How to Throw a Survivor Birthday Party

For my family watching Survivor is a family event. The kids get the biggest kick out of watching these people survive out in the wilderness and picking their favorites! My daughter decided she wanted to have a Survivor sleepover this year for her birthday. I was super excited about the theme and ran with it.

If you read my article on Birthday Party Etiquette you will find general tips for birthday parties. In this article you will find specific ideas for turning a plain old birthday party into a Survivor themed birthday party.

Invitations
You can get extremely creative with invitations for any party, however we had an extra fun time with the Survivor party invites! You can always go out to the party supply store and find some jungle or island themed party invitations, those will work just fine for this theme. My preference is to make my own invitations though. We thought of several different ideas that are extremely cute for Survivor themed invitations. One is to use brown butcher paper, write the party details in a clever rhyme similar to what tree mail would sound like on Survivor, then roll it up and tie a piece of twine around it. Another option is to use a photo editing program and come up with your very own Survivor Logo. I had a friend of mine do this for our invitations. she used my daughters favorite colors and my daughter even made up her very own tribe name. I took the logo and pasted it into Microsoft Word and typed up the invitations and printed them out. Very easy to do and I never had to leave my house to get them done!

Food
Food was simple for this party as well. I didn't want to serve any gross foods as they often do on Survivor, so instead I kept my menu simple. I did throw in a few things that looked gross though. For the Survivor-like foods we served pretzel sticks (firewood), gummy worms, malted milk balls (mini coconuts), and ants on a log (celery sticks topped with peanut butter and raisins). Then we also had other typical party food snacks as well.