Best Butterfly Birthday Party ideas

Lots of butterfly theme birthday party ideas, perfect for if you're planning a butterfly theme party for your little one's birthday! We hope you love our ideas, let us know your favourite in the comments below!

1. Make some butterfly cake pops

Make some cake pops, then decorate them with mini butterfly adornments, edible flowers and edible glitter! These double as party decorations and your guests will love them! They also make for beautiful, sensory edibles for your little one to explore and enjoy.

2. Make some sparkly slime or playdough

This is a really cool sensory birthday party activity for your one year old, that accords with the theme perfectly! You could even make an edible version, that your little one can explore and play with and can even put in their mouth too. Just be sure there are no big chunky glitter pieces that could pose a choking risk! You could pop these in to pots to give as cute party favours.

3. Butterfly ice cubes for guests' drinks 👈🏻

These will be sure to impress your guests for days! They are so cool and the perfect adorable party twist, so guests can enjoy their drinks in style! You could even freeze fruit juices instead of water, to change the colour, and add this amazing edible shimmer for drinks!

Pink ice cube mould for butterfly ice cubes 👈🏻

4. Make some candyfloss mocktails for guests

Speaking of pretty drinks, why not create some amazing candyfloss cocktails (for the grown ups) and mocktails (for the younger guests) that guests will adore! They even double as pretty decor and your little one will adore investigating candy floss or cotton candy, as it dissolves in their mouth so quickly and is so much fun to pull apart.

To make them, just pop a good amount of candyfloss in your glasses or flutes, then pour the liquid on top of the candyfloss to make it dissolve, so beautiful to watch and so much fun for your younger guests - and your older guests! You could even add some edible flowers and rosebuds to drinks to make them extra pretty! A rose lemonade with edible petals would be so magical and match the theme perfectly too!

5. Gold and pink butterfly cupcake toppers 👈🏻

These are divine and the perfect way to give each of your birthday cupcakes a lovely little butterfly halo!

6. Send a beautiful butterfly invitation to guests

Little butterfly is turning One birthday invitation 👈🏻

Butterfly glitter rainbow birthday invitation 👈🏻

Pastel gold butterfly birthday party invitation 👈🏻

Pastel blue butterfly birthday invitation 👈🏻

7. Beautiful butterfly birthday cake toppers

Pink and gold butterfly cake decorations 👈🏻

Lilac pink and gold butterfly cake decorations 👈🏻

Pale lilac butterfly cake adornments 👈🏻

Gold lace butterfly birthday cake adornments 👈🏻

Realistic pink butterfly birthday cake adornments 👈🏻

8. A jumbo butterfly birthday cake topper

Jumbo glitter butterfly birthday cake topper 👈🏻

Jumbo glitter gold butterfly birthday cake topper 👈🏻

Personalised gold glitter birthday cake topper 👈🏻

9. Host a bubble party

Bubbles are such a fun and exciting sensory experience, perfect for your little one to enjoy on their special day! This is something that kids of any age will love also! A bubble machine would be perfect for this - you can even rent them in some places - but if you can't get your hands on one, hand blown bubbles would be perfect! You could even hold small contests for guests, such as, who can blow the biggest bubble, or who can pop the most bubbles in one go, or within a certain time frame.

You could even use this amazing confetti canon to delight your little one on their special day!

10. Make beautiful butterflies with guests

An amazing butterfly themed party activity for little ones, teach your guests to make butterflies by giving them blank white sheets of paper cut in to butterfly shapes, but folded in half down the middle. Then ask them to paint one side of the butterfly, however they like, and while the paint is wet, unfold the butterfly, then sandwich the painted wing against the blank wing... then unfold and voila!

11. Thank you for fluttering by butterfly stickers 👈🏻

These are perfect for party favours and match the theme beautifully!

12. Pink stripey butterfly straws 👈🏻

These are amazing and guests will adore them! You could even craft your own, by cutting butterflies out of sparkly card to stick on.

13. Beautiful butterfly plates 👈🏻

14. Beautiful butterfly cups 👈🏻

15. Create an array of 'pick up' snacks

Arrange some easy and simple snacks that are perfect for toddlers, like Cheerios, mini crackers and biscuits and lots of easy and yummy food fingers for younger guests to enjoy! You could arrange them in pretty muffin cases and even give them labels, such as 'fairy treats', for an adorable toddler fairy tea party!

16. Create a cake smash set up

Such a fun and amazing activity for your little one, an amazing way to create memories!

17. Make some butterfly sugar cookies 👈🏻

These will be sure to amaze and wow guests and you could even hold a butterfly sugar cookie decorating contest!

18. Butterfly confetti balloons 👈🏻

These confetti filled balloons are adorable and perfect for the occasion! There aren't many occasions that would suit these gorgeous butterfly balloons, so now is the perfect time ~~excuse~~ to try them!

19. Pretty birthday party table confetti 👈🏻