Monster Party

Are you brave enough for a monster party? Not even Godzilla, Bigfoot or Frankenstein could handle this party. Kids love monsters of all shapes and sizes. Hosting a monster theme party for your kids next birthday will excite everyone and have them thinking outside of the coffin. Have a monsterrific time at your monster birthday party.

Are you brave enough for a monster party?

Not even Godzilla, Bigfoot or Frankenstein could handle this party. Kids love monsters of all shapes and sizes. Hosting a monster theme party for your kids next birthday will excite everyone and have them thinking outside of the coffin. Have a monsterrific time at your monster birthday party.

Monster Party Invitations

Dare your guests to come to your monster birthday party with spookable monster invitations. To create your own you can use cardstock and cut out large white eyes and black circles to go into the eyes. Then add a few teeth. When you open the monster’s mouth it can say, “Our little monster is turning ___” or “Calling all monsters __ is turning ___. Join us for a scary good time”. If they make it to the end without getting scared, don't forget to thank them for their courage.

Monster Party Decorations

• First decide on your color theme for the party. Your color theme could be anything as monsters come in all shapes, sizes and colors. I would suggest blue, orange, purple and green. Keep the colors fun and cheery.

• Use Monster theme decorations including napkins, plates, cups, table cover, centerpiece, banner, party hats, party blowers etc.

• Monster Mylar balloons accented with your color theme

• Have monster feet leading into the party room 

• Hang cotton spider webs in the corners of the ceiling

• Have large cutouts of monsters to hang on the walls (if you can’t find any make some or hire a neighborhood artist to help out with the painting). Let your imagination go wild with your monsters.

• Use flattened fans and add large paper eyes to look like monsters

• Play Monster music

Monster Party Games and Activities

• Big Foot Race - Strap on monster feet and run a foot face (these can be purchased at big box stores). The monster feet should be larger and are like wearing water flippers. If you can’t find any you could always make them out of kleenex boxes.

• Eyeball Race - Play like a spoon and egg race game. Use Spoons and ping pong balls decorated like eyes. Try to race to fill up a bowl like a relay race.

• Hungry Henry - Feed the monster bean bag game. This is like one of the fair type games. Get a piece of MDF and draw a picture of a monster. Cut out three holes (e.g., mouth 3 points, neck 2 points, hand 1 point), and then paint the monster. Give each guest 3 bean bags to throw during the game.

• Mummy Madness - Make small groups and give each group a roll of toilet paper. They then take the toilet paper and wrap one player in the group to make a mummy.

• Monsters in the Closet - Play hide and go seek. The monster that it is counts in the closet (don’t let them get scared – let them hold a glow stick or lantern).

• Pin the Eye on the Monster - Play a version of pin the tail on the donkey. Spin for the number years old the guest of honor is turning. 

• Monster Mash Dance and Monster Musical Chairs - For the music use many traditional monster songs like Monster Mash, Purple People Eater and there are also many newer monster songs like Monster Party by Splash ‘n Boots the song.

• Home Theater - Watch Monsters vs. Aliens or Monsters Inc. (both very cute movies and good for little ones). If you have an older crowd there are tons of monster movies to choose from.

Monster Party Crafts

• Folding Paper Monster - Get a white piece of thicker art paper and 3 colors of paint. Fold the paper in half lengthwise. Then re-open the paper. Drop a couple of blobs of paint onto the crease of the paper. Fold the paper closed again and smush the paint outwards. Use a felt tipped sharpie marker and add on eyes, etc. once the paint is dry. Hint dry the paint with a blowdryer before adding the eyes.

• Straw Blown Monster - Get a piece of art paper (a little thicker with some texture). Drip a bit of paint. With your straw blow the paint to form your monster. When the paint is dry use a black felt tip pen and draw features onto your monster.

• Name Monster - This is better for older guests that can cursive write their names. Fold a piece of paper in half (can be any type of paper). Along the line cursive write your name with pencil (large to fill the half page of paper). Then draw/sketch your name in cursive writing in the mirror image from the fold in the paper. With markers then color in your monster and remember to name your character.

Monster Party Food

• Make Monster punch. Add in strings of fruit in the punch. E.g., like strips of orange will look like worms
• Monster Mash. Trail mix and other dishes of munchies
• Eyeball eggs. Make some devilled eggs to look like eyes
• Monster eyeballs - round pretzels with a candy melt in middle with an eyeball candy
• Monster cookies, Monster Foot cookies, Eyeball cookies (sugar cookies that are decorated with cookie icing)
• Make a Monster Cake. Create the shape using the Wilton cake pan of a teddy bear and decorate to look like your monster
• Another monster cake idea is to make a regular round cake and add hair with icing a mouth on the front and top with cake pops that look like eyeballs propped up with kabob sticks

Monster Party Favors

• Monster Tattoos
• Gooey Slime
• Eyeball bouncy ball
• Glow Sticks 
• Adopt a monster station - pick a monster to take home
• Build your own monster - playdough, google eye and some pipe cleaners in a bag