Very Hungry Caterpillar Invitations

The theme for RaeRae's 1st birthday is "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle. I wanted to try to include all of the books for the party, but that was getting to be too much work so I stuck with this one theme. There are hundreds of ideas for food, decor, party favors, etc on Pinterest. I first learned about this idea for the invitations through a web search that lead to me to this blog.


I nearly followed her directions for the invitations, except tweaked on the colors a bit and the poem. 
For my invitations, I added "ears" to the caterpillar heads like in the story. I tweaked it to match my needs (indoor party in my home versus at a gym, date/time, my name, etc). 
 
First green circle:

We can hardly believe a year has passed.

Our little caterpillar has grown so fast!

Join us for some food and fun.

RaeRae* is turning ONE!

 Second green circle:

Saturday, February 4, 2012

Time: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Crawl to:

 (My address, omitted here on blog for privacy)

 Third green circle:

Bubbles and balloons, and lots of play!

We hope you can make it to this special day!

Cake and finger foods will be provided.

(*If weather is nice, there is a park across street we can play at after the party)

 Fourth green circle:

RSVP to Mama Jenn

by: February 1^st, 2012

via: jenncoleregis at gmail...

*Please provide the age of children attending (younger-age driven party)

   

        Putting together these invitations were soo much fun! But a lot of work. I think it would have been easier if I had one of those circle cutters from Michael's or Joann's. But instead, I found something in my home and traced every single circle on cardstock/scrapbook paper. I bought the little scrapbook beads for half off at Michael's using a coupon. I cut each circle myself. I didn't do all the invitations in one sitting, but across a few sittings over a couple of weeks. Then I hand-gave most of them. It was fun to watch people's reactions opening them and ooh-ing and ahhing over them.

I bought the red ribbon on sale at Michael's, then later I found some confetti ribbon at the Dollar Store. I've been budgeting wherever I go.

*Again, name changed for privacy reasons.