Host A Tie Dye Party
Host a tie dye party for kids with these easy DIY ideas. This party includes lots of fun ways to incorporate the tie dye theme including a cute invitation idea, easy tie dye cupcakes, and a party decor.
Are you looking for ideas to keep the kids busy for a birthday celebration or for the summer break? Well here’s an idea – host a tie dye party!
Plan this for a child’s birthday or for a summer neighborhood gathering. It should be colorful and bright and incorporate fun details that follow the theme.
Follow our tutorial on how to tie dye your own t-shirts and let create their own work of art.
Tie Dye Party Invitations
Send guests a custom invitation that’s designed in the shape of a garment hang tag. Pin it to a solid white t-shirt and tell the invitees to bring the shirt with them to the party so they can tie dye it.
Best Ideas for a Tie Dye Party
- Find tie dye or painterly fabric at the fabric store and use it for a table cloth. It’s a great base to help set the scene. Use it right off the bolt; no sewing required.
- Use the same fabric to hang as a backdrop to the dessert table. This visually connects the two areas of the party together.
- Search Etsy to find party printables with a tie dye design. I had these custom made by a graphic designer friend. Use printable signs in frames to decorate the table, and as food markers.
Party Decoration Ideas
If you’re creating a seated table, make sure you use colorful plates and napkins that coordinate with the tie dye fabric cover.
Keep the table decor and centerpiece to a minimum. Place a framed sign, add mini vases of flowers, or oversized toys that coordinate well with the rest of the scene.
Give kids their own drink bottle with their name attached. Use squeeze bottles to serve colorful punch in, and add a straw. Cut the pointed lid down so the opening is wide enough for a straw to slide through.
Quick Tip
Use different colors of punch or Kool aid in the squeeze bottles. They will emulate the look of the tie dye used to make the t-shirts.
Party Food
Serve colorful candy and cupcakes that echo the tie dye theme. Fill jars with layers of colorful toffee.
Display a plate of cupcakes that each has a different color and design.
Make the cupcakes by adding different colors of decorator gel or icing, and dragging a skewer through so they bleed into each other and look like tie dye designs.
Fruit strips make fantastic themed candy treats, and these rainbow colors are perfect for our theme. Display them in this fun pattern by layering 3 strips and then rolling them up.
Party Favors
Send guests home with their newly dyed tee shirts, of course. You’ll need plastic or paper bags to carry them in. And make sure they know to wash the shirts once or twice before wearing them.
Fill mini paint cans with colorful gumballs and add a printable sticker on top. The kids can take them home and reuse the cans for storing crayons or other small trinkets.
As a finishing touch, make sure everyone sends a photo of themselves wearing their tee shirt after they’ve washed it.
A tie dye party is such a fun theme to incorporate for your child’s birthday or after school activity. Let me know what you think!
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Love the printables. What a cool idea for a party.
Love the honey squirters with straws! Great idea!
Sheila
Really like the backsplash to the dessert table!
We love to tie-dye!
Thanks! ; )
Where did you get the “paint buckets”?
Debbie, they have those at craft stores like Michaels, or JoAnn’s