&m’s. 
5. Colourful Pudding: You can check the recipe on my blog. Make sure to use different rainbow coloured fruits like grapes, strawberries, mangoes, blue berries, etc..

Additional Tips

You can arrange for a photographer and take a picture of the kids painting their own rainbows on a piece of paper and give it to the children as a thank you note.