Half Birthday Party

Half time activities

Half a manicure: paint half of finger nails one color and the other half another
color.

Half time show: Dad or brother can play a Magician and joke about only
performing half the normal show. Or you can hire a magician and ask that kids
help with half the act. See our magic party pages for more ideas.

Have a half-time quiz. Half of zero is what? Where does the other half the moon
go? Is the glass half-empty or half-full? What's a half dozen?

You're Half-way there! Here are more activities that will take you to the half-
way point"

Paint faces, but only one-half!
Read half a story! Read Oscar's half birthday if the kids are young
enough is a winner with reviewers on Amazon! Half way through the
story, close the book and tell kids that's it. Wait for the giggles then
continue reading.

Half Birthday Favors:
You can always give half the kids one thing and the other half of the kids another.
Here are some other ideas:

Half dollar coins
Candy cut in half (such as a half a roll of Lifesavers)
Jumping beans (they appear to be cut in half and they're excited about a half
birthday).
Chocolate dipped fortune cookies: because you have to break them in half to
read them.

Resources for a half birthday

H alf Birthday Calculator

NOTE: While a "half-birthday" is fun, one thing not to do is to fly a flag at half-mast,
which is reserved for memorials.

Half Birthday Party
How to celebrate a half birthday

As if motherhood weren't complicated enough, someone had the gall to introduce to
your child his or her half birthday and now you're stuck planning a half birthday party.
Take heart, it's only half the work and a fraction of the expense.

A half birthday is all about the appearance of HALF of everything. This day is
especially important for kids who may feel shafted by a birthday that gets largely
ignored, such as a birthday that hits in summer months when everyone is on vacation
and not in school,hence no classroom celebration. Or for the birthday child whose
special day is around the holidays when everyone is too busy, or worse yet combines
the birthday gift with the holiday occasion. Even if the birthday isn't out of the range,
you can't blame a kid for wanting two special days, can you?

So let the half celebration begin! Get out your scissors and start cutting. Oh, but first,
be sure to set the date. Confirm the half birthday using the Half B irthday Calculator.

Here are some quick and easy ideas for cutting things in half:

Come half-dressed. Give the birthday kid a half costume to wear. The Half Angel
Half Devil Kids Costume, right is under twenty dollars.

Invite only half the amount of guests you'd normally invite (this keeps things to
the closest of friends, so you may choose to make it a slumber party).

Start the party on the half hour (11:30 a.m., 1:30 p.m., 2:30 a.m., etc.)

Cut a birthday banner in half so that it hangs on one side of the room as
"Happy" and on the other side "Birthday."

Table setting: Dress just half the table (half a table cloth, half a bouquet of
flowers, one candle stick or candle sticks half used, etc.). Cut tall cups short, so
it's just half a cup, slice a napkin diagonally, so that its just half, and finally, cut
large dinner paper plates in half. If you don't like the idea of half a birthday
plate, then choose two solid color plates, cut them in half and tape them
together in the back. This will drive home your "half" theme.

Make it a 50-50 theme party. If you have twins (a boy and girl) for example, you
can have half a feminine theme and half a masculine theme. Set half the party
to be princess (for lunch), and the second half of the party to be Knights for
dessert. Or whatever the theme, you can cut the plates in half and tape them
together so both themes appear throughout the party.

Half the food

Half-baked ideas:

Bake a full birthday cake, cut it in half, stack it high so it looks like only half a
cake and ice it. Try half devils food cake and half angel food cake. When it's
time to blow out the candles light only half of them. Then ask your child to wish
for double the wishes because at a half-birthday you get only half your wishes.
Bake half chocolate chip cookie (allow your child to cut the cookies in half). For
the cake, be sure to serve adults coffee and highlight the half-and-half!

Half-witted attempt at making appetizers. Look for items that will look great cut in
half, such as donuts, mini bagels, bananas.

Hey, it's half the calories! Sure you can serve low-calories foods, but if you serve
half portions it's just as much fun. Just be sure to give hungry party goers
enough. Serve food that's obviously half, such as pizza's. Buy small or personal
pizzas and give each child a half and allow them seconds. Or serve half a
hamburger with half a hot dog. For lunch a half a bagel with half banana and a
bag of personal chips cut in half should suffice for younger kids who are
probably too excited to eat anyway

Other fun food ideas for a half birthday: Serve 50-50 bars (it's half orange and
half creme). Cut licorice twists in half. Make an arrangement of candy bars on a
tray that are cut in half.

Half Birthday Invitations