Decor
Boring transparent glasses will effortlessly turn into bright “striped” ones - acrylic, a brush and an hour of time. Color the salt with crushed chalk and place it in layers in transparent bottles. If it's autumn, paint the maple leaves. Drop gouache into water, pour it into jars and place plastic umbrellas or flowers on top - simple and completely in keeping with the theme.
To decorate the place in the style of a rainbow party, use:
- paper garlands;
- pompoms, corrugated paper flowers;
- bright ribbons, fabric;
- multi-colored cocktail straws;
- Balloons;
- buttons of different sizes and shapes;
- bright beads (can be assembled from painted pasta or the same buttons);
- “ribbed” colored pencils (glue perfectly onto cardboard, making original stands, frames for posters or photos).
Almost all available materials are suitable for invitations: a rainbow accordion in an envelope, an applique of colored buttons or cereals, a striped card in a cup of M&M's or Skittles, rainbow lollipops or popsicles. Such invitations, even if they are paper, will certainly excite the taste for the holiday and set the mood for active fun!
Inverted multi-colored umbrellas under the ceiling and bright rubber boots instead of flower vases look funny. And if you are planning a children's rainbow party, add elements of a fairy tale to the festive interior:
- fairies in colorful buds;
- ponies with striped manes and tails (if there are many girls);
- bright huge swallowtails, mushroom birds;
- hide the leprechaun's treasures in secluded places - chests with chocolate or candies in gold foil.
Make a paper cloud and rainbow raindrops. Kids can leave handprints or wishes on the cloud if this is a party for older children.
Children cannot have too much color - what is too much for adults causes great delight in children!
But for teenagers and adults, a rainbow party can be decorated concisely and stylishly - a few bright elements on the main background. Of course, take into account the mood of the guests and the degree of desire to fool around.
Holiday decoration
Let's start with the decor with fabric. The most wonderful fabric in this case is organza. Especially if you want to decorate in soft colors. Chiffon emphasizes the transparency of the rainbow. But this is optional. If there is a desire, do it in bright colors, if there is a desire, do it in calm colors, and if there is a desire, mix bright and rich elements with bed shades. The fabric can be used on walls, under the ceiling, on upholstered furniture... You can sew a long ribbon of rainbow colors and pass it through all rooms and corridors. You shouldn’t stop only at arc-shaped elements. You can simply hang multi-colored pieces of fabric from top to bottom, and a festive atmosphere will already appear. Sew pieces of colored fabric to a white tablecloth or run elastic trimmed with shreds along the sofa, hang satin ribbons from the chandelier - all this will emphasize the rainbow surroundings of the holiday.
Don't stop at just the fabric. Make garlands: paper garlands made from rings or just stripes, garlands from gel balls and from balls of thread will come in handy. The main thing is to maintain color consistency. Children can be very attentive to details.
About other details.
Use all the rainbow colored details for the holidays. And colored pillows (can also be useful for entertainment), and colored photo frames, and colored towels - hand napkins, and colored glasses, vases, colored ping pong balls and even colored flowers.
A rainbow outfit would also look good on the birthday boy. All a girl needs to do is tie together colorful pieces of fabric with an elastic band and she will get a great skirt. And for a boy, you can draw a rainbow on a white football shirt or sew a rainbow tie.
Suits
One of the organizers’ favorite options is to ask guests to come in clothes of the chosen color (they need to be distributed in advance, evenly covering the entire palette). As a rule, no one has any questions about what to wear - a rainbow party assumes a relaxed dress code and comfortable outfits: T-shirts, light dresses, shirts. The photos turn out great! Especially if you ask everyone to stand like in the rhyme about the hunter and the pheasant.
Another option is a rainbow in the sky. Blue denim - trousers, skirts, shorts - will act as the sky. And the top is white T-shirts (clouds) with the image of a rainbow or, again, the shade chosen for the guest. An interesting “planetary” option: a green bottom and a blue T-shirt with a rainbow.
The look will be complemented by homemade accessories - striped ties, bow ties, horns, bows, wigs and glasses. Matching makeup and colored mascara will enhance the effect!
If you're planning a rainbow party for adults or teens, the third option will be quite time-consuming. Guests must be striped from toe to head! There will be no problems with socks, but the rest can confuse the guests. But for children, buying or sewing such outfits will not be difficult; you just need to give parents time to prepare.
Menu
Multi-colored plastic dishes, colored napkins, skewers and straws, a striped tablecloth - the rainbow style of the party should also resonate in the table decoration.
Let it be just a few elements for integrity, and let the festive design be completed with bright treats:
- salad of tomatoes, bell peppers (red, green, orange, yellow!), red onions and purple beans;
- fruit slices and kebabs, canapés, tartlets;
- slides of dragees and sweets in transparent vases;
- colored cocktails, juices in transparent decanters and bottles with flirty bows, ice cubes made from colored water;
- multi-colored slides of marmalade and huge lollipops , ice cream, cookies and cakes.
Sprinkle the cakes with fine confetti or douse them in colorful frosting. And to color dough, clear drinks and sweets, use food coloring, jam and colored juices. This is how easy it is to make rainbow themed treats for your party:
Colored popcorn - sugar, water, dyes. Prepare liquid caramel (melt sugar and water), add coloring, pour over popcorn and mix well.
Rainbow jelly – jelly packets, water, coloring or juice. Just add water as written on the bag, but colored in the desired color. And then cool the jelly in layers: the first layer has set - pour the second one, and into the refrigerator, then the third, etc.
Striped fruit ice - sprite, dye, molds. Like jelly, you need to freeze it in layers. Add pieces of colorful fruit or small gummies. Delicious fruit ice is made from freshly squeezed juice with pulp.
Table setting
When the games are invented, it's time to think about the holiday table. For a rainbow birthday, anything…rainbow will do. A rainbow of sliced fruits or skewered fruits, sweet rainbow candies, rainbow striped jelly, rainbow bags for sweets, scattered confetti on the table.
Look at your table and you will immediately think of what else you can add in stripes. For example, cake. You can easily bake it yourself if you add food coloring to the crust dough.
Themed Invitations Now you can sit back and think about your invitations. You can glue colored ribbons, you can draw a cloud and a rainbow, you can make everyone in different colors: one has a red invitation, the other has an orange one.
Entertainment
A rainbow party hardly needs a strict script - the theme is conducive to unbridled fun and a bit of madness! Adult guests will almost certainly enjoy competitions from childhood: hitting a bottle with a pencil, tearing a newspaper with their bodies while dancing, biting off an apple on a string, reaching the finish line with an egg in a spoon, etc.
But for children, a certain scenario is important - this way the rainbow party will remain in the kids’ memory longer:
- Guys! The evil leprechaun has stolen our rainbow! He says that he won’t show it to such lazy and bad children. Let's prove to him that you are not lazy at all, but very dexterous, smart and good?!
It's great if one of the parents plays the role of a harmful leprechaun. Let there be seven competitions, like the colors of the rainbow:
- Red (symbolizes strength) – tug of war, popping balloons with the butt, knocking down targets with plush balls.
- Orange (energy) – obstacle course, blindfold racing, dodgeball.
- Yellow (observation) – riddles about colors, quickly name objects of the hidden color, etc. Rest after active competitions.
- Green (flexibility) – “The sea is rough once...” is perfect. And for teenagers and adult party guests, organize a rainbow twister (the one in which you have to take funny poses on the floor, getting your hands and feet into circles of the desired color).
- Blue (dreamy) - let the children answer unexpected questions: “What would happen if you and your parents changed places, if all the trees became chocolate, if people could turn into anyone?” One more minute of rest.
- Blue (organization) – it’s time to divide into teams and quickly color a picture, assemble a puzzle or build a costume (from paper, colored fabric, etc.).
- Purple (creativity) – write everyone together a greeting in a rainbow style to the hero of the occasion (with colored pens or over a drawn rainbow, for example).
At the end of each contest, give guests a matching colored ribbon or large cardboard letters to fold into a rainbow for a photo to remember the occasion. After completing all stages, announce that now no one will doubt that guests deserve a bright, rainbow life and a good mood every day!
- Well done boys! You are all strong, energetic, observant, etc.
Play up the ending as a congratulation - the leprechaun returned the rainbow in the form of memorable gifts for all guests (crayons, pencils, paints) and mountains of gifts for the birthday boy (collect everything in advance, wrap it in colored paper and stick stickers with the name of the giver). Or maybe the return of the rainbow will be a huge striped cake or colorful fireworks?!
