The Best of the Brunch: A Birthday Party for Breakfast

For your child’s next birthday, consider hosting a brunch-themed party. Because brunch is a combination of breakfast and lunch, you can hold the party anytime from the late morning to the early afternoon. An earlier party time makes more sense for younger guests, and then, you’ll have the rest of the day to relax!

Whipping Up Some Fun

Have brunch-themed activities to make the party a unique experience.

Pajama Party: Lean into the brunch theme with a pajama party-style invitation, and ask guests to wear their pajamas.

Watch Day: Cuddle up with cozy pillows and blankets for a movie morning.

Get Creative: Decorate  pillow cases, aprons or a pajama shirt using fabric markers. Purchase plain mugs or iced coffee glasses kids can decorate with paint pens.

Backyard Fun: Head outdoors for field day-style games, such as a pancake stack relay, a Jenga-style cereal box game or a spoon egg race. Grab spatulas from the dollar store for a pancake relay race.

Game Time: Fill a doughnut- or egg-shaped piñata with goodies. Along with candies, consider brunch-themed sticker sheets or mini food erasers.

Set the Table: Print out colorable placemats or purchase a coloring tablecloth for a bit of creativity before food is served; the drawing utensils can double as a party favor for an easy crossover activity. You can also find printable brunch-themed party games on etsy.com.

Iconic Style: Make DIY cereal necklaces using cereal with holes, such as Cheerios, Froot Loops and Apple Jacks.

Play with Your Food: Buy the Building Brick Electric Waffle Maker from Waffle Wow! to allow kids to build edible creations. Set up a doughnut decorating station with different flavored doughnuts or doughnut holes, frostings, glazes, peanut butter, sprinkles or nuts.

Read All About It: Set up a reading station for kids who may need a bit of quiet time with breakfast-themed books, such as “Green Eggs and Ham,” “If You Give a Pig a Pancake” or “The Very Hungry Caterpillar Eats Breakfast.”

Baked Goods: For older kids, consider fun in the kitchen with baking muffins or scones together.

Takeaway: For party favors, buy mini cereal boxes, cookies decorated to resemble donuts, mini jams or jellies or breakfast-scented playdough.

Tips for an Eggs-tra Special Day

• Send out the invitations early. When you send out invites, don’t forget to ask if anyone has food allergies or restrictions. This can help you decide your menu items.
• Set up the night before. As much as you can prepare the night before the party, the easier it will be the next day. Set the table, hang up décor, and clean and dry any platters, plates or cake stands you’ll need.
• Consider catering. Leave the cooking to the pros! You can order catering from restaurants, such as Chick-fil-A, The Flying Biscuit Café, IHOP, Atlanta Bread, Goldberg’s Fine Foods or The Little Tart Bakeshop. Schedule a visit from the Waffle House food truck.
• Keep food warm. Use your appliances, a warming tray, or place everything in a low-temperature oven for items that need to stay hot. You can make a slow cooker oatmeal, an Instant Pot breakfast casserole or Crock-Pot boiled eggs.
• Consider the menu. Buffet bars are an easy way to allow kids to create their own perfect breakfast. Serve pancakes or waffles with nut butters, chocolate chips, fruits and syrups. A variety of bagels and cream cheese spreads will please different guests. Have guests make their own parfaits. Create doughnut or doughnut hole towers. Mini foods are adorable and easy for young kids to grab; serve mini doughnuts, muffins, pancakes, quiche, croissants, biscuits or waffles.
• Serve everyone at your party. Fruit is an easy pick for guests with food sensitivities, but consider other items as well. Shop your grocery store for frittatas, gluten-free muffin or bread mixes, gluten-free pie crusts and vegetarian sausage or bacon alternatives.
• Sip on delicious drinks. Buy juices or milk boxes for attendees. For adults, consider creating a coffee bar.
• Consider a brunch-themed cake. Continue the theme all the way to dessert! Think outside of the box with a Bundt cake, giant cinnamon roll, coffee cake or glazed donut cake. Make rainbow pancakes with food coloring, or fry pancakes into cute shapes, like hearts or the age of the birthday child, for an on-theme twist on a traditional birthday cake.