Phew! My son’s birthday this past Saturday was a blast! I am super excited to share the fun with you. We had 38 wonderful family and friends over to celebrate the birthday boy. There was swimming, riding 4-wheelers and bikes, basketball, monster photos, swinging, sandbox playing, eating and overall lots of fun!
Let’s jump right in, shall we?
The Invitation:
Food (served on Monster plates from Target):
While cruising Pinterest I ran across an awesome fruit monster. I invited my cousin Melissa over, my official birthday assistant, and set her to work creating a fruit monster. I LOVE how it turned out and we had so many comments on it! I especially love that she put her own spin on it with the oranges for eyes… and I really love the chocolate chip stuffed raspberry pupils! YUM.
The cake was a super easy 10″ round, frosted, with gum for teeth, oreos/m&m’s for eyes – it was inspired by this cake. (SOMEBODY got into the fridge and played with the gum teeth… hence the one funky tooth, but no one is coming forward. Oh well!).
{Notice the missing pupil on the fruit monster in the background?!? Someone couldn’t resist that little tasty treat!}
I saw these adorable cupcakes on Oopsey Daisy and recreated them. I used marshmallows for eyes instead of chocolate wafers, along with m&m’s/chocolate chips for pupils. These were the EASIEST to make – just a really small circle tip and let the frosting go willy-nilly!
I also made monster eyeball sugar cookies:
On top of all the fun treats we had cheese and crackers and served hot dogs, hamburgers, egg salad, macaroni salad, and chips, along with pink lemonade and Arnold Palmer (mix of iced tea/lemonade).
Moving on to decorations:
I made the Monster banner and neglected to take a good picture of it , but it is available for your downloading pleasure here.
The goodie-bags (toppers also available for download here) were filled with monster pencils, monster finger puppets and some yummy treats:
{Click image for a larger view} I made the Monster Hands using plain old dishwashing gloves, foam and puff paint. Make them as gnarly as you want for some monster fun! I also made was a set of googly monster eyeballs. I wrapped a headband with pipe cleaners. Making sure to wrap one around the middle and have them stick straight up. I glued three googly eyes to a pom-pom and glued those to the top of the pipe cleaner. These were my daughters favorite! The hat was actually a dino hat that I thought could work as a monster. Check out my tutorial to make your own HERE.
Another Pinterest find were these fun Monster Mouths. I knew they would be perfect for the Photobooth portion of the party. Of course I made my own, but for $5, anyone can go buy these fun little photo props! The kids had a blast with their monster mouths! And lastly, the awesome polaroid frame prop was another item inspired by a find on Pinterest. I made mine with a large piece of poster board and hung it on twine between two trees. It was a hit with kids and adults alike!
I made monster favors for all of the kids and we played Hot Monster (using one of the monster friends shaped like a potato) to determine who got to pick their monster first. For a tutorial on the Monsters click HERE. And click HERE to download a blank Monster Adoption Certificate!
Above: Playing a rousing game of Hot Monster! Our music was too far away so Olivia and I sang with our backs to the kids. These were the last two standing, and my niece Mel won the game and chose her monster friend first.
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.
Kim is a Marketing Specialist with Inspiration Media Solutions by day and Blogger by night. She's a wife, mom of three beautiful children and two fur-babies, a Goldendoodle and a rescued Pibble. For even more Inspiration Made Simple, like her on Facebook and Instagram+.
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!
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!) 😉
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.
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.
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!
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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.
http://bacontimewiththehungryhypo.blogspot.com/
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