Monkey Around with a Little Monkey Theme Party

Does your child love Curious George or play like a little monkey?  Or are you having a Little Monkey theme Baby Shower?  You can go wild with these monkey party ideas. Party ideas for monkey invitations, monkey decorations, monkey games, monkey inspired food and monkey favor ideas.

First..  plan on your party supplies... Monkey Theme plates, napkins, cups & plastic utensils.




 
Invitations need to get out...  Monkey Theme invitations.

You may want to purchase, borrow or rent the following items for your Monkey party:

• Stuffed monkeys and stuffed bananas
• A jungle gym
• Monkey masks or monkey costumes
• Fake plants, flowers, vines and bamboo   

Monkey Party Decoration Ideas ... Many items can be found at the Dollar trees or any party store.

• Create a whimsical jungle using homemade trees. Cut construction paper into leaf shapes. Then paint paper towel rolls brown and tape the paper leaves to the tube. Stack the trees as high as you'd like using tape to hold the tubes together.

• Place bunches of bananas and oranges (real or plastic) on the party table.

• Hang green streamers from the ceiling to look like vines. You can twist two together or let the streamers naturally hang. You can also hang "vine" streamers around the border of the party table and in door frames.

• Arrange inflatable palm trees around the room along with stuffed monkeys.

• Decorate your walls with jungle wall hangings, monkey wall stickers and large construction paper bananas.

Monkey Party Food Ideas

In addition to pizza, chicken fingers, hamburgers or hotdogs, you can add some Monkey themed food into the mix. Here are some suggestions.

• Slice coconuts in half and use the shells as cups. Then prepare chocolate banana smoothies to serve to your guests. In a blender, combine 1 banana, 1 tablespoon chocolate syrup, 1 cup milk and 1 cup crushed ice. Blend until smooth and serve!

• Arrange a colorful fruit and veggie tray for your guests to enjoy. Monkeys love oranges and bananas, so be sure to include orange and banana slices for your little monkeys!

• Prepare monkey bread using our easy to follow recipe.

• Create monkey cupcakes  

For the cake, ask your local grocery store if they have a Monkey themed cake or decorate your own using a monkey cake pan. 

Monkey Party Favors
Send your little monkeys home with adorable monkey favors! Here are some suggestions that will drive them bananas!

• Monkey shaped lollipops
• Monkey stickers
• Silly straws
• Banana chips, fruit snacks and trail mix
• Curious George favors like bubbles, stickers and masks
• Small plush monkeys

Construction Building Theme Birthday Party

Construction / Building Birthday Party!

As the kids entered through the garage, they all received a time card and punched into the time clock and get their cards stamped. Make a box to look like a timeclock with a slit at the bottom... have someone behind with a simple rubber stamp to stamp the timecard. Then they receive their Home Depot tool apron or belt, a wood kit with tools that you can get at ToysRUs, 2 paintbrushes, a set of work gloves and a plastic hard hat with their name on it. Add Safety glasses if they are sawing or pounding nails.

Guests place the Gifts they brought in a wheelbarrow in the garage. Also, set up a fog machine, at any Party City or Party store, to blow fog into a long safety cone to resemble a broken steam pipe.

After clocking in, the kids can go inside and decorated their hats with stickers and receive a construction tattoos. Then either in the garage or outside, they can construct their wood project.

Next the kids go outside to play and have their choice of construction activities.

1. Make a wrecking ball from an old deflated basketball and spray paint it black. Hang up on the swing set or tree with a yellow plastic chain. Have a bunch of cardboard boxes that the kids could stack up and then knock down with the wrecking ball.

2. Make a maze in the backyard with dirt fencing and construction fencing. Curve a path that zigzags a little. Inside the maze, have a slide as an obstacle to climb over and a play area with a construction site toy. Put safety cones throughout the maze. The kids love running through here and chasing each other.

3. Have 2 big appliance boxes that are set up on their sides, so the kids can crawl inside. The kids can painted the inside and outside of the boxes.

4. After the cake is served, the kids can play pin the safety cone on the construction site.

Get a construction theme truck cake that have construction trucks on top of chocolate dirt. Also fill a big toy dump truck with brownie pieces and mixed in chocolate rocks (like M&M’s but shaped like pebbles).

Serve the brownies with a plastic shovel.
Use a black table cloth with white masking tape hash marks that go down the middle to resemble a highway.

Each kid has a safety cone cup with juice. The cups are a big hit. Look at Party Stores. If you can't find them... "thermos' looking" bottles can be found at dollar stores too on the Water Bottle area.

When the guests leave, they have to get their time card and punch out. Pay them Wrapped candy bars with a money design & a “thank you” from www.candybarwrap.com for working and give them their favor bag with a Construction Theme Customized Candy Bar.

For a favor, each guest gets a brown paper lunch bag filled with the following: small tape measure, small construction truck (matchbox size), small flashlight and a little notepad with a construction truck on the cover. Most of these items can be found at the Dollar store. They also get to take home their safety cone cup, tool apron, play tools, work gloves, wood project and hard hat.

Have a few cut-outs of construction trucks placed around the room. Also have a few road signs (from party store) and put outside on stakes and around the house. Use caution tape both inside and outside the house. Safety cones inside and outside. Put brown work construction paper (the kind used when doing construction in your house) on the floor with blue masking tape, making a path in the room where you have the cake.

Printed invitations on regular printer paper and then used craft scissors to make a jagged edge. Glue the printer paper onto yellow construction paper to create a border. OR order these personalized Construction Invitations with your Child's name & party information already printed on them.

Here’s the wording:
Foreman ”birthday boy name” is turning 5, Which means there’s lots of work to be done, you see. The party’s at the Last Name Construction Site, Sunday, October 7th will be dynamite. Your shift begins at two and lasts until four, You’ll get messy, there’s lots of work in store! Cake and juice will be provided during your break. Each busy worker will be demolishing, building and painting, so wear your work clothes.

Please call and let us know how many little construction workers to expect from each family. All parents are requested to remain at the job site to monitor the progress of your workers.

Put clip art of construction trucks around the wording. Decorated the outside of the envelopes with construction truck stickers. Put yellow and black striped tape on the back of the envelope as a seal.
If serving other food …. “brown bag lunches” …. sandwiches, chips, an apple. Bob the Builder or Handy Mandy can be incorporated into this theme!

SpongeBob Squarepants Party

Under the Sea at Bikini Bottom ...

transform your back yard or pool into SpongeBob's "hometown".

Start with the perfect invitations... SPONGEBOB BIRTHDAY PARTY INVITATIONS
Send invitations 2-3 weeks in advance.
To add some excitement... add those "pop up" sponges from the dollar store. The kind that are thin & flat until you add water.

Matching Party Supplies.... you can purchase "party in a box" where all your supplies are matching & you don't have to run all over!

Any party supply place will carry plenty of SpongeBob Party supplies too.

Party Favors..... SpongeBob Custom Candy will be a great addition to goodie bags or at place settings.. Chocolate Bars for indoor pool parties or Smarties or Push Pops for outdoor parties.
Make tabletop cards or signs to put near each food item.

Search online for the specific character's image and print it on to cardstock.
Then print the party food name next to the image and place it on the table.

Crabby Patties - SpongeBob is a fry cook at the Krusty Krab with an insatiable appetite for "Crabby Patties," which are basically hamburgers. Sliders or mini hamburgers are the perfect food to serve at your party.

Patrick's Star Sandwiches - Use star-shaped cookie cutters to stamp out peanut butter and jelly sandwiches that resemble Patrick.

Sandy's Soda and Beverages - Slap a sign on a big plastic tub full of ice and beverages for a Sandy the Squirrel watering hole.

Gary the Snail's Snack Pails - Purchase new plastic sand pails and fill them with goldfish, pretzels, and other salty favorites as Gary's snack pail.

Decorate with plenty of Seashells.... Sand pails ... fish nets.

Remember to call your local Bakery for a special birthday cake as well!

Party favors for Life's Occasions

Life's Occasions need special Favors from www.candybarwrap.com

Your Worth a Million Birthday Party

Your "Worth a Million $$$"

party theme is a fun way to tell your Birthday girl or boy just how much they mean to you.

First get the right invitations for your Million Dollar Party!

Decorations can be chocolate coins , Custom Hershey Kisses with Dollar signs on the bottom & $$$ confetti on the tables.

Large money "bills" on the walls.

Gifts can be wrapped in "money" wrapping paper. I found it At Party City.

Money themed custom candy bars used as favors

Gifts can be in theme as well. I found "money printed Shirts" & "money printed boxer shorts & ties". Cold hard cash is always "in theme" as well.

A Great Gift Idea is to dry out a plastic water bottle (put the cap back on)... cut a slit down the back & stuff 20 (or however many) single dollar bills in it. Then print on regular paper "Your worth a million" & tape it around the bottle. It is a Unique way to give money!

Candy center pieces are a great addition. Have fake bills & plastic coins added.

Green LIGHT UP ice cubes for a green punch or in drinks!

Green balloons & streamers. Dollar sign necklaces as favors.

Food can be Appetizers or buffet style of whatever the Birthday girl or boy likes.

But don't forget to Decorate the cake in Money theme. Get a picture of a Million dollar Bill printed on edible sheets from any cake decorator.

Have fun with it!