Animal Crossing Birthday Party Ideas: A guide to organising your own party Animal Crossing Style!
Animal Crossing New Horizons officially sold over 35.8 million copies worldwide as of March 31, 2021 (one year since launch)!! This virtual life simulation game has become so popular that âislandersâ near and far want to bring the island vibes to life and celebrate their birthdays in Animal Crossing style! Â
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In-game Animal Crossing villagers throw a special birthday party for you (the island resident) on your actual birthday! Check out this link for what happens in-game on your special day! We have incorporated this in-game feature with our virtual celebration this year, allowing even friends who are unfamiliar with the game to enjoy the party!Â
1. Stream your Animal Crossing in-game birthday party online!Â
I am not tech savvy at all, but after some research on google, Iâve found an easy way to connect our Nintendo Switch to the laptop, enabling sharing of the Switch screen over Zoom or Google Meets! Iâve purchased a video capture card through Amazon (like this one) and connected the Switch dock to my laptop through an HDMI cable.Â
I found Google meets an easier platform to use to stream your external source as the software automatically detects the external video source without the need of another third party software!Â
Once you are all set up, the participants of your virtual party can join in and follow along as you celebrate your birthday with your virtual villagers!Â
2. Play a game of BINGO!Â
To engage friends to participate in a virtual birthday party requires some creativity and pre-planning! By utilising the in game spinning wheels, Iâve designed a game of bingo where the host can âdrawâ the numbers real time and others can download the game board to play along!Â
There are a few different style of spinning wheels in Animal Crossing New Horizons but Iâve chosen to use these two to create my bingo cards:
Get your copy of printable Animal Crossing Birthday Bingo cards here!! ACNH Birthday Bingo Cards
3. Animal Crossing Flight Pass!!!Â
Create a one-of-a-kind birthday invitation and incorporate your virtual party details on a special boarding pass with Dodo airlines! Weâve personalised each invite by hand writing the guestsâ names on them. These boarding passes created so much hype ! They donât only look amazing, but are functional as well because they contain the log-in link for the virtual party!Â
You can design your own here: DAL Boarding Pass- Animal Crossing Party Invite
4. Animal Crossing Party MUST - Balloon Gift! đ đ
Every day on your island, secret presents carried by balloons drift across your land and you stop whatever you are doing to grab a sling shot to shoot it down in hopes to get a rare DIY recipe you donât already have! Your Animal Crossing themed party is not complete without a Balloon Gift! There are so many different methods to re-create the balloon gifts and weâve decided to deliver balloon gifts to every guest of our virtual party!Â
Why did we send party favors to guests of a virtual party? Because its FUN! Sending loot bags to your guests creates anticipation for the party and a little bit of excitement for whatâs to come! Hereâs a peek into what we have included in our balloon party gift topped with a red helium balloon!Â
Dodo Airline Boarding Pass Party InviteÂ
Personalised chip bag
Themed stickers
'Bell bagâ of candy
Mini decorative magnets
DIY Bottle Hand SanitizerÂ
BINGO game card
Balloon Gift filled with themed goodies!Â
Hand Lettering X Animal Crossing Stickers!Â
Custom mini decorative magnets!
Custom Chip Bag Designed by @partyunicornstudioÂ
The hand made âBell Bagsâ filled with candies are made from burlap roll and decorated with a gold foil star! @partyunicornstudio
5. Party Decorations!Â
We love a more contemporary look so we kept it simple with a âmossâ like backdrop which was simply a green throw blanket from Ikea hung on the wall with 3M removable / paint safe hooks! A custom modern banner was all that was needed to complete the look! Â
Large cardboard cutouts are always great as they can be moved around easily to decorate the space and they are also great for taking photos! We have created our own life size Tom Nook cutout and he is absolutely adorable! It was a last minute decision to bring in Tom Nook so we utilised the âSame Day Printingâ service from Staples and were able to DIY this life size Tom Nook with glue tape and foam board from the dollar store!Â
6. Cake Cake Cake!
The birthday girl DEMANDED an ice cream cake (and specifically a cookies and cream ice-cream cake from Baskin-Robins!). This really limited my cake option đNevertheless, we found this âGIANTâ cupcake ice-cream cake which fits nicely to the Animal Crossing theme because....guess what?? The birthday boy/girl gets âBirthday Cupcakesâ from their virtual party in the game!!Â
We had so much fun planning for this party and were able to connect with other island owners through this virtual gathering! This âvirtual-virtualâ birthday party took a while to prepare for but itâs all worth the sweat seeing how everything tied in so well! Hope this inspired you to plan your own Animal Crossing birthday party and leave me a comment if you like the inspo!Â
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