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Disney World Themed Birthday Party Ideas

By: Britni Vigil
5/01/2017Updated: 11/16/2022
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This awesome Disney party has tons of great ideas inspired by Disney World attractions and even a fully Epcot inspired food table! With DIY games, favors, even simple invitations, this is perfect for any little princess, boy, or even a grown up who loves Disney! Such a fun party theme!

Recreate your favorite experiences from Walt Disney World at home with these fun Disney birthday party ideas! Use these ideas and free printables to host your own Disney party or playdate for preschoolers at home! And don’t forget to invite the adults, Disney kids of all ages will love these ideas!

This awesome Disney party has tons of great ideas inspired by Disney World attractions and even a fully Epcot inspired food table! With DIY games, favors, even simple invitations, this is perfect for any little princess, boy, or even a grown up who loves Disney! Such a fun party theme!

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I was asked by Disney Parks to show you how to create a Disney Kids themed preschool playdate and since my son’s birthday party was last month, we decided to skip the playdate and go all out with a birthday party instead! Any of the tips in this post will work for a birthday party or a playdate!

For my son’s 4th birthday party, we decided to come up things to represent some of my son’s favorite things from our Disney World vacations over the past two years. Since my son hasn’t been to the water parks, we skipped the water parks and focused on the four main theme parks – Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Hollywood Studios, and Animal Kingdom.

With my son’s help, we picked out activities for each park and set up those activities in a part of our backyard then invited all of my son’s friends over for a fantastic Disney World themed party! For more great ideas, check out these fun Disney World ideas for preschoolers!

Easy Disney World Themed Birthday Party Ideas

We kept the party fairly simple with just a few different activities, but you could easily recreate any of your favorite Walt Disney World experiences at home!

Disney Birthday Party Ideas: Magic Kingdom

For us, Magic Kingdom is all about the rides and with way too many favorite rides to choose from, we decided to just get a big 5-in-1- Magic Kingdom bounce house to represent all the rides. And the kids loved it and probably would’ve been just fine bouncing for the entire party if there weren’t other fun things to do! This awesome Disney party has tons of great ideas inspired by Disney World attractions and even a fully Epcot inspired food table! With DIY games, favors, even simple invitations, this is perfect for any little princess, boy, or even a grown up who loves Disney! Such a fun party theme!

This awesome Disney party has tons of great ideas inspired by Disney World attractions and even a fully Epcot inspired food table! With DIY games, favors, even simple invitations, this is perfect for any little princess, boy, or even a grown up who loves Disney! Such a fun party theme!

One of my biggest tips for planning parties for preschoolers – don’t plan too much! We planned a couple of small activities but the majority of the party was just free playtime. Also if you’re doing an outdoor party like we did, make sure to provide shade, places to sit down, and lots of liquids so no one gets overheated, especially when they’re doing something active like jumping in a bounce house!
This awesome Disney party has tons of great ideas inspired by Disney World attractions and even a fully Epcot inspired food table! With DIY games, favors, even simple invitations, this is perfect for any little princess, boy, or even a grown up who loves Disney! Such a fun party theme!

Disney Birthday Party Ideas: Animal Kingdom

For the animal kingdom portion of our party, we decided to go with two different activities – a dinosaur dig and an animal safari hunt. The first was a dinosaur dig to represent the big dinosaur boneyard in the dinosaur section of Animal Kingdom.

I purchased this set of dinosaur eggs (with mini dinosaurs inside), a sandbox, play sand, and a bunch of sand digging tools for the kids to dig for their own dinosaurs.
This awesome Disney party has tons of great ideas inspired by Disney World attractions and even a fully Epcot inspired food table! With DIY games, favors, even simple invitations, this is perfect for any little princess, boy, or even a grown up who loves Disney! Such a fun party theme!

This awesome Disney party has tons of great ideas inspired by Disney World attractions and even a fully Epcot inspired food table! With DIY games, favors, even simple invitations, this is perfect for any little princess, boy, or even a grown up who loves Disney! Such a fun party theme!

Second, I created this free printable wild safari animal hunt for the kids and my mother-in-law led the kids on their own little stuffed animal safari on a trail behind our house. Having other people help gives you the chance to enjoy time with your preschoolers, so take advantage of any family + friends who volunteer to help!

This animal safari scavenger hunt is perfect for an animal safari party or birthday celebration! Perfect for preschool aged kids who love animals! I’m definitely trying these fun scavenger hunt ideas for kids for my son’s next party!
This animal safari scavenger hunt is perfect for an animal safari party or birthday celebration! Perfect for preschool aged kids who love animals! I’m definitely trying these fun scavenger hunt ideas for kids for my son’s next party!

This animal safari scavenger hunt is perfect for an animal safari party or birthday celebration! Perfect for preschool aged kids who love animals! I’m definitely trying these fun scavenger hunt ideas for kids for my son’s next party!

Disney Birthday Party Ideas: Hollywood Studios

We came up with two activities for Hollywood Studios as well – Star Wars Jedi Training games and DIY Toy Story Midway Mania games.

Each of the activities only took about 10-15 minutes, which is ideal for preschoolers because that’s about the length of their attention span. Anything longer and you’ll start losing them!

Try these fun DIY Jedi Training Academy party games for your next Star Wars birthday or kids party! Great ideas that work for boys, girls, and even a grown up party! Definitely trying these activities with my kids at our next Star Wars party!

Try these fun DIY Jedi Training Academy party games for your next Star Wars birthday or kids party! Great ideas that work for boys, girls, and even a grown up party! Definitely trying these activities with my kids at our next Star Wars party!

Try these fun DIY Jedi Training Academy party games for your next Star Wars birthday or kids party! Great ideas that work for boys, girls, and even a grown up party! Definitely trying these activities with my kids at our next Star Wars party!

When the kids arrived, we gave them each a Toy Story bag and sent them in the direction of the games. They could each pop one or two balloons in the dino dart game, break one plate in the Toy Story punch camp, and play the Hamm & Eggs and Flying Tossers games as often as they wanted to win Toy Story themed prizes. Here are all the details for these DIY Toy Story Midway Mania games.
This awesome Disney party has tons of great ideas inspired by Disney World attractions and even a fully Epcot inspired food table! With DIY games, favors, even simple invitations, this is perfect for any little princess, boy, or even a grown up who loves Disney! Such a fun party theme!

Make your own Toy Story Midway Mania games at home with this fun outdoor games tutorial! With everything from a homemade balloon darts to a punch box, so many fun ideas!

Make your own Toy Story Midway Mania games at home with this fun outdoor games tutorial! With everything from a homemade balloon darts to a punch box, so many fun ideas!

Make your own Toy Story Midway Mania games at home with this fun outdoor games tutorial! With everything from a homemade balloon darts to a punch box, so many fun ideas!

This awesome Disney party has tons of great ideas inspired by Disney World attractions and even a fully Epcot inspired food table! With DIY games, favors, even simple invitations, this is perfect for any little princess, boy, or even a grown up who loves Disney! Such a fun party theme!

Disney Birthday Party Ideas: Epcot Food

One of our favorite things to do at Epcot is to eat around the world showcase. We decided to skip the activities for Epcot and made a food table with our favorite foods from the world showcase – in preschool form!

I created free printable food tags that you can print by clicking here using free images on my memory maker photo pass from my last trip!

In addition to all of the food on the table, my talented sister created a Spaceship Earth cake using this ball cake pan for the center of the table. I also created these printable signs for “Club Cooler,” coolers full of different types of sodas and drinks – like the beloved Club Cool in Epcot!

And last but not least, we added some of our favorite Epcot characters to the table.

This awesome Disney party has tons of great ideas inspired by Disney World attractions and even a fully Epcot inspired food table! With DIY games, favors, even simple invitations, this is perfect for any little princess, boy, or even a grown up who loves Disney! Such a fun party theme!

When you’re planning food for preschoolers, think about things that are easy to eat and creative takes on their favorites – pizza, hot dogs, candy, and crackers. We incorporated all of my son’s favorites in fun Epcot themed ways.

Disney Food Ideas:

  • Germany – Mini pretzel dogs
  • Canada – homemade pretzel bites and cheese dip
  • Japan – candy sushi (my favorite!!)
  • France – red, white, and blue fruit plate
  • China – fortune cookies
  • Norway – FROZEN bundt cakes
  • America – Red, white, and blue Mickey donuts
  • Mexico – these churro cookies
  • United Kingdom – Fish & chips (goldfish & chips)
  • Italy – Pepperoni pizza rolls

This awesome Disney party has tons of great ideas inspired by Disney World attractions and even a fully Epcot inspired food table! With DIY games, favors, even simple invitations, this is perfect for any little princess, boy, or even a grown up who loves Disney! Such a fun party theme!

This awesome Disney party has tons of great ideas inspired by Disney World attractions and even a fully Epcot inspired food table! With DIY games, favors, even simple invitations, this is perfect for any little princess, boy, or even a grown up who loves Disney! Such a fun party theme!

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This awesome Disney party has tons of great ideas inspired by Disney World attractions and even a fully Epcot inspired food table! With DIY games, favors, even simple invitations, this is perfect for any little princess, boy, or even a grown up who loves Disney! Such a fun party theme!

This awesome Disney party has tons of great ideas inspired by Disney World attractions and even a fully Epcot inspired food table! With DIY games, favors, even simple invitations, this is perfect for any little princess, boy, or even a grown up who loves Disney! Such a fun party theme!

This awesome Disney party has tons of great ideas inspired by Disney World attractions and even a fully Epcot inspired food table! With DIY games, favors, even simple invitations, this is perfect for any little princess, boy, or even a grown up who loves Disney! Such a fun party theme!

This awesome Disney party has tons of great ideas inspired by Disney World attractions and even a fully Epcot inspired food table! With DIY games, favors, even simple invitations, this is perfect for any little princess, boy, or even a grown up who loves Disney! Such a fun party theme!

This awesome Disney party has tons of great ideas inspired by Disney World attractions and even a fully Epcot inspired food table! With DIY games, favors, even simple invitations, this is perfect for any little princess, boy, or even a grown up who loves Disney! Such a fun party theme!

This awesome Disney party has tons of great ideas inspired by Disney World attractions and even a fully Epcot inspired food table! With DIY games, favors, even simple invitations, this is perfect for any little princess, boy, or even a grown up who loves Disney! Such a fun party theme!

This awesome Disney party has tons of great ideas inspired by Disney World attractions and even a fully Epcot inspired food table! With DIY games, favors, even simple invitations, this is perfect for any little princess, boy, or even a grown up who loves Disney! Such a fun party theme!

This awesome Disney party has tons of great ideas inspired by Disney World attractions and even a fully Epcot inspired food table! With DIY games, favors, even simple invitations, this is perfect for any little princess, boy, or even a grown up who loves Disney! Such a fun party theme!

This awesome Disney party has tons of great ideas inspired by Disney World attractions and even a fully Epcot inspired food table! With DIY games, favors, even simple invitations, this is perfect for any little princess, boy, or even a grown up who loves Disney! Such a fun party theme!

This awesome Disney party has tons of great ideas inspired by Disney World attractions and even a fully Epcot inspired food table! With DIY games, favors, even simple invitations, this is perfect for any little princess, boy, or even a grown up who loves Disney! Such a fun party theme!

This awesome Disney party has tons of great ideas inspired by Disney World attractions and even a fully Epcot inspired food table! With DIY games, favors, even simple invitations, this is perfect for any little princess, boy, or even a grown up who loves Disney! Such a fun party theme!

This awesome Disney party has tons of great ideas inspired by Disney World attractions and even a fully Epcot inspired food table! With DIY games, favors, even simple invitations, this is perfect for any little princess, boy, or even a grown up who loves Disney! Such a fun party theme!

This awesome Disney party has tons of great ideas inspired by Disney World attractions and even a fully Epcot inspired food table! With DIY games, favors, even simple invitations, this is perfect for any little princess, boy, or even a grown up who loves Disney! Such a fun party theme!

I’ve hosted a lot of really fun birthday parties like my son’s Pajama Time party or Pop a Wheelie party, but I think this one was my all-time favorite. And it has nothing to do with the fact that I love visiting Disney World, this party was really just fun!

And preschoolers are my favorite age, whether you’re visiting Disney with them or just inviting them over for one magical Disney playdate or party at home!

As a recap, here are my five best tips for hosting a Disney playdate or party!

Tips for Hosting a Disney Playdate or Party

  1. Get your kids involved in the planning – they’ll enjoy it more if they had a say in the party!
  2. Don’t over plan and for activities you do plan, try to keep them short and sweet!
  3. For outdoor parties, have plenty of places to sit down, places that are shaded, and liquids on hand to avoid any overheating.
  4. For food, put a creative Disney spin on preschool favorites like hot dogs, pizza, and pretzels!
  5. Accept help from family and friends who volunteer – it’ll give you more time to enjoy the party with your preschoolers!

What is your favorite Walt Disney World park?

This awesome Disney party has tons of great ideas inspired by Disney World attractions and even a fully Epcot inspired food table! With DIY games, favors, even simple invitations, this is perfect for any little princess, boy, or even a grown up who loves Disney! Such a fun party theme!

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  1. C Goll says

    Posted on 4/11 at 9:43 pm

    Is there a link where I can find the epcot recipes like for Mexico and Japan?

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    • Britni Vigil says

      Posted on 5/12 at 9:33 am

      I wrote this post a long time ago and don’t remember exactly what recipes I used but if you google candy sushi and churro cookies, you’ll find great options!

      Reply
  2. Glenda Diphharash says

    Posted on 6/3 at 4:38 pm

    I’m stuck. I planning this party for a few days (2 weeks) and I can’t seem to come up with any ideas! Of course, your article has helped so much. Any other helpful suggestions?

    Reply
  3. Glenda Diphharash says

    Posted on 5/27 at 11:42 am

    Thank you for the wonderful ideas! These will help a lot. Do you have any other ideas for magic kingdom since we are throwing this party for a grown man? 🙂

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    • BritniV says

      Posted on 5/28 at 1:50 pm

      There are so many different things you could do for Magic Kingdom. I mean for starters, there’s so much amazing food! You could have people sing like the Dapper Dans, do some sort of Nerf gun shooting activity (for Frontierland), setup a pirate/treasure hunt, go-karts (for Tomorrowland), or any sort of space/future themed activities.

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      • Glenda Diphharash says

        Posted on 6/3 at 8:20 am

        Also, where did you get the tsum tsums for the carnival game? I can’t seem to find any that arent like $1,000

      • BritniV says

        Posted on 6/3 at 10:06 am

        I actually bought ours on Clearance at Target years ago. I know you can get them in sets on Amazon for like $12/4 or on ShopDisney as well – just watch for sales and collect going into it!

  4. Alyssa from The Sparkly Life says

    Posted on 5/1 at 11:14 am

    wow! your party turned out amazing! where did you get those donuts?? did you make them?

    Reply
    • BritniV says

      Posted on 5/25 at 9:50 am

      I actually got them from a local bakery!

      Reply
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