This post is very late but as my multitasking mind takes over I am now on my 3rd different thing that I’m doing on the computer besides what I sat down to do.
When planning his birthday party and theme I went with a general monkey theme.  We don’t watch a lot of TV and really it’s hard to tell what a 1 year old in really ‘into’.  My cousin Beth with Beth Kruse Custom Creations designed my party printables.  I normally do this kind of thing on my own but there were just too many things going on in our lives at the time for me to add 1 more thing to my plate.  She has fabulous parties so I knew I was outsourcing to someone great!
The invitation
Welcome sign
I scoured Pinterest for food inspiration and was pretty pleased with what I found. Â
I thought this popcorn was really good. Â I have a sweet tooth so it was a great treat!
You can’t have a monkey party without mokney bread 🙂  We were doing a cupcake cake as the cake so I also needed to do something in little cups so I could use the topper printables from Beth.
Safari Fruit
Just a regular old fruit and cheese tray.
Monkey Sandwiches
I saw a few different versions of this, some included Nutella but I just did the Vanilla Wafers with peanut butter and sliced banana.
Monkey Tails
White chocolate covered pretzel rods with sprinkles. Â I love the sweet and salty combination of these.
Favors
I picked up random blue, yellow and brown candy at Party City to fill the boxes with.
I found the hat and shirt on Etsy and for the life of me can’t find the link to the shop that did them. Â There were a few that did them like this. Â Of course he wouldn’t wear the hat! Â I was a little nervous about the shirt though. Â I ordered a size larger than he was based off of their sizing recommendations and then it shrunk in the dryer. Â It just fit him thank goodness.
The cake is from Creative Cakes and they are great. Â When we went in to order my husband saw a wedding cupcake tower and decided we should get cupcakes. Â Ok, I didn’t really care. Â I had the invitation so they could figure out something to do based off of that and they copied the invitation onto a cupcake cake. Â It was great!
For the smash cake they did a different kind of frosting, I don’t know what but it had less ingredients that could be potential allergens since kids that age typically haven’t been exposed to some of those. Â That was nice that they suggested that because it wasn’t something I’d thought of.Â
At first he didn’t really know what to do with the cake. Â We had to show him what to do and then he dug in a little. Â He’s not a messy eater so this is about as bad as it got.
Beth did the chalkboard sign too.
