Our Under the Sea theme party adventure starts off with us joining the mermaids for a fabulous ocean adventure party to celebrate the birthday boy or girl! The children are encouraged to put on their mermaid, fish or ocean themed tattoo and stickers and prepare to learn about all of the wonders of the ocean and how the mermaids look after it! They are then told that by the end of the party they will be made honorary mermaids/mermen by the Mermaid King if they take part in the games and activities and help take care of the ocean!
We start off our under the sea birthday celebration by learning about the different sea creatures and how to move like them with our Mermaid Moves game. The children will turn into whales, dolphins, crabs, eels, prawns and many more sea creatures as we dance around the room. We then discuss the most famous sea creature – the shark – and we move onto our baby shark dance with all the actions!
After that it’s time to make our way through the coral reef to feed the jellyfish and to do so we must swim through the tunnels and go under our seaweed limbo stick. After we squeeze through the smallest tunnel we’ll arrive in jellyfish cove where we each get a jellyfish to look after. We will dance around and feed the jellyfish some nutritious ocean bubbles so they stay healthy.
When the jellyfish are all full up we’ll let them float away and move onto a very important mermaid task – cleaning up the ocean! We discuss how humans sometimes drop litter and if it makes its way into the ocean it can be harmful to the sea creatures, which leads us onto our game of collecting all of the rubbish from the sea. While we tidy up the ocean a couple of crabs arrive and see that some of the rubbish is shiny. Mistaking it for treasure they try and steal the rubbish back from our nets; however we eventually get all of the rubbish back and the ocean is saved!
We then look for ocean treasures to use for jewellery making and find a huge collection of shiny pearls mixed in with some sea urchins! It’s our job to collect all the pearls and put them in our treasure chest so the mermaids can make beautiful jewellery for everyone. Just as we think it’s time to return back to the mermaid’s castle a big school of sharks appear and they look hungry! We find lots of little fish to feed them so they don’t eat us and eventually they get full up and go for a big sleep, leaving us to swim back to the mermaid’s castle to play a game of pass the parcel!
Pass the parcel has a piece of mermaid jewellery and a treat for every child inside. When every child has received their gifts the mermaid party entertainer will get a call on the shell phone from the Mermaid King to tell them he has heard how the children have got on and is very pleased with them, so much so he is making them honorary mermaids and is happy for them to wear a special mermaid tail for their pictures and get a special golden coin from the treasure chest!
At this point we move onto a mermaid birthday party group photo with the birthday girl or boy sitting on the rock couch wearing their choice of mermaid tail. After group photos we normally sing happy birthday and move onto individual photos for everyone, including their grownups, bestie pictures and any family pictures wanted.
If little mermaid birthday party potion making is added on, the children are invited to make their beautiful under the sea potion with their grownup after their individual photo. There are two options for this theme – a dry bath bomb type potion or a liquid sparkle potion.
Personal touches can also be added to make the day even more special, e.g. favourite songs, introductions of special guests (e.g. parent or friend dressed up as a superhero or princess etc) or even games/activities created specifically to suit a favourite character (joining the Family Madrigal was created for our first ever birthday princess!)
We reserve the right to change or alter the activities described above if there are special requests incorporated or as new games/activities are created, however we will always have a call with the party organiser in the week before the party to discuss this, agree the party flow and ensure the celebrations are extra special for the birthday boy or girl!
There are two potion options for the Under the Sea theme! The first is a sparkly sea water potion with sparkles, sequins, magic ocean stones, octopus ink colouring and deep sea oil that can be kept forever by the children’s bedside to remind them that they are official mermaids/mermen and that they have the power of the ocean inside themselves and they can achieve amazing things. The second option for this party is a bath potion with coloured bath salts, bath crumbles, fizzing bath dust and makeup grade dried flowers used to make a potion the children can add to their baths for a fabulously fragranced bubbly sea adventure or to water in a play tray!
All of our parties include a free photoshoot against our amazing themed backdrops and the under the sea party is no exception! As well as sitting on our beautiful shell couch and being surrounded by trinkets and sea shells, the children are able to borrow one of our mermaid tails or shark hats to wear for their photos! It’s absolutely priceless seeing their little faces when they transform into real mermaids and lounge on the sofa in our under the sea palace! We take group photos, individual photos and photos with their grownups if wanted too!
Our children’s parties really do make dreams come true. We sow the seed for imaginative play and creative learning that continues long after the party. Themed information is weaved into the content of each party by our children’s party entertainers to tease little minds into exploring the topic further and also to encourage positive behaviour such as kindness, curiosity and care for the planet.
