There are many options for celebrating holidays in nature. You always want to celebrate your birthday brightly, everyone has a desire to get unforgettable impressions on this day, regardless of what time of year a person was born. Children and adults expect magic, joy and unforgettable impressions from this day.
Birthday party ideas should be unusual, and the holiday itself should be cheerful and bright. You can order its organization from special companies, or you can organize it yourself and please your loved ones.
Choosing a place to hold a holiday in nature
A birthday party in nature, the ideas for which are varied, can be organized at any time of the year. Most options are for organizing a holiday in the summer.
First of all, these are open verandas and terraces of country cafes. It is convenient to celebrate a holiday here, you do not need to think about the menu and decoration of the hall, there is an opportunity to sit both outside and inside if the weather is bad.
Banquet halls are perfect for organizing a birthday party. As a rule, they have large panoramic windows, special musical equipment for organizing a concert or entertainment such as karaoke.
Many parks offer the opportunity to rent a tent. It is original, fashionable and stylish. Often the tents are located in picturesque places, in the mountains or on the shore of a lake.
The tent can be beautifully decorated, and musical accompaniment can be ordered separately. There are tents designed for 20-30 guests, and for a large anniversary celebration you can find a beautiful tent that can accommodate up to 70-100 people.
In the park areas, it is possible to organize a picnic. In certain places, a company can be accommodated, you can listen to music, sing and dance. It is better to take light snacks for a picnic. You will not be able to make shashlik here - fires in the parks are prohibited.
In some places there are designated recreation areas with barbecues. Here you can organize a noisy barbecue party.
The idea of a birthday party in nature can be simple - go out into nature, to the bank of a river or lake and arrange a fun holiday with swimming, barbecue, organizing interesting games or quests.
Birthdays are often organized in country cottages. There are many offers for renting houses of any level of comfort. Often such houses have a swimming pool or are located on the shore of a reservoir. A visit to a bathhouse or sauna can complement a fun birthday in such a house.
An excellent option for celebrating a birthday is renting cottages at a tourist center or a country recreation center. Here you can gather your loved ones for a few days both in winter and in summer. At any time of the year, you can organize rest and entertainment for many friends and relatives here.
As a rule, the menu here is developed by professionals, you can celebrate the holiday indoors or outdoors. Usually, recreation centers offer water activities, ATV or snowmobile rides, summer and winter fishing, evening programs, compiled specifically at the request of vacationers.
The choice of location depends on how the celebration is organized, independently or with the involvement of specialists:
| Self-organization | With the help of specialists |
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Festive menu
Birthday in nature - ideas for a festive menu, products, items needed for preparing and serving original and beautiful dishes - all this must be taken into account when organizing a holiday.
When organizing a holiday on your own, you need to think about what to treat your guests to. So that your guests can calmly wait for the main dishes to be prepared, you can offer them a snack. To do this, you need to have thermoses with hot tea or coffee, snacks prepared in advance.
These could be:
- fruits;
- vegetables;
- pickles;
- sandwiches with sausage, cheese, small cutlet;
- pies with various fillings;
- pancakes.
If the holiday is celebrated on a barbecue site or in a country house, then the main dish will probably be shashlik. In hot summer, it will be best to cook its light version - chicken legs or barbecue wings, grilled fish.
At other times, a festive dish might be:
- lamb or pork shashlik;
- pilaf in a cauldron over an open fire;
- grilled seafood;
- fish soup cooked over a fire from fish caught by hand.
Grilled vegetables can be served as a side dish:
- eggplants;
- zucchini;
- pepper;
- tomatoes;
- champignons;
- onion;
- potato.
Small light snacks are great for organizing outdoor picnics: olives, marinated mushrooms, pickles and tomatoes. It is convenient to snack on various pates, cheeses, sausages in nature. It is better to take a baguette or bread flatbreads with them.
Don't forget about plenty of liquid. This could be mineral water, various juices, fruit drinks and lemonades. It's better to minimize alcohol supplies, and choose light red or white wine or apple cider from alcoholic drinks.
Guests can be offered salads prepared at home. These can be vegetable salads with fish, chicken or seafood, dressed with olive oil or lemon juice.
Sauces for meat, ketchup and mustard will not be superfluous. You also need to have sugar, salt and necessary spices on hand.
Ideas on how to celebrate a birthday outdoors can come gradually, so it is better to start making a list in advance. You can calculate how many products you will need based on the approximate norm per person.
Calculation of products for 1 person:
| Name | Weight or volume |
| Soft drinks | 1 l |
| Low alcohol drinks | 0.5 l |
| Fruits and vegetables | 250 g each |
| Appetizers | 250 g |
| Salads | 250 g |
| Shashlik | 350 g |
| Bread | 200 g |
If you do not want to organize the festive table yourself, there is an opportunity to order the service of the holiday with the departure of specialists - cooks, bartenders and waiters. The catering service is especially in demand in the summer. It has tangible advantages, but a fairly high price.
Organizing the venue for the event
A birthday party in nature, ideas for organizing a place for which require careful consideration, can leave behind wonderful memories in the form of photographs. A beautiful composition of multi-colored balloons, paper flowers and glowing garlands will help create a festive atmosphere.
If the celebration is supposed to be held on a meadow, you need to take folding tables and chairs with you. The meadow can be decorated in a peasant style, placing wreaths, bouquets and baskets around it.
If you have a gazebo, you can twine it with homemade paper flowers and hang bright lanterns. Place vases with leaves and flowers on the tables, cut bright fruits into small pieces, pierce with skewers and place on a large plate.
Posters with holiday greetings to the hero of the occasion will look good between the trees around the celebration site. If the party is held by the pool, you can decorate the cocktail straws with beautiful paper appliques.
Light tablecloths are suitable for tables in tents and gazebos, and bright blankets are suitable for a picnic in a clearing. It is necessary to put a film under them. In the evening, lanterns and glowing garlands will create a festive atmosphere. Items for decorating the venue can be bought in stores.
The decor is selected by colors and can be pastel colors or very bright, you need to choose depending on the concept of the birthday. Paper items are easily attached to the walls, the ceiling of the gazebo or to the trees around.
When organizing a holiday on your own, it is best to set the table with beautiful paper dishes - in this case, you will not have to wash them. You can arrange a buffet and put convenient small snacks in large dishes.
A good idea for a birthday is to organize a photo zone in some part of the area, decorating it with themed banners or ribbons and flowers. You can keep unusual clothes, hats, glasses, masks nearby. Then the birthday photos will be unusual and fun.
You need to make a list of items in advance that you will need when organizing the holiday:
- barbecue, skewers and grills for it;
- knife and corkscrew;
- folding furniture;
- charcoal and lighter fluid;
- disposable tableware, tablecloths and cutlery;
- antibacterial wet wipes;
- large and small garbage bags;
- matches;
- foil pallets;
- repellent.
Ensuring security
When organizing a holiday in nature, it is necessary to take care of safety. In the forest and on the shore of a reservoir, it is necessary to follow the rules that will protect picnic participants from accidents.
It is strictly prohibited:
- Do not make fires in undesignated places, especially in dry weather.
- Leave trash behind.
- Swimming in unknown places, especially at night.
- Entering the water while intoxicated.
- Going out onto thin ice in winter.
The following will also help you enjoy your outdoor recreation without sacrificing your health:
- Properly selected clothing and headgear that will protect against insect bites.
- Having a charged mobile phone will help you avoid getting lost or call for help in time.
- Carefully inspect the proposed resting place to ensure there are no anthills or wasp nests.
It is also not recommended to pick unfamiliar mushrooms and berries and drink water from a river or lake.
You must have a first aid kit with you, which contains:
- antibacterial wipes;
- iodine;
- hydrogen peroxide;
- bandages and medical wipes;
- anti-burn ointment;
- stomach upset medications;
- allergy medications;
- insect bite remedy;
- painkillers.
Entertainment program
A birthday party in nature (ideas for holding it depend on the age and mood of the guests) will be fun if you play active games, complete quests, make colorful congratulations for the birthday boy, sing or dance.
Outdoor games
In summer, you can play sports games with your friends.
You must bring your own balls, shuttlecocks, rackets and frisbees:
- Football, or simply kicking a ball into a makeshift goal if there are few players.
- Volleyball - even without a net, throwing the ball to each other.
- Dodgeball is a team game with a ball.
- Badminton.
- Frisbee.
Creating a collective gift
There is an activity that can involve all those present and that can continue throughout the entire celebration period - this is the creation of a gift for the hero of the occasion with the help of all those present.
By working together we can:
- Painting on canvas. The drawing applied in advance is painted one by one with paints, which must be placed together with brushes near the stretcher with the future painting.
- Painted wooden hearts on magnets. For this fun, you need to buy wooden blanks and magnets on double-sided tape in advance.
- A map of the country or the world with wishes to visit a particular city or country. You only need to prepare a large map and colorful flags that guests will stick into the map.
Presentation
A pre-prepared photo or video presentation with footage of important stages in the life of the hero of the day will help fill the pause between dishes and please the hero of the occasion and his loved ones who will recognize themselves in the photo or video.
Concerts
Musical accompaniment makes the birthday even more fun and interesting.
When preparing for a holiday, you can use the following ideas:
- Concert by guests. It is necessary to agree in advance who will perform what songs, who will read poetry, who will perform some skits, who will show magic tricks. The organizers need to make sure that the sound is loud and clear, for this purpose special speakers can be used.
- Performing songs according to a pre-written script. This concert uses songs that the hero of the occasion loves.
- You can hold a music competition between boys and girls. In this case, first all the girls of different ages sing a famous hit, and then all the boy guests sing a well-known song. The winners are determined by the hero of the day.
Dancing
After a hearty meal, guests often want to dance. You can add some originality to this activity by dividing those who want to dance into 2 or 4 groups. A representative of each group pulls out of the "hat" pieces of paper with the name of a dance, prepared in advance.
It can be samba, rumba, salsa, waltz, rock and roll, everything depends on the organizer's imagination. After a little preparation, the group performs its dance in the middle of the circle, the rest of the guests encourage them with dances.
You can also organize a lottery with prizes, a poetry evening, and various intellectual games.
You can ask everyone to take a selfie with the birthday boy before leaving the party. There will be a lot of such photos, and they will later make a great collage to remember the birthday. To have all the photos in one place, it is better to allocate one smartphone for this.
Child's birthday
A child's birthday can be spent cheerfully outdoors, to please the child, and not to let the holiday smoothly flow into an adult feast with shashlik.
A child's birthday party held outdoors will be enjoyed by the little guests and will leave the hero of the occasion with the brightest memories. The child can take part in the preparation for the holiday, for example, he can independently make a colorful invitation for each guest.
The place for the celebration should be chosen in advance, it can be a picnic at the dacha, in the park or in a clearing in the nearby forest. The place should be chosen 2-3 days in advance, and a few hours before the start of the celebration, you need to decorate the chosen place with colorful balloons, garlands, paper flowers, posters with congratulations.
You can discuss treats with your child. Small sandwiches, fruits, vegetables, and various snacks are best. You need to make sure there is enough water, juice, and fruit drink. At the end of the party, you should definitely offer guests a cake with candles that the birthday boy or girl will blow out.
You can prepare folding tables and chairs, or you can place all the snacks in one place, arrange a children's buffet. It is best to choose disposable tableware; in stores you can buy paper plates and cups of bright colors and holiday colors.
By agreement with the birthday boy, the party can be dedicated to his favorite movie or cartoon. Guests should be warned in advance so that children dress in accordance with the theme of the party, and everything is decorated in the style of the chosen theme.
To keep children busy, you can hold various competitions and contests. To make everyone want to participate, you need to promise prizes for winning. Prizes should be bought in advance.
Fun games and competitions usually capture the attention of all guests.
Here are some ideas for organizing them:
- A bubble blowing competition for distance or quantity. For this you will need to buy several sets of bubbles.
- Team game "Make the other team laugh". As soon as one team achieves a result, the other takes its place.
- Organize various team relay races: who will run to the end of the clearing faster, who will make the most beautiful wreath, who will bring the most water from the stream, and so on.
- You can hide something in a clearing in advance, mark the place on a drawn map and invite the children to find the treasure.
A child's birthday party in nature is an exciting holiday. However, you need to worry about the safety of children in advance, make sure that the child is dressed properly, so that he or she does not overheat in the sun, does not go too far and does not get lost. In this case, a first aid kit should be mandatory.
Organizing a holiday outdoors is a fairly simple and creative process. A birthday spent with loved ones in an interesting place is remembered for a long time.
Ideas for organizing such a holiday can be found on the Internet, talk to friends who already have experience of holding a birthday not in stuffy rooms, but among beautiful landscapes. With a little imagination, you can achieve an impressive result and please your loved ones.
Author: Elena Romanenko
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