Birthday Coloring Pages

• Cakes and cupcakes: layer cakes with candles to count and cupcakes with swirled frosting and sprinkles
• Balloons and banners: bunches of balloons, pennant flags and streamers
• Presents: wrapped boxes with bows, gift bags and a puppy popping out of a box
• Happy birthday cards: lettering on the front with a blank line for a name
• Number pages: a big numeral for each age from 1 to 10, decorated with stars and confetti
• Party animals: a bear, a puppy and a dinosaur wearing party hats
• Party scenes: kids around a table and a piñata in the yard

• Arrival activity: put pages and crayons on a table so early guests have something to do while everyone trickles in.
• Party favors: staple five or six pages into a mini coloring book for each guest. Our name coloring page generator can make a cover with their name on it.
• Placemats: set a cake page at every seat for the wait between games and food.
• Thank-you notes: the birthday child colors a small page for each guest and writes thanks on the back.
• Classroom birthdays: classmates each color a card page and the teacher binds them into a book to take home.
• Birthday crown: color and cut out the crown strip and tape it to fit.

Birthday cakes with candles are an old custom. One common explanation traces them to children's birthday parties in Germany a few hundred years ago, where a cake was topped with one candle for each year of life. Making a wish and blowing out the candles in one breath came along with it. Families add their own habits: breakfast in bed, choosing the dinner menu, a pencil mark on the doorframe to show how much someone has grown. In Mexico and many US communities, a piñata is the highlight of the party.