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Rock Climbing Gem Party

Modified: Aug 25, 2024 · Published: Jan 19, 2017 by Dannyelle Nicolle-Ramjist · This post may contain affiliate links · 4 Comments

Rock Climbing Gem/Jewel/Geometric Birthday Party -rock climbing party with DIY gem decor, rock themed dessert table, and party favor ideas.

Rock climbing themed party decor and menu ideas.
Jump to:
  • Rock Climbing
  • The Rock/Gem/Jewel/Geometric Birthday Party Decorations
  • The Table
  • The Rock Climbing Party Favors
  • Gem Straws and Candles
  • DIY Borax Crystal Decorations
  • More Gem Rock Decorations
  • Rock and Gem Themed Dessert Table
  • The Birthday Cake
  • Rock Themed Candy
  • Homemade Agate Slice Rock Lollipops
  • Tips and Tricks
  • More Party Inspiration

When my daughter Paige turned 12, she decided she’d like a rock climbing gem birthday party to celebrate.  We had an amazing time rock climbing with her friends, and then invited them all back to our house for a “Paige Rocks” celebration.  We used the idea of rocks to inspire a rock/gem/jewel/geometric party theme.

Rock Climbing Gem/Jewel/Geometric Party dessert table

The party was amazing.  It's so much fun to create, and to host birthday parties, and this theme was great.  I hope it inspires you.

Rocking Climbing birthday party

Rock Climbing

We started out at our local rock climbing gym and the girls got to climb for a few hours together.  The staff members were great at teaching everyone how to suit up with the ropes and get climbing, even the first timers.  It was great that each rock climber at any skill levels could join in and have fun.  Paige loves rock climbing and had a great time getting to the top of the wall with all her friends.

Rock Climbing birthday party

After the rock climbing wall was done, we headed back to our house with some tired, hungry and excited girls.Rock Climbing Gem birthday party table

The Rock/Gem/Jewel/Geometric Birthday Party Decorations

We love making things feel extra special by decorating for birthdays. Check our our best ideas for decorating for at home birthday parties. We set up the dining room for our birthday party guests to enjoy some “rock” inspired treats.

Rock Climbing Gem birthday party

The Table

For our Rock Climbing Gem Birthday Party our color palette was pink, aqua, and gold.  I made a lot of the decorations with my Cricut machine.  Including the paper 3-D shapes that we used throughout the party area as decorations.

paper 3d gems jewels

I adjusted the size a few times to make some bigger and smaller ones.

Rock Climbing Gem birthday party decorations

The Rock Climbing Party Favors

Each girl, had a special place setting waiting for them.

Rock Climbing Gem party favour

I used inexpensive muslin bags to make a goodie bag for everyone, and customized them with each girl's name, so they doubled as placards.  To make the party bag for everyone, I used iron-on gold vinyl and cut it out with the Cricut machine.  They were really easy to make and the girls were very impressed.

Rock Climbing Gem birthday party favour

Each bag was to hold a little gem necklace -which was the perfect little rock climbing party favor.

Other fun additions to party favor bags for a rock climbing party could be carabiner clips, water bottles, a small goody bag of rocks and crystals.

Rock Climbing party favour

Gem Straws and Candles

I also used my Cricut to make the straw gems.  After we cut out the gem shape on the Cricut, we used hot glue to attach them to the gold paper straws.  We found a gem cut file that had two layers, in my Cricut Design Space.  I cut the top layer out of glitter cardstock, and layered it over another piece of cardstock in the party colours.  These little gems turned out so well, I loved them and so did the girls.  I was so impressed with what my Cricut was able to do.

gem decal for candles

We used the same cut file to create some vinyl adhesives for my candles.  The candles are from the  dollar store, and then we added the gems cut out in gold vinyl.  They looked amazing, and were very easy and inexpensive to make.

gem jewel decal for candles

DIY Borax Crystal Decorations

On the table we also used lots of scattered rocks, gems and crystals.  We collected some rocks on our walks, and found some fun faux gems at the dollar store.  We also made some pretty crystals out of borax.  This tutorial was our favourite.  It took about a week for us to make them all.  We added some gold paint to some of them too.  These were such a fun addition to our rock themed party decorations and a great DIY for your own party.

diy borax crystals for a gem rock climbing themed birthday party

We also added some pretty pink flowers, and some geometric gold candle holders.

gem themed table

More Gem Rock Decorations

Over in the entryway, I used a few more of the vinyl gems I cut out on the Cricut machine.  They looked great on the mirror, and easily peeled off after the party.

gem jewel decals and party decorations

I also sewed some geometric bunting.  Again I used the Cricut and cut out some simple geometric shapes out of different colours of cardstock and in different sizes.  I used my sewing machine to sew them into a pretty garland -see my tutorial here on how to sew paper or card stock into a banner with a sewing machine .  I made a few and used some over the console table too.

Rock Climbing Gem/Jewel/Geometric Birthday Party -rock climbing party with DIY gem decor, rock themed dessert table, and favour ideas.

To make the geometric shaped honeycomb decorations, I cut the round ones before they were unfolded -I love how these turned out and they’re so simple to make.

Rock Climbing Gem/Jewel/Geometric Birthday Party Desert Table

Rock and Gem Themed Dessert Table

The main attraction of the party was the beautiful rock themed food dessert table.  We had so much fun putting it together and the party goers just loved it.

Rock themed dessert table

The backdrop was made with a simple branch attached to the wall that we hung more of the geometric garland and shapes off of it.  The vinyl wall decals were cut with the Cricut machine too.  I used the same gems and layered the vinyl with white on top and, pink and aqua the party colors underneath.  We also made “Paige Rocks” out of the vinyl.  These all looked amazing for the party, and were easy to remove afterward.

Rock Gem/Jewel/Geometric Party decorations

The metal geometric shapes were some I used as Christmas decorations, but worked perfectly here with our theme.

All the party desserts were rock and gem themed, which was such a great idea.

Rock Climbing Gem birthday party dessert table

The Birthday Cake

The cake was made the week before -you can see how easy this succulent cake was here, and I just put it in the freezer and took it out the morning of the party.

Rocking Climbing birthday cake

Paige, the birthday kid, loved the succulents, so we incorporated them into the party flowers, and just added some pretty rock candy to the cake to tie it into the rock gem theme.  It turned out so, so pretty.

Rock Climbing Gem/Jewel/Geometric Birthday Party -rock climbing party with DIY gem decor, rock themed dessert table, and favour ideas.

I served some fruit in cute little paper cups.

Rock Climbing Gem/Jewel/Geometric Party dessert table

Rock Themed Candy

The rock themed candy was pretty fun to find.  We had classic rock candy.

Rock themed candy

I also found this fun rock popping candy, that the kids thought was amazing.  This brand was Shock Rocks, but look for Pop Rocks too.

Rock themed desserts and candy

And to go with the gems, some candy rings.

Rock themed dessert and candy

One of the prettiest treats of the day, a beautiful plate of donuts.  They sure looked great with their little gem pics!  For your own food table, use gem cake topper/ cupcake toppers to bring your theme to any food item.

Rock Gem/Jewel/Geometric Party dessert

Over on the other side of the table, more treats.

Rock themed dessert table

We made regular rice crispy squares, and cut them into cubes and dipped half on a diagonal into coloured chocolate.  They were simple, looked great, and were so yummy.

geometric Rice Krispie squares

We also made some dirt pudding (chocolate pudding with crushed oreos) and topped them with candy rocks, and served them in little mason jars.   These were a fun way to use the candy rocks. They look so real, and taste great.  They're chocolate inside.  They'd be fun to use for your own rock themed birthday cake too.

gem jewel decals

I wanted to offer some chips so I picked up a party mix and served them in these sweet little takeout boxes.  I wanted them to match the party, so I used some more of the vinyl decals and added them to the boxes.

diy agate slice rock lollipops

Homemade Agate Slice Rock Lollipops

We also made these agate slice rock lollipops.  We used this tutorial to make them out of crushed up candy.  They weren’t too hard to make, and looked amazing.  The tricky part was trying to find colors that we wanted and flavours that went together well.  These are also great to include as rock climbing party favors.  Package these in cellophane bags and tie with ribbon.

Gem dessert table

Tips and Tricks

This party was a huge success.  If you’re considering something similar, I have one little bit of advice.  The rock climbing place also had a party room and dedicated area, and we considered renting it to keep things all in one place, but I’m so glad we didn’t use it, and set everything up at home.  

Hosting part of the party at home meant that we could make it really, really special.  I could set up everything ahead of time, and the 15 min. drive back to our house was no problem at all.  The girls faces when they walked in and saw it all, made it all completely worth while, that’s for sure, and I never would have had time to make it quite so magical if it wasn’t at home.  There was even something about the birthday child coming into the party space and seeing it with all her friends that made it really wonderful.

jewel themed dessert table

This is one of those times where the smile on the birthday girl’s face says it all.  This was the best rock climbing party ever!

Rock Climbing themed birthday party

With a Rock Climbing Gem Birthday Party, life really is a party!

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Comments

  1. dnr says

    January 23, 2017 at 7:39 pm

    Thanks B, it was lots of fun!
    Dannyelle

  2. dnr says

    January 23, 2017 at 7:39 pm

    Thanks Kendra, you know how we love a party around here!
    Dannyelle

  3. Kendra says

    January 20, 2017 at 9:46 am

    Looks like fun and beautiful. Paige has grown so much and great how your girls now help with the decorating and planning of your parties! Even more fun I'm sure!

  4. the cape on the corner says

    January 19, 2017 at 4:20 pm

    um, amazing. i love the geode lollipops and the favors!
    b

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