40th Birthday Parties Tips

40th Birthday Gifts

After 40 years, the birthday boy or girl has received just about every type of present imaginable, from last year's gift of golf lessons from Uncle Al to the new coffeemaker from Aunt Sue. Now, you are desperate for ideas for 40th birthday gifts for that special someone. Luckily, there are still plenty of great 40th birthday ideas. Try one of these options for a fun gift:

• Create a blast from the past basket. Fill the basket with things that were popular during the high school years, from that hideous clothing trend that people are still shaking their heads over to a CD of tunes from that boy band that has thankfully faded into oblivion.
• Put together a dream fulfilling kit. For this one, you'll need to do a bit of research. Find out about the things that the person you are shopping for wishes he or she has done. Then, fill a basket with things that can help fulfill one of those dreams. For example, you could put a travel book, CDs of language lessons and a piggy bank with some money in it in a basket for someone who wants to see the world. (Of course, if money is no object, you can exchange the piggy bank for a plane ticket.)

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Birthday Party Favor Ideas For 40

Instead of handing out a birthday party favor bag full of candy, find favors that are specific to the theme of the party. Having a party at a bowling alley? Give guests a bowling pin bottle with straw. Does the birthday boy like cars? Why not give his friends oil can squirters. Having an ocean life party for the girls? Seashell lip gloss is a fun favor. If you're looking for additional birthday party favor ideas, try some favors from the kid's section. No one ever said being forty means you have to be all grown up. Humorous birthday party favor ideas for the forty year old can include items like kid's toys, edible sweets, or posters. Pack up several items in a favor box, and all your guests can have a good laugh. The boxes are typically made of cardboard, have a festive picture or theme on the outside and close up with a handle for easy carrying. You can then fill them with whatever you choose: candy, adult toys and games, gag gifts and more.

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Unusual 40th Birthday Party Ideas

You're in charge of planning the best 40th birthday party ever and you have no idea where to start. All those over the hill gags have been done so many times and 40 isn't even very old anymore. What can you do to make the day special?

One great 40th birthday party idea is to simply do everything in 40s. Invite 40 guests, provide 40 different hoer de oeuvre choices and ask all the guests to bring 40 dollar bills as a gift.

If you aren't into the numbers game, try a trip down memory lane. Find a special person from each year of the birthday honoree's life and ask that person to come share a memory with him or her. Ask the speakers to write down the memories, too, so that you can bind them into a book to give as a special keepsake of the day.

A third idea is to create a party around something the birthday boy or girl wants to do. If he or she has expressed a desire to learn golf, create a golf green in a rental hall. Set up 18 umbrella tables minus the umbrellas. Cover them in green tablecloths, pushing the cloths in at the umbrella hole to form an indentation that looks like a golf course hole. For a finishing touch, give golf cart rides instead of pony rides.

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40th Birthday Sayings

Those birthday cards about being over the hill just don't send the right message, so you've decided to make your own card. However, now, you need some great 40th birthday sayings. Aren't there any sayings that talk about being 40 without referring to gravestones and black balloons? Actually, there are plenty of other ideas for 40th birthday sayings.

Avoid the whole issue of age by simply writing an acrostic poem about the 40-year-old. This poem is formed by writing the person's name vertically and then using each letter to form a line of the poem. For example, a person named Sue may receive a card that says:

S is for your happy smile.

U is for your unique spirit.

E is for your extraordinary ability to make everyone love you.

If poems aren't your thing, try something similar to one of these:

• Sister, thank you for 40 years of beautiful memories.
• Don't worry – 40's the new 20, minus the frat boys and hangovers.
• Remember, you're only as young as you feel, which makes you about...4? Keep building those sandcastles!
• 40's just a number. A big number, but still...just a number.
• You're 40. You know what that means...Time to take up golf. (This one should include a cartoon of a man yelling "Fore!" while another man steps up to the tee.)
  

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Funny Birthday Pictures

By the time you are 40, funny birthday pictures have gotten kind of old, right? Well, that depends on whether you're the one taking the pictures or the one in them. If you want to take funny pictures at a 40^th birthday party, try some of these tips:

• Make sure there are cameras at each table so guests can snap plenty of candid shots.
• Provide plenty of props to encourage silliness, such as tiaras and other kids' dress up items. Grownups can rarely pull off pink feather boas and normal adult attire without looking a bit funny.
• If people are being too stiff and formal, encourage them to play games that involve goofy poses, like statues, charades and freeze tag.
• If all else fails, introduce children into the mix. Kids automatically create funny picture situations just by being themselves.
  

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The Adventure Birthday Party Idea

Here's another great birthday party idea. Compliment your birthday party idea by presenting a personal gift to the birthday guest of honor. A great way to commemorate a fortieth birthday event is to compile memories from the celebration or the birthday recipient's life. You can do this by putting together a memory box with photos and mementos, recording a video with well wishes from all the guests, or putting together a framed memory scroll. The birthday recipient will want to remember who attended their celebration and a personalized birthday banner for guests to sign is the perfect gift.

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Birthday Party Favor Ideas For 40

A fortieth birthday party favor can be sophisticated, fun, or humorous. If you're planning a fortieth birthday fete and just need a few birthday party favor ideas for your guests, take a look at our great suggestions.

Personalized favors – Hand out favors inscribed with a personal message or quote. Pieces can be anything from key chains to chocolates.

Destination Favors – For a destination party, hand out collector's coins or trinkets from the country of travel.

Edible favors – Have custom cakes made, inscribed with the birthday event. Bake gourmet cookies, wrap them in cellophane, and make labels for the fortieth birthday event.

Favors just for laughs – Create t-shirts with a cartoon caption poking fun at the fortieth birthday recipient for every guest. Have mock magazine photos of each guest taken and distributed –think Geriatric Digest or Old Timer's Weekly.

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Great 40th Birthday Cakes

Whether you're turning 4 or 40, celebrating with 40th birthday cakes is a great way to cap off the event. For some ideas on savory cake desserts that make irresistible 40th birthday cakes, read on:

Cake Mosaic - Serve a carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. Turn it into an art mosaic by topping it off with a multitude of clear hard candies in varying colors.

Double Chocolate Streamer Cake – It's a decadent German chocolate cake with caramel cream filling and a chocolate truffle frosting. Top the cake with curls of chocolate streamers and pieces of chocolate.

Floral Cupcake – Just as pretty to look at as it is good to eat, a floral cupcake can be made with yellow cake and covered in white frosting. Decorate with sugared gumdrops, cut and rolled to create floral pieces.

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The Adventure Birthday Party Idea

For your fortieth birthday, you don't have to celebrate at home or even your hometown. Why not round up some family and friends and embark on an adventure birthday party? You're only limited by how much you want to spend and how far you're willing to go. Here are a few action-packed suggestions.

• Spend the weekend in Vegas and gamble your cares away.
• Take a train trip to a city you've never been to.
• Book an time slot to drive a racecar at a racing clinic.
• Try skydiving or parasailing for the first time
• Spend an afternoon doing some indoor rock climbing, or for the real deal go camping.

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40th Theme and Balloons

"Decide a theme. For my husband's 40th birthday party I did not want to use the black 40th theme that is prevalent for over-the-hill make-fun-of-the-birthday-guy events. I decided to use a festive, colourful theme that included no black. I hired two neighbour boys to come to the house a few hours before the guests were to arrive and blow up helium balloons in all different colours until the entire ceiling was solidly covered. It worked to my advantage in many ways: The ceiling had a very ugly brown stain where the ceiling had begun to leak and we had not gotten a chance to repair it; hubby didn't have to look at black and feel depressed; it made perfect decorations without decorating anything else inside the house; and it was easy clean up. As the balloons fell, I popped and tossed. My theme was: Forty is colorful."
by Kay Chirichigno

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40th Birthday Invitations You Can Make By Hand

If you want to make your own 40th birthday invitations, creating them by hand adds a personal touch. We've compiled some 40th birthday invitation ideas for those of you who are feeling inventive.

Pop Up Invitation – Have an outer sheet of colored card stock and an inner white sheet of card stock. Cut out a one-inch tab at the center of the inner card stock sheet with a penknife. Attach a three-inch by three-inch decorative cutout with glue. Glue the inner cardstock onto the outer cardstock.

Die Cut Invitation – Using floral embossed paper, fold and trim the card into a tri-fold. Line the paper to protect the backside and trim the embossed front in an interesting pattern. Glue a colored sheet onto the interior panel.

Stamped Invitation – This quick card requires colored cardstock and colored paper. Select a stamp pattern and decorate on the colored paper. Affix the stamped piece on the folded and trimmed cardstock. Adorn the card with colored cord.

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