I put on two parties for my big 3-year old kiddo this year because my Grandparents couldn't travel up to my place for ours and they're pretty good buddies with my little one :) I did a Curious George party at their house and it turned out SO CUTE! Since I went way overboard on the planning and crafting on the Madeline party I tried to simplify the ideas for this one and just work on my favorites. I was able to use the same banners and decor because the primary colors worked for both parties (blue, red, yellow). If anyone's party planning I put notes below and that monkey hat 'how-to'--total crafting brilliance on my part (I'm TOTALLY tooting my own horn! :) Happy party throwing friends!!
Banner from Target, red pedestals from Target (holiday $1 aisle- they were $5), stuffed George from Nordstrom, jack-in-the-box George from Target and vintage book was mine when I was little :)
All signs I did in word- I just grabbed a picture from Google that would print clearly in high resolution on large paper and backed them on solid paper.
Lemon cupcake + chocolate with banana candies (from Amazon)
These monkey party hats! Party hats from Amazon, 'how-to' on construction below.
Invitation from Etsy!
Guests signed this vintage book I snagged at Half Price books.
Banana Split bar. SO FUN!
This little sweet face had the BEST time!
The family celebrated in style!
PS- Those monkey hats were SO easy to construct. I saw this picture on pinterest and knew I wanted to make them. I didn't want to do the ears from paper but wasn't sure how to craft them.
Thankfully I was walking in Michael's after the holidays and found these gingerbread men 80% off--Thanks to my kid with a January birthday! After giving them a second glance I decided they'd work perfect and they come in 3 shades of brown ( in one package).
I lopped off the heads and used them for ears. The inner ear was also from the heads or you can do them from the arms and just round them out. I stuck them on the ear with scrapbook sticky squares and then hot glued them to the hats. I couldn't believe it was easy as it turned out to be!
