When T was about 6 months old, I became completely stuck on the idea of having a “Where the Wild Things Are” themed 1st birthday. You can’t really buy WTWTA party decorations, but I was excited at the chance to create something original.
For a couple of months, I looked for a really cheap, used copy of Where the Wild Things Are. I finally found one at Half Price Books that had a little bit of water damage for $2.
I scanned an image from the book and made T a shirt for his party:
You can’t really tell from the pic, but it says King of All Wild Things on the front and has his name and a giant 1 on the back. It is super cute. I used the “light” t-shirt transfers on purpose to get kind of an over washed vintage effect.
I made favor bags from plain old brown lunch sacks and another scanned image:
I made Monster cupcakes.
It was really important to me that T’s smash cake come out perfect. So, I asked my very dear friend Laura to make it. It came out exactly how I envisioned:
And finally, my very favorite craft from T’s birthday. I cut up the pages from the water damaged copy of the book and made a bunting to hang on the wall and a mini bunting to hang from his high chair.
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