Farm Party Ideas – For a 2 Year Old’s Epic Birthday Party!
This big list of farm party ideas was done for a 2 year old girl’s birthday party, but is fun for any themed every farm themed event. This post contains affiliate links.
I’ve been sharing different ideas from A’s second birthday party over the past couple of years, and I wanted to sum it all up in one skimmable post so that you can see it at-a-glance!
Some of these farm party ideas already have their own dedicated posts, and for some I’m sharing it for the first time. If I’ve already written about it, it’s because I felt that I had so much to share on it, that I had to go over it more thoroughly. Those I’ll go over quickly now and link to the post for further exploration if you’d like to learn more.
The ones that I haven’t yet shared, I’ll be sharing in depth.
Farm Party Ideas for Decor
When setting the scene for your farm party, you can take a few different approaches. One of those is the cow print approach, another is a general farm theme. I primarily took the first approach as you’ll see below.
Color Scheme
One of the key ways to create an atmosphere with a party is to choose a good color scheme. For our farm party, I treated black and white cow print as its own color, and complemented it with solid pink and green.
This theme was repeated throughout – with all pink and greens representing as solids, and the only black and white being the cow print.
The impact was fantastic – it was cheerful, on-theme and fun enough for a toddler. And it looked fabulous enough for the adults in the room.
Here’s a quick overview, but you can learn more about our cow party decorations here.
Room Decor
More specifically, I set things in three layers: background, foreground, and table level.
- In the background, behind the table, we had lots of balloons. I got a mix of pink and green balloons, plus cow print latex balloons, and set the stage with those. A cow pennant banner hung between the balloons.
- Over the table, I had a big number two balloon. I get a 40 inch number balloon for each birthday to use as a milestone photo prop, and use it as decor as well. We also had two mylar cow balloons hanging on either side.
- And finally, in the foreground, we kept it simple with more cow-print pennants.
Notice how in the three tiers, the background had the most. This keeps the actual space where people are mingling uncluttered while still filling the room.
Table Settings
We continued the theme on the table with a cow print tablecloth serving as a backdrop for pink and green paper goods. I also got cow print napkins but those weren’t necessary.
And as a really cool final touch, a bouquet of pink roses with green leaves made the space feel festive and feminine.
Farm Party Food Ideas
While I don’t always theme food to the party, this theme was begging for appropriate foods! We focused on keeping things in a farm fresh theme, and it was a healthy, wholesome approach.
You can read more details about our farm party food ideas here, or check out y quick overview below.
Brunch
When I throw a younger kid’s party, we usually have lots of families who stay and mingle the whole day – kids and adults. It’s more the vibe of this type of party.
For that reason, I like to serve something that feels a bit more like a meal and can actually fill people.
We did lots of farm themed foods here, including:
- Deviled eggs
- Corn salad
- Romaine-based salad loaded with veggies
- Green veggie sticks (hot house cucumbers, celery, green beans) served upright in a dish to look like grass
Drinks
Some themed drinks include chocolate milk and orange juice, and while I don’t even remember if we served those, they are a fabulous idea as part of a brunch at a farm party.
Treats
Again, treats don’t need to be themed, but cow print cookies are totally easy if you are okay with them looking very homemade. Just use black cookie icing to make black splotches on a regular cookie. Chocolate chip cookies can also do the trick.
The cake topper
As usual, instead of a birthday cake, I crafted a cake topper that’s on theme. A cow print background and pink text was all we needed for this one. We stuck it into a babka because babkas are awesome.
Activities & Crafts Farm Party Ideas
I absolutely love setting up craft tables at parties. Kids LOVE coming home with something that they made and it gives them something to do. Even family get-togethers in our house usually have an independent craft table set up somewhere.
In fact, I love it so much, I started doing craft parties professionally! You can grab the full list of farm party activities here, or scroll through for the quick overview.
Puppet Making
I’m a big fan of paper puppets because they’re super easy to make (just color, cut out, and stick on a stick) and I designed this set special for this party. I put out crayons to accommodate the toddlers in the room, and placed double sided tape on the sticks in advance.
Stickers, Stickers, Stickers…
Toddlers do great with stickers, and older kids do too. I got some foam farm themed stickers as well as some build-a-farm-animal stickers to put out alongside sheets of plain paper. The kids spent time on it, and mixed it up with the crayons from the other activity too.
More Ideas
While I didn’t do it at this particular party, I also have some fun craft stick farm animals on the blog, as well as these farm puppets (just print, cut, assemble – no coloring) that can be included in your farm party ideas too.
Farm Party Favor Ideas
To finalize things for our farm party, let’s talk favors! I createdthese adorable cow favor bags that double as puppets. Of course, you can also just add spots to a white bag, or get cow print bags.
I try to put things that are as playable as possible in party favors. For this one, I got cow bracelets, cow bath toys (I’d ditch this next time), more of those build-an-animal stickers (big win) and circle farm animal stickers, plus cow shaped crayons.
It’s really easy to find favors for this theme so look for usable items you’d like to give, and find them in a farm theme.
Got any farm party ideas to add to the list? Comment below!
