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How to Throw a Monster Party {FREE Printable Invites and Food Labels!}

September 4, 2015 by Alli 7 Comments

Everything you need to throw an awesome monster party! Perfect for a kids birthday! Includes free printables for food labels and invitations

What do you do when you’re bored, in need of a fun blog post idea, and your kids are begging for another taco party?? Throw a monster party! The little monkeys thought this was way better than the taco party, and that’s definitely saying something, because they still rave about that one 🙂

This party was so much fun to put together, and even more fun to enjoy once it was all set up! I’ll give y’all a rundown of the decorations and food we made, and also include some free printables!

Throw the perfect monster party with these decor tutorials, snack ideas, and free printable invites and food labels

For instructions on how to make the monster wreath, check out my post from a couple days ago! It’s really simple, and so fun! The utensil holder is also really easy – just hot glue some fur around an empty can. I found a little sheet of fur fabric for fairly cheap, and I only used part of it. You could also glue some googly eyes on, if you want!

For the cups, I made the mouths out of white and black card stock, and glued them on with a hot glue gun. Finish them off with a couple of googly eyes… or 6 🙂

Throw the perfect monster party with these fun printable food labels! FREE printables!

I found the cutest little monster clip art files from an Etsy shop called Mint Printables. I used them to make these food labels, the invitations, and then printed some out as extra decorations. The files were only $4 for the set, and you can find them here. {Scroll down a little further to snag my food label printables!}

You can get all kinds of creative with these! We had veggie straws for fingers, Twizzlers for tentacles, green juice for slime, crackers for toenails, and cheese cut in the shape of tongues 🙂 There are a few more on the printable, including scales (you could use potato chips) and claws (Bugles would be perfect).

To hold up the food labels and monster decorations, I used plastic game board stands that I found on Amazon!

Fun tutorial on this monster cake, and ideas for the perfect monster party! Free printable invitations and food labels!

The cake ended up being easier than I thought it would! I used piping tip #233 (grass/fur) and let me just say… I’m no piping pro. I’ve never been great at it. But even though my “fur” looks nothing like others you’d see on Pinterest, I still think it turned out just fine!

I made 2 round cakes, stacked them (with a layer of frosting in between), and coated it all in frosting. Then I added gel food coloring to the rest of the frosting and piped it all over. It seemed to work better when the frosting was a bit cold, so I stuck it in the fridge first. The heat from my hands softened it, and if it was too warm, it was too runny to hold it’s shape.

The mouth was piped on with more frosting and black piping gel, and the eyes are just lollipops!

Adorable monster cupcakes, and other fun ideas for a monster party! Free printables!

The cupcakes are very similar to the cake – same piping with the fur and mouth. For the eyes, though, I stuck pretzel sticks into mini marshmallows, then dipped the pretzels into green frosting. Once they hardened in the fridge, I stuck them into the cupcakes and added the pupils with black piping gel.

Cute monster marshmallow pops and other fun ideas for a monster party! Free printables!

And finally, the marshmallow pops! For in-depth instructions on how to make marshmallow pops, check out this post about my spider marshmallow pops. For these, I dipped them into white candy melts, stuck on candy eyes, and rolled them around in some sparkling sugar. Once they were dry, I piped on frosting using the grass tip, and added a mouth with black piping gel.

Whew, that was a lot! Now for the easy stuff! Here are the fun printables you can download:

Get these fun free printables! Silly food labels and invitations for a monster party!

For the invites, I created different versions with different ages. Each sheet has 2 invites on them!

Monster Food Labels
Monster Party Invitation – Age 1
Monster Party Invitation – Age 2
Monster Party Invitation – Age 3
Monster Party Invitation – Age 4
Monster Party Invitation – Age 5
Monster Party Invitation – Age 6
Monster Party Invitation – Age 7
Monster Party Invitation – Age 8

Need some ideas on what to DO at a monster party? Check these out!

  • Set up a monster factory, where kids can make their own monsters
  • Monster bean bag toss and awesome photoshoot setup
  • Pin the eye on the monster
  • Monster Bingo

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Comments

  1. Christina @There's Just One Mommy says

    September 19, 2015 at 2:51 am

    Cute, cute, cute!

    I love how your cake turned out — I need to learn to make fur like that for a cake! And I love the color, too. So vivid!

    The marshmallow pops are cute, too.

    Pinned.

    Reply
    • Alli says

      September 20, 2015 at 7:02 pm

      Thanks so much, Christina!

      Reply
  2. marisa says

    February 3, 2016 at 11:09 pm

    This is exactly what I need, awesome ideas and the printables are perfect except I need them in spanish 🙁 is there a way to send them blank and I can write the words in?

    Reply
    • Alli says

      February 12, 2016 at 12:49 am

      Oh no! I actually don’t have any blank versions of them! Your best bet might be to open them in Picmonkey (a free photo editing website) and add white shapes over the writing to block it out, then add the text over that. Wish I could be more help!

      Reply
  3. Bev says

    March 19, 2016 at 12:53 pm

    I love this, so cute!! What is the name of the font you used?

    Reply
    • Alli says

      March 19, 2016 at 1:37 pm

      Thanks, Bev! I used Janda Safe and Sound, and KG Sweet N Sassy. The KG/Janda fonts are all so cute, and you can download them for free here: http://www.kimberlygeswein.com/download-all-kg-fonts/

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    September 4, 2015 at 1:48 pm

    […] fun decoration can be used for Halloween, or for something super secret and awesome that I’ll be blogging about on Friday.. so be sure to check back for that! I found something […]

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