Animal Crossing Party on a Budget

How to Plan your own DIY Animal Crossing Party on a Budget

Here is how I made my own DIY Animal Crossing Party on a Budget. This pandemic has strapped everyone for cash, but that shouldn’t stop you for making the most amazing Animal Crossing Party you can on a budget!

Our family chose Animal Crossing as my daughters 4th birthday party because she loves to play and its her first video game. We wanted to mark the milestone with this beautiful party. We decided to add an extra element to our Animal Crossing party by combining theme with Tea Party. My Daughters gift for the party was her very own tea set. Her and her brother had a great time eating their treats and drinking “tea” from her new Teapot.

This post will be an overall summary of what went into designing and making the party come to life. If you have questions or want me to go into more detail on specifics, let me know in the comments and I would be happy to make a blog all about it. There will be another post showing where I got everything for the party so you can find it too.

Decorations

Backdrop

Backdrops are so much fun and a great easy way to get a bang for your buck. I found the light blue and white (behind the blue) plastic table cloths from the Dollar Tree. Fill the top with filler, I used sky colors to mimic the Animal Crossing clear skies I’m so used to in the game. You can find the white (Cloud) tissue puffs and pin wheels at the Dollar Tree as well. Of course you NEED all the insects so I snagged this large butterflies too, put them everywhere.

Find this super cute Happy Birthday sign in my shop as a easy DIY for your Party table. Top everything off with my Animal Crossing Alphabet Banner. You have a super effective backdrop for your Animal Crossing Party.

Party Table Decorations

Welcome to my Animal Crossing party table set up. I wanted to combine as many elements as I could to really bring the theme to life. On the table you will find Axed wood slices, insects, fossils, fruit trees and even Dinosaur Bones! I was able to throw this look together with what I had on hand, but that’s on being a party planner. Let me walk you through my process to get this look for yourself.

From left to right. You will need your gifts wrapped up like the Animal Crossing sky packages and tied up with a read balloon! I used a small wine glass to make the gift look like it was floating. Check out my fresh flower lloid (gyroid) planter pot! SO CUTE! You can find it here for your party set up, or just regular life.

I used a plastic dark green table cloth (Dollar Tree) and a soft bright green Easter badding (Dollar Tree) to top off the table to give the Animal Crossing grass. Michaels had pink petal place mats which fit this theme to a tee. Including fresh fruit is a must for an Animal Crossing party so I decided on Strawberries because they are my daughters favorite. You need tea cups for a tea party, So I pulled out some of my grandmothers hand-me-down china which fit in almost any theme. Combine all of these things with my Animal Crossing Character Cutouts and you have a Animal Crossing Party.

On the right you can find some tea treats and party favors for my little party guests. I found the macarons at Walmart and I turned regular peanut butter and jelly into little bears with a Panda cutter from Amazon. Inside the clear jar you’ll find “Shooting Stars” which turned into great sugar stars for our tea. I had a great time making my Bell Bag Favors. You can find these sweet burlap bags at Michaels and simply draw a brown star on them with a brown marker. Super easy and effective DIY for your Animal Crossing Party. In the background you’ll find even more flowers. I even found some peach branches in my flower stash, they had to make it to the table.

The Flowers!

This adorable lloid (gyroid) planter is from ThePinkStormtrooper you can find it on Etsy.

The Cake!

Ah, Our sweet, sweet cake! My daughters one request more then anything was to have a strawberry cake. Insisted on it. Lucky for me I found Jaime’s Cakes – Cakes – Ocoee, Florida on Facebook. He brought our vision to life! Strawberry cake with light strawberry frosting. It looks exactly like the Strawberry cake form the game. I’m excited to see what else Jaime will show off in future My Nerd Nursery Party tables.

Artwork & Invites:

All the artwork was created by me to show off for this Party Set up and everything is printable and available in my shop or as a bundle on my Etsy.

Alphabet Banner . Cupcake Liners . Cupcake Toppers . Food Tents . Paper House . Recipe Cards

Custom Printable: Invitation & Thank you Card 

DIY Favors & Gifts:

Favors:

An Animal Crossing party has so many fun ideas for Party Favors! Some stapes I recommend would be Chocolate Coins (Bells) and Flower seeds. I also included stickers and a squishy new neighbor. All of these fun goodies fit in the DIY Bell bag.

 Games & Crafts

One of the things I am most excited about were these Coloring page Paper Village Houses. I had my daughter color this one to show it off. Quite the artist is she not. You can find that file here in my shop! Its a great activity for any Animal Crossing fan.

If you need a Animal Crossing themed party game try this one! We played it during our mini park party and it was so much fun!

Animal Crossing Birthday Party – DIY Fossils and Party Games – Domicidal Wife

It was super easy to make the Fossils and even easier to hide them and little plastic bugs around the trees in our park. The kids had a great time finding all the lost things and were over joyed to get their Bell Bag Favors as rewards.

Thank you so much for joining me for my Animal Crossing Birthday Party. Let me know in the comments if you are planning a Animal Crossing Party. Did my ideas help you out? I sure hope so! If you would like to be further inspired check out my Animal Crossing board on Pinterest and Follow me for my more fun Nerdy parties and printables.

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Thank you! Rebecca, My Nerd Nursery