The watercolor spooky birthday design
Let's get spooky opens the design in playful orange hand lettering with bouncy, uneven letters. Around it sit painted-looking Halloween friends: two white watercolor ghosts with dot eyes, a round jack-o'-lantern balloon with a purple face trailing a curly string, a purple witch hat with an orange band, a smiling purple-gray bat with its wings spread, and a thin spider web in the top corner with a little spider hanging from it.
The birthday child's shirt says let's get spooky, then IT'S MY in small white capitals and BIRTHDAY in big lavender letters. Everyone else's shirt puts their title in tall, wobbly lavender capitals under the orange lettering, followed by a tiny white OF THE and then BIRTHDAY KID in bold orange, so Nana wears NANA of the BIRTHDAY KID and a big brother wears BROTHER of the BIRTHDAY KID.
There is no age on the art, which makes it a fit for a toddler's third birthday, a big kid's seventh, or any Halloween birthday in between.
Matching watercolor spooky shirts for every age
You can get the same art in four styles:
- Watercolor spooky birthday adult shirts in unisex XS to 4X, made for moms, dads, grandparents and the rest of the grown-ups.
- Watercolor spooky birthday kids shirts in youth sizes from small to extra large, for big brothers, big sisters and cousins.
- Watercolor spooky birthday toddler shirts, 2T through 5T, for a birthday kid in toddler sizes and any toddler siblings.
- The watercolor spooky birthday baby bodysuit from newborn to 24 months, with a matching baby tee starting at 6 months, for a birthday baby or the baby siblings.
The Name menu lists 24 family titles, such as Mimi, Pop Pop, Titi, Uncle and Godfather, and the toddler and baby styles add It's My Birthday for the birthday child. Anyone else, from Great Grandpa to a favorite neighbor, can go in Custom family name.
Planning a let's get spooky birthday party
A let's get spooky birthday works for almost any age, and it blends easily with a cute Halloween party or a friendly ghost theme. Take the colors straight from the shirts: black, orange and lavender. Purple and orange balloons, a few jack-o'-lantern balloons tied to the chairs, cheesecloth ghosts hanging from the ceiling, paper bats on the wall and a witch hat or two on the dessert table set the scene without being scary.
For the cake, try purple or black frosting with a fondant ghost on top, or ghost cupcakes with marshmallow faces. Witch hat cookies made from chocolate wafers and candy kisses, orange cheese puffs in a little cauldron and spider web pizza keep the food on theme. For big kids, plan a costume parade, a ring toss onto witch hats or a flashlight ghost hunt; toddlers are happy decorating mini pumpkins with stickers.
Set up the photo spot beside the cake table, with the balloons and hanging ghosts behind the birthday kid. The orange and lavender lettering reads clearly in pictures on the black shirts, both indoors and outside at dusk.
For an evening party, string orange lights along the dessert table and hand out glow sticks as guests arrive; they look great against the black shirts in photos. If the birthday lands on a school day, the birthday kid's shirt also makes an easy outfit for class treats, and nobody has to ask whose day it is.
What to wear to a spooky birthday party
The shirts handle the Halloween part, leaving the rest of every outfit simple. Grown-ups look good in jeans with an orange or plaid flannel, and grandparents can add a black cardigan. Big sisters can wear a black or purple tutu or a witch hat headband, and big brothers jeans and orange sneakers.
The birthday kid can wear the shirt with a cape or a light-up headband for the cake, then slip into a costume later for trick-or-treating. Ask guests to wear black, orange or purple so the group photo ties together.
After the party, the shirts carry on through the season: a trunk-or-treat, a pumpkin patch visit, a school Halloween parade or a movie night with a bowl of popcorn.
Sizing for the whole family
Every listing closes its photos with a size chart in inches. Adult tees run as a relaxed unisex fit, so order your usual size, one down for a trimmer look, or one up to wear a long sleeve under it. For the younger ones, hold a shirt that fits today up to the chart, and go with the bigger size when they land between two.
Ordering for a big family
A whole family can check out together. Choose a style, a name and a size, add it, and repeat for each person. Family savings come off at checkout on all apparel in your cart, with nothing extra to enter.
Printing begins once you order and needs 2 to 5 business days; delivery by standard ground shipping then runs about 3 to 5 more. October is busy for deliveries, so plan on ordering roughly two weeks out. Need them by a certain date? Send a request and we'll try to help.
Want more October designs? Our Halloween birthday shirts have the rest, and every theme we design is in birthday family shirts.