Over the Hill Birthday Cakes

Having fun at 50th (and over) birthday parties includes presenting clever over the hill birthday cakes to honored guests, as well as providing decorations, nifty party favors and fun games to play to celebrate the event. You can find many different ideas for these types of cakes on the internet or come up with something on your own that reflects the personality of the birthday guy or gal. Please submit your cakes for the cake gallery below.

Over the Hill Birthday Cakes and Ideas

Some free cake decorating ideas include:

Write the number "50" on the cake using frosting tubes

Use number candles or, if the cake is a large sheet cake, use 50 candles

Use a ball pan or batter bowl to create a hill cake. Decorate with tip 233 grass and add details or figurines pertaining to the over the hill theme

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"The grass is greener on the other side" Over the Hill cake.
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Decorate a two layer round cake and place a fondant number 50 on top. Add a shell border.

Did the birthday man/woman have a favorite cartoon character when they were young or favorite sport/hobby when they were young? Create a cake accordingly--it will help them feel young again

Laminate a picture of the birthday person when they were young and center it on your cake. Frost around it with a border.

Decorate over the hill birthday cakes with tombstones (you can find these at a party supply store) or make your own with oval shaped cookies and pipe writing on them.

Frost a rectangular cake with chocolate icing on one side and green or blue icing on the other side. Make a small hill in the middle of the cake using half a cupcake, and ice it with half chocolate, half green. On one side write "happy birthday" and place numeral candles representing "2" and "5"; on the other write "everything looks different from here on" and use "5" and "0" number candles.

A "Caution: Over the Hill" cake is made by baking a two layer cake, frosting the top layer with white icing and the sides with black and yellow icing so that it resembles caution tape you see around crime scenes or construction areas. Decorate the cake with signs that say things like "Danger: falling arches and sagging skin ahead" or "Shuffle, slow down, nap".

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Over the Hill Gift Ideas

Should you need some great tips on that perfect 50th birthday or any over the hill gift, check out these 50th birthday gift ideas.

Party Favors and Gags

Most of these suggestions you can purchase at local party supply stores or online:

• Over the hill survival kit--contains things like "Oil of Old Age" and "Anti-aging soap" 
• Over the hill daily decision dice--answers include "TV", "golf", "later" and "recline" 
• Old geezer hearing aid--overly large plastic ear with hair sprouting from the middle
• Over the hill toe tags--to go along with the tombstone cake
• Over the hill eye chart coffee mug
• Give out coupons advertising adult products such as adult diapers, denture adhesive or Ben-Gay ointment
• Large-print books
• Over the hill candle fire extinguisher
• Inflatable blow-up walker

Over the Hill Party Games

• Instead of pin the tail on the donkey, create a game called "pin the toupee on the bald guy" by drawing a bald guy on poster board and making a tail from a fake fur (or a real toupee to make it even funnier)
• Trivia games are always a hit
• Playing the memory game "I'm going on a trip and I'm taking" is always good for a laugh
• Charades
• Pictionary
• Over the Hill Bingo (can be found online at various party supply sites)

In addition, you can find quite a few printable over the hill party games you can download and print directly from the internet.

Over the Hill Party Printables

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