Check out these other great parties that have been listed on the Parties 4 Boys page here at CPP.

Boys Best Friend Puppy Dog Birthday

Baseball Birthday Party

Monster Birthday Party Ideas

There is more to see of the King of the Jungle Party over at Angelena’s blog.

Have you checked out these other listed parties under the First Birthday Party category listings:

Airplane Birthday Party from Grassphoppers & Ladybugs

Whale of a Party from Stephanie

Backyard Carnival from Pink Peppermint Paper

Need more First Birthday Party Ideas?  Visit the First Birthday ideas page to see ALL the listed parties.

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I have to say this is the first time I’ve heard this theme.  Am I out of the loop on this one?  Well..I just think it’s adorably clever!  I love the idea of the elephant…and not just because I went to the zoo today and watched a baby elephant play in the water!  I think there is just so much to do with this theme and Ashley did a wonderful job of showcasing it’s potential!  Come on…could that cake be any cuter?

Enjoy this baby shower…..

I have been very busy these last few weeks with back to back events, but I am back with the next week or so off! The baby shower brunch that I put together took place on Saturday and turned out adorable! The mother-to-be loves elephants so I took that into consideration while planning this event. It turned out so cute and all the little details worked so well together! Take a look at the pics…you can find the invite that I sent out for this event here.

Diaper Cake

Mocktail Mimosa’s and Hibiscus drinks made with Squirt soda (to go along with the theme), Orange Juice, & Cranberry Juice.

The Create-A-Crepe bar where guests could add ingredients, in a crepe, to make either a breakfast, lunch, or dessert crepe.

The Cake

I titled the various sauces for the crepes “Squirtables” to carry out the theme of the shower.

Sunny-side up Oreo Pops that are in the above picture, tied with yellow curling ribbon.

Onesie & bib decorating station

Finished Onesies & bibs. The guests did such a great job!

Floral centerpiece that I made

Advice cards for the guests to fill out, along with an envelope for guests to print their address on for the mother-to-be to mail their thank you cards! I love the paperclips and the elephant pens toppers I put together!

But my favorite of all would have to be the guest favors! Such cute little elephant cupcake toppers! Adorable!

Overall it was a fabulous shower. And the mother-to-be loved every minute of it! Can’t wait to meet this little bundle of joy!

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Ok, I will admit that I’m a cat person….and not so much into dogs.  But dog or no dog…this party rocks!  So bright and cheerful and honestly just a cute idea all together!  So many clever ideas to see for this theme.

Enjoy meeting the puppy….

At the end of February, my husband & I had a “Meet the Puppy” to introduce our family & friends to our new adopted puppy, Ozzy. Ozzy is a lab-sheperd mix & was three months old when we got him. We adopted him from a local rescue shelter.

I was so excited for everyone to meet him & wanted everyone to see him while he was still little, so I thought a small, cute party would be perfect.  I had so much fun planning & decorating Ozzy’s party, & couldn’t of pulled it off without the help of my mom, mother-in-law & husband.

My fabulous mom made the cookies, brownies, chocolate covered pretzels & cupcakes. Aren’t they great? She’s an incredible baker & her cakes always taste amazing. I don’t even think she tells me all her cake-secrets, because my cakes never quite comes out as good as hers lol.

What’s a posh party without fabulous Hershey Kiss stickers? It’s kind of my signature thing. I even added them to the bottom of Reese Cups this time. Stickers were designed & handmade by your’s truly

I packaged some of my mom’s amazing sugar cookies & added a custom favor bag topper for the guest to take home with them.

My mom also made these gourmet dog treats for doggie favors. She’s awesome, right?

I filled apothecary jars with dog treats & bones to give the party more of a dog feel to it. I labeled the jars & was sure to put “for the puppy” on each one,  just to be sure no one was confused

My mom ALSO made ALL the tissue paper pom-poms. Amazing. My mother-in-law hung all the pom-poms & helped with the decorating.

My husband & mother-in-law made fabulous sub sandwiches, using amazing bread from Panera. The sandwiches were a huge hit & everyone wanted to know where we “ordered” them from.

The guest of honor had tons of fun at his party & was super excited about all his fabulous gifts. He actually hurt his leg really bad playing with my brother-in-law’s dog the day before the party, so none of his doggie-friends were able to come to the party. He was limping really bad & the vet wanted us to try to keep him as inactive as possible until the swelling went down. Otherwise our house would have been full of dogs that day! What do you think of Ozzy’s party?

Thanks to everyone who came & helped!
And a HUGE special thanks to my mom for all her hard work!

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• Cupcakes, cookies, brownies, chocolate covered pretzels, gourmet dog treats ~ made by my mom

• Sub sandwiches ~ made by my husband & mother-in-law using bread from Panera

• Dog bone & paw print edible cupcake decorations ~ from Cupcake Social

• Tissue paper pom-poms ~ made by my mom

• Balloons ~ from Birthday Direct

• Green & blue paper plates ~ from Birthday Direct

• Green & blue flatware ~ from Birthday Direct

• Green & blue table clothes ~ from Birthday Direct

• Polka dot baking cups (cupcake liners) ~ from Birthday Direct

• White Cupcake Stand ~ from Target

• Three Tiered Stand ~ from Pampered Chef

• Green & blue mini buckets ~ from Target

• Apothecary jars ~ from Michaels

{More photos from Ozzy’s party on my Facebook Fan Page.}

Enjoy this Frog Prince Birthday…..

I read somewhere not too long ago in some brilliant woman’s blog that when you throw a party, you just have to have a single element that is really a “WOW” factor that you spend time making perfect. Just one impressive feature – I think anyone can do that!

Candy buffets are hot hot hot right now for parties and weddings, probably because of the visual display that is a treat for the eyes (and later the tummy!)

The detail that was probably the most difficult about putting the buffet together was the glassware. Dropping $200 on jars was not in the birthday budget, so i bought one really spectacular jar and got creative with the rest! Here are my sources:

• Urn shaped large footed apothecary jar – Hobby Lobby
• Tall cylander footed apothecary jar – antique store
• Squat apothecary jar – Micheals
• Hurricane lamp – Pier1 (had it already)
• Square vase – Pottery Barn, maybe? (had it already)
• Trio of small apothecary jars – thrift stores
• Lollipop holders – painted flower pots

I just loved the way lollipops looked standing up on a tablescape. I didn’t have anything handy to put them in, and didn’t have the time to build something elaborate. So, I took a few terra cotta pots, painted them white, and stuffed a wax paper covered piece of floral foam down inside. After cutting holes in the wax paper, I pushed in the suckers and covered the wax paper with jelly beans. The lollipops were personalized for each guest attending the party.

In addition to the candy, I did make some monogram sugar cookies, dipped some marshmallows in candy melt and rolled them in sprinkles, and dipped a few oreo cookies as well (man, were those good!) Kids seem to love everything on a stick, so the marshmallows were really a hit! Those that weren’t coated in candy were rolled in sugar. You can see how to make sparkly marshmallows over here.

Each one of the candy jars got a label showing what it was. I forgot to get scoops for the candy, and bought a melamine ladle instead. This actually worked out better, as it was much easier to get in the tall jars with the ladle.

The big question I keep getting asked is, “Where’d you get all that candy?” Where I get everything. Online! There was a really good selection of green candy at the Candy Warehouse; I scored big lollipops, gummy frogs, old fashioned candy sticks and mojito flavored salt water taffy. The green M&Ms were around during Valentines Day, and I just stocked up then from the stores in town.

The smash cake was made by a good friend of mine who lives three hours away. I was happy someone was able to transport it to the party for me! It turned out so neat!

The candy buffet was more a party favor at our event…guests were given a box to fill up with candy before they left as a thank you for coming. Next time I would definitely get bigger boxes, as there was still a lot left over even with 20 kids at the party. It was a nice memory for the kids, as they were all pretty excited about picking out all that candy!

Read more about the frog prince birthday invitations, big boy frog prince birthday crown, the cupcake tower, the rest of the frog prince party decorations, and the photo booth we had as part of the entertainment for the frog prince birthday party!

Enjoy this Giraffe themed baby shower…..

Enjoy the owl theme inspiration —–

This theme is fun for everything from a first birthday to an older kids night owl sleep over or even a daytime pj party, who doesn’t love pjs!

Menu: Night time munchies-popcorn, junk food, chips, etc. (oh how my kids would love this menu, okay me too!!)

Decorations: There are darling owl pillow all over the web (etsy, amazon, etc.). They would be fairly simple to make with some inexpensive felt (you could sew or even hot glue them together). Owl pillows would be a fun craft/favor for older children to make.

How cute are these round felt owls? Here is the tutorial . They call for styrofoam balls which can be surprisingly pricey! I have modified crafts which have called for them before by using shaved down styrofoam squares (cheaper, sometimes you can even find them at the dollar store!), or even a wodded up old shirt or rag (using duct tape to form a ball shape) as well as a cheapo dollar store ball (note you can’t use hot glue on these though as they will melt, but you could probably wrap with duct tape a few times to avoid this problem).

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Shout out time!! I’ve noticed that I have some people who are fairly faithful about leaving comments on the posts here at Creative Party Place. Just wanted to say THANK YOU to Wendy from Whimsy & Wise Events for being an active commenter over the last few months. Head on over to her blog and leave her a comment today!

Enjoy the monkey party…..

We celebrated Jacob’s birthday last Saturday, and we could not have asked for a more perfect day. The weather was gorgeous and, despite it being a pool party, not many kids went swimming. I’m kind of glad ’cause it would have been crazy. We had our signature taco guy, and the food was good, too bad I didn’t get to enjoy it. And the cake was not only cute, but delish. Unfortunately, with all of the running around, I didn’t get to enjoy the party at all. But I know Jacob did and that’s all that matters. The theme of his party was mod monkey, and I got tons of compliments on the party decor, goody bags, and cake. I had adults asking for goody bags and table centerpieces! A lot of time and thought went into this party and many thanks to my lovely family for helping me through the last couple of weeks. And here are the pix…

The invite I made…

Diggin’ into his smash cake…

About to take a whack at the pinata…

Centerpieces…

Decor…

Photo timeline from birth to 1 year…

Only game we had time for, pin the nose on the monkey…

Goody bags included a monkey tote, notepad, pencil, key chain, bubbles, sticky hand, fun straw, banana key ring, banana candy, Laffy Taffy, Skittles, and Starburst…

Enjoy Tamara’s Ladybug Party…..

We sometimes call Lily ‘Lilybug’ so it was fitting that we would have a ladybug party for her first birthday, but not just any kind of ladybugs.
Why of course they had to be pink & green little ladies! The invite, handmade by the Crew as we all helped a little bit with it.
Chepe got the design ready for me in Photoshop, I cut and assembled, Eden punched out & glued on the green spots, and Lily tried to help cut the ribbon with her teeth ;o)

Thank you to Uncle Chris & Aunt Lisa for letting us crash their place!

Pink & Green Ladybugs leading the way to the FUN!
Chepe helped me make a custom birthday banner with his “cutter machine” as like to call it, but really it is a QuicKutz Silhouette and it puts the Cricut Expression to shame! Funny how in our house Papa Bear is the crafty one. Notice I was over tired while assembling the banner and messed up on the name part. Oh well, it was too late to do anything about it since I noticed about 10 minutes before the party was set to start.
For refreshments we served raspberry lemonade with green sugar for the cup rims. Again, the sugar creation was due to a very creative Papa Bear & yet another one of his gadgets…the Magic Bullet.Thank you to PartyPops for these custom stickers. They were too cute and perfect for the water & favor labels.
Leaf signs above the refreshment table.
Happy 1st Birthday Lily! ~ Party Time. Lily is one! ~ Thank you for celebrating with us!

The birthday girl’s special chair for the day.
I painted the ladybugs to match the labels and attached them to giant leaves from Cost Plus. A special thank you to the very nice cashier who gave me an awesome deal on the leaves!!!

Smash cake ladybug for Lily & flower cupcakes for the guests. Yes, I actually baked, with help from Chepe yet again, and made the smash cake. The cupcakes were jazzed up store bought green ones that I added a sugar flower to in order to make them cute, cute and fit the theme. I am all about the theme when it comes to a party…can you tell?
Lily’s favorite part was the hostess cupcake.

Kids table with a ladybug centerpiece

Special pink ladybug decoration that big sissy Eden made for the party.
Eden was so cute and thoughtful in wanting to contribute to the decor. I have to give it to her she stayed on theme. She drew the pink ladybug about four days before the party and made sure that it did not get erased or messed up all that time. She was so proud to help decorate for her little sissy’s birthday party.

Leaf banner for the mantel with some friendly ladybugs

Lots & lots of food.

Told you there was a lot of food.

To decorate the buffet I used ladybug beads that were custom made from another wonderful seller on Esty.

I plan to make each of the girls a necklace with the beads now that the party is over.

Silly string favors.
‘Thank you for coming to Silly Lily’s 1st Birthday Party’
Get it…silly string )

The Birthday Girl
A special thank you to Sweet Couture for custom making both Lily’s birthday onsie and Eden’s matching big sister shirt for the party. They matched everything perfectly! Honestly, without the wonderful sellers on Etsy I could never have pulled this party off.

Present opening time brought lots of wonderful things for Lily to enjoy. Lily especially loved Eden’s gift to her of a little Tiger wearing a t-shirt that she was able to design. Lily would not put ‘Tiger Bear’ down the rest of the time and he is still a favorite friend at home.
Thank you to everyone for your thoughtfulness!

Cake time!

Lily loved her cake, but did not like her messy hands much.

Thank you to everyone who sent birthday wishes to our Lilybug and to those of you who were able to share in her special day. We are blessed to have such wonderful people in our lives.

Birthday hugs!