• Sock Monkey
• Sock Monkey 1st Birthday
• Blue Sock Monkey 1st Birthday
• Pink Sock Monkey
• Curious George

Bring out your child’s wild side with a Monkey Birthday to remember! With such a fun theme, you can go all out with natural elements that your loved one will really enjoy. This would be a neat theme to have an outdoor venue at but works inside just as beautifully.

Monkey Party Ideas – Decorations – Food – Party Favors

For colors, you can use brown and green emphasizing the deep tones of nature.  You can also incorporate yellow with bananas to bring a bright touch in.  Hanging green streamers, or garland/vines overhead in the venue area will create a warm and cozy atmosphere with a wild element. You could even dangle some monkeys from them to add some fun. For a personal decoration creating wild frames with poster board to go around the birthday child’s pictures gives a fantastic and unique option for spicing up the party.  You can string the pictures along a clothesline and hang with ribbon or clothespins.  This would be a fun theme to have a photo op set-up for everyone to pose in. You can make tree branches with monkeys or hang monkeys from an actual tree to create the wild adventuring look.

Monkey Birthday theme treats and snacks include bananas in any form, banana slices, pudding, add a little peanut butter and you can even have banana sandwiches!  Create a fruit platter with a tree by putting pineapples on top of each other, add some leaves and top with a monkey! This makes a lovely centerpiece that you can surround with fruits of any kind to add bright color.  A tiered cake opens up a large variety of decorating options that you can top with a monkey or a banana to really blend with the theme perfectly.

 

Some fun activities that you can do a Monkey Birthday party include a unique banana race. Each participant gets a banana to peel and whoever gets it done the fastest wins. The only catch is, they have to do it with their feet!  Another fun game to play is Monkey in the Middle, everyone gets in a circle except the chosen monkey who has to try to catch a bean bag that is tossed around. If they get the bean bag, another monkey is chosen.

Thank-you gifts can include a lot of fun different options. A goodie bag of monkey accessories like, monkey rubber duckies and monkey necklaces, offer a theme-based way to remember the festivities. You can always offer a sweet treat too, sugar cookies or monkey cake-pops with personalized wrapping and tags.

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Throw a Skylanders Birthday Party with Help from Birthday Express!

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If your kids enjoy playing video games, they probably love Skylanders.

Here are some ideas on how to throw a stress-free Skylanders birthday party when you use the Skylanders party theme from Birthday Express. The Skylanders Party In a Box includes everything you need to create the perfect party and takes almost no planning at all!

Party Food & Drink: Get the kiddos involved in the party fun and let them decorate cupcakes! Each kid can top their cupcake with Skylander rings, which also make a great party favor. For a fun snack during the party, make lime “electric” JELL-O Jigglers. For a fun drink during the party, offer the kids blue Gatorade with bright green ice cubes!

Party Activities: With Skylanders Paper Masks, kids can choose to wear their favorite characters. They can also play Skylanders Monopoly. You can set up Skylanders video game stations for kids to play the game. Ask a friend (or two) to borrow another video game console to create multiple stations.

Party Decor: Blue and green complement the Skylanders theme. You can choose to decorate with solid streamers, balloons, napkins, plates, and other paper goods. Or, make it easy on yourself. Birthday Express features Skylanders napkins, balloons, a table cover, banner, plates, cups and other colorful accessories.

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• Invitations
• Photo Booth Props

Your inspiration could be as simple as a little girl’s birthday party or as complex as a wine tasting, but whichever the affair, setting your table with Paris chic elevates any party into a soiree.

Set against a backdrop of classic black, playful polka dots and pretty pink details, the Paris Damask party theme from Birthday Express brings elegance and sophistication to the table, with a delightful European twist.

Food & Drink Ideas – Pink lemonade becomes instantly chic when poured into plastic champagne flutes tied with curling ribbon. Match your cupcakes to the decor with the Paris Damask Cupcake Combo Kit which looks great when displayed on a pedestal lined with black and white Sixlets. A cookie decorating station will delight budding little French chefs.

Party Activities – Drape pink toile and feather boas about and then turn the accouterments into an activity where little ladies dress up and pose for pictures as they walk down a faux Paris runway. You can also have photobooth alongside the runway show.

 

Party Decor – There are endless ways to bring flair to the table with all of the pieces in this Paris Damask collection, including Eiffel Tower centerpieces and damask decorated partyware.

 

Paris Theme Setting

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• Butterfly Party Invitations
• Butterfly Party Decorations

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Whether you are throwing a party indoors or outdoors, a Butterfly Birthday Party makes an elegant and delightful theme that not only kids, but adults will love as well. Using such a sweet natural favorite, you can used any colors imaginable to create an event to remember.

Butterfly Party – Decorations – Food – Favors

For a little girl you can use a mix of light and bold pinks to bring a sophisticated and lovely look to your venue. Adding a touch of purple to the decorations can create an elegant feel for older girls. For a little boy, you can go wild with bold oranges, blues, and greens to create an exciting look.

A Butterfly party is a great theme for all of your DIY crafting ideas, you can make adorable invitations with ease.  Using a soft, sweet font and an array of gorgeous little butterfly stickers you are sure to have the guests ready to come to the party.

Mix balloons that complement your theme colors. You can make balloon bouquets and then tie little butterflies onto the strings to give them a natural flying effect. You can use poster board to make your butterflies, letting you personalize them however you would like to.  Glitter will add a touch of glam that definitely brings glam to any party. This is also a wonderful party to have lots of confetti at, sprinkle it around your guest centerpieces for flashy fun. The centerpieces can be floral arrangements that bring more of the natural aspect into your theme, along with grass table cover and perhaps a little white picket fence surrounding the floral centerpiece, or your can make butterfly bouquets for a unique twist.

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For your food arrangement, you can make cupcakes that have butterflies on them by using chocolate covered pretzels as wings for a 3-D look that tastes yummy. Cookies are always a hit and you can shape them into butterflies using butterfly cutter and frost them all with different styles to have a whole tray of beauty. Have some different salads to bring in more green for an accent to the butterfly colors you choose to decorate with. You can have a sheet cake for the birthday centerpiece and cover it in elegant little butterflies or flowers on a garden bed.

Caterpillar tag is a fun game for kids to play at a Butterfly party.  One child is “it” and runs to catch the other children. As they each get tagged, they link hands ending up in a row that looks like a caterpillar.  For an older group you can create a butterfly word find and have the kids compete to see who can finish it first.

Personalized party favors offer an elegant gift for guests at a Butterfly Birthday Party. You can give out lotions or bubbles with labels that match the theme and thank you notes. Butterfly bookmarks offer a lovely memento as well. You could even offer little candies like mints or m&ms that have little butterflies printed on them.  With such a lighthearted and sweet party theme, a Butterfly party is sure to offer memories that will last.

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• Baseball Party Invitation
• Baseball Party Decorations

Not only is baseball a fantastic sport to participate in, but it makes a wonderful theme for any kid who loves sports. With a Baseball themed birthday party, you child has a chance to bring their favorite game to a whole new level of fun.

You can create fun invitations in a baseball shape, making a unique style that guests are sure to enjoy receiving. Using red, blue and white for theme colors you can use a bright red for your font, letter the words stand out on the invitation brightly.

Baseball Party – Decorations – Food – Favors

For a DIY decoration, you can have giant white balloons and put the baseball stripes on in red, giving a personal touch that will make add some fun to your venue. You can hang baseball jerseys up, or put them in frames to create a more sophisticated look and put them on the walls around your party room. you can use baseball caps as centerpieces, with bouquets of mini-baseballs in jars or vases to create a neat look. This is also a fantastic theme for using cheer flags as decorations, you can spread them throughout the venue area to bring the whole area into the baseball fun. You can use baseball plates and napkins for everyone to eat from.

To really make people feel like they are at a game, you can make fan favorites that you find at any baseball game for munching on. Hotdogs or mini-hot dogs offer a wonderful option for finger-food.  Popcorn in fun boxes and peanuts in adorable jars bring that baseball feeling to life. A gorgeous option for creating a memorable dessert would be to make cupcakes into a baseball glove shape and add a baseball topping to the very center.  You could also create a sheet cake with the birthday child’s name and fun baseball related pictures.

How to Make 3D Baseball Cake by Cookies Cupcakes and Cardio

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There are a wide range of activities that you can have at a Baseball birthday party, for an outdoor event on a nice day you could set up a mini-baseball field and play a game with real equipment or wiffle balls and a plastic bat, giving the winning team a prize of course! You could have a table in the venue area prepared for everyone to sign a baseball, bat or glove for your child to give them a special way to remember all of the visitors they had on their special day. You could even set up a bean bag toss for little ones to work on their pitching skills.

To show your appreciation to guests you can put together gift bags with adorable baseball fun like buttons with personalize messages, mini-baseballs, lollipops and more.  You could give everyone a wiffle ball set to start their own little one in on baseball fun. Or you can make delicious sugar cookies and frost them like baseballs, wrap them in saran wrap and tie them with a pretty ribbon. A Baseball party is a sure way to give your little fan a fun day.

 

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