Decorations for Elmo party

I'm doing an Elmo birthday for my girls 5 weeks from now. I need some CHEAP Elmo party decorations. I am just going to get red plates, napkins, etc. I'm not getting all the Elmo printed stuff...there are too many people coming for that.

So, I need a cute idea for Elmo table decorations. we'll have balloons and stuff, but any other suggestions?

 

We just did an elmo theme for N & G's 2nd birthday a few weeks ago. I was surprised at how cheap some of the decorations were at Party City (not sure if that's a national chain... but I'm sure all the party stores carry them). I wasn't planning on getting any decorations... just plates, napkins, etc... but I got these cute Elmo's that hang and have dangly arms and legs. I also got an Elmo "Happy Birthday" banner. I went with plain white napkins because I figured we'd go through a million of them and used red hot/cold cups from costco. The "biggest" decoration was the cake... I made an elmo cake and a bunch of smaller Elmo cupcakes.

At this stage, one elmo or twenty would have been the same to my kids. So, I didn't go too crazy with the decorations. I had to stay away from balloons since Gabe tries to pop them and then scares himself... but those are always a pretty inexpensive option.

-Catherine

 

Factory Card Outlet has some and so does Dollar Tree. HTH

 

I just did a Scooby Doo party for the girls and for plates, tablecloths and balloons I just went with the Scooby "colours"--orange, turquoise and green. I had orange and yellow streamers and I hung leftover Scooby invitations from them. I bought some "groovy" loot bags--brightly coloured with flowers and just stuck Scooby stickers on them. I would get Elmo stickers for cups, plates etc., maybe print out your own banner and cut and paste elmo into it from a picture off the net? Put out any elmo dolls/toys you have for decorations...

 

We didn't use Elmo but we did use this website and it has Elmo. The stuff we got( garland, highchair deco, centerpiece,plate,napkins) were all really cute!

http://www.birthdaydirect.com/elmo-party-d...ucts_sort_order

 

THis isn't really decorations but I serve Goldfish since Dorothy is on the show.

 

We just did an Elmo birthday for Joy, but I decided to make it more "Sesame Street" I made the Elmo cake myself, I didn't buy the Elmo cake pan, too cheap... I found at Target a tone of S. Street stuff in their dollar section, and then I srounged around the house and found as many Sesame Street stuff as I could. I placed our stuffed Ernie, Cooki Monster, etc.. around the cake and stuff. It was pretty simple.

For a game we played "journey to Ernie" I hid the Ernie doll in the house and did "hot/cold" until each child found him. They had a good time!

Here are some pics:

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