Theme packs / Unicorn
Unicorn birthday party ideas without the glitter cleanup
Unicorn parties are mostly a colour scheme, which is good news: you can do almost all of it with paper and food dye.
Check my party date$149.99 for the weekend · $200 deposit, refunded when the box comes back
Unlocking the premium themes is $9 for the party — Unicorn and every other one, changeable until the day.
The plan
Two hours of unicorn party
Food
- Rainbow fruit skewers. They are the cheapest decoration in the room and the only vegetable-adjacent thing kids eat.
- White frosting with four drops of food colouring swirled once — do not mix it in.
- Pink lemonade in a dispenser. It photographs well and it costs nothing.
Decorations
- Pastel balloons in a rough arch over the doorway, uneven on purpose.
- Paper plates in four colours instead of one. It reads as deliberate.
- Skip loose glitter. It gets into carpets and it is still there in March.
One thing that isn’t a screen
Horn headbands the kids decorate as they arrive — it absorbs the awkward first ten minutes.
What usually goes wrong
Unicorn parties skew young, and a room of five-year-olds needs shorter turns than you think. Switch the arcade to the Little Kids profile before anybody sits down.
A running order that works
0:00–0:20
Arrival
Guests trickle in over twenty minutes. Have the on-arrival activity out and the TV showing the attract screen.
0:20–0:45
The activity
One thing off the screen, with a clear end. Twenty-five minutes is the ceiling.
0:45–1:45
The Party Session
Choose Start Party Session on the arcade menu. It turns on Random Mode: when a game ends, the console picks the next one itself. This is the hour you can walk away from — make the coffee, take the photos, talk to the other parents.
1:45–2:00
Cake
Sing, cut, hand it out. Do not do this at the start; sugar first is a mistake you make once.
2:00–2:40
Back to the arcade
Start another Party Session while the sugar is still working. Four kids at a time, the stations do the rest, and it ends on the winner card. This is the loudest and easiest forty minutes of the party.
2:40–3:00
Wind down
Free play on the console, party bags by the door, parents arriving. The screen keeps everyone in one room while you hand out bags.
The arcade
All 39 games, in Unicorn colours
A theme pack is a full reskin — art and palette — over mechanics that already work. These four suit a unicorn party particularly well.
The invitation
3 ways a unicorn invitation can look
Free with every package, and it is the same page your guests actually open — a countdown, the address, a map and a two-tap RSVP. No ads, no account, nothing to install.
Book it
Can you get a box for that Saturday?
Saturdays go first, and the box ships 2 days early so you can test it. Your invitation site is free either way, in Unicorn colours.
Bashcade Box
+ $200 refundable deposit
Four arcade stations, shipped to your door or collected from us. The standard home party.
- 4 wired arcade stations
- All 38 games
- Party highlights on the invitation
- 3-day window around the party
- Free shipping both ways, or collect it from us