Are you planning a monster bash birthday party for your little one? Look no further for inspiration! We just hosted my son’s 4th birthday party and ran with a Monster Bash Theme. This post will detail a fun-filled monster birthday party, complete with creative food ideas, DIY decorations, and entertaining games.
Let’s jump right in, shall we?
First up, here’s the custom invitation that I designed:
Fang-tastic Party Food
I believe that the food table is a centerpiece for any party. Here are some monstrously delicious treats that were a hit:
This colorful and healthy Watermelon Fruit Monster centerpiece is made entirely of fruits. My cousin, Melissa, was my official birthday party assistant, and she is responsible for this piece of art! I LOVE how it turned out and we received so many comments on it. I also love the creativity of stuffing chocolate chips into raspberries for pupils!
We held the party outdoors, so we wanted to make sure to have plenty of water for our guest. I designed and printed some Happy Birthday Monster Bash themed water bottle labels.
The Monster Cake was a super easy 10″ round cake, frosted. I added gum for its teeth and Oreos and M&M’s for its eyes.
SOMEBODY got into the fridge and played with the gum teeth… hence the one funky tooth, but no one is coming forward. Oh well!
These easy-to-make Monster Cupcakes are frosted and then decorated with marshmallows for eyes and chocolate chips or M&M’s for pupils. To create the Monster Fur, use a small circle tip on a frosting bag and literally just go all willy-nilly on the cupcake!
I also made monster eyeball sugar cookies. This was my first attempt at using royal icing… and let’s just say I’m thankful I chose eyeballs, because it’s a relatively easy design!
On top of all the fun treats, we had cheese and crackers for snacking. We served hot dogs, hamburgers, egg salad, macaroni salad, and chips, along with pink lemonade and Arnold Palmer.
Boo-tiful Decorations
We held the party outside, so decorations were minimal, but combined with the party foods, it made for a fun party space!
I made the Happy Birthday Monster banner and neglected to take a good picture of it – whoops!
We sent the little monsters home with treat-filled goodie bags decorated with monster-themed toppers that I designed. The bags were filled with monster pencils, monster finger puppets, and a few pieces of candy.
Lastly, I printed some cute little monsters that I designed onto 12×18 cardstock, cut them out and added them to our garage doors as a cute little welcome to the party!
Monster Photo Booths
I had so much fun creating this green monster photo booth! We named him Mo, and all the kids, and even some adults, enjoyed having their photo taken with him! I did detail how to make this photo booth, in case you want to try it yourself!
In addition to the Monster Photo Booth, I had some props to use with him and the Poloroid Photobooth Frame that I created. The frame was made with a large piece of poster board and hung on twine between two trees. Now onto the photo booth props:
I made Monster Hands using plain dishwashing gloves and puff paint.
I also made a headband with googly monster eyeballs. This project is almost as easy as the monster hands! I wrapped a headband with pipe cleaners. On the end of the pipe cleaners I added pom-poms that had google eyes glued onto them. These were my daughter’s favorite!
Another prop was a dinosaur hat with spikes. Learn how to make your own dinosaur hat by following my tutorial! The last prop was some fun monster mouths. I created the mouths in Illustrator and printed them onto cardstock. I cut them out and glued them onto skewers. The kids had a blast with their monster mouths!
Monster Party Game
I made stuffed monsters as party favors for all of the kids and I used this as a chance to play a game with all of the kids. We used one of the monster stuffies that was shaped like a potato to play HOT MONSTER, a twist on the classic Hot Potato. Play music and have the kids pass the monster around. When the music stops, that child is out of the game for this round. The last person standing picks their monster stuffie first! We kept going until everyone had a monster friend. Each Monster Friend came with a Monster Adoption Certificate and the child got to officially name their monster.
Follow my Monster Friend Stuffie tutorial to make these super easy gifts.
I also made blank Monster Adoption Certificates available as a free download. Save the file to your computer, open it in Adobe Reader and print out however many you need!
A monster bash birthday party was the perfect way to celebrate our little one’s special day. I am stunned that my little boy is already four. We are so blessed to have a wonderful, healthy child. He is learning and growing so quickly. I love watching him play and he is so sweet and helpful with all the little girls at his daycare, lending a hand and giving hugs. He loves playing with both of his sisters, although a little teasing usually accompanies it (from all parties!). I am excited to continue to watch him grow and develop and look forward to seeing more of his personality bloom.
Super-fun! I’d say Mom did a great job on creating a wonderful and memorable party for the birthday boy. The cake, cupcakes & all the extras are just adorable. Gotta love Pinterest for so many wonderful ideas!
adorable party! That watermelon monster is hysterical–shared on my FB page! (facebook.com/homeconfetti)
So cute … you had so many adorable and fun details!
Super cute party!! Great job on everything!!!
Happy belated b-day Mason! What a party. You went way out Kim! I love everything! When I turn 4, I hope my mom also makes such an awesome party for me 🙂 do u ever sleep?
Super fun party — you went to a LOT of work to put everything together and it was awesome! Thanks for sharing everything with us….Happy Birthday Mason 🙂
O.M.G….love, Love, LOVE this party! My 3 yr old is a MONSTER FREAK so he would be all over this 😉 There is a lot of great Halloween Party inspiration here too….SO creative!
First of all…I LOVE the watermelon monster. That was the thumbnail that I saw. Beyond that, I love the whole party! Soooo cute! Thanks for sharing! (I may have to “Borrow” your ideas, but they say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery!) 😉
What an adorable party!! Everything turned out great! It looked really fun. Thanks for sharing!
The watermelon monster is awesome! Looks like such a fun party!
LOVE this party theme! What awesomeness! Love the ‘adopt-a-monster’ and the photo booth as well- SO incredibly clever! Thanks for sharing- I’m popping over from Someday Crafts.
Wow!! It looks like you put a lot of work into his party but also looks totally worth it!!
Wow, what an AWESOME birthday party! So many fun ideas, I’m definitely book marking this for later! Great job!
What a great party!!! Monsters are so cool. I love the cupcakes! I am so going to have to do this soon.
Oh my what a party. Such lucky kids.
I sure hope you will link this awesome post and any other links you would like to share to my party. It runs Friday at 2pm on through til Monday night.
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I LOVE the polaroid idea! Totally bookmarking that for my son’s 3rd birthday.
So cute!! My favorite part is the watermelon monster. But I love the idea of the monsters photo props. (Found you via Someday Crafts)
SO cute…… I wish mine were still young enough!!!
I thought the fruit monster was so funny I had to stop by your blog. I’m so glad I did because you had so many fabulous ideas happening here!
Kindest regards,
Jennifer ferrell
So fun! I’m visiting from the Whatever Goes Wednesday link party. I’m hunting for ideas for my son’s upcoming birthday, so this was awesome to come across. Thanks!
Thanks for sharing at Bacon Time, hope to see you again this week. Great stuff.
ps following with gfc too.
I love those “monster eye” cookies! I have a (grown up) friend those would be perfect for! Thanks