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Superhero Party on a Budget

Give your little hero a birthday party to remember! Here's how you can have a Superhero party on a budget, including food and decorations!

Is your little Superhero having a birthday soon? Believe it or not, having a Superhero party is extremely easy!

You could have an Avengers party, a DC party, a generic superhero party… the possibilities are endless.

Allison’s kind of a girly girl, so she went with the new DC Superhero Girls (Which is amazing, by the way). Once we nailed the theme down, I began to plan!

Even though this party is mostly based on Wonder Woman, you can use a lot of these ideas for your own birthday party for super cheap! Here’s how you can have a Superhero party on a budget:

Give your little hero a birthday party to remember! Here's how you can have a Superhero party on a budget, including food and decorations!

The Decorations

I really noticed a theme as I was putting up the decorations. Allison’s Snow White birthday party was red, blue, and yellow. Her Paw Patrol birthday party was red, blue, and yellow. And her superhero party… you guessed it.

What is it about those 3 colors that just go so well with everything?

In any case, I was once again able to get all the supplies at Dollar Tree:

  • Streamers
  • Balloons
  • Tablecloth
  • Plasticware
  • Plates
  • Cups
  • Napkins
  • Superhero wall hanging and signs

Decorating doesn’t have to be expensive! I’d rather spend that money on food.

Give your little hero a birthday party to remember! Here's how you can have a Superhero party on a budget, including food and decorations!

My favorite part of the decorations was the wall hanging. Awesome job, Dollar Tree, for having something amazing to play with! There were like ten signs or masks you could hold up to get your picture taken. As you can see, we had a little too much fun.

Give your little hero a birthday party to remember! Here's how you can have a Superhero party on a budget, including food and decorations!

The Food

Coming up with food ideas is my favorite part of planning parties. And since this was superhero themed, I could go so many routes with this. However, this was based on the DC Superhero Girls, namely Wonder Woman, so that narrowed things down a bit.

Once I found what I wanted, I created little superhero signs to go with it. I credit Pinterest for a lot of these ideas, but I made the actual signs you see here. You’ll be able to download them for yourself at the bottom of the post!

Here’s what we pigged out on:

Give your little hero a birthday party to remember! Here's how you can have a Superhero party on a budget, including food and decorations!

POP! Popcorn: I bought the favor boxes at Hobby Lobby and glued a “POP!” tag on each of them. Then I filled them with SmartFood White Cheddar Popcorn, because there is no better popcorn.

Give your little hero a birthday party to remember! Here's how you can have a Superhero party on a budget, including food and decorations!

Heroes vs. Villains muffins: So I have a confession- I used a bunch of leftover food for this. I had a couple packages of those mini brownies in the cupboard, and I was just suckered into buying vanilla muffins from Entenmann’s Outlet a few days prior. So I combined them in an effort to get rid of them, and it worked.

Give your little hero a birthday party to remember! Here's how you can have a Superhero party on a budget, including food and decorations!

Lassos of Truth: This was simply the Twizzlers pull-aparts, which was one of the biggest hits. I think the entire package was gone before the party ended.

Give your little hero a birthday party to remember! Here's how you can have a Superhero party on a budget, including food and decorations!

Choose Your Superpower: I needed to incorporate something healthy, so I made a fruit and veggie tray and attempted to make it more fun. Here’s what was inside:

  • Broccoli- “Super Strength”
  • Carrot sticks- “X-Ray Vision”
  • Grapes- “Invisibility”
  • Strawberries- “Flying”
  • “DIP!”- Nonfat Greek yogurt mixed with a Hidden Valley Bacon Ranch packet

Give your little hero a birthday party to remember! Here's how you can have a Superhero party on a budget, including food and decorations!

Harley’s Hammers: In an attempt to find something else that wasn’t full of sugar, I came up with these “SMASH!” hammers. Pretzel sticks stuck into cut-up blocks of cheese. Note to self for next time- Only buy one block of cheese instead of 3.

Give your little hero a birthday party to remember! Here's how you can have a Superhero party on a budget, including food and decorations!

Fruit Punch: This was just Crystal Light Fruit Punch, but you could also buy a huge container of Hawaiian Punch.

And last but not least, here’s the cake:

Give your little hero a birthday party to remember! Here's how you can have a Superhero party on a budget, including food and decorations!

One of these days I’ll actually bake Allison’s cake; but Sam’s Club makes such good cakes I can’t stop buying them. Plus it saves me a bunch of time and effort.

So the total cost of the food and supplies, not including the cake, was less than $50. And we had a ton of food left over, so we were able to supplement that in some of our meals for the next couple days.

Give your little hero a birthday party to remember! Here's how you can have a Superhero party on a budget, including food and decorations!

All said and done, Allison had an absolute blast at her party. She was super excited about EVERYTHING (“I LOVE SOOOOOOOCKS!”) and probably ate more sugar than is humanly possible. But that’s the point of your birthday, right?

Want to join in the fun with your own Superhero party decorations? Click the link below to download your FREE Superhero Signs PDF!

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD SUPERHERO SIGNS PDF

Cristina

Friday 2nd of November 2018

Wow! Great party : ) Happy Birthday Allison!

Jaime

Saturday 3rd of November 2018

Thanks, Cristina! She had a blast! =)

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