Bowling Party Thank You Cards and Invitations
Setting the Scene for a Bowling Party
If you can't find an AMF near you, don't de-spare! Your little king pin will love a bowling
party at just about any alley. Ask in advance for a bowling pin the kids can sign or
order one on eBay. The great thing about throwing a bowling party for kids is that you
don't need much decoration as the decor is the bowling alley itself. And that means
you don't need to clean up after the party either.
Bowling cakes and sweets and party food
Cupcakes are probably the easiest to serve at a bowling alley: just plop a bowling pin
cupcake topper in each cupcake and you're done. Here's more:
More fun ideas for your bowling party
Kids will be pinned to their seats with these crafty ideas for a bowling party:
Bowling games and activities
A bowling alley is all the activity the kids really need. The party is rather short, so to
extend your day, have guests arrive early and provide tokens for the arcade games.
Having the kids arrive early for this ensures time for guests to arrive before the
scheduled lane time. Here are some other ideas that may be right up your alley:
Bowling favors
Surprisingly, it's not easy at all to find favors for a bowling party, so you'll do most of
your shopping online. Here are some other ideas that may be just up your alley:
Resources:
- Bowling party invitation and wording ideas: Invitations are included in the package
if you're having your party at AMF Bowling with ten or more guests. Still, you can
embellish the envelope with stickers or make a card of your own.
- Here's something just up your alley...Michael's bowling birthday!
- Spare the date for pizza and fun: Saturday, August 22 at noon
- Alley: AMF Bowling, Petaluma
- RSVP: King Pin James or League Leader Sally at 867-5309
- Thank you card ideas: "Thank you, I was bowled over by your generosity."
Setting the Scene for a Bowling Party
If you can't find an AMF near you, don't de-spare! Your little king pin will love a bowling
party at just about any alley. Ask in advance for a bowling pin the kids can sign or
order one on eBay. The great thing about throwing a bowling party for kids is that you
don't need much decoration as the decor is the bowling alley itself. And that means
you don't need to clean up after the party either.
Bowling cakes and sweets and party food
Cupcakes are probably the easiest to serve at a bowling alley: just plop a bowling pin
cupcake topper in each cupcake and you're done. Here's more:
- Bowling cakes: Strike out another year and bake Time to spare cake, pictured
right, by Wilton. While Wilton's candles are no longer available, there are plenty
of other brands of bowling pin candles. You don't need a special pan to bowl
them over with a fun birthday cake. Here's how to make a bowling pin cake,
Family Fun style.
- Sweet bowling treats: Wilton bowling pin sucker molds are easy to use with
Wilton Candy melts. Use white candy melts, colorful sticks and Wilton's red gel
to create stripes for the bowling pin accent. Wrap it up with and a pretty curling
ribbon for a sweet party favor.
- Party food ideas:
- Pizza is a must have for a bowling party and kids favorite is cheese pizza,
so order a cheese pizza and top it with three pieces of salami or
pepperoni to make it look like a bowling ball. - As an appetizer for the adults, serve a cheese ball and scoop three holes
from the top to simulate a bowling ball. - Have an hour glass wine carafe? Fill it with milk and use red tape to craft
three bowling pin stripes to give it a bowling pin look.
More fun ideas for your bowling party
Kids will be pinned to their seats with these crafty ideas for a bowling party:
- Put kids in a league of their own. Craft your own bowling T-shirts inexpensively
with your handy work on the computer. It's a great way to make the kids feel
instantly welcome. You'll also score with kids of you tattoo them upon arrival.
- Combine your bowling theme with a sock hop party. Have kids dress retro cool
rockabilly, poodle skirts, beauty school dropout, etc. Instead of cake, move the
party from the bowling alley to a soda fountain. See also our ice cream social
party ideas.
Bowling games and activities
A bowling alley is all the activity the kids really need. The party is rather short, so to
extend your day, have guests arrive early and provide tokens for the arcade games.
Having the kids arrive early for this ensures time for guests to arrive before the
scheduled lane time. Here are some other ideas that may be right up your alley:
- Rock 'n Bowl: Ask the bowling alley if they will play special music on request.
Perhaps your child has a favorite rock song that you can play and announce a
birthday dedication on the loud speaker. Many alleys will also let kids bowl in
the dark.
- Have kids bowl between their legs, sideways, backwards, two kids pushing one
ball, etc. Bring video camera: the kids will invent funny faces and hilarious moves.
- A token of appreciation for your guests: Most alleys have arcade games, so
anticipate their requests and provide each kid with a few tokens of fun.
- Provide a bowling pin Piñata. You may be able to club the pinata with a bowling
pin. Stuff it with circular treats.
Bowling favors
Surprisingly, it's not easy at all to find favors for a bowling party, so you'll do most of
your shopping online. Here are some other ideas that may be just up your alley:
- Make them all a winner. Search your local party supple stores to award them
with mini trophies. (Look in the sports section of your local party supply.) You'll
also find award medals that look super around a sports drink when you remove
the label.
- Find a spheres. Party America has candy ball spheres in some of their stores that
opens like a huge Easter egg. Any sphere shaped candy will be wonderful from
gumballs to jawbreakers to malt balls. Whoppers are sphere shaped and look a
bit like mini bowling balls.
- Don't spare the candy. Since there isn't much in terms of bowling party favors,
you'll need filler candy. Try gummy candies that look like little hamburgers, pizza,
hot dogs, ice creams or whatever they might serve at the bowling alley. You can
also make your own bowling ball candy. Use edible markers to make bowling
balls. You may also find edible markers online, which will come in handy to mark
three little circles onto gum balls, circular cookies, and more.
- Crepe paper bowling balls. Start with a small toy favor and scrunch a wad of
construction paper around it and secure with a bit of tape. Then wrap it with
black crepe paper along with a few other little toys or candy. Secure the end of
the roll with a sticker, then add two more stickers to make it look like a bowling
ball.
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Bowling Party
How to have a bowling theme birthday party for kids
Strike a match and light the birthday candles, it's time to bowl them over with fun and
throw a bowling party for kids. You don't have time to spare, as finding party favors for
a kids bowling party is harder than you think (and you just won't find any favors at the
local party supply). So shop online now.
Let the good times roll with this professional bowling tip: find an AMF bowling alley
near you. For bowling parties of around eight or more, AMF will provide the birthday
kid with a bowling pin that everyone at your party can sign. They also provide the
invitations, thank you cards, plates and napkins for every guest when you order food,
like Pizza or hot dogs. Just add cake! This spares you from most of the work of
planning a bowling party, and prices are reasonable considering it includes the
keepsake pin, party supplies, food, shoes and bowling fun. And AMF does kids bowling
well because they provide bumpers and bowling bowling ball gliders to make it easy
for even the littlest bowlers to have fun.
This kid-friendly alley provides just about everything! Just add cake and favors and
you're set, and since your main job is to find party favors, we can help:
How to have a bowling theme birthday party for kids
Strike a match and light the birthday candles, it's time to bowl them over with fun and
throw a bowling party for kids. You don't have time to spare, as finding party favors for
a kids bowling party is harder than you think (and you just won't find any favors at the
local party supply). So shop online now.
Let the good times roll with this professional bowling tip: find an AMF bowling alley
near you. For bowling parties of around eight or more, AMF will provide the birthday
kid with a bowling pin that everyone at your party can sign. They also provide the
invitations, thank you cards, plates and napkins for every guest when you order food,
like Pizza or hot dogs. Just add cake! This spares you from most of the work of
planning a bowling party, and prices are reasonable considering it includes the
keepsake pin, party supplies, food, shoes and bowling fun. And AMF does kids bowling
well because they provide bumpers and bowling bowling ball gliders to make it easy
for even the littlest bowlers to have fun.
This kid-friendly alley provides just about everything! Just add cake and favors and
you're set, and since your main job is to find party favors, we can help:
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