21 Super Mario Brothers Party Ideas & Supplies

Get your party game on with these Super Mario birthday party ideas, supplies, decorations, food, and cake ideas. Super Mario Brothers have long been a classic video game that also makes a great birthday party theme. Here are 21 Super Mario Brothers birthday party ideas you’ll love. From a Yoshi “egg smash” party game to toadstool appetizers, fire flower cookies, and Super Mario Brothers cake pops, we have a ton of fun party supplies and ideas inspired by the game to share with you.

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1. DIY Mario Brothers Cake

If you want to make your own Super Mario Brothers mushroom cake, check out this tutorial. This small cake is made from a half sphere-shaped cake and a portion of another cake round, plus buttercream and fondant.

2. Super Mario Brothers Party Food

You’ll be ready to take your Super Mario Brothers party food to the next level after viewing this awesome party. A mushroom cake, meringue cloud cookies, flower power veggie, and dip platter, piranha plant-inspired fruit skewers, and even Mario hats made from Babybel cheese are just a few of the creative ideas.

3. Super Mario Brothers Cake Pops

Cake pops are always a dessert table favorite at birthday parties. Mario, Luigi, and all sorts of characters from the Super Mario Brothers game can join your party in cake pop form.

4. Super Mario Brothers Question Mark Plates

Add a little Super Mario Brothers nostalgia to your place settings by creating these easy question mark plates inspired by the video game. You’ll need square-shaped yellow paper plates, slightly smaller clear square plates, and question marks cut from white cardstock, sized to fit. Adhere the cardstock question marks to the yellow paper plates and cover them with clear plates.

5. Starman Balloons

Add a little Starman power to your Super Mario Brothers party. You’ll need star balloons and black electrical tape for creating the eyes.

6. Toadstool Appetizers

Have a little fun with your Super Mario Brothers-themed party food by bringing in some of the game elements. You can create these toadstool appetizers using tomatoes, mozzarella, and feta cheese.

7. Super Mario Brothers Dessert Table Backdrop

Trying to come up with a fun idea for your Super Mario Brothers dessert table backdrop? You can create a scene straight out of the video game using a variety of butcher paper, cardstock, and craft supplies.

8. Star Power Sandwiches

These star power sandwiches are sure to be a hit at a Super Mario Brothers party. These Nutella and peanut butter sandwiches were assembled and then cut with a star-shaped cookie cutter. The eyes are mini chocolate chips.

9. Piranha Plant Cake Pops

You may avoid the piranha plants in the Mario game, but guests won’t be trying to escape the jaws of these piranha plant cake pops at your Super Mario party. With bases made from brownie truffles and tops made from leftover cake, these piranha plant cake pops sound pretty amazing.

10. Super Mario Brothers Cupcakes

If you’re looking for a fun idea for Super Mario Brothers cupcakes, try your hand at creating characters from fondant. Mario, Luigi, mushrooms, flower power, and so on, would all make awesome fondant toppers.

11. Super Mario Brothers Cookies

Make up a batch of your favorite shaped sugar cookie dough. These Super Mario Brothers cookies are sure to give you plenty of practice making royal icing and perfecting your outlining and flooding techniques.

12. Super Mario Brothers Party Favors 

Send guests home with the coolest Super Mario Brothers party favor ever, Make white chocolate Wii remotes using a candy mold. Package them up and attach a printable tag that reads: “ Game over. Wii thank you for coming.”

13. Super Mario Brothers Memory Game + Free Printable

Print this fun and free Super Mario Brothers memory game to use at your party. To prepare the game, simply print and cut the 20 different Super Mario Brothers-themed cards featuring Luigi and Mario and recognizable characters and objects from the game.

14. Super Mario Brothers Cake

Bring some games to your Super Mario Brothers dessert table with an awesome cake. This cake features 3 unique layers that are all instantly recognizable from the video game—a brick, a question mark, and a mushroom. Unless you are an experienced cake maker who is comfortable using fondant, your best bet may be to take the photo to a bakery and have them replicate it for you.

15. Super Mario Brothers Birthday Party

Take cues from this Super Mario Brothers birthday party to help guests feel like they are in the game. Pass out all-access gamer passes. Serve up a Mario Brothers-inspired energy boost station where guests can power up on Super Mario-themed treats and entertain themselves with a video game arcade on wheels.

16. Super Mario Brothers Brick & Question Mark Box Decorations

Can you believe that moving boxes, paint, and permanent markers are all that you need to make these amazing Super Mario Brothers brick and question mark box decorations? Stack them up and use them as an entrance arch for your Super Mario Brothers party or as an activity fort for playing.

17. Sky Jell-O With Fluffy Clouds

If you’ve ever played the Super Mario Brothers video game, you are familiar with the blue sky featuring distinct white clouds. Now you can serve up party guests blue sky Jell-O with fluffy whip cream clouds. This may be the easiest party recipe ever.

18. Stomp The Goombas Game

Add a little action to your Super Mario Brothers party with this DIY stomp the Goombas game. The Goombas are made from balloons, paper plates, and printable paper faces.

19. Yoshi Egg Smash Game

This Yoshi egg smash game is made from egg shells and is genius. You’ll just need real eggs, a green permanent marker, confetti, gold stars to fit inside the egg, white school glue, and white tissue paper circles.

20. Pin The Mustache On Mario

Mario’s mustache is almost as famous as he is. This pin the mustache on Mario makes for a fun twist on a classic party game. You can hand draw your Mario and cut mustaches out of cardstock, or enlarge a readymade photo of Mario to use for the game.

21. Fire Flower Cookies

Whip up your own “firepower” for your next Super Mario Brothers party. These fire flower cookies are made using a cookie cutter and dyed sugar cookie dough.

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