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Tons of DIY fun and unique grandad or grandpa birthday party ideas for older men, perfect for your husband, dad or brother! Here you will find tons of mens birthday party themes, games and activities and decor ideas he will love, even if you're looking for ideas on how to celebrate a 60th, 70th, 80th or 90th birthday without a party, we hope these ideas will inspire you!
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What are some grandad or grandpa birthday ideas?
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. 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!
3. Opt for an old Hollywood theme
Your recipient can celebrate turning 60+ in style!
4. Opt for an amazing creative birthday cake topper
Edible fondant tools cake toppers 👈🏻
These are amazing and are the perfect way to elevate the birthday cake for your recipient, something they will always remember!
The man, myth, legend sparkly cake topper 👈🏻
Personalised edible grandpa cake topper 👈🏻
Happy Birthday Grandpa jumbo cake topper 👈🏻
5. Opt for a retro 70's theme
You can get really goofy with this!
6. Opt for a retro 80's theme
Recreate their hey day, with an 80's theme birthday party! You could even have a funny 80's pop quiz!
7. Play a game of making and decorating paper airplanes to race!
This is a classic that never gets old! You could award prizes for the best decorated, or most creative and the fastest!
8. Bake them some 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 recipients and treat them at the same time. This is also super low cost to put together!
9. 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!
10. 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.
11. 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 assign 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.
12. 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!)👈🏻
13. 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!
14. 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!
15. Display cupcakes in a number formation
To make a beautiful statement display! You could even make a cupcake '60' pull apart, cupcakes lined up in a number 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!
16. Make cupcake toppers of their face
Find a funny picture (or lots) and print to make hilarious cupcake toppers! This is an amazing DIY birthday party decor idea that your recipient will be sure to love and will result in a lot of hilarity at the same time!
17. 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!
18. 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!
19. 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!
20. Decorate with stylish pipe cupcake toppers 👈🏻
Nothing could be cooler!
21. Theme it after his favourite film or 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.
22. Throw a backyard BBQ
This classic theme is fun as it is sophisticated and popular with guests of every age!
23. Play some fun sports day games
Like tug of war, beanbag or hoop toss or even sack or space hopper races (see if you can rent these in your area)
24. Edible cocktail toppers for drinks (so much fun and amazing!) 👈🏻
You could create some hilarious photo toppers or personalise them with the recipient's name and age! These are perfect for any kind of drinks or cocktails alike and guests will adore them.
Personalisable wafer cocktail toppers for drinks 👈🏻
25. A game of pin the pipe on the grandpa
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 grandad, if you recipient sports a fine covering of facial hair!
26. 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, usually funny, stories.
27. 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!
28. Dress up in granddad outfits
Create a 'grandad', '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!
29. 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!
30. Add funny granddad 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!
31. Try a special message plate surprise
This is such a good trick! Arrange for your recipient 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 recipient 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.
32. Try some funny karaoke
Always a classic - this will be sure to result in lots of laughs!
33. Serve some charcuterie cups
A smart and stylish party food option - you could arrange them as part of a display wall for a fancy look, for guests to help themselves.
34. Arrange ice buckets filled with drinks
So guests can help themselves to cold beverages
35. 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 👈🏻
36. Try a stylish macaron tower
Try a gradating macaron tower for a standout display - party treats and decor in one! You could opt for their favourite team's colours and even try an ombre or gradating effect, where the colours blend into each other.
37. Set up a fun milkshakes or freakshakes stall
With all the toppings available! You could even make a freakshakes stall with oreos, strawberries, donuts, cakes and squirty cream that guests can add to their creation - freakshakes being the perfect combination of milkshake and cake!
38. 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!
39. Gift him a 60th/70th/75th/80th birthday game
These are so much fun and make the perfect gift for your recipient to celebrate a milestone birthday!
40. Set up a campfire evening or campout
Always a goodie, this is a really fun low cost birthday party activity idea for men and guys of all ages! You could even set up a barbeque nearby with all their favourite snacks and edibles!
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