Super fun, Inexpensive Disney Princess Birthday Party Ideas

Girl, put on your crown and princess dress. This post is full of exciting Princess Birthday Party Ideas. Enjoy princess birthday cakes, party foods, crafts, princess-themed party games, party favors, and more! If the crown fits, wear it!

Your little princess is turning another year older. You know what that means. Bring on the crowns, costumes, sparkles, fancy food, and all things pink. It’s time for a princess party!

Before we begin, let’s set the foundation for hosting a princess party and then learn how to create your on DIY Disney Princess Birhdtay Party on a budget!

How do you host a princess party?

Guess what, it’s easy to keep a princess party at a low-cost. There are plenty of great DIY princess birthday party ideas that you can do yourself.

Become a great princess party host when your try some of these fun money-saving ideas

Have DIY Dress Up

For a princess party, you need plenty of great props. Many little princesses might come dressed up, however, others might be looking for a few fun accessories to adorn. Princess props include costumes, wands, and crowns. No need to spend on expensive Disney brand items. Grab knock-offs at The Dollar Tree or a set of fun dress-up items on Amazon. You can use the actual event to make your own princess wands with wooden dowels, ribbons, and more.

Create DIY Entertainment

Princess characters for hire can get quite costly. Saving on birthday party entertainment is actually quite easy. These memorable princess party games are perfect for keeping your young queens active and entertained. In addition to kids’ party games, try some of the princess party activities like wand-making, nail painting, and princess training. While you do such magical crafts, turn on process movies in the background.

Go on a Magical Treasure Hunt

In addition to fun process games and party activities, you can offer a royal treasure hunt filled with finding Disney princess party favors or birthday presents for the guest of honor. Grab a scavenger hunt based on your party location like an at-home scavenger hunt, outdoor scavenger hunt, or even a birthday party scavenger hunt. With each clue, have small mementos including necklaces, rings, crowns, candy, or birthday presents.

Narrow Down Your Disney Princess Theme

Narrow down your Disney princess party ideas by choosing a specific princess. For example, if your child loves cinderella, have a blue, silver, and white color palette to direct your princess decor ideas. Create fun DIY balloon garland out of your color palette. Search Pinterest for cinderella party food ideas like blue gum balls, blue chocolate dipped pretzels wands, Royal Carriage carrots, and more. Narrowing down a color palette based on your desired Disney process helps you with tableware, napkins, streamers, and a color scape for your Disney princess birthday decorations.

If you’re looking for more frugal tips and ideas to plan the perfect princess birthday party, you’re in luck. We’ve got loads of cute ideas for princess cupcakes, princess games, pretty party food fit for royalty, and lots of décor, favors, and crafts that the kids can make to keep them entertained.

From tea party scones to strawberry cupcakes to sparkly pink slime to send home with every princess, you’re sure to find some excellent princesses party ideas to use for your birthday bash.

Happy planning, let’s go have a ball, a princess party ball with these cute ideas!

Princess Birthday Cakes

For get the birthday cake! If cupcakes are more your style, you can’t get any prettier (or pinker) than these lovely raspberry JELLO cupcakes. The white chocolate buttercream icing makes these cupcakes ultra-sweet. They’re a nice change of pace from your usual chocolate or vanilla cupcakes. Simple sprinkles give the cupcake some texture your birthday princess will love. | Saving You Dinero

Rapunzel is a really popular princess, thanks to the Tangled movies, so these Rapunzel cupcakes could be perfect for your little princess. We love the bold colors of the purple icing with the yellow “hair” trailing down the side of the cupcake. And you can use a boxed cake mix and store-bought frosting for these, making them easier to prepare than you’d think. | Well If She Can Do It

Indulge your sweet tooth with these pretty pastel strawberry-filled cupcakes. It’s a vanilla cupcake recipe, and they’re filled with strawberry jam. This recipe makes a small batch of only seven cupcakes, so if you’re planning on lots of party guests, make sure to triple the recipe. Add a fun gumball for sweet treat cake toppers. | Amanda Wilens

How about some strawberry cupcakes that are full of real strawberry pieces throughout? They’re topped with a pink swirled vanilla frosting and a large pink gumball on top to complete the look. | Cookie Dough and Oven Mitt

Princess Party Food

Throwing a princess party in the fall or winter months when the weather’s chilly? The princesses will surely welcome this gorgeous, warming cup of Elsa white hot chocolate. These princess party drinks are rich, creamy, ready in less than 10 minutes, and perfect for any princess. | Baking Beauty

If you’re considering a tea party, no tea is complete without some delicious scones. These chocolate chunk scones will go over well. This recipe makes eight scones, and they look lovely when cut into heart shapes and surrounded by pink flowers. | Amanda Wilens

Speaking of tea, you’ll need some finger sandwiches for the affair. Since they’re served cold or at room temperature, you don’t have to worry about keeping them warm or reheating them! | Aleka’s Get Together

Are you going for a Cinderella theme? If so, these magical pumpkin piñatas are an absolute must. They’re filled with lots of fun candy inside and will delight all the little princesses at your party. | Cookie Dough and Oven Mitt

Try foods themed after all the Disney princesses! There are many ideas here, like Anna’s sandwiches in the shape of crowns using a Princess Crown Cookie Cutter. Also try fairy bread in honor of Cinderella’s godmother, Tiana’s lemon frog cake, and more. | Play Party Plan

Belle’s grey stuff is super popular at Disney parks, but you can easily make it at home for your princess party! It’s basically Oreo pudding. Adding the sugar pearls to each dollop of pudding makes it look extra fancy. | Lil Luna

These Beauty and the Beast Oreos are almost too pretty to eat. Almost. The Oreo treats are covered in yellow chocolate melts and topped with white icing and sugared red roses. They’ll look gorgeous on the dessert table. | Mommy Musings

Princess Party Décor

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To make a significant visual impact for just a few dollars, try this DIY plastic tablecloth backdrop in different shades of pink. It’ll look amazing behind your food table, candy buffet and you could do one for a photo backdrop as well. This aurora inspired backdrop screams all things pink. Adjust the homemade princess party decoration ideas to a tablecloth colors to fit your favorite Disney princess. | Smart Party Planning

Princess Party Activities, Crafts & Favors

Get ready to entertain your guests… your princesses… with these princess party games. Ten engaging and fun games for girls from treasure hunts, to relays, wand making, and more. Add these princess games to play to the party plan.

This princess birthday party games printable set is most fitting for preschoolers. Think ages 3, 4, 5 6 and 7. Set comes with princess games directions and a supply list.

Now we need a few low-cost Disney Princess party supplies. These princess paper dolls will make beautiful party décor and could be given out as favors or used as a party craft, too. You can even save them after the party to decorate your little princess’s room with her favorite Disney princess. | Red Ted Art

For more Disney Princess party ideas, these adorable princess candy necklace princess party favors will be a hit with the girls! They have an unbranded look, so they’re great for a general princess theme but could work for a Disney princess party, too. These could even be used as invitations. You can also find this free princess-themed birthday party printable in our 25 Free Disney Printables post! | Five Marigolds

A princess party theme needs an amazing crown or tiaras. You’ll be amazed at all the beautiful ideas in this post from Dinner at the Zoo, but one of our favorites was having the flower crowns for girls and gold crowns for boys so that everyone got something to sit atop their head, just like real princesses and princes. Other ideas that we loved were the jewelry selection station (with beaded and candy jewelry available) and the face painting station. | Dinner at the Zoo

Want a fun princess themed birthday party favor? Make batches of fairy slime to give to the princesses in attendance! Parents will appreciate that there’s no food coloring so that it won’t stain kids’ hands. It’s still lovely and sparkly, though. | The Best Ideas for Kids

For slime fanatics, this princess slime is another excellent choice. It’s made with only three ingredients and is pink and sparkly. What more could you ask for? Put in little jars with a ribbon tied around, and you’re all set. | Simple Everyday Mom

How fun is this pink princess cake mix playdough? It’s perfect if you’re throwing a party for toddlers or preschoolers. However, if you want to make this taste safe, you’ll need to use edible glitter instead of real glitter. | Crayons and Cravings

Princess Party Crafts

Any Disney princess or Little Mermaid fan will love making this Ariel papercraft. You can print and cut all the pieces to make it easy for the kids to assemble their own mermaid in just a few minutes. It’s super easy to change out the hair and skin color, too, just by changing out the color of craft paper. | Ottawa Mommy Club

No princess can be without her crown. Every little girl will enjoy making paper crowns as a great way to kick off the party. You’ll need some yellow or gold construction paper or scrapbook paper and lots of pretty stick-on jewels. | The Craft at Home Family

A proper princess needs a wand! Making paper leaf wands can be a super fun craft for the kids, especially if they gather their own sticks, get to choose their ribbon colors, etc. Of course, if you don’t have time for an extended craft, you could always reassemble them or at least prepare all the materials beforehand. | Barley and Birch

Here’s another princess papercraft that’s super easy to set up and make. If Snow White is one of your child’s favorites, they’ll love this craft! It looks just like her, doesn’t it? | Ottawa Mommy Club

We hope you enjoyed this list of princess birthday party ideas. We’d love to feature even more perfect princess party ideas! Share your princess-themed birthday party pictures with us if you’ve thrown a spectacular princess birthday party.

Keep the party entertaining with these Kids’ Party Games. Some of the best party activities for kids. Pin to Pinterest.

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Cheers to another year!

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Last Updated on February 18, 2023 by Ashley at Frugal Coupon Living

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