Our oldest son loves Pokemon and Pikachu especially. Throw a birthday party any Pokemon collector will love with these invitations, crafts and game ideas.

Invitations

Open the Pokemon Invitation Front, click on the 9 and change it to your child’s age. Print on card-stock and then reinsert the same piece of paper back into your printer without flipping. Open Pokemon Invitation Back and click on the text to change to your information. Print, cut out and you are done.

Games

Pokemon Punch

Shopping List

  • Standard red “Solo” disposable plastic cups
  • Red, white, and black tissue paper
  • Large piece of cardboard or poster board
  • Small prizes
  • Cotton balls, streamers, torn up paper or confetti (optional)
  • Velcro adhesive picture frame wall hangers (optional)

Place prizes and optionally cotton balls, streamers or other fillers into cups. Tear tissue paper to approximate size of cups and hot glue to rim of cups. When glue has cooled trim paper by hand to cup size. Glue cups to cardboard in shape shown above. Hang on wall with adhesive picture frame hangers or lean against wall and let kids punch into cups to claim a prize.

Pokemon Catapult

Shopping List

  • Large Craft Sticks
  • Rubber bands
  • Ping pong balls
  • Plastic shot glasses or the round half of Easter eggs
  • Red and Black permanent markers (optional)

Stack a bunch of craft sticks in a pile and rubber band together. Place one one either side perpendicular to the stack and rubber band together. Make sure to place rubber bands diagonally as shown above. Glue the round half of an Easter egg or a plastic shot glass cut to about 1/2 inch tall to the arm of the catapult. Color ping pong balls with permanent markers to look like Pokeballs. Have a race with two teams each taking turns to see how quickly each of their members can lob a ping pong ball into a box or other target.

Pokemon Prize Box

Wrap a box in yellow paper or felt. Cut a hole in the top. Glue from the inside a piece of yellow felt to cover the whole and cut an x in the felt with a sharp knife. Decorate with black tape and printed out Pokemon decorations. This makes a great way to distribute prizes blindly. These could be the prizes at the end of the catapult game or anything else.

Pokemon Ball Hunt

This was a simple Easter egg style hunt but we put Pokemon ball stickers on all the eggs and assigned each child a color to find.

T-Shirt

Making your own t-shirt for your special birthday child is really easy and affordable. At Vistaprint you can get one for under $10 if you get one of their deals that runs regularly. Here is an idea for a 9 year old Shirt. You can easily change the number by clicking on it and moving the other elements around to make sense.

Decorations and Cake

Cake

An easy to make cake that really fits the theme.

Shopping List

  • Cake mix for three round 9 inch cakes and ingredients on package.
  • Yellow food coloring
  • Red and black or brown chocolate melting disks
  • Black decorating gel
  • White frosting
  • Milano cookies

Bake three 9 inch round cakes according to the box and let cool. Reserve a small amount of white frosting. Tint the rest of the frosting using yellow food coloring. Stack cakes placing a little bit of frosting between and coat all sides. Decorate two black or brown chocolate melting disks with dots of white frosting for the eyes. Place on cake. Add two red melting disks for the cheeks, a chocolate chip for the nose and use the black gel to draw a mouth. Melt some of the black or brown melting discs and dip the milano cookies in them. After cooled, frost the bottom 2/3 of the milano cookies in the yellow frosting and stick in cake to form ears.

Table Cloth

Shopping List

  • Paper plate
  • One red and one white plastic table cloth
  • Black duct tape

Fold red and white tablecloths in half or cut in half. Place on table and tape at seam across the full length of the table. Place paper plate in the middle of the table and with short strips of tape, attach on all sides.

Prize Bags