Alphabet Theme Birthday Party for Kids

My daughter is turning two this week (taking a moment to pause in disbelief that she is two already).  This past weekend we celebrated with family and decided on an alphabet themed birthday party for my little girl who loves letters and books.

She decided on a chocolate cake with white icing which I then dressed up with all the letters of the alphabet in pink and purple.  I made the letters using melting chocolate (you can purchase these wafers in all sorts of colours) and a mold.  After melting the chocolate, you pour it into the mold and then just leave it out until it hardens.  The chocolates popped out easily and turned out really well.

Alphabet themed birthday cake

I also wanted to add some decor to the house.  I took the birthday girl to pick out some special foil balloons and then I also added cut out letters to our dining room light fixture by hanging them from pieces of ribbon.

Alphabet chandelier (with birthday balloons in the background!)

A quick project with black construction paper and stick on sparkly foam letters made over our dining room hutch.  I put the letters on first and then taped the paper (letters facing out of course) to the inside of the glass doors on our dining room cabinet.

Alphabet birthday party decor

Once all the party guests had arrived (her cousins), we kept the kids busy with a letter craft project.  Each child got their initial on some construction paper and we provided markers, crayons, foam letters to stick on and a variety of stickers for them to use to decorate their page.

It was a great afternoon and I love that all her cousins live close enough that they could come and celebrate. We didn't give out loot bags but books would be an obvious choice or a gift card to a local bookstore or to Chapters so that party guests could go and pick out a new book themselves.

Since both my kids are winter babies, my birthday party planning is done for the year!  That means I have a whole 10 months to come up with themes for next year although my son is already telling me he wants to do a race cars theme again!