Fireman Birthday Party Ideas

Four-Alarm Invitations 
Photocopy simple fire engine graphics from a coloring book or storybook, and fill in the date, time and place of party. Send them out four-alarm fast! Or help your kids create them on your computer using dalmatian (a firefighter's favorite pal) and fire engine clipart.

Four-Alarm Decorations 
For Room Decorations Hang fire-engine red balloons, or draw black spots on white balloons with a permanent marker.

For the Fire Truck Dining Table
Place a new (or cleaned-up) toy fire engine on the center of the table. Attach a bouquet of helium balloons to the truck, and surround it with curly ribbons.
Make place cards by attaching names on card stock to toy fire hydrants, small toy fire engines or plastic spotted dogs. (Purchase them at party or toy stores, and give to party goers to take home.)
Make place mats using the same fire engine graphics as the invitations. Kids can color as they wait for the food to be served.

Bright red paper goods are easy to find. You can also look for fire engine paper goods at large party stores.

Four-Alarm Activities 
Hand out toy firefighter hats to kids before the activities begin. (Hats can be part of their take-home loot.) Purchase inexpensive ones at toy or party stores, and personalize with a permanent marker if you like.

Experience the "Real" Thing
Arrange a visit to a fire station, or arrange with a fire station to have a fire engine and firefighters come to your party. Some fire stations will do this with a donation made to their designated fund. Allow time after these activities for kids to write thank-you notes to the firefighters in appreciation.

Create At-Home Fun
"Rescue the Animal" Relay
Divide kids into two teams, and have them line up. The first child in each line must put on a coat, pair of boots and a firefighter hat (coat and boots should be slightly oversized to fit all kids), walk across the room and pick up a stuffed animal (completing the animal rescue), and then carry the animal back to the line where he passes the coat, boots and hat to the next child. Rescues continue until everyone has rescued an animal. The first team to finish wins, or everyone can be a winner and keep his or her rescued animal. 

Four-Alarm Food Fun 
Enlarge fire engine graphics to a large tray size, or place red paper on a large piece of cardboard. Serve cupcakes and ice cream on paper-covered tray or cardboard.

Game Ideas
- Egg in Spoon Race
Make a start and finish line, first one there wins.
- Water Balloon Toss
Team who tosses the most without popping or dropping wins.
- Spooning Cotton Balls
Two bowls & blind fold, each child spoons cotton balls or marshmallows from one bowl to the other in one minute, the one who does the most wins.
- Balloon Pop
Each kid gets a balloon to sit on, first one popped wins.

This party idea was provided by our friends at Betty Crocker