Decorations

Instead of filling vases with flowers, fill them with yummy and festive-looking blueberries, strawberries, and raspberries. Guests can scoop the berries out and add whipped cream for a truly red, white, and blue treat!

Use different-shaped vases to hold dips and chips. These make great centerpieces as well as unique serving dishes.

Mix and match red, white, and blue colored tableware. Cloth napkins in the same colors add an elegant touch.

Cover the tables with red-checkered tablecloths, or buy inexpensive fabric in red, white, and blue to make your own tablecloths.

Roll out butcher paper on your party table. Scatter red, white, and blue crayons across the table so the kids can color while eating.

Fill balloons with red, white, and blue crinkled paper. Have the kids pop them for festive explosions of color.

Use pop cork place mats with the party guests’ names attached to the pop cork for easy seating arrangements. The kids can take their pop cork home along with their tags, so make them festive using red, white, and blue.

Sprinkle red, white, and blue confetti and candies around the table.

Hang red, white, and blue crepe paper streamers from the ceiling.

Decorate the patio or backyard with red, white, and blue Christmas lights.

If you're planning to have a birthday parade, hold an informal float-making and bicycle-decorating session in your driveway an hour before the big event. Kids and parents can bring their own tape, streamers, and signs, and you can share ideas and lend a hand to help create some fantastic floats.

Red, White, and Blue Windsock. Decorate your patio or front door with all-American windsocks. Roll pieces of red, white, or blue construction paper lengthwise and tape or staple the edges together. Punch two holes across from each other at the top of the tube and thread string through them. Knot the string to make a handle on one end. Attach red, white, and blue streamers to the other end.