The Party Edit

Celebrate the release of the new Barbie movie starring Margot Robbie with a party fit for a thoroughly modern doll.

The glamorous influencer and mom of five Madison Fisher picks her favorite Meri Meri dress-up items and favorite party themes 

Our new cat and dog collections are perfect for pet lovers – celebrate with a themed party for your child – or beloved furry folk. 

The stylish London-based fashion editor and ceramicist tells us how she and her family prepare for Christmas 

Sydney Piercey is a mother of three who is passionate about re-use, creativity and pursuing a slower, more sustainable life. Previously a nanny before having her own children, she’s now making waves online with her cardboard play creations. Sydney’s first book, Sustainable Play, will be released this Spring – featuring over 60 cardboard crafts and games for an earth-kind home.

To mark Earth Day, here’s eight sustainable and eco-friendly party ideas. From second-hand balloons to digital invites and renewable party favors, it’s time to get eco-minded with your planning!

Dig, build and demolish – what a great theme for a kids’ party! We share our favourite construction party games with you for lots of fun.

Meri Meri Studio has created a fabulous jewelry holder make for your kids. A fun activity and it’ll help tidy up their room too - double win! Also, if you want to buy jewelry as a gift, but are stuck what to get, then we’ve got a jewelry guide for you. Kids love jewelry, just as much as adults, but it can be hard to know what to buy as it is such a personal thing.    Make a bunny jewelry holder Do your kids keep getting their jewelry and hair accessories mixed up or lost? Problem solved! Our designers have created a bunny jewelry holder for them to make. It’s easy to do, looks amazing and works like a dream (and it makes a great gift to send to granny too!). Click here for the template. Your jewelry gift guide Find out what type of jewelry to buy as a gift to suit a special little one, depending on their personality and likes.   1. Outgoing and chatty Buy jewelry in bold shades. Funky bright enamel or acrylic pendants are an excellent choice, like our Shooting Star necklace. 2. Quiet and calm Why not opt for jewelry in pretty shades with charming designs? They’ll love our Secrets Book necklace, with a pink enamel bead chain.   3. On-trend It’s a good idea to get jewelry with an on-trend design, like rainbows, flamingos, popsicles, cacti, pompoms or tassels. 4. Quirky Look for a necklace that is different from the norm. They’ll love our doll necklaces, featuring beautiful fabric dolls dressed in sensational outfits with colored enamel bead chains. 5. Adores animals You can’t go wrong with a necklace with an adorable animal pendant, like cats, dogs, horses, elephants or sea horses. 1. Tropical Brooches 2. Matilda Doll Necklace 3. Secrets Book Necklace 4. Magical Enamel Lapel Pins 5. Yep Nope Hair Clips 6. Emoji Enamel Charm Bracelet 7. Happy Glitter Hair Clip 8. Shooting Star Necklace 6. Loves all things magical A necklace with a fantastic creature will really resonate with them, like unicorns or mermaids. 7. Lots of necklaces already If you’re unsure, then how about buying them a bracelet? It’s a great way to add color and style to any outfit, like funky emoji enamel charm bracelet. 8. Physically active Necklaces or bracelets are perhaps not a good idea because of the safety factor – you don’t want them getting tangled when climbing trees or doing handstands! Decorative pins and brooches, to accessorise clothing, are a better jewelry gift choice. We’ve got sensational ranges to suits girls and boys of all ages, click here and here. Shop our Gift collection

Find inspiration for your magical rainbow party here, featuring food and décor ideas – brighten up your kids' birthday with our rainbow balloon arch or pińata!

Don’t panic if you can’t get to a famous parade like New Orleans – just have your own party! We reveal how to transform your home, your kids and create delicious festival party foods.

From an egg hunt for little ones to a sophisticated spring soiree, party planning is easy with these three stylish themes Down the Rabbit Hole Bouncing rabbits and sweet pastels equal a classic Easter affair Set the Scene: Our pastel and wildflower bunny plates and cups are designed to be mixed and matched. Style them with eggs dyed into pastel colours and delicate wildflowers. Hang our playful ‘Hoppy Easter’ garland or give each guest a quirky bunny cracker to help get the party off to a lively start. Serve: Easter baking is made easy with our cute cookie cutters – just add icing for colorful appeal. Cupcakes will look extra sweet encased in striped cases and decorated with our bunny and honeycomb toppers. For a healthy party snack try small Chantenay carrots teamed with dips. Give: An egg hunt, where children fill up their bag with as many chocolates as they can find, not only provides entertainment, it also creates a memorable take-home treat. For a sugar-free activity our bunny egg decorating kit is sure to be a hit. Bunny pinata favors, filled with confetti and temporary tattoos (which can also be used as dainty egg transfers) are another winning way to skip a sugar rush. SHOP THE LOOK >     The Secret Garden Take your cues from spring for a celebration inspired by blossoming buds. Set the Scene: For a grown-up Easter get-together, look to our new range of floral decorations. Make our eye-catching chandelier the centerpiece of your table, then continue the theme with paper bunting fashioned into blooms and painterly flower plates. Touches of gold - like gilded foil straws and gold-rimmed glasses - will lend a glamorous edge. Serve: Start the party with drinks that echo the hues of spring blossoms such as gin mixed with pink-tinged aromatic tonic or rosé champagne. A dessert scattered with edible flowers is the perfect finish. Give: For a fun twist make flower arranging part of the event and send guests home with crowns or bouquets they have made themselves. Alternatively, tie posies of flowers with ribbon or twine for a pretty party favor. SHOP THE LOOK >     Once Upon a Time Who else but cheeky Peter Rabbit to enliven an Easter party? Set the Scene: A striped blue tablecloth is the ideal foil to our classic range of Peter Rabbit tableware. Plates, cups and napkins come illustrated with Beatrix Potter’s charming drawings of her much-loved and mischievous character. Partner them with clusters of small bud vases filled with dainty white and yellow blooms. A garland featuring Peter and his friends will lend a cheerful feel. For the final touch set each place with one of our fun surprise carrots. Serve: Take inspiration from Mr McGregor’s garden and serve fresh vegetable crudités. For a sweet indulgence, little guests will find mini carrot cakes or cupcakes decorated with Peter Rabbit toppers hard to resist. Give: A Peter Rabbit party bag will delight children of all ages. A sticker sheet of the famous fictional characters and mini bunny balloons make playful additions. SHOP THE LOOK >  

Make your little astronauts' dreams come true with an interstellar birthday blast-off. We’ve got some supersonic ideas just for you. Transform the room into a space odyssey Bring the awe-inspiring solar system into your home with colored cut-outs of the planets. Stick on the walls, or hang from the ceiling with ribbon or string. You can also hang up lots of shiny foil to create a space-age effect, or black sheets of card with shimmering silver foil stars. If you want to create an eerie alien atmosphere, then swap your light bulbs for blue or green colored ones - simple yet effective! We’ve got a brilliant decoration for you, such as our To The Moon garland, which features a host of bright 3D planets made with honeycomb paper, a rocket and lots of shiny stars. Make amazing astronaut and robot costumes Party guests will love to zoom around the room as astronauts or space-age robots, so set up a craft table to create some cosmic costumes (Do ask everyone you know for boxes and empty soda bottles, as you’re going to need loads!) For an astronaut costume, with a helmet and jet pack with pretend flames, you’ll need:  small boxes for the helmets, empty soda bottles for the jetpacks, scissors, silver foil, silver tape, flexible plastic tubing and red, yellow and orange tissue paper. Here are the step-by-step instructions.  For the robot costume, you’ll need big boxes for the bodies, square boxes for the heads, and smaller boxes for the hands. You’ll also need paper cups, scissors, large paper plates, paintbrushes, strong tape, pencils, and paints. Here is an excellent step-by-step. Fun space games to play One of our favorites is “Don’t Drop The Asteroid”. The aim of the game is for little space explorers to keep all the ‘asteroids’ (colored balloons) up in the air whilst the music is playing. When the music stops tell them to grab their nearest asteroid. Call out a color and whoever has an asteroid in that color needs to pop it and complete the challenge inside to win a prize. Go for silly space related challenges like ‘Do the moon walk across the floor’ or ‘Name as many planets as you can in 10 seconds’. You’ll need balloons of all different colors, and challenges to put inside them before you blow them up (or if you think balloon popping might be too noisy and scary, keep the challenges in a box for guests to pull out). For more brilliant game ideas, visit here For space themed prizes, you’ll love our Sun & Moon temporary tattoos and our Moon and Star hair slides. When playing music for games, or throughout the party, go for sensational space-themed songs. Check out our Meri Meri Spotify Space songs playlist. Create an extraordinary party table  After fun and games, it’s time to get your galactic guests to come back to earth for a space inspired meal. They’ll love our To The Moon range of plates, cups and napkins. Check out the very funky Robot plates! Delight everyone with sumptuous space-themed party foods. Our favorites include: ‘alien juice’ (fruit smoothies to which you’ve blended in some green food colouring or a few handfuls of spinach – you won’t taste the green goodness, but it’ll create a startling color); ‘space slime’ (green jello); moon rocks (meringues); flying saucers (filled pitta breads cut into UFO shapes), and heavenly cupcakes, make them look extra special with our To The Moon cupcake kit Check out here for more ideas. Finish with a birthday cake that is so amazing, it’ll almost blow the birthday boy or girl into orbit!  To save time and energy on icing, see our fabulous To The Moon cake toppers  Finally, send the tired little space adventurers off back to their home planet, happily clutching a robot party bag, filled with yummy treats and gifts. Mission impossible accomplished!

Ahoy me hearties, with a little clever preparation you can transform your house, or any venue, into a swashbuckling scene that will take the lucky birthday boy or girl’s breath away! It’s not just about buying essential party supplies such as balloons and garlands, but also getting creative with those extra special touches that make all the difference. Investigate crafts, games, foods and gifts to really rev up the pirate party fun factor! We’ve got 10 fantastic ideas for you. 1. Borrow a small boat or blow-up dinghy if you can for a real ‘WOW’ centerpiece. Little ones will adore clambering in and out, and pretending to sail the seven seas. Or, if that’s not an option, make a large ‘boat’ or several smaller boats from cardboard. This one is just brilliant. If your little one has any ocean-themed toys scatter them around the boat for extra appeal. Do take a look at our gorgeous soft-toys, including Otto and Milo Narwhal. 2. Create a treasure chest out of a wooden box and give guests maps to find the prizes. Here’s a simple one to make. Fill it with gold coins (don’t panic, chocolate ones will do!) and party favors like pirate temporary tattoos.. 3. Place blue paper on the floor to transform it into the beautiful briny sea. You can put paper plates on it and tell guests to hop from one to the other to avoid the ‘sharks’ in the water. Draw sharks on the sheets/paper, or simply let them use their imaginations. In fact, having a sea-themed room is great for fun games, like Pin The Eyepatch On The Pirate or Walk The Plank. Look here for more inspiration. 4. Every pirate needs a good telescope to look for treasure and ships to plunder, so set up a table with everything your guests need to create one. It can be as simple as supplying thin cardboard sheets to roll up and lots of sticky tape to hold them together. Or create ones that really look fabulous and are perfect to take home as a keepsake. Check out this simple step-by-step. 5. A pirate hat is an essential! For guests who haven’t come with one you can very simply rectify this. Either buy some brilliant pirate party hats or get your guests to make some (just don’t leave behind any glitter and paint as your party tidy up time will increase tenfold!). Here’s a brilliant step-by-step that will look amazing. 6. Hang on, don’t forget a pirate patch! No self-respecting pirate should be looking at the world with two eyes! Buy some eyepatches for your guests to put on or print some out beforehand and pop them on the craft table, along with some thin elastic and colored pencils, to help them create their own. This is a good template. 7. Every pirate needs a trusty sword for protection. You don’t want any of your guests to get hurt when spirits run high, so making lightweight paper swords is definitely the way to go. Once again add everything they need on to your craft table. Try this step-by-step idea that only takes five minutes. 8. Set the scene with some pirate themed music for the little sailors to listen, or dance to, whilst playing games or partying. Create a playlist, songs like What Shall We Do With The Drunken Sailor, Banana Boat Song, the theme from the Pirates of the Caribbean and many more…Or you can play The Ultimate Pirate Kids Party cd. 9. The party table is where you can really let the theme come to life, after all pirating is very hungry work! Transform the table with themed plates, napkins and cups, and lots of yummy cupcakes.  Check out our brilliant range.  You can get really creative with the food you serve, giving it a real ocean and pirate touch. All hands on deck for treasure map pizza! Check this out for some more yummy ideas. Don’t forget to top the pirate cake with some fabulous candles, like our sensational skull & crossbones candle. 10. Last, but not least, send the tired, but happy, little pirates home with a party bag brimming with amazing pirate-themed party favors like temporary tattoos and decorated pins to wear for days to come. Here is a selection of our favourite Pirate Party Products.