• Hungry Caterpillar Invitation
• Hungry Caterpillar Decorations

A Very Hungry Caterpillar offers you a timeless, classic theme that your child would most certainly love.  This theme allows you to use a huge array of vibrant colors to bring your venue to life.

There are many decorative options available that can make your event a smash.  Using hanging lanterns, you can hang a row of green and yellow ones, add a face and pipe cleaner antennae to a red one, and you would have your caterpillar hanging over the group.  You can use colored paper plates hung on the wall to look like the caterpillar as well, spelling out the birthday child’s name for a personal touch.  Balloons filled with helium in all kinds of bright colors can fill the room with a blast of fun for everyone. Using polka dot clothes for the tables adds to the multitude of colors that makes this theme pop.

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The snacks at A Very Hungry Caterpillar party can be as bold and colorful as the decorations, giving you many choices for a fun way to feed the guests. Using the fruits from the story, you can bring the book into the party nicely.  Personalized labels for each food choice adds a personal way to make your event stand out. Fresh fruits make a good option for easy finger foods that visitors will enjoy.  For desserts, you can make rainbow cupcakes with all kinds of frosting colors, have M&Ms in a variety of shades, cake-pops colored and laid out in a caterpillar shape, all make yummy choices.

Let your creative side come out with the activities at A Very Hungry Caterpillar party with crafty ideas that guests can actually take home with them.  You can use little soft fabric balls in caterpillar colors to create the classic character laying out glue, little decorative touches like googly eyes, and paper to stick it to, allowing the visitors to make their own version of adorable fun. Another game to play that is fun for everyone would be to “Feed the Hungry Caterpillar.”  Decorate a piece of plywood with the caterpillar’s face and cut out its mouth, then you can have a bean bag toss to feed him!

Little favors for your guests that go with the theme can include lollipops, which were in the story. If you love baking, then you can bake a Caterpillar shaped cookies using the cutter. You can also print out coloring sheets and put together little sets of crayons for the guests to take home. With A Very Hungry Caterpillar theme, you can’t go wrong with bold colors and lots of treats!

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• Racing Cars Invitations
• Racing Cars Party Decorations

A Racing Car themed birthday party makes a great idea for your sport loving child who just can’t get enough of the speed action.  There are many options available for creating a detailed and unique look for your event, but this is one that you can definitely go bold with your ideas  and come out with a winner!

Invitations

When coming up with your invitations, using a font that yells (large thick lettering) will have guests excited to come celebrate.  You can take advantage of the bright reds, yellows and blues when choosing your artwork for them.  Making invites with racing cars or trophies introduces the theme easily.

Decorations

To decorate your party area, you can go crazy with the checkered flag pattern, using black and white to set up your tables so all of the vibrant colors you place on them will stand out brilliantly.  Take advantage of your child’s collection of cars to add personal touches that you already have to create a spectacular scene.  Using a large, bold banner with personalized lettering behind your buffet table will give a full look. You could even hang a flag banner in front of the table to really give an excited effect.

Food Ideas

When it comes to creating fun dishes that all party goers are sure to enjoy, it’s really about the names you give to the treats. A fantastic one would be to put some dip into little dixie cups, with celery and carrot sticks sticking out with a personalized label naming them, “Dip Sticks”.  Another unique idea is to create construction cones from sugar or waffle cones that are sprayed with edible food spray.  With those you can fill the cone up with some yummy filling like cake-pop mix, and then set it upside down on a graham cracker, making it look like a traffic cone. With each dish that you make, don’t be shy on using bold and fun colors to make them stand out, even putting little race flags in some of them, like cupcakes, helps to emphasize the theme. A popular treat for this theme are also the dark chocolate covered donuts, they certainly can make the plate exciting with a fun label ‘Spare Tires’.

 

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FREE Racing Car Printable

Party Games

To keep the guests happy, every race car party should have an exciting activity that is memorable and fun.  One neat way to entertain and provide a gift at the same time would be to put little cars (like Hot Wheels) into balloons (one per balloon) and blow them up.  Each participant can take a turn popping the balloon however they want and the end result is a surprise gift inside!

Party Favors

For a sweet take home give, creating personalized trophy to everyone who came could be fun and easy to create. You could also give tins with race labels that have mini-cookies, or candies of your choice inside. There is always the option of giving stickers as well, making it cost friendly to share your appreciation for everyone who attends.

 

 

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