This girl likes butterfly and she has memorized the book, “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” by Eric Carle. We decided to use this for her 4 year old birthday party. I found this fun little butterfly wings at the Dollar Tree for the girls to wear, they love them!
Butterfly/ Caterpillar Dress
Storm wore her Very Hungry Caterpillar dress with her butterfly wings and I wore my Very Hungry Caterpillar t-shirt. Storm wanted to play with water balloons so she got a new pink butterfly swimsuit to wear. These girls are obsessed with water balloons.
Very Hungry Caterpillar Decorations
We had sidewalk chalk and water balloons to play with at the party. I also put up some Very Hungry Caterpillar Balloons and the Butterfly, 4th Birthday Balloons.
I used red and Green Party Paper Fans to make a caterpillar. I also used red and green paper plates to make a caterpillar and used my Cricut to spell out Storm’s name. I created a sign with my CANVA program that says, “Storm is a beautiful butterfly!”
I took a large box and painted a big red circle on it, then I cut a whole for the caterpillar’s mouth and added eyes and ears. The kids could toss the fruit into the caterpillar’s mouth. Storm and I also looked through all of her toy food and found some from the book to feed the caterpillar box as well.
Very Hungry Caterpillar Food
I used my CANVA program to make some labels for the food table too. I also served salami and cheese sliders and hot dogs for lunch as well.
I served much of the food in these Palm Leave Serving Trays.
“A little egg lay on a leaf.” I made deviled eggs and placed hem on a lettuce leaf.
“He ate through one apple, two pears, three plums, four strawberries, five oranges.” I placed the fruit out with the sign sticking up with a picture from the book attached.
“one piece of chocolate cake” I made these Buckeye Brownies…
Buckeye Brownie Recipe:
Ingredients:
- 2½ cups semi sweet chocolate chips
- ¾ cup butter, softened
- 1¼ cups sugar
- 3 large eggs
- 1½ teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- ¾ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup creamy peanut butter
- ¾ cup confectioners’ sugar
- 1 tablespoon milk
- ½ cup heavy whipping cream
- Chocolate Spinkles
- Cherries
Instructions:
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- Prepare your dish by lining a 9-inch square pan with heavy-duty foil then spray foil with nonstick cooking spray.
- Place a cup of water in a small saucepan and place it on medium heat. Place a glass bowl on top of the saucepan with the hot water in it and combine 1½ cups chocolate morsels and ½ cup butter in the bowl. Turn off the stove once the water starts bowling, be careful of the steam. Stir the chocolate until it is smooth.
- In a mixer you can add sugar and the chocolate, stirring to combine.
- Add eggs, 1 at a time; add ½ teaspoon vanilla extract, stirring well.
- Mix in the flour and ½ teaspoon salt. Stir for several minutes.
- Pour into the 9×9 baking dish.
- Bake until a wooden pick inserted in the center comes out clean, 30 to 35 minutes. Let cool for 15 minutes.
- In a medium bowl, combine peanut butter, remaining ¼ cup butter, confectioners’ sugar, remaining ¼ teaspoon salt, milk, and remaining 1 teaspoon vanilla extract, stirring until blended.
- While brownie is slightly warm, spread peanut butter mixture over top in a smooth layer. Set aside.
- In a small saucepan, heat cream until almost boiling. Remove from heat, and add remaining 1 cup chocolate morsels, stirring until smooth. Pour over peanut butter layer, spreading into a smooth layer.
- We added chocolate sprinkles.
- Refrigerate for about 4 hours, until chocolate layer becomes firm.
- Using edges of foil as handles, lift whole brownie from pan. Carefully remove foil, and place brownie on a cutting board. Press down firmly in one motion to cut into individual brownies, about an inch apart.
- Add the cherry if you choose.
“one ice-cream cone” I filled the cones sitting on the table with pink cotton candy and later we ate strawberry ice-cream in our cones with the cake. I was able to hold up the cones with Cone Holder.
“one pickle, one slice of swiss cheese, one slice of salami”
“one lollipop” We found these blue swirl lollipops for the girls.
“one piece of cherry pie” I just bought a pie at Walmart this time.
“one sausage” I used hotdogs as the “sausage”.
“one cupcake” We actually made banana muffins with blue cupcake liners.
Ingredients:
- 1 eggs
- 6 Tablespoons butter
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 2 overripe bananas
- 1 cup flour
- ¾ tea. Baking soda
- ¼ tea salt
- ½ tea. Vanilla
- 12 Muffin Cups
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Mix the eggs, butter, and brown sugar.
- Mash in the bananas.
- Blend in flour, baking soda, salt, and vanilla.
- Place muffin cups in 12 muffin holders. And fill ¾ full with batter.
- Bake for 16 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
“and one slice of watermelon.”
“The caterpillar ate through one nice green leaf” I made a salad with cucumber and tomato slices arranged on top to look like the caterpillar.
Butterfly Nectar
Very Hungry Caterpillar Cake
I used a strawberry cake mix and strawberry icing for her cake. I sliced kiwi and strawberries to place on the top to look like a caterpillar. Storm also found some fun pink and green sprinkles to put on her cupcakes.
Happy Birthday my little Butterfly!
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