Pokemon Party Decorations

The perfect colors for an ultimate Pokemon party are red, yellow, and blue. Here's how to make your Pokemon party decorations come to life!

• Cut large circles out of construction paper and decorate them to resemble Pokeballs. Secure them to the walkway leading up to the party entrance. Paste one on the front door that says, “[birthday child’s name]’s Party! Welcome!” You can also decorate Styrofoam craft balls to resemble pokeballs and hang them with fishing line from the ceiling.
• Make your favorite Pokemon characters come to life! Print out photos of your child’s favorite Pokemon characters on 8 ½”x11” paper and laminate them. Use these as placemats during snack time or when serving the cake. Or, find photos of Pokemon characters online and copy them to a Word document. Increase their size so that one character fills up an 8 ½”x11” piece of paper, and print them out. Either paste them all together on a strand of ribbon to create a large banner, or tape them to the walls individually around the party space.
• Decorate your table! Tie groups of three or four balloons together and tie them to the back of each chair. Create simple centerpieces by taping four Pokemon trading cards together to create a box and adding red, blue or yellow crinkle paper inside.
  
• Hang a Pokemon banner across your party room.

Pokemon Party Food Ideas

For this party, you can keep it simple by serving traditional party food, and simply adding tent cards with theme-specific names to each dish. For example, “Pikachu Pizza”, “Sandshrew Salsa”, “Charmander Chips”, “Meowth Milk”, “Weedle Watermelon”, etcetera. If you want to be even more creative with the food, here are some additional ideas:

• Bake round sugar cookies and decorate them with red, black and white decorator icing to resemble pokeballs.
• Make layered jello treats and serve them in clear, shallow, plastic cups. To make jello layers, make the first layer and let it set, then add the second layer. Layer yellow and red for Pikachu colors, red and dark purple for pokeball colors, orange and blue for Charizard colors, etcetera.
• Use cookie cutters in the shape of Pokemon characters to cut out slices of cheese and serve with crackers. If you don’t have Pokemon cookie cutters, use generic cookie cutters that resemble Pokemon characters, such as a turtle shape for Squirtle, a butterfly shape for Butterfree, and a cat shape for Meowth.
• Use cookie cutters to make Pokemon-shaped jello jigglers, pancakes, and watermelon as well.
• Serve soda, water, fruit punch, chocolate milk, or regular milk with silly straws.
• Make a Pokemon cake by baking a round cake and frosting half of it in white frosting and the other half in red frosting. Draw the separating lines with black decorating icing. Or, for a more traditional approach, bake a 9”x13” cake and decorate it with Pokemon figurines.