50th Birthday Party ideas for Men

Tons of DIY fun and unique 50th birthday party ideas for men, perfect for your husband, dad or brother! Here you will find 50th birthday party themes, games and activities and decor ideas he will love, even if you're looking for ideas on how to celebrate a 50th birthday without a party, we hope these ideas will inspire you!

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What can you do for someone's 50th birthday?

1. Gift him a realistic chocolate toilet roll 👈🏻

These make hilarious gifts, a realistic chocolate toilet roll is perfect to surprise your recipient, especially if they constantly complain about the toilet roll getting used too fast!

2. Serve cupcakes with edible photo toppers 👈🏻

The best ever gift idea that fuses cake with special memories! Your recipients will be able to treasure the special photos and eat them afterwards - the perfect gift that means you can bond over special memories with your recipient and treat them at the same time. This is also super low cost to put together! 

3. A giant blackboard setup/photo memory wall 

So all guests can write, draw and scribble their own messages on it! You could set up a giant chalkboard canvas that guests can decorate, with photos, memories, drawings and messages! This would make an amazing photo backdrop for the party, for guests to take photos in front of. 

To create the canvas backdrop for guests to decorate, grab some black paper or cardstock and staple it to a base, such as a wall, fence or giant board made from cardboard. Provide guests with some chalks and liquid chalk markers and let them decorate to their hearts content, with neon and pastel markers or even glow in the dark paint!

4. Make a custom cupcake pullapart shaped like them! 

A fun cupcake pullapart makes the best birthday surprise - or party table centerpiece - as it looks super impressive and creates the most standout display. You could even shape it to look exactly like your recipient - so much fun! Even if it goes wrong, it will sure to elicit a lot of laughs! 

Simply arrange your plain cupcakes in a desired shape or formation - then ice them all together as one, creating one whole shape, like joining the dots. Then use colourful frosting to decorate and add the finer details, to bring your creation to life! 

5. Try some personalised edible drinks toppers 👈🏻

These are totally edible and also work so well to decorate party treats and tailor them perfectly to the occasion, plus you can personalise them with a photo design and script of your choice to impress guests no end! 

6. Gift him a funny photoshopped picture

Make them a funny photoshopped picture with all their favourite things, you could set it in a place they have always dreamed of visiting! Add in all their favourite things and people - even fictional characters! This is such a unique and creative gift idea and they are sure to love it. You could print and frame the final result for them to keep safely in their room or space, it will be sure to make them smile whenever they see it!

7. Opt for an old Hollywood theme

Your recipient can celebrate turning 50 in style! 

8. Try a fun Cheers and Beers theme 

Cheers and beers for 50 years! 

9. Some personalised can coolers for favors 

These make the cutest piece of the party that guests can take away with them - they are useful too!

Fun personalised customable can coolers 👈🏻

10. DIY some layered popcorn party favors 

Grab some jars or cellophane cones and layer different flavours of popcorn to create cute and stylish party favors! 

11. Theme it around their favourite sport or game

You could even make batches of different coloured popcorn to represent the colours of their favourite teams and set up a sports themed celebration! 

12. Opt for an amazing jumbo birthday cake topper

These are amazing and are the perfect way to elevate the birthday cake for your recipient, something they will always remember!

Happy Birthday personalised jumbo cake topper 👈🏻

Happy Birthday beer birthday cake topper 👈🏻

Personalised icing character birthday cake topper 👈🏻

Happy beer-day birthday cake topper 👈🏻

13. Set up a stylish jumbo donut wall 

Party food and party decor in one! These are always so popular and a hit with guests of all ages. You could even set up a banner saying 'guess [name]'s favourite' and turn it into a contest at the same time! 

14. Attach black and white photos of your recipient to balloon trails 

This looks so cool if you have floating/helium balloons! You could print copies of photos of your recipient when they were younger or use your favourite snaps that represent special memories together. 

15. Set up a waffles or pancakes bar 

Where guests can load up on all the toppings and create some unique waffle based creations! 

16. Theme it around their favourite sneakers 

One of the best and most creative party themes for men and guys, this will be sure to bring everyone together in celebration! There are so many fun ideas to try here that also feature in our DIY Teenage Boy Birthday Party ideas post, from baking some amazing sneaker sugar cookies (after their favourite sneaker variety of course!) to a jumbo sneaker birthday cake topper, to shoe care kits as party favours!

Adidas Yeezy Sneaker cookie cutter 👈🏻

Nike Air Force 1 cookie cutter 👈🏻

Nike Air Jordan 1 cookie cutter 👈🏻

Converse Sneaker cookie cutter 👈🏻

16. Host a boozy birthday brunch occasion 

Or even a boozy birthday lunch! 

17. Play a game of 'guess his age'  

One of the cutest birthday party ideas to celebrate your recipient! To set this up, print off some copies of photos of your recipient at different ages and arrange on a big piece of cardstock, in grid formation. Then guests can write their guesses around each picture (including their initials to show who's is who's) - the guest who guesses closest wins! 

 

18. Set up a gold custom personalised number pinata 👈🏻 

No one is ever too old for a pinata! They are so much fun, double as cool party decor and sure to result in a lot of hilarity, especially when played properly with a blindfold!

Personalised lookalike pinata (amazing!)👈🏻

19. Set up a fun popcorn stall 

Guests will love - arrange all kinds of flavours and toppings with some cute paper bags or cones - you could even create a fun chalkboard sign showing guests the best combinations of flavours and toppings! 

20. Set up some personalised beer bunting 👈🏻

This will look amazing and is perfect to set the scene for the celebration!

21. Opt for a retro 80's, 90's or 00's theme

Recreate their hey day, with an 80's or 90's or 00's theme birthday party! You could even have a funny 80's or 90's pop quiz! 

22. Some novelty ice cubes for drinks! 

There are so many different types to choose from to suit your recipient's tastes, from Nike logo ice cubes to stars to skulls and everything in between!

Nike inspired ice cubes for drinks 👈🏻

23. Dress up and cosplay as characters from his favourite tv show

This is such a funny and special idea, sure to make everyone laugh and create some great memories! Why not asign everyone a character, or create a dress code inviting guests to cosplay as a character from a certain TV show that your recipient adores! There are so many fun and funny ways to get creative with this.

24. Display cupcakes in a '50' formation

To make a beautiful statement display! You could even make a cupcake '50' pull apart, cupcakes lined up in a '50' formation, with icing or frosting joining them together. This will make the perfect statement centerpiece for your party and be sure to be the main attraction!

25. Make cupcake toppers of their face

Find a funny picture (or lots) and print to make hilarious cupcake toppers! This is an amazing DIY 50th birthday party decor idea that your recipient will be sure to love and will result in a lot of hilarity at the same time!

26. Make sugar cookies of his face with this personalised photo cookie cutter 👈🏻

This is possibly the coolest thing ever! A cookie cutter that you can personalise with your recipient's face, based on a photo of them! You can now make sugar cookies of your recipient, perfect for their birthday and sure to amaze them and make them laugh in equal parts, so perfect!

27. Recreate a special family memory

This is such a cool birthday party idea for your husband or dad and you can get so creative with it!

28. Theme it after their pet

There is no cuter theme! Why not theme it after their furry best friend and even dress up their pup for the occasion, so they can take part and share their birthday!

29. Create an indoor 'drive thru' set up to show home movies

Watching home movies and videos together is a wonderful way to celebrate his birthday and will be bound to result in hilarity and smiles all round! The drive thru element brings a retro feel, ten points if you also have popcorn, milkshakes and delicious snacks on hand!

30. Opt for a James Bond theme

Nothing could be cooler!

31. Theme it after his favourite movie

Tailor it to your recipient by throwing a party themed after their favourite film or movie, the perfect way to immerse them within their favourite screentime classic and show how well you know them at the same time.

32. A game of pin the tie on the dad

You can swap this out with any kind of object, depending on what your recipient is in to, or what they do as a job! You could even have pin the beard on the dad, if you recipient sports a fine covering of facial hair! 

33. Play a funny game of consequences

This is bound to result in hilarity and lots of laughter and happy memories, Consequences is a hilarious game where the players take turns in contributing sentences to a story. The final story is then read out, usually with hilarious results. 

Each player starts with a piece of paper. The players each write a phrase as the first step in a story, and then fold the paper to hide the phrase before passing it to the next player. The steps are as follows, where the things in brackets should be replaced by the chosen words or phrase: (boy's name) met (girl's name) in/at/on (where they met) He said (what he said) She said (what she said) He (what he did) She (what she did) The consequence was (what happened). When the players have completed all eight steps, the pieces of paper are unfolded in turn, and the players read out the completed, often hilarious, stories.

34. Gift him a five senses gift

These gifts are extra special and make for the most memorable gifts! 

35. Dress up in dad outfits

Create a 'dad' or 'husband' dress code, where everyone attending must dress in his style! Bring back and recreate some of his most iconic style moments for his birthday!

36. Design some Dwight birthday party decor from The Office

This is perfect if your recipient is a The Office fan, there is nothing more iconic than Dwight's birthday party decorations and they are truly hilarious to copy!

37. Add funny dad quotes to your decor

If your recipient has many a saying, expression or even a dad joke or two that they like to use (repeatedly), why not tailor the party decor to your loved one by creating party bunting or motifs to stick on balloons adorned with their favourite sayings! 

38. Try a special message plate surprise

This is such a good trick! Arrange for your husband to go out and only come back at tea time, when you'll have a meal prepared for both of you. Then get your hands on some plain white plates and some plate decorating pens or paint - even the kinds kids often use to decorate a plate for Grandma. You can create a really cute design - and then be sure to follow the instructions to let the paint or ink set - it is often recommended to pop in the oven for a certain time. 

Once it is completely dry, you can set about preparing the meal and dish it out on to the newly decorated plate. You could even cleverly cover each section of the plate with a different food - just make sure every bit is covered with food so that it looks like an every day white dinner plate. Wait til your husband starts eating to reveal the cute surprise! You get to keep the memory and relive it every time you use the plate for a meal! It's such a cute surprise idea and you can get really creative with the design and message you choose to give.

39. Hire a car he's always wanted to drive

An experience he will adore and always remember, it will also show how well you know the recipient!

40. Ask everyone to bring an instrument with them

This is perfect if your recipient is in to music! Instead of a dress code, everyone must make or bring an instrument and have fun jamming together, everyone joining in together!

41. Create an obstacle course

If your recipient is competitive and/or in to sports, this idea would be perfect! You could use cardboard boxes, rope and even a ladder laid down to create a fun assault or obstacle course for your recipient. All younger (and older) guests can enjoy competing to see who can complete the course first! You could even produce a paper mache cup as a prize!

42. Hold a dad dancing contest or competition

Perfect if you are throwing a birthday party for your dad and are looking for fun games and activities to accord with your theme! The best dad dancing could win, perhaps chosen by your recipient, then taking in turns until everyone has the chance to be the judge of the competition. 

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