100 Party Themes
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Planning Guide
Checklist
Games & Activities
Fun Food
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Visit your local bowling alley for a fun party. Ask for lanes with bumper rails for younger guests. This will avoid the frustration of numerous gutter balls and ensure that all guests achieve a score. Many bowling alleys have party rooms or allow groups to set-up cake and ice-cream at tables behind the lanes. If not, take guests to a nearby pizza or ice-cream parlor after the game.
Fun Invitation
Buy personalized bowling invitation or make invitations in the shape of a bowling ball, pin, or lane. Includd bowling terms like strike, spare, and split. Remind guests to wear socks and to know their shoe size. More Invitation ideas and tips!
Great Decorations
Buy a personalized bowling banner and bring balloons in black, white & red or your child's favorite colors. Ask the lane for an old pin and have guests sign it with a permanent marker as a keepsake for your child. More Decoration ideas and tips!
Fun Games & Activities
Bowl a couple games and play a bowling trivia quiz. More Games & Activities ideas!
Fun Arts & Crafts
Provide modeling clay and pipecleaners for some non-messy sculpting. More Arts & Crafts ideas!
Fun Foods
Serve pizza, baby carrots & dip, string cheese, goldfish crackers, seedless grapes and juice. Have a ice-cream sandwiches for dessert or make a bowling lane cake. More Fun Food ideas!
Fun Favors
Buy bowling favor boxes or fill favor bags with fruit leathers, whistles, ball and jacks, yo-yos, and press-on tattoos. More Party Favor ideas!
Special Resources
Check out the Professional Bowling Association for inspiration and then find a bowling alley near you. Visit the Kids' Party Fun Directory for party places, entertainment, and rentals in your area. Receive $20 off your order of $100 of Birthday Express party supplies with promo code KidsPartyFun. More Party Resources!
Related Party Themes
Similar parties include Miniature Golf and Video Arcade.