Springtime Party Ideas for 2021

Now that we’re getting further into spring and those April showers are fading away, it’s time to get outside and celebrate the season. Here are two fun ideas for hosting a spring-themed party this year. 

Host your own mini-festival

Spring is a whimsical time in the United States, marked by festivals celebrating nature and life outdoors nationwide. 

This time of year represents the beginning of a new chapter when life emerges anew from her wintertime slumber. 

Unsurprisingly, April, one of the early months of spring, is characterized by multiple Earth-focused celebrations. This month holds Washington D.C.’s annual National Cherry Blossom Festival Parade and Earth Day, celebrated in San Francisco’s Civic Center Plaza. 

If you’re unable to attend or simply don’t want to, you can throw a mini-festival for yourself and your group of friends. 

The best way to do this is to get your hands on as many environmentally inspired decorations as you can, fully indulge in “spring-feeling” colors, and offer your guests fresh fruits and vegetables. 

This will surely make you feel connected to this beautiful world, dazzled by colorful foliage and filling you with a sense of glee. Flowers that bloom around this time include:

• Calendine poppy
• Grape hyacinth
• Tulips
• Daffodil
• Claytonia

You can either bring these yourself or inquire with the party venue about what types of flowers they grow at the site. 

(For this reason, you’ll want to consider hosting your spring party at a botanical garden. If you’re less interested in flowers and more intrigued by foliage, consider an arboretum instead! These primarily feature trees and other plants, with less emphasis on pretty flowers.)

At your party, make sure to play the music that best represents springtime to you or something that generally gives you a rejuvenated feeling. Of course, you should serve food that’s in-season, like:

• Apricots
• Avocadoes
• Lemons
• Rhubarb
• Strawberries

If you want, you can get everyone in on the action by requesting that all your guests wear springtime hues. With everyone will be doused in shades of green, orange, pink, yellow, and light brown, no one will be able to resist the festivities. 

Host your own mini-festival

Spring is a whimsical time in the United States, marked by festivals celebrating nature and life outdoors nationwide. 

This time of year represents the beginning of a new chapter when life emerges anew from her wintertime slumber. 

Unsurprisingly, April, one of the early months of spring, is characterized by multiple Earth-focused celebrations. This month holds Washington D.C.’s annual National Cherry Blossom Festival Parade and Earth Day, celebrated in San Francisco’s Civic Center Plaza. 

If you’re unable to attend or simply don’t want to, you can throw a mini-festival for yourself and your group of friends. 

The best way to do this is to get your hands on as many environmentally inspired decorations as you can, fully indulge in “spring-feeling” colors, and offer your guests fresh fruits and vegetables. 

This will surely make you feel connected to this beautiful world, dazzled by colorful foliage and filling you with a sense of glee. Flowers that bloom around this time include:

• Calendine poppy
• Grape hyacinth
• Tulips
• Daffodil
• Claytonia

You can either bring these yourself or inquire with the party venue about what types of flowers they grow at the site. 

(For this reason, you’ll want to consider hosting your spring party at a botanical garden. If you’re less interested in flowers and more intrigued by foliage, consider an arboretum instead! These primarily feature trees and other plants, with less emphasis on pretty flowers.)

At your party, make sure to play the music that best represents springtime to you or something that generally gives you a rejuvenated feeling. Of course, you should serve food that’s in-season, like:

• Apricots
• Avocadoes
• Lemons
• Rhubarb
• Strawberries

If you want, you can get everyone in on the action by requesting that all your guests wear springtime hues. With everyone will be doused in shades of green, orange, pink, yellow, and light brown, no one will be able to resist the festivities. 

Throw a garden party

Speaking of apricots… I’m reminded of one of my favorite spring parties I’ve ever attended. 

A small group of friends was invited to pick apricots from our buddy’s overgrown (and overproducing) trees and take them home for canning, dehydrating, and other methods of preparing and eating the fruit.

That’s it! The premise of the party was that simple. We played music and shared some snacks and had a grand ol’ time. You can do this, too — I promise it’ll be a ton of fun. 

However, I do understand that not everyone has an apricot tree in their backyard. Heck, not everyone has a backyard.

So, instead, you can rent an outdoor party venue to host a garden party. Invite everyone to experience the feeling of sewing a seed into the soil, getting ready to watch it germinate and rise from the soil in this season of new beginnings. 

Besides, a garden party allows us to place any decorations we desire, even custom-shaped giant inflatables to add more fun and colorful memories. For this kind of party, you can place something like a tunnel or a sports arches, to determine your start or finish place, or whatever design you want.

You can set up the whole thing like a buffet line across a long table:

1. Your guests’ first stop at the table will be to collect their containers. Choose whatever material works best for you all. Paper is the best option since it’s cheap, disposable, and biodegradable.
2. Next, they’ll mix and scoop soil. I recommend making your own custom mix of soil with loam soil, peat moss, a small amount of perlite or vermiculite. If you’re not the kind of crowd to make your own soil, storebought potting soil works well, too. 
3. After the soil, give your guests the option to choose from a moderate selection of seeds. Seed packets rarely ever cost more than $2, so ten or less is a good range of options. Don’t just choose all flowers, though! Include some spring veggies, too.
4. Their last stop is the “doggy bag,” which should have printed or written instructions on a card with a trowel and compost or fertilizer. They can use the trowel at the party, and all the items will equip them to care for their new plant long after the event ends.

It’s best to have these events in an outdoor space because you’ll be dealing with dirt. Things might get a little messy, especially if you plan on inviting children. 

Better yet, look for an indoor-outdoor venue. At such a location, you can do the dirty work outdoors, then head inside for a nice snack with all the new green thumbs. 

Host the perfect springtime shindig of 2021

Spring is all about looking forward and embracing what new beginnings the future has for you. Step into the season with a small group of your closest friends in a mini-festival or garden party at the perfect party venue to start this year off right.