Butterfly party
Butterfly Favor ideas
- Butterfly bubbles
- Butterfly finger puppet
Games and activities
- Make a metamorphosis of the cake: Read "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric
Carle, just before serving the cake. It's a great way to quiet the little bugs. (This
classic book is also available as a Pop-Up Book and as a game, pictured right.)
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Setting the scene:
A butterfly theme party lends itself to a garden setting. She'll float like a butterfly and
the your budget won't sting like a bee, when incorporate these simple and affordable
ideas into your party:
- Create a garden oasis inside. Think pink lemonade with lime wedges, and pink
Gerber Daisies, paired with solid plates on a grass mat, like the one right,
available online. Scatter plastic butterflies like confetti on the tables and affix
nylon butterflies to the chairs and you have a beautiful garden setting. For the
basic look, visit Butterflycraze.com.
- Get the blues. Blue Morpho butterflies provide an unexpected look for a butterfly
party. Think powder blue nylon butterflies, blue plates, and confetti glitter with
black accents, such as with the flatware. The Blue Morpho Butterfly replica, left,
measures 5 inches long, 1.25 inches high. You can affix it to a stick to make a
pretty butterfly wand. And we found the perfect party dress, left, to match a
Blue Morpho Butterfly theme, which would look terrific with the blue butterfly eye
wear.
- Pattern after nature. Of course, Monarch butterflies provide a striking display with
orange and black as a contrast. For the tables, start with a bright orange
tablecloth, then layer the look with black tulle crinkled on top. Next, sprinkle
orange jelly beans like confetti on the tables and scatter black licorice for the
antennae. The pretty 12-piece Casual Melamine Dinnerware set, right, is under
twenty bucks, and will serve your Halloween needs for years to come.
- Butterfly Birthday invitations and party wording ideas:
- Hailey's Birthday is Fluttering By
- (Our little bug is turning three)
- Join us for the metamorphosis: Saturday, August 22 at 2:00 p.m.
- Garden at: 123 main street
- RSVP: Madame Butterfly (Brenda) at 867-5309

Butterfly party foods, cakes and cookies
- Wilton's butterfly cake pan, upper left, is a classic. For a look enjoyed by children
and adults alike, try the Butterfly mold, left. Ultra versatile, use it to make
elegant tea sandwiches, cheesecake, pie, ice cream sandwiches, cookies and
more.
- This rings true: butterfly cupcake rings are tops with kids and will fly onto their
little fingers quickly after licking the icing. The whimsical butterfly wing rings,
right, are a nice garden variety that will have their hearts aflutter. Pair the rings
with butterfly shaped cake sprinkles, pictured left.
- Kids go crackers for butterfly crackers! Try Golden Butter Crackers by Pepperidge
Farm, because they are shaped like butterflies, and kids love them.
- B-day pasta: Serve bow-tie pasta because it's butterfly shaped. Keep the
butterfly-day pasta simple: kids prefer butter with Parmesan cheese sprinkles,
or mac and cheese. Both are less messy than spaghetti.
- Butterfly pizza! Buy small pizzas instead of large ones. Serve each child two pizza
triangles at opposing ends and place a fat breadstick in the middle for the body.
Fashion antennae from carrot sticks or pretzels.
- Dreamy Pretzel chocolate sticks: Wilton's Butterfly Pretzel Mold helps you make
festive treats to serve party goers. Wrap them in cellophane with a pretty bow
and you've got a delectable and impressive favor you make yourself.
- Easy Caramel pretzel butterflies: Unwrap a caramel and roll it into a slightly oval
shaped ball. Make wings with two twisted pretzels (one on each side of the
caramel). Next, place two stick pretzels for antennae.
- Large butterfly cookie cutters: Wilton's butterfly cookie cutter is extra large and
has grips to make cutting dough easy. Our recipe for cookie success is the Big
Batch Sugar cookies. Use the cutters to make sandwiches, biscuits, and more. As
a stencil, the cutters can help decorate your party:
- Coast along with butterfly shaped coasters for drinks using the cookie
cutters and pretty scrapbook papers. Pair the look with Good
Housekeeping's butterfly straws: a craft you can make with the same
papers.
- Mobilize your creativity further with a canopy of paper butterflies. Again,
stencil butterflies onto patterns of paper and cut them out. Thread one
two or three on the fishing line, then sandwich a different patterned
paper butterfly together with tape and hang the mobile of butterflies from
the ceiling.
- Make a mouth-licking metamorphosis of old fashioned swirled stick candy
by transforming them into whimsical butterfly wands. Adorn a paper butterf
ly with glitter and sequins. Add pipe cleaner antennae and affix the
butterflies to candy sticks.


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Butterfly Party
How to have a butterfly themed birthday party
The days will flutter by before you realize that her birthday is here, so get an early
start planning a butterfly party. A butterfly birthday is an ideal first birthday party.
Butterflies are bright and beautiful and Monarchs provide a bright and happy
beginning.
Here's how to have a butterfly themed birthday to remember for years to come:
- Put a twinkle in her eye with butterfly twinkle pops. Twinkle Pops come in six
assorted flavors. You get 120, which sounds like a lot, but they will serve as
decoration when you bundle them into pretty bouquets throughout your party
and give them to guests as party favors.
- Slip these lovely sippers on drinks. Garnish drinks with Martha Stewart's easy to
make butterfly straws. Slip these gorgeous paper butterflies onto straws with
pretty papers to match your theme.
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- Watch them grow, then let them go! Grow your own butterflies with the Live
Butterfly garden, right.
- Buy ordinary helium balloons and rub a static cling to butterfly cutouts made
from tissue paper. It looks as though they rest on the balloon.
- Send her heart soaring with inflatable butterflies. Better than balloons, this
beauty, pictured right, is 27 inches and is oh so huggable. It will inflate the
fantasy and they're available only online. Here are some other fun butterfly
finds: