This Book Themed Party is full of cute touches. We made a book page wreath, DIY mini book garland, book page table runner, and used lots of fun vintage books and library inspired touches. If you love to read, you will love these fun ideas.
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Why We Love This Party
- Because we love to read!
- There's so many cute DIY ideas.
- We included lots of vintage touches.
- It's perfect for celebrating back to school, book club, or for anyone who loves to read.
This year for our traditional Back To School dinner I thought it would be fun to do a book themed party. This is perfect as a back to school party. You might also like our Back to School free printables here, or our Back to School Snack Mix Recipe.
It would also be great for any book themed party, book club meeting, themed birthday party, book themed baby shower or wedding decor.
If you have younger children you could use children's books. These are great party ideas for anyone who loves a good book.
I started out for this party by shopping my house and came up with lots of vintage treasures to incorporate. I also did some crafting with some old books to fit our party theme.
Book Page Wreath
This fun book page wreath is one that I've had for awhile, but was perfect for our book theme.
To make it you cut out a piece of poster board into a large circle or use a wreath form for a base. Next, use an old book from the thrift store to create some book page cones. Secure the book paper cones together with hot glue, and then attach them to the wreath form.
This wreath is perfect for any bookish theme party, or to use as fun decor afterwards. Using thrifted books is such an affordable way to decorate for a book themed party.
Mini Book Garland
I also made a mini book garland to hang over the table, like a book bunting.
I made each book cover from cardstock. For ours we used some black, brown, and grey card stock, and then added in some book pages, cut from an old book.
Once the mini books were made, used a clothespin to attach them to some baker's twine.
You could create these in any colors to match your color scheme. If you were having a cake an even smaller mini version of this would be a really great way to make a matching cute cake topper.
Book Page Table Runner
The book page table runner was the perfect way to decorate the table for our theme.
I love this as a fun alternative to your standard plastic tablecloth. If you were having a specific book as your theme, especially a picture book, you could use a second hand one. Or if you didn't want to damage the actual book, you could use color photocopies to make a table runner, or bunting. This would be really sweet for a child's birthday celebration.
To create our table runner, I used more old books, and pulled out some pages. It looks great using an assortment of different sizes of books, and different ages so that some are ore white and some are more yellowed for variation. You could also look for some inexpensive books to use at the dollar store.
I laid out the pages on the table in a runner shape and secured the end pieces to each other with some hot glue, to create the hang over the edge of the table.
Vintage Books in Glass Cloches
Another fun idea for the table was to add some vintage books into some large glass cloches. They make a fun centrepiece for the table, and draw attention to the beautiful vintage books.
Find vintage books inexpensively at thrift stores or garage sales. And look for glass cloches there too, or at the craft store.
Library Card Place Cards
I used some fun library cards as the place cards for the table. These were such a fun library detail to the table.
Vintage Accessories
I used some of my favourite vintage pieces for our book themed party that add lots of interest to the set up. Over on the side board I featured my vintage book card catalogue, picked up at an antique fair and a real favourite of mine.
On top of the catalogue some antique reading glasses, some one must have left them there after using them for reading.
I also included my old vintage typewriter, another antique fair find. It might be fun to type a message on it. For a book themed party maybe a list of your favourite books would be fun, and the detail oriented guest might notice, and guests could even type the name of their favourite book onto the bottom of the list and keep the list going.
Top Tip: Shop for vintage pieces at your local thrift store, antique shops, or on-line at places like Facebook Marketplace.
Book Party Favor Ideas
It would also be fun to include some party favors for our book-themed party or book birthday party.
The obvious choose would be to give guests your favorite books.
For a birthday party you could include your child's favorite book, or choose an age appropriate classic.
Not sure what books your guests might like best and having a hard time choosing? A perfect option is to choose an assortment of kids books, or young adults books or adult books, depending on your guest's ages, and have let everyone look through the stack of books as they're leaving and choose one to take home with them.
Another easier option is to give each guest a gift card to a bookstore as a favor so they can pick their own. You might also add a book mark, or a bag of gummy worms with a note saying a gift for the bookworm.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Look for them at antique stores, or thrift stores, or even on-line at places like Facebook Marketplace.
I had these in my stash from Target dollar spot years ago. You could definitely look for a printable version on Etsy, or make your own in Canva.
For younger kids I would add in some kids books. Look for vintage little golden books at the thrift store and make a color photo copies of them to use for the table runner. I would also make a colorful bunting with vintage picture book photocopies.
If you try any of the ideas from this Book Themed Party or any other ideas on my blog please leave let me know how it went in the comments below. Thanks for visiting today!
Linda says
This is so creative and fun using vintage books and decor! I love the library cards for name places! Clever! ??
Tiffani says
I am absolutely obsessed with this theme!!! The vintage touches are absolute perfection!
selini says
So creative and beautiful!
Susan-SugarPartiesLA says
This is one of the most creative and the cutest book themed party I have seen ! That tablescape runner detail is GORGEOUS !!! and all the other small details that really put together this entire look. Definitely one of my faves.