The Very Hungry Caterpillar Party

Here is a VERY late summary of the Very Hungry Caterpillar party I did for Hayden's and Rylan's  joint birthday party last April.  It was so fun to plan and the party went perfectly!  I will try to give as much info as possible for others out there...because I got so much help and inspiration from so many other bloggers out there!  You can check out my Caterpillar Pinterest Board Here.

Here's in the invite I made!  It turned out super cute...I found the graphics from the Polka-dots & Puppies blog.  She some how created all sorts of caterpillar PNG files free for download.  HERE is a link to her FREE DOWNLOAD.  Or if you would like I am always available to create your custom invite!

 

These sweet little caterpillar barrettes were made by my friend Jen who runs CraftBarn.  They even have TINY little googly eyes!  Each girl got a set of these in their little gift box.

The boys got these necklaces...I got the large beads from this seller on EBAY.  The beads area bout an inch in diameter...though the beads are still in the choking hazard range...they would be much more noticeable if the little one had gotten on in their mouth! No body did so that is good!

I loved how the food table came together!  I found a free downloaded the food labels from the Polka-dots and Puppies blog.  The cute little leave plates came from Oriential Trading Co. as did the lollipops, the table cloths, and the green gift boxes.

For chocolate cake I used brownie bites... it worked better that way since we were already having cup cakes...I guess we could have done chocolate cupcakes...but oh well...My good friend and AWESOME baker Patti at Tis So Sweet Bake Shoppe made the cupcakes for me.

For the Cherry Pie we did little cherry cheesecakes.

I also created the juice box and water bottle labels and cupcake picks...using the PNG graphics I found.  I can create them for you too! Or you can download the graphics linked above...and create them too!

The gift boxes I got super cheap at Oriental Trading and jsut glued a ribbon to them and created a label for them.

Our activities at the party included: reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar book.  Then we created our own Hungry caterpillars from green soda bottles...that I painted the inside of each bottle red days before the party.  I had all the materials from THIS tutorial available.  They came out very very cute...and the kids loved it!  Just have a helper on hand!  After the caterpillars were created we read the book again...with our caterpillars!

Above is the birthday girl...Below is the birthday boy.  I bought the iron on transfers from this Ebay seller and put them on white shirts we already had.  Easy, and cheaper than all the custom shirts you find on Etsy.