I started planning Addy's 2nd birthday about the time her 1st birthday ended. I was in Target & saw these adorable little buckets that were Very Hungry Caterpillar themed. Addy LOVES that book & I started thinking about how cute that would be for her 2nd birthday. Well, I got on Pinterest & low & behold...there are about a million ideas for a Very Hungry Caterpillar birthday party.
Here is what our final table looked like. I can tell you that it actually almost hurts me to look at this picture since I have some serious OCD about parties & the table is not centered. It started out centered, but apparently while I was inside bringing out more food, a fan was brought out & plugged in near the table & people moved the table over to accommodate space for the fan. It gets blazing hot in the south...even at the end of September, so I didn't mind the fan & really was so busy that I didn't even notice the off-center table...until the pictures & now it is all I can see. Mental note to continue checking the centeredness of the table at all times during parties. : )
Anyway, moving on. I knew I wanted to keep the colors of bright red, light green & dark green. I wanted to use some of the ideas I had seen on Pinterest (because some were just way too cute not to), but do some originals too. I knew I wanted to incorporate caterpillars as much as possible & that I wanted to serve the foods that the caterpillar eats throughout the book.
Most of the foods were pretty self-explanatory...oh he ate a pear? Great, I will serve pears. But I wanted to change things up just a little bit, especially when it came to the sweets. I decided that for the apples, ice cream cones & cherry pies...that all of those things would need to involve cupcakes. ; ) I won't spoil all of that in this post though...check out the links below in a couple of days where you can see how to make apple cupcakes, ice cream cone cupcakes & cherry pie cupcakes. Oh & cupcakes that are green & red like the caterpillar too...although they are pretty self explanatory. : ) One of the first things that I worked on were the invitations. I was worried that these would be a huge pain since cutting circles usually is, but you can see on the post here about Very Hungry Caterpillar invitations...it wasn't so bad & I thought the invitations really turned out cute.
This party drove my husband nuts because I definitely set up my faux table in our dining room about 3-4 months before this party happened. There was just so much that I wanted going on with this table, that I really had to visualize it all in person. Once I decided on the exact party foods, I moved the serving dishes around constantly until I finally got a schematic that I liked.
The decorations you can read more about here, but were mostly Very Hungry Caterpillar things that Addy had around her playroom, or things that I just made pretty easy on the computer. One of the banners was done on my computer, while the other was done the same way I did the invitations. The hanging signs were pretty simple too & you can see how I made them on the decorations post as well.
The party turned out to be so much fun. Addy girl played & played with all of her friends & everyone seemed to enjoy themselves. I will say that in the future, unless I know it is going to be a little cooler, I may not make so many cupcakes when it is still so blazing hot outside. Ahhh, the South. : )
Very Hungry Caterpillar - Party Invitations Post
Very Hungry Caterpillar - Party Food Post
Very Hungry Caterpillar - Apple Cake & Cupcakes
Very Hungry Caterpillar - Cherry Pie Cupcakes
Very Hungry Caterpillar - Ice Cream Cone Cupcakes
Very Hungry Caterpillar - Guestbook & Favors Post
Very Hungry Caterpillar - Party Banners Post
Very Hungry Caterpillar - Party Decorations Post
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