Donut Miss This Birthday Party – Ideas, decor and freebies for your donut theme party!

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Having a doughnut themed birthday?
You’ve come to the right place!

Donut birthday parties are fun for everyone! Whether it’s your daughter’s first birthday party or your grandma’s 90th, donuts are sweet, simple – and oh so good! We’ve scoured hundreds of donut parties to bring you the best donut party supplies for your donut theme birthday!

Donut inspired decorations
Donut birthday party invitations
Fun activities for the kiddos
Free donut printables!
Food ideas for your donut party!
Donut birthday cakes and cupcakes
Gifts, favors and thank you notes

Decorations with donut inspiration

Let’s start the party with some sweet decorations! A quick, easy way to add an instant “donut flavor” are with a few colorful donut inflatables and donut lanterns. You can decorate the inflatables in so many ways – string them over the dessert table (as below), place around the room or attach to the chairs for a cute party display.

Not only do the donut inflatables add fun to the decor, they can also be used for photo props for your little one and party guests.

Donut theme welcome banners

Welcome banners are another great way to add a big color splash to your party decorations. Why not add a cute donut shop banner with the birthday girl’s name front and center? Although these three shown below are for a first birthday, you can easily change them to any other age.

Top: Cute Donut circus shoppe banner by colleenmichele
Middle: Donut and unicorns welcome banner by PixelPerfectionParty LTD
Bottom: Welcome to Birthday Girl’s First Birthday Banner by colleenmichele

A cute donut display board surrounded by balloons and flowers is another easy-to-do eye catching decoration. You can get a pre-made one online or just find a lightweight board or heavy cardboard, add some small dowels (from your local hardware store) and secure. Then decorate with colorful donuts and a fun saying.

To add some fun party decorations, check out these cute donut theme straws. They come in a variety of colors too – pink and cream shown below.

We love the smile on the donut of this super cute donut balloon with a cherry on top! This would make a fun addition to any birthday party!

From prettymyparty, com, here’s a super cute Donut party hat! After the hats were shipped, she added the cute pompoms with sprinkles and a bottom scalloped fabric to really dress it up.

For a donut theme first birthday, this high chair banner in pastel rainbow colors is adorable. Complete with white ribbon, pastel colored tuille and donut theme signs, she will look so sweet with her first smash cake. Can also be used as a decoration or tutu after the party.

Donut theme party supplies

More donut party supplies to ramp up your party:

• Donut theme tablecloth
• Round pink donut plates
• Drinking cups with cute donut pattern
• Napkins with Donut napkins
• Donut party pack
• Peel and stick donut stickers

Donut birthday party themed invitations

For your birthday party invitations, you have a variety of donut themes to choose from. This clever mom put her invitation in a vellum envelope, tied with colorful string and added a “donut” embellishment on the outside. So sweet!

Shown below are just a few varieties of the hundreds of donut flavored invitations.

1 SWEETEST ONE Pink Iced Donuts First Birthday Photo Invitation – Cute donut theme invitation with photo of the party girl by CyanSkyCelebrations

2. Donut Birthday Invitation Donut Grow Up Party – pastel colors of pink, green, cream and blue by PixelPerfectionParty

3. Cute Bright Pink Doughnut Sprinkle 1st Birthday Invitation – with a dusting of spinkles in the corners by scalata

4. Donut Party Invitations | Donut Birthday Party – You donut want to miss this party! by colleenmichele

5. 1st birthday themed birthday party invitation – a round donut shaped invitation by colleenmichele

6. Everyone Loves Donuts – cute party banner – It’s a donut party

7. Donut Birthday Invitation Donut Grow Up Party – photo donut invitation by PixelPerfectionParty

8. Pink & Gold Donut Girl 1st Birthday Invitation by rikkas

Fun activities for the Kiddos!

If you’re having the party outdoors, a fun activity would be a donut ring toss! Each kiddo gets his or her own supply of donuts and let the tossing begin. The sprinkles on this table are actually painted Popsicle sticks – too cute! For info on how to create this cute game, (you will need power tools!) just go to savlabot.com. Or, if you’re short on time and power tools, you could turn over a three legged table or stool to use as a ring toss.

You could also use these fun plush donuts (with sprinkles!) for a bean bag toss. These are 5″ around and come 12 to a box and could also make wonderful little favors to send off with the party goers.

Young kids always love temporary tattoos – they’re sure to have fun with the peel and stick variety with their favorite donut tattos

Free Donut theme Printables!

Let the creativity begin – just download the free donut printable coloring page and let the kids make their donuts come to life with crayons, paints, glitter (if you’re feeling adventurous) and more! What’s more, you could try painting with kid friendly washable paints and add simple sugar for sparkle.

The little ones will love these colorful donut shaped crayons in bright colors – perfect for smaller hands. Plus, you can hand these out with the free donut printables!

There are so many cute donut printables around the web. Here are a few FREE PRINTABLES for your party!

• Donut Worry Be Happy sign from Happiness is homemade
• Straw toppers courtesy of let’s mingle blog.
• Donut garland printables with how to from onlinelables.com
• Clip art for decorations or cupcake toppers from colleenmichele!
• Donut clip art printables from nightowlmoms.com
• Variety of donut artwork from oh happy day!

Food ideas for your donut party

So what better idea for your party goers than to create their own donut with a donut bar! You can bake or buy plenty of plain or glazed donuts and set out the toppings. The toppings can be endless … sprinkles, marshmallows, m&ms, peanuts, gummy bears, cocoa puffs, colored sugar, chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, raisins, blueberries – the list goes on. You can even hold a contest – give each kiddo two or three donuts and let the fun begin!

Shown below are just three of the many wonderfully decorated donuts from the party. We love the creativity – from the patterned donut with stripes of color, to the jumbled fruit loops to the donut hole monster with bacon, sprinkles and shoe string potatoes!

You can also make your donut bar “healthy” with fruits … peaches, strawberries, kiwi, grapes, blackberries and more!

Meow – These kitty cat themed donuts are adorable! If you have 25 seconds, you can watch the video, “How to Make Kitty Cat Donuts” on the foodie channel and have these cuties at your party.

Who doesn’t love these cute animal donut faces? A little more elaborate decorations but these are adorable: Koala, fox, piggy, panda and a cow.

Bake your own donuts!

Feeling a bit adventurous? You can make your own homemade donuts for a delightfully delicious addition to your party. Don’t forget to get donut pans if you don’t have them already. Head on over to “let the baking begin” for complete step by step directions! Boy do these look good 🙂

Mmmm … chocolate donuts! These really look amazing. For a quick easy recipe, go to thecountrychiccottage.com

Donut Displays!

Here’s a cute way to display your wonderful donut creations – with a donut stand display!

Need more donut inspiration? You can find wonderful doughnut recipes for every flavor under the sun.

Mini Donut Maker!

Once you find the perfect recipe, whip up a batch of “mini” donuts with this easy electric donut maker! (Healthier alternative to deep fry!)

Donut theme birthday cakes and cupcakes!

This super cute pink donut cake topper would make a wonderful addition to your donut theme party. I love the little stick on donuts around the sides.

Drips and donuts – cute striped cake with pink dripped frosting and a super decorated donut topper.

Or, how about a donut topped cake with dripping ganache and tons of sprinkles? Looks like you only need half for one of the donuts on this display – what to do with the other half? Yum!

Finally, a triple layer donut cake – with sprinkles! For the recipe and directions, head over to Sprinklebakes! Love the fluted cake stand too!

Having cupcakes for the party? Check out the free donut clip art for newsletter subscribers! You can cut these out with a 2″ whole punch and easily dress up your cupcakes to fit your donut theme:)

Donut Truck Photo Op!

Adorable and sweet – you can bring your own donut truck to your party with a little help from plywood, bright colored paint and a giant inflatable donut. This makes for a fun photo op too for the kiddos. You can add more photo booth props too! For more inspiration from this fun donut party, head on over to Kara’s party ideas.

Donut gift ideas and party favors!

The birthday boy or girl might like this “I’m just here for the donuts!” t-shirt – too cute!

Looking for a donut themed gift for the birthday girl? How about a cute doggie donut purse for the birthday girl! Not only is this a cute doggie carrier, the puppy is removable so she can put all her favorites in the donut purse if she likes.

Party favors with a donut twist

Mini donut shaped “stress relievers” will make some cute party favors! These miniature stress ball donuts are soft (made of foam) and safe. You can add one to each favor bag along with treats or other goodies.

Another cute idea for favors (for the older kids) are donut shaped bath bombs! You’ll need a mold and a little time to create these fun giveaways. For directions on how to make on your on, head over to the soap queen.

However, if you want to save a little time, just buy a pre-made box of donut bath bombs from ZenBath. What’s more, these come in a variety of scents too … such as raspberry vanilla and pink sugar. Sweet!

Oh so sweet donut plushies – cute decorations for the party! In addition, you can send one home with the littlest party guests.

Thanks for coming!
We donut know what we would do without you 🙂

Thanks a “HOLE” bunch for coming! Cute party favor tags will make the perfect end to a donut lovin party 🙂

Donut Party Thank You Favor Gift Tags by colleenmichele

Free Printable: Donut Party Decoration

Enjoy this free donut themed printable for your donut party! These PDFs can be used as cupcake (or donut!) toppers, cute little favor tags, or just cut them out and use them as festive donut table confetti – use them as needed to fit your party!

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