Ni Hao Kai-Lan Party

Ni Hao everyone (Hi in Mandarin Chinese) and welcome to some amazing Ni Hao Kai-Lan party ideas! Kai-Lan is a delightful character that is always willing to learn and help her friends along the way. What a perfect theme for your kids' next birthday party.

Ni Hao everyone (Hi in Mandarin Chinese) and welcome to some amazing Ni Hao Kai-Lan party ideas! Kai-Lan is a delightful character that is always willing to learn and help her friends along the way. What a perfect theme for your kids' next birthday party.

Ni Hao Kai-Lan Party Decorations

• Use the color theme red, yellow and orange
• Ni Hao Kai-Lan Theme Paper Products: Ni Hao Kai-Lan plates, napkins, cups, and table cover
• Ni Hao Kai-Lan Chinese dragon centerpiece
• Ni Hao Kai-Lan birthday banner, hats and noise blowers 
• Have masks in the Ni Hao Kai-Lan characters
• Create a balloon arch with a blue or green backdrop to use for pictures or the backdrop of a food table
• Lots of star Mylar balloons and helium balloons.
• Party lanterns in pink, blue, orange, green and  red. These look amazing hanging or being strung up throughout the party zone.
• Chinese dragons

Ni Hao Kai-Lan Party Games and Activities

• Chinese Dragon Craft - Pre-cut out the head and tail of a Chinese dragon (use card stock paper). Use white paper for the middle of the dragon and fold it like a fan. Glue the head and tail to the middle of the dragon. Attach Popsicle sticks to the head and tail with glue or a strong tape. Color the dragon with markers.

• Tangram Puzzles - Figure out the tangram puzzles (make sure to try to make the Ni Hao Kai Lan Characters – tiger, panda, monkey, and rhino).

• Firework Craft - Use dark navy or black construction paper. Create a design using pencil and then cover the design with glue. Then carefully cover the design with glitter and sparkles. Shake and the craft is completed. Hint – do the glitter and sparkles in a large tub or outside. Careful sparkles often get everywhere.

• Paper bag Puppets - Make paper bag puppets of all the Ni Hao Kai-Lan characters. Not only is this fun, but the guests can then play with the puppets or put on a puppet show.

• Chinese Bracelets - Create some Chinese bracelets. Use stretchy bracelet and necklace wire. This can often be purchased at discount stores. Then go to your local Chinese market or Chinatown to get some authentic beads. Try to find some with painted flowers, lettering, etc.

• Lantern Making - Have your guests make their own lanterns. Take a piece of construction paper and cut slits lengthwise all the way across. Then fold the paper in half and open again. This part will then pop out one put together. Decorate the paper. Once decorated then you can roll your paper. Roll two pieces of paper, one yellow (2 inches shorter) and the other the piece of construction paper. Staple them together to make a 3d lantern.

• Learn some Mandarin Chinese - Learn some sayings that Kai-Lan uses in her shows e.g., Ni Hao means hi or hello.

• Tea time - Make some sugar cookies, use red cookie icing for the top and then draw on some Chinese numbers and words in white icing.

• Pin the flowers on Kai-Lan - Create a large poster size of Kai-Lan. Have a few colors of flowers for her hair bows. Then have your guests cover their eyes with a sleeping mask, spin and try to post the hair barrettes in the right place.

• Dragon Dancing - Learn to dance in a large dragon. These are amazing in parades and celebrations. Or you could have some smaller hand held dragons and dance with them to bring good luck.

• Find the Pearl of Wisdom - Create a scavenger hunt for some leaded necklaces. Hide them throughout the party zone for your guests to find. Get them in all sorts of colors and try to have a few for each guest to find.

• Wind Finder - Make a wind finder out of construction paper and streamers. Attach the streamers of different colors to construction paper. Once it is done being decorated round the construction paper and staple to keep the round shape.

• Outdoor Fun - Have an assortment of windmill blow toys, bubbles, hula hoops, skipping ropes, etc to play with in the great outdoors. For your adventurous guests have multiple binoculars and bug catchers. 

• Green Thumb - Show off your green thumb by letting your guests plant their own flowers in individual smaller pots. Start with them scooping the dirt to fill the bottom of their pot. Then let them push the flowers into place. Finally they can help water their flowers. These can then go home with your guest as a favor.

Ni Hao Kai-Lan Party Food

• Dumplings
• Sushi
• Rice krispies
• Red Licorice
• Make candy kabobs
• Make cupcakes with a light blue swirl icing. Then add candy flowers or an icing flower on top.
• Make a round cake that will be the animal of your favorite character or of Kai-Lan 

Ni Hao Kai-Lan Party Favors

• Adopt an animal - a stuffed animal of the Ni Hao Kai Lan Characters – tiger, panda, monkey, and rhino
• Swirl Lollipop
• Chopsticks
• Chinese fan
• Bracelets
• Hair accessories