50th Birthday Party Ideas

50th birthday is unique, extraordinary and the one in our life, as it marks a half of century, a main part of our life. Our darling parents, spouses, friends, colleagues, siblings or even quinquagenarian children or grandparents deserve the wonderful birthday!

There are a few 50th birthday ideas that could be classified into these groups:
50th birthday party gift ideas (How to gladden the quinquagenarian?)
50th birthday party activities’ ideas (What to do during the 50th birthday party?)
50th birthday party meals ideas (What to eat during the 50th birthday party?)

50th birthday gifts:
1.    Printed photobook with photos and wishes.
2.    Photosession.
3.    Photography class.
4.    Gift certificate.
5.    Chocolate tasting/fondue.
6.    Yachting.
7.    Luxury dinner.
8.    SPA procedure or massage.
9.    Flight with a balloon.
10.    Cheese tasting/fondue.
11.    Wine tasting and lecture.
12.    Tea ceremony.
13.    Cookery class.
14.    Recipes book.
15.    Decoupage class.
16.    Golf class.
17.    Sports kits.
18.    Sushi tasting and class.
19.    Photocollage of quinquagenarian’s photos.
20.    Film about the quinquagenarian.
21.    Chocolates with quinquagenarian’s photos or wishes.
22.    Engraved vase or glasses.
23.    Framed photo.
24.    Soft robe, warm sweater, scarf, veil.
25.    Leather gloves, purse, handbag.
26.    T-shirt with a note or wish.
27.    Guided tour or trip.
28.    Canvas, painting.
29.    Model of a ship, a car, a plane.
30.    A ship in a bottle.
31.    Dancer’s performance (belly dance).
32.    Big cake.
33.    Flowers.
34.    Leather portfolio.
35.    World globe.
36.    Body care set.
37.    Book.
38.    Bible.
39.    Painting kits.
40.    Chocolate.
41.    Table for breakfast in bed.
42.    Fishing kits.
43.    Perfume.
44.    Jewellery.
45.    Rocking-chair.
46.    Luxury pen.
47.    Watch.
48.    Vitamins.
49.    Favourite magazine’s/newspaper’s subscription.
50.    Tea/coffee set.
51.    Stewpot, bain marie.
52.    Electric shaver.
53.    Funny pollowcases.
54.    Engraved key fob.
55.    Orthopedic pillow.
56.    Tickets to theatre, opera-house, philharmonic, concert.
57.    Natural cosmetic.
58.    Interior details.
59.    Funny towel, slippers.
60.    Amber bracelet, ring, necklace.
61.    Blender, juicer, kitchen unit.

50th birthday party activity ideas:
1.    Musical birthday party:
Place: at home or in the restaurant
Activities: eating tasty meals and drinking good drinks, listening to good music or watching a performance, karaoke party, shooting, dancing, guests’ presentations.

2.    Tourist birthday party:
Place: outdoors or in a special place.
Activities: playing orientation games, hiking, cycling, going to an interesting walking-tour, sightseeing tour of the town with a barge and a guide, guided tour to another town/country or interesting place.

3.    Calm birthday party:
Place: at home or in the restaurant.
Activities: eating tasty meals, a birthday cake and drinking good drinks, photographying, playing table games, listening to good music or watching a reserved performance.

4.    50th birthday in nature:
Place: outdoors (near a lake, in a forest, etc.), in a country tourism leisure complex.
Activities: boating, sailing, canoeing, yachting or rafting, fishing, building a fire and cooking food on a fire, camping, hiking or cycling, swimming in a lake, communication.

5.    Active 50th birthday party:
Place: outdoors or in a special place.
Activities: bowling, ping-pong, billiards, snooker, artificial rock-climbing, cycling, going to a adventure park or amusement park, paintball, strikeball, horseriding, shooting, archery.

6.    Heavenly 50th birthday party:
Place: outside, high in the sky.
Activities: flying with a balloon, flying with a Zeppelin    , survey flight, acrobatic flight, parachute jump.

7.    Creative 50th birthday party:
Place: outdoors or in a special place.
Activities: special lesson for guests: painting, sculpture, jewellery, decoupage, pottery, mosaic, textile, wool fulling-mill, glass fusing, needlecraft, criss-cross pattern, reading poetry, shadowgraph, trimming, mime theater.

8.    50th birthday party with reminiscences ideas:
Place: at home or in the restaurant.
Activities: telling stories and sharing memories, thumbing old photography albums, photo-collage making, eating tasty meals, birthday cake and drinking good drinks, communicating, writing of wishes and blessings.

9.    Relaxation birthday party:
Place: in a SPA centre, in a bathhouse.
Activities: massage, SPA procedures, bathing, heating in a tub and wallowing on a snow or jumping to a cold water (lake, swimming pull), communication.

50th birthday party meals:
1.    Peas’ starter:
Ingredients: 500 g fresh peas, 150 g smoked streaky bacon, 2 onion, a little salt, a little spice, butter.
Instructions: Cook peas in salted and spiced water. Chop and fry up bacon and onion. Pour peas, spice, butter and fry up about 10 minutes. Serve hot.

2.    Herring with sunflower seeds:
Ingredients: 1 herring, 2 onions, 4 tablespoons shelled sunflower seeds, vegetable oil.
Instructions: Chop herring and put into a dish. Fry up sunflower seeds with vegetable oil. Fry up onions and pour into sunflower seeds. Stir the mix ant put on the herring.

3.    Farci paprika:
Ingredients: 1 egg, 150 g boiled rice, 4 paprikas, 350 g pork mince, 2 onions, 3 carrots, 2 cloves of garlic, a little salt, a little black pepper, 3 tablespoons ketchup, a little dills, a little spice, 2 litres broth.
Instructions: Clean out and salt paprikas. Chop onions and garlic. One carrot cut in strips, two carrots shredder. Fry up mince. Pour onion, garlic, shreddered carrots, spice and salt. Mix rice, mince and egg. Stuff paprikas with the mix. Put farci paprikas in a pot  with carrot strips. Pour broth, put ketchup and stew for about 40 minutes.

4. Beef roast:
Ingredients: 2 beef schnitzels, 1 spray of thyme, a little salt, 0,25 teaspoon lemonpepper, a little ginger, 3

tablespoons wheat four, 1 egg, 2 tablespoons oatflakes, 20 g olive oil, 100 g cheese, 50 g mayonnaise, 30 ml ketchup.
Instructions: Tenderize beef schnitzels, sprinkle with lemonpepper, ginger, thyme and salt. Roll schnitzels, put into plastic bag and leave for an hour. Saute oatfakes. Whisk the egg. Roll beef schnitzels in flour, in egg and in oatflakes. Fry the schnitzels. Shredder cheese and mix with ketchup. Put the latter mix on the schnitzels and put into the oven for about 10 minutes.

5.    Mouse:
Ingredients: 2 packs jelly, 1 jar sugarless condensed milk, 0,5 litre hot watter.
Instructions: Dissolve jelly in water and leave to cool. In another bowl pour condensed milk whisk until froth up. Pour jelly into condensed milk and whisk. Pour the mix into glasses and refrigerate for 2-3 hours.

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