Super Mario Bros Party Ideas and Freebies


Tips for Creating an Awesome Mario Brothers Party
I've created this page as a one-stop shop for all your Super Mario Bros Party needs! Whatever kind of Mario Brothers Party you're having—Mario Kart, Mario Galaxy, Super Mario Brothers, Mario and Donkey Kong—I hope I've got it covered here with the best party decorations and ideas I could find on the web!
I gave my son a Mario Brothers party for his sixth birthday, and one thing I noticed was the lack of Mario Bros party gear, especially gear found all in one place at affordable prices. So I've found what I consider the best choices and added them below.
But not only that, I've also included plenty of awesome DIY party ideas to hopefully save you some cash.
I've included a big range of free printables, some I made myself, others I found online.
And I've made a video of heaps of excellent Super Mario Bros Cake Ideas, a video of awesome costume ideas, and I've also even included some recipes for fun Mario party treats!!
So just keep on scrolling down to find 'em!
Printables Galore
FREE Super Mario Bros Printable Invitations

I created an invite for my son's birthday using free vector shapes. And I've made one just for you :)
You can print something like this and then write your own details on it. Or open it in your editing software and add your own text, then print!! Couldn't be easier ... or cheaper :) For personal home use only, please
OR if you don't have time to snail-mail invitations, save it to your own computer, add some text, save it again, and then email it as a jpeg file to all your friends.
Free Pin-the-Mustache-on-Mario Party Game Printable

It works just like Pin-the-Tail-on-the-Donkey. I created this for you all. This is a large high-resolution pdf file. You can print it up to A2 size no problem. To do that, your best bet would be to send the file to your local printer for printing on A3 or A2 paper.
Free Printable Mario Bros Paper

Wallpaper or wrapping paper! I created this for you all! Enjoy :)
Free Mario Bros Party Table Place Card Printable

I've created these for you all to have FREE!! :)
Print on letter-size paper (8.5" by 11"); use thicker paper or photo paper if possible. Then cut and fold. They will look best if you're able to cut the edge very straight, using a ruler and knife or a paper cutter. I've left enough room for you to hand-write names easily. Or you can open the jpeg in an editing program and add text that way, then print.
Free Mario Bros Coloring Pages

Large JPEGS of Mario Characters
For use in making cool things for your party, here's an absolutely fabulous array of LARGE jpeg files! These are the best I've ever seen available on the net, and believe me, I've seen a lot!)
These could really do the trick for adding extra color and pizazz to your party. They're free for you to use at home (but not for any commercial purpose)
Either right-click on the images below to save them to your files, or you can download them and other JPEGs from One Hip Mom Blog.
***VERY IMPORTANT - Please remember, these images are only for personal use.***
















So long as you've got a good colour printer... then this is a really cheap and easy way to really make your party extra special.
Uses for Colored Images
The free Mario Brothers clip art above can be downloaded from One Hip Mom Blog—but please remember, only for personal use.
There are so many ways I can think of to make great use of these!
- Use them to create an email invite, a website invite, a Facebook invite, or a printed invite!
- Use them to create gorgeous full-color labels for party favors! Or make name tags for the kids.
- Create gorgeous labels for a dessert table. Have matching labels for your apothecary or glass jars as well as on all your treat plates.
- Insert them into a template that prints out labels. Name labels on stickers may seem silly, but for Moms they can be a lifesaver! How else are you supposed to remember all the kids' names?
- Print them on round labels to make cupcake toppers!
- Make a collage with them. Print them on thicker paper and make them into cones to hold caramelised popcorn or lollies.
- Print them on larger labels to put on water bottles.
- Print them out on full A4 pages and then cut them out and hang all over the party room walls!
- For added effect, print two of the same image. Stick one side to cardboard and cut it out around the edges, and then stick the other piece on the other side, making sure to match the edges. Then cut the remaining paper off. Put a hole through the image, and use fishing wire or ribbon to hang it from the ceiling.
- Print them on iron-on transfer paper and stick them to a t-shirt for the birthday boy or girl.
- Print them onto edible transfers to put on a cake.
- Use them to create a great screensaver to display on your computer desktop on the day, with a personalized message for the birthday boy or girl.
- Use a word processor to create little fold-over table place cards.
Uses For Outline Images
I've got some fantastic ideas for how you can use outline/coloring images.
Colouring
Print them out two to a page (or one to a page) and staple them together to make a mini colouring book, perhaps with a colored-in sheet on top, and give out to the kids to take home. It would be even better to put the kid's name on the front of their book.
Or give them out as a colouring-in competition that they do at the party. Best colouring effort wins a prize?
Or laminate each one, and use them as placemats on the party table! Put whiteboard markers or Textas on the table and they can colour them in!
Or don't laminate them, and use them as paper placemats. Put a tin of colored pencils in the middle of the table, so kids can colour them in if they wish.
Decoration
Colour them in on your computer, using any paintshop program, then print them out and use them as posters to decorate the room.
Or use cardboard and put an image on both sides of the cardboard. Then put a hole in the cardboard images, tie fishing wire to them, and hang them from the ceiling as decorations.
On the Table
Color them in on the computer, then add a guest's name to each sheet and print them out. Or print them out as is, and colour them in yourself with markers or pencils. Stick them on the chairs for fun table seating arrangements. Or stick cardboard to them and attach them to something (a peg or clip, for example) to make them stand up on their own. They can then be used as table place markers which will add heaps of colour to the table!
Free Mario Image Printable Pattern

Free Printable Game Controller Pattern

Free Printable Cube

Just Out of Curiosity: Who is your Favourite Nintendo Mario Bros Character?

Who's your most favourite of all Super Mario Bros Characters?
Mario Cakes
Best Mario Bros Cakes on the Internet
If you can't find an idea for your party cake, out of all these fantastic cakes here, then you never will :)
I made this video using images from Etsy, Flickr and Deviant.
A DIY Mario Star Cake
A tip: when you make the cake below, If you get holes in the fondant when picking it up like in the video, I highly recommend starting over and rolling it out all over again. Using a fondant mat, turning it upside down onto the cake, and then peeling the mat away can solve your problem too.
A Cupcake "Mario Cake"

Sweet Treats
Easy Super Mario Star-Shaped Cookie Ideas

Just use a star cookie cutter. Then, for eyes, cut chocolate buds in half and slide them sideways into the dough.
Or you could do star shapes with frosting, like these by Anna Fuji....

or apply fondant to cookies or gingerbread....

Chocolate Molds, Donut-Hole Cake Pops
Look below to see what Amy made with star-shaped and controller-shaped chocolate molds. She made the Toad cake pops by sticking a lollipop stick into a donut hole and then dipping it in green candy melt. Making "cake pops" with donut holes or marshmallows is easier than making actual cake pops, and lots of fun. See Amy's other party decorations on her blog.



Marshmallow Mushroom Pops

Holly Moeller (see more pictures of her stunning Mario Bros party below) created these fabulous mushroom marshmallow pops, a gorgeous and much simpler alternative to actual cake pops!
I've written my own quick guide to making Lego marshmallows pops; the same procedure would work for making mushroom pops. You would dip the marshmallows only halfway into the in the candy melt, then, while the chocolate is soft, you could attach white fondant circles or perhaps rolled-up marshmallows.
Marshmallow Mushrooms

Cute as a Fox made these awesome Marshmallow Mushrooms. She's written a tutorial on how to make them.
Use These Small Cheap Figurines as Cupcake Toppers!

Costumes
Fun Ideas for Mario Bros Costumes or Cosplay!
Free Super Mario Brothers Printable Mask

Balloon and Lantern Party Decoration Ideas
I saw these balloon and lantern ideas on the internet, and wished I'd seen them before my son's party, because I would definitely have done them.
Instead, for balloon decorations, I bought lovely foil star balloons in the Mario colors (blue, red and yellow). They looked fabulous, and they only cost around $2 each. I'd planned to fill them with helium, and my local party shop had told me they'd be open on Sundays—but then on the Sunday morning of the actual party they were CLOSED! Not a happy Mum at that stage. But then I just decided to blow them up with air, so I used a drinking straw and blew them up and then used pre-made balloon strings. I attached one each to my blue and red Chinese-noodle-box lolly bags. It actually turned out for the best, because the venue we were in had really high ceilings, and at previous parties we had lost expensive helium balloons to the ceilings in the first five minutes! Not only that. these air-filled star foil balloons are still in pristine blown-up condition months later!
Or consider these fabulous alternatives...
Boo Balloons

For these just use white balloons. Use round balloons, or if they are long, only blow them up enough to keep them round. Then get pieces of white computer paper and make cones out of them. Make sure to cut little flaps at the tops and fold them inwards to glue them to the balloons. I would suggest PVA to stick them on because a glue gun may pop the balloons. Then just get yourself a black permanent marker (it has to be permanent, or you'll have black ink everywhere!) and use your creative skills to copy the face onto all the balloons! Make sure you position the face just below the knotted end of the balloon, so you can hang them right-way-up from the ceiling.
Boo Lantern

I love this idea! How great would lit-up "Boo" lanterns look at night!! But even during the day they'd look fantastic!
So you'd just need to get lots of round white paper lanterns and use your creative skills with permanent marker to draw a face on the lantern. You could also do the same as with the balloons above, and add paper cones to the sides for the arms.
They'd look so fabulous hanging from the ceiling don't you think?
Balloons

A Cute Party Game: Kids Stomp on the Goomba Balloons!

Putting It All Together: Awesome Party Examples
Paisley Petal Event's Brilliant Mario Kart Party!!
Holly Moeller created the most awesome party for her son!
I recently discovered Holly's blog. She, like me, has become party-obsessed. I know a lot of you will be able to relate: when you see all those incredible, beautifully matching party and dessert tables, your heart skips a little beat and you're inspired so much so that you want to have something like that in your life too!
I've been inspired by the party Holly created for her little six-year-old cutie! I think it's just brilliant! I love the Mario Kart theme because there is so much you can do with chequers and racing stripes!
This is the perfect example of the kind of party you can create if you give yourself enough time and do a lot of your own DIY creative options! And the resources are all available to find on the net, believe me! And believe it from Holly too!
See more details of this gorgeous party on Holly's Paisley Petal Events blog.





Holly created yellow bags that the boys got to fill to their hearts' content from the stunning sweets table she created at the end of the party. Sweets or dessert tables are definitely all the rage now for parties, and to have the sweets used up at the end of the party like this is just perfect!!

Inspiration From Another Awesome Party, by GreyGrey Designs




Brilliant Super Mario Paper Cut-Out Ideas!
Talented "Stampin Up" demonstrator and card maker Michelle Fisher came up with these ideas for her own son's sixth birthday. She was pressed for time and could not find any Mario party supplies, so she decided she had to make some herself. And aren't we glad she did? Wow ... she's impressive!! Just look at these fabulous Mario and Luigi party lollipop favors!! She also made her own mushroom boxes, kooper trooper pencils and Yoshi favor bags! Talk about a creative mind ... I love it!


A Yoshi Theme Party
You could always focus the party theme more on Yoshi. How brilliant is this easy-peasy Yoshi Eggs Idea!! I LOVE it!! Just hard-boil eggs and dot them with green paint or permanent green markers! Just too easy... and they look fabulous!!

A great idea that I saw on Amy Daton's blog is to have an egg-and-spoon race with the Yoshi eggs.


Would Love to Hear Feedback
I need a mario chocolate mold in Canada, anybody knows where i could get it?
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What a fantastic lens! I have fallen in love with the cupcake toppers! I have to have a Mario themed party for one of my sons next year! They will love it!
I'm a huge Mario fan...This is such a cool lens! Great ideas - I especially like the Boo lanterns!
Neat ideas! Why not throw a Mario party the day before a new Mario game comes out? That would be a terrific way to get even more in the spirit of playing a new Mario game. What's great is a lot of these ideas seem easy to put together, so the cost and time involved really would be pretty small. A very fun read, indeed, great work!
Amazing! Thank you for all your hard work and great ideas!
What a great idea. I had no clue there were so many Super Mario Brothers party items out there. The pics of the party were great.
thanks for all the great tips!!!!!! great Mario styff :)
Thank you so much for creating this website! My son will be 5 at the end of this month and I used a lot of ideas, all from this website. I even created and would like to share a Mario Bingo game! How can I load it to the website?
Super - Mario stuff - thank you
Please invite me to one of these parties!
What great fun!
Unreal! :D
My son loves mario bros :)
Mario looks super Funny without his moustachio, much better than pin the tail on the donkey, neatly as good as my favourite game, pin the tail on yoshi. . Great items here for a fantastic Mario and Video Game themed party.
Wow what time you spent to help others.. I am having a Mario party for my son in April and will use some of your ideas, thank you sooo much...
This has helped me out more than you could believe. We're going to use the printable wii remote template as our lolly bags. Thanks so much.
Awesome! :)
Super Mario is a winner!
This is simply AWESOME!!! Thanks for putting this all in one area. My son is going to have the best Super Mario Bros party EVER!!!
Amazing stuff here! I really want those Star Cookies!! your content is is awesome!
great lens! awesome ideas.
thank u so much! this help is awesome!
THANK YOU!! Using this for our Super Alonso's 1st birthday :)
i love these ideas. thanks
Very comprehensive! I love the ideas
The ideas for the "Yoshi Favor Bags", "M&L Lollipop Hats", and "Yoshi Egg Game" originally came from www.CoolPartyBlog.com.
Here is the link incase you want to view or link.
http://www.coolpartyblog.com/2009/02/yoshi-birthda...
Site was under renovation updates for a while, this may be why it was hard to find on web. BLOG UPDATE: Many of the templates and "how to's" that anyone may have been looking for are updated. Still updating, so all will be up, and ready to share. WWW.COOLPARTYBLOG.COM is the place to go, if your looking too.
Wow. This is an amazing list! My kids (3 and 4 yrs old) requested Mario Kart for their birthday and I have been struggling to find ideas. This is perfect! Thank you! And now for the obsession.
Wow. This is an amazing list! My kids (3 and 4 yrs old) requested Mario Kart for their birthday and I have been struggling to find ideas. This is perfect! Thank you! And now for the obsession.
Amazing job! Thanks for compiling all the best party ideas and sharing!
Great ideas here, love what you have done. Thank you
Thank you so much for all the wonderful mario party ideas. My son's 5th birthday is coming up and he loves mario. It is so hard to find Mario party supplies so this site was a life saver.
Super mario was popular when i was a kid! I'm surprised to see that kids are still into it!!!
My little one is OBSESSED with Mario - so this lens is a great resource. Thanks for your hard work in putting it together.
This was a great resource- thanks!
Lots of ideas, thanks for the free ones!
tons of great ideas! Cant wait to use them for my sons upcoming mario bros party!
OMG YOU ROCK!
Great tips and links, thanks! Pinned this.
Awesome ideas! Thanks for sharing!
wow you really have a lot of great stuff here i wish i would have found this page sooner my sons party is coming up and i've been making a lot of home-made things for his party and did buy some of the party gear out on the market. i'll be sure to get back to you when im done maybe you can add to you collection with the things i've made.
The mustache game is my fav! lol. You and I both love Mario! : )
Im working on a mario themed wedding and this site is the first one that I found that is fantastic!! Thank you so much for your help!!!
I'm from Brazil and here there's nothing about Mario, so I will create/make everything and I have loved so much all your ideas. Thanks.
I love all your ideas can you tell me where to find the template for the yoshi goodie bag eyes. Thank you
Dear Pip, thank you for this website! I loved it! My soon-to-be 6 year old Julian is very excited about his Mario Bros. Bday party, and we will be sure to take into account all your fabulous ideas. Thank you SO much!
What a great lens! Keep up the good work!
Great lens. The inner child in me is going crazy over the idea of having a party like this!
LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS!! You saved me hours of searching for things. My 5 year old and our guests will love it also!!! THANKS!!
Amazing! I got all the ideas off of your cite! Thank you so much!
A helpful reference for anyone who is trying to put together a Mario Brothers party.
Love Mario, always have, always will. That makes this one of my favourite lenses.
Love Mario, always have, always will. That makes this one of my favourite lenses.
Wow Pip! No wonder this lens is ranked high...it is simply fantastic! I'm inspired with so many ideas for a Mario Bros party!
Love, love, love all the ideas. Thanks for sharing!
This site has e drugging I need for my daughter:s 6th birthday as well. Thank you so much!
great lens, lots of stuff to print for the party, a great resource for Mario Fans!
What a great site! Thank you so much!I'm getting in the mood for a birthday party now!!:}
Mmm, I love those cookies.
Wow, thank you so much for these ideas!!!
Wow, fantastic ideas. Everybody love Super Mario!
What a fun party idea! Great work. :)
right now my 3yr old only wants to play with stuff mario, luigi, or toad. Great lens, I'm emailing this to my wife for her to check out. If you also like browsing lens, mine has a great educational topic with poll questions for my readers to do.
WOW!! Excellent lens!!
My son lives, breathes, speaks, and acts out everything Mario!!!! He has encyclopedic knowledge of every game and back story created. I'm not sure this is a totally good thing...."Hey, try getting the theme music he had me download for him and then TRY to get the darn song out of your head!" LOL Difficult!
The ideas listed here have saved my hide, as he wants to BE Mario for Halloween (go fig) and have a Mario b-day party. Thank you!
Life would be so much easier if they carried these popular themes in stores, but being forced to order online or make your own just brings out so much creativity! I've had to get creative on a couple of party themes, and this year is no exception. We are going to a fun facility instead of at home, so i guess my decorating will be minimum. Id id get some fantastic ideas from this site. Thank you so much!!
What an absolutely brilliant lens! The imagination of some people is amazing. We love the Boo lantern, it looks fantastic! And the range of fancy dress costume ideas in the gallery is outstanding.
My son is absolutely obsessed with Mario and I know hes going to love his birthday party thanks to you!!!!! This made things sooooo much cheaper and we even used some of the characters to decorate his room!!!!!
Awesome Lens, Loved it! So darn cute!!
Love all you ladies who are so talented creating wonderful party themes! Love this page and Super Mario is always popular.
Bright & colorful lens! Love the attention to detail - there's so much to find here. You can tell you really worked hard to put together a comprehensive and fantastically informative lens! Well done! Fab stuff! :-)
I'm throwing a Mrio themed birthday for my soon to be 3 year old who is obsessed with everything Mario and this site has been so helpful thankyou!
Sounds like so much fun! Great lens
I never think of having a Mario theme bithday party. But it is really a good idea. Thanks for sharing.
sooo cool! this lens is awesome.
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The star cookies are the cutest! I want to make those.
This lens is for Mario Lovers like me. Thanks
love the graphics and cookies they look yummy. Interesting lens
I love this lens! I added you to my Mario lensroll too! Would you mind if I contacted you on how to get the voting like you have it on your lens. I love to do polls on my lenses, but never figured out how to do it with the voting actually moving the ranking. Regardless, I now only got some great Mario information, but lots of ideas on how to make my lenses better! Thank much!
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