Football Party Ideas

Football Party Ideas & Decorations

Base your color theme & decorations on the birthday boys favorite team. If he doesn't have a favorite team then use your favorite or decorate in a general football theme. Purchase Football Themed Party Supplies, such as plates, cups, napkins and invitations in either your team logo or general football decorations.

For a unique tablecloth use green heavy paper and mark it up with yard lines to look like a football field.

Serve snacks (chips, pretzels, candy) in a football helmet.

Decorate with football posters of your child's favorite player (if he has one, if not then yours). If you have football jerseys hang them on the wall as well. Balloons and streamers always add an inexpensive, but huge element. Use colors that match your team or the decorations you purchased. And of course, purchase a few football shaped balloons for a special touch.

Have all the guests sign a message on a football as a keepsake for the birthday boy.

Have your guests come dressed in their favorite team jerseys for fun.

Create signs such as "your child’s name for Game MVP" and hang them on your front door, garage door or in your house.

Also check out these football banners!

Decorate with helmets, football pads and footballs around the party area.

More football party ideas - Create pennants of your child's favorite team and hang on the back of chairs, have you and your child wear his favorite team jerseys, dress stuffed animals in your football jersey's (baby size) and use as centerpieces.

Football Party Ideas & Favors

Goodie Bag Ideas: Use water bottles as the favor bag and fill them with candy, small toys and a Football Whistle. Or use regular goodie bags and add nerf ball, whistle, candy and gum.

Football Party Games

The activities for a football theme party vary based on the age of the birthday boy!

Hot Football - Pass a football around the same way you do with hot potato. Play music (such as Monday Night theme music) and when it stops the one with the football is out.

Hold a football trivia contest and give out prizes.

Play a game of touch or flag football.

Football Hunt - Hide toy football action figures around the party and have the kids find them.

Football Jerseys - Set up a craft station and allow the kids to design their own football jerseys. Provide white t-shirts along with glitter, markers, paint, etc.

Make personal trading cards. Take Polaroids of each child. Set up a crafts station and allow the kids to create trading cards with their photo. Provide card stock paper. Have the kids paste their pictures to the paper and create their own stats. Just like a real football card.

Quarterback Throwing Arm - Have the kids throw a nerf football at a target or through a hula hoop.

Check out a fun Football Pinata.

And check out these favorite party games!

Food

Serve standard fare you would find at a football stadium such as: Hotdogs, French Fries, Pizza, and Hamburgers.

Football Birthday Party Cake

Easy Football Cake - bake a sheet cake and frost it with green frosting. Pipe white icing to look like field lines then place a few football toy action figures on top.