You Will Love These Trolls Birthday Party Ideas – The Gifted Gabber

If you’ve come looking for Troll-ific ideas for your child’s birthday party, you’ve come to the right place! We just celebrated Scooter Britches 5th birthday (what?!) and Little One’s 3rd birthday (huh?!) with a cupcakes and rainbows themed Trolls birthday party. We have tons of fun Trolls birthday party ideas for you to explore!

“This is a story about happiness.”

I’m not even gonna lie. Back in the summer, when I asked SB what kind of party she and LO might like, I tried my hardest to plant some super cool birthday party ideas in her head. I’m a Type A mama like that.

But it was to no avail for the child was dead set on a Trolls birthday theme. And as soon as little sister heard big sister say “Trolls birthday party,” the deal was sealed. Little sis wants everything big sis wants.

Now, don’t get me wrong. I think The Trolls Movie is adorable and the colorful cheeriness of the characters is great. But I’ve never been a big fan of throwing character-themed parties since they tend to be used so often.  

However, decorating with color is kind of my jam so I thought I could at least have fun with this Trolls party theme. This is where the rainbows idea came from. Plus, it was fun to put a spin on the “Cupcakes and Rainbows” quote from the movie.

Trolls Cupcake Cake and Trolls Cupcakes

Speaking of cupcakes, didn’t my friend do a wonderful job on the custom order Trolls cupcake cake? And the Poppy hair has about 2 dozen additional Troll hair cupcakes.

And the other Trolls cupcakes she made were so darn cute it was hard to eat them!

Trolls Party Food

The Trolls party food was pretty simple – adorable Trolls cupcakes, colorful cookies (picked up from my local Walmart bakery), and bowls of colorful candy. For the drinks, we used the colorful juice “barrels.”

Troll Birthday Party Decorations and Party Hats

My original plan was to create Troll hair birthday hats by fringing sheets of felt and hot gluing the felt over cheap birthday hats. I went to the store to find felt and birthday hats when I saw the cute paper Trolls birthday party hats in the party section at Walmart. I also saw them at Target. Shoot! My work was done!

I found the rainbow table display on Amazon.

Trolls Backdrop

With the huge party room we had reserved for the party, there was so much wall space. I knew we needed a fun Trolls backdrop. Walmart sells a package of brightly colored fabric strips. I hot glued the colorful fabric to a long piece of twine for a vertical rainbow with stretched out spider web fabric bunched up on top for clouds. I was pretty pleased with how it turned out!

Clearly, the oldest child was DONE on photo taking for the day. Haha! Oh, and the party involved a big indoor playground which is why the kids are wearing socks. Nope – not just an Arkansas thing.

Making Hug Time Bracelets – Trolls Birthday Party

After much back-and-forth, I finally broke down and made my own Hug Time bracelets. I looked online but they were just too pricey for the number of kids we were expecting. I knew it would be a cinch to make them; it would just take some time. And so…armed with some clearance felt and two packages of felt flowers from Hobby Lobby, I was ready to start my own Hug Time bracelets factory. I thought they turned out super cute. Granted, it became a true family project with my mom, my mother-in-law, and I all working together to cut the felt into strips, attach the flowers (which came with their own adhesive backings), and hot glue the tips of the strips to make one-size-fit-all (for kids, anyway) bracelets. We tried to make them all different.

A Poppy Pumpkin

When planning for this party, I had come across the idea to make a Poppy head out of a pumpkin. Since this was an October party, I thought it was super clever, but I know my limitations when it comes to crafting. How excited I was when I walked into Scooter Britches’ classroom and saw her teacher had made a Poppy Pumpkin for their preschool pumpkin contest! Luckily, she agreed to let us borrow the pumpkin for our party. SB was quite insistent about borrowing this Trolls pumpkin so I’m not sure her teacher could find a way to turn her down!

Pin the Nose on Guy Diamond – Trolls Games for Kids

Of course, we had to have some fun Trolls party games. If you know me, you know I like a good pin-the-tail game. Remember our pin-the-bow tie on the book worm game from our bookworm birthday party?

Pin-the-nose-on the Troll game from Trustiti at Etsy is such fun. If you need Trolls games for kids, this is one!

I slapped one of our leftover felt flowers to cover Guy Diamond’s little bottom…haha! I didn’t want the little kids making a big deal of his naked booty. After all, my SB still somehow thinks the word “naked” is a “potty word.”

Trolls Invitations and Thank You Note

I ordered the Trolls invitations from Kiddies Print, and this cute thank you printable was part of the purchase.

Cotton Candy Troll Hair – Trolls Favors

Finally, the cotton candy pouches were purchased here from Amazon to make the cotton candy Troll hair. I ordered the Troll Hair design from Magic Paper Store on Etsy. I used it to order adhesive labels from Vista Print. The large Cupcakes and Rainbows digital download is from Trustiti on Etsy and ordered it from Vista Print as a 16×20 canvas as you saw above. I loved how these Trolls favors turned out!

Well, I hope you had a Troll-astic time checking out our Trolls Birthday Party! Indeed, it was a day of happiness.

I hope you enjoyed a peek into our Rainbows and Cupcakes Trolls birthday party! Be sure to also check out some of our other parties:

Party at the Park Birthday

Pumpkin Patch Birthday Party

Boo-llerina Halloween Birthday Party

McDonald’s Birthday Party

Little Monsters Birthday Party 

Cheerios Birthday Party

Movie Theater Birthday Party (with a Frozen princess party theme)