How to Have a Cookie Monster Birthday Party

mommymommymommy | Jan 1, 2011 |

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If your child loves Sesame Street and Cookie Monster, then having an Cookie Monster birthday party is a fun theme to have. Toddlers and preschoolers, along with their parents, have been loving Sesame Street and it's colorful Muppet characters since 1969. Celebrating a birthday with Cookie Monster as the theme would make a child's day.

Cookie Monster Birthday Party Invitations

You will not find birthday party invitations with only Cookie Monster on them. Party good stores do carry Sesame Street invitations, but Cookie Monster is featured along with several other of the show's characters.

You can buy custom made Cookie Monster birthday party invitations online. All you do upload a picture of the birthday child holding his or her Cookie Monster doll or surrounded by boxes or plates full of cookies. Of course, custom made invitations have a higher price tag than other options.

Instead of purchasing birthday party invitations, you can cut and paste pictures of Cookie Monster and save them onto your computer, along with pictures of cookies. Then you can create your own custom invitation and print them right at home.

Cookie Monster Themed Guests

On the invitation, ask guest to wear their Sesame Street themed clothes or to wear blue to get into the spirit of the party!

Paper Goods and Decorations for a Cookie Monster Birthday Party

Paper goods and decorations for a Cookie Monster birthday party can be found online. There aren't many, but if you search enough they can be found. Ebay is a great resource of hard to find things, and there are Cookie Monster themed party supplies to be found.

Instead of wasting valuable time searching for Cookie Monster paper goods, you can buy blue paper plates, blue napkins, blue forks and spoons and blue cups. These items are often found on sale at the supermarket or a party goods store. If you want a Sesame Street accent, invest in some napkins with the characters on them.

You can also buy a white plastic table cover from the Dollar Store, so the blue pops out. Now your birthday table is ready for the party!

For Cookie Monster birthday party decorations, you can buy blue balloons for each person and a special mylar Cookie Monster balloon for the birthday boy or girl. If you have this idea enough in advance, you can scour thrift stores and yard sales for plush Cookie Monster dolls that can be placed around the house or on the table.

Blue and white streamers are an inexpensive decoration for your themed birthday party. Place them around the room or drape them across the party chairs.

Crafts for a Cookie Monster Birthday Party

If the children are aged three and up, they are able to do some crafts with a little adult help.

Picture Frames

Craft stores sell inexpensive foam picture frames. You can buy peel and stick magnet strips and peel and stick foam shapes. Sesame Street stickers can be found in most stores. Take a picture of the party guest with a Cookie Monster stuffed animal and print it at the party. While the kids are eating cake, have a helper glue the picture to the frame and you have a great party favor!

Decorate a Cookie Monster Cookie

What's a Cookie Monster birthday party without cookies! Before the party, bake one very large sugar cookie for each child. Have tubs of vanilla icing, as well as icing that is dyed blue with food coloring. Buy toppings such blue M&Ms, blue sprinkles and white sprinkles. Write each child's name on the plate and let them decorate it! You can either wrap it for a party favor or let them eat it instead of cake.

Cookie Monster Puppets

On the PBS.org website, there are directions for making a Cookie Monster puppet. There are two versions-no -sew and sew.

Decorate a Cookie Jar

For this birthday party craft, see if the craft store or Dollar Store has a cheap ceramic jar or holder of some type. Carefully using craft pens, have the children make their own cookie jars!

Games for a Cookie Monster Birthday Party

A Cookie Monster pinata would be a lot of fun. FIll the inside with mini bags of Oreos, Chips Ahoy and other prepackaged cookies.

Find Cookie Monster! Run off pictures of Cookie Monster on cardstock and glue them to a stick. Hide them around the party area. Have the kids go and find Cookie!

A variation of this game is to hide play food cookie around the house and have the kids find them.

Freeze Dance Play music from a Sesame Street CD and start the dancing.

Cookie Monster Birthday Cake

Every birthday party needs a birthday cake! If you are the creative type, you can buy a Wilton cake pan shaped like Cookie Monster and make one yourself.

If you do not want to invest in a cake mold, then you can search online for those creative cooks who love to show off what they can do! There are plenty of images and recipes online on how to make your very own Cookie Monster birthday cake.

Not a baker? Then you can go to the store and order a custom cake. For a few dollars extra, you can have a photo cake made of your child and Cookie together. If you have a strict spending limit, buy a plain birthday cake and place an inexpensive Cookie Monster cake topper and/or a number birthday candle next to it. You can even use a plastic Cookie Monster figure as a cake topper if you have one.

Other foods you can serve are Cookie Monster cookies, found in many supermarkets and Whole Foods stores. You can also serve healthy blueberries and blueberry juice.

Of course, you should also have a plate full of cookies for everyone to snack on!

Cookie Monster Birthday Goody Bags

At the end of the party, all of your guests should leave with a goody bags. The Dollar Store sells blue plastic goody bags for you to put in all sorts of goodies. If you do not want to stuff bags, buy each guest a bag of cookie mix or a box of cookies for snacking on later.

Since Cookie monster is now eating healthy foods, you can give Cookie Monster story books or coloring books as a birthday party favor. Those books will be read over and over and not give the kids a sugar rush!