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Please note: At this time we do not have a "bug" themed party
pattern to recommend but solid colored items in green, yellow
and orange would look great!

BUG PARTY INVITATIONS
Make your own invitations using bright green cardstock paper.
Fold your paper in half or make a postcard. Cut the card into a leaf shape.
Attach a few  bug stickers on the front. Use a fine tip marker to create "bug tracks".
On the front write:
"What is creepy, crawly, has twenty legs...and laughs a lot?"
On the back write the answer and the party details.
"My Birthday party and you're invited!"
Come dressed for play.

Make your riddle invitation, using the amount of legs 
for your guest list. 5 children = 10 legs, 
8 children -=16 legs etc.

BUG PARTY DECORATIONS
Cover your table with a solid table cloth. The color theme for this party could be green, yellow and orange. Your local teacher store may have images of bugs you can use to decorate your table and party area.
Scatter Gummi worms and bugs ALL over the table.
Use green and yellow helium balloons and streamers. 
Cut and hang paper bugs and spiders from the ceiling.
Add green butcher paper leaves to attach to the floor and ceiling.

Personalize your party with this unique buggy banner...
personalize here >>

Be a Bug

Upon arrival, adorn each guest with lady bug antennae.
Made with a headband, pipe cleaners and Styrofoam balls.
Use different colors like bright green, blue, orange, yellow
and purple. If you cannot find colored foam balls,
Spray paint will work. Wrap the pipe cleaner around the 
headband and secure with a little hot glue. Curls the pipe cleaner around pencil and insert the end into the ball. 
Secure it also with hot glue.


Birthday In A Box has pre-made antennae headbands in several colors!
Check it out >>

GOODIE BAGS
An easy party for goody bags!
-Fill simple brown lunch bags with stickers. Tie the bags with curling ribbon.
-Chinese food boxes (ask your local restaurant) decorated with stickers.
Fill with glow in the dark spiders, gummi worms, silly putty, Nickelodeon slime, spider tattoos, "fly in the ice trick ice cube", a card with "goop and gak" recipes written down.

GAMES AND ACTIVITIES

Caterpillar Crawl
Create an obstacle course with couch cushions, chairs, tables, whatever is in the room and not breakable.
Make two teams. 
The first player of each team gets into a sleeping bag.
On "GO" the 2 first players from each team must perform
the obstacle course staying in the bag and on the floor.
If the sleeping bag comes off,
then the player must start over.
When the first player is done the next person on 
their team must take the sack off his/her team mate 
and put it on him/herself. The first team to finish wins!!!!

Bug Hunt
Hide a large amount of toy bugs around the house or outside.
Let the children find them. Let them keep the bugs.
Variation of the Bug Hunt:
Fill a dish pan with rice and several toy insects.
The children take turns using tweezers to "catch" 
the bugs, with in a time limit.
They get to keep the bugs they find 
so make sure you get enough 

Bug Party Craft
Pipe cleaner spiders
Pipe cleaners, 4 for each child.
Large wooden beads.
Make sure that the beads have a hole large enough for 4 pipe cleaners to thread through. Place the bead in the middle.
Bend and twist spider legs to desired shape.
Draw small eyes on the wood bead with a permanent marker.

Make Bug Stones

Make your own bug paper weight, garden stone or 
house plant decoration. Read instructions >> 

Pin the Bug on the Leaf
Play this game just as you would Pin the Tail on the Donkey.
Before the party...
Make a Large Poster board Leaf with a circle drawn on 
the center. Place a piece of double stick tape or 
"sticky-tack" on the back of each bug. Take turns 
wearing the blindfold, spinning two or three times and 
trying to place your bug as close to the center of the 
leaf as possible.

EATS AND TREATS FOR A BUGGY PARTY

Caterpillar Cake
Make enough cupcakes for your guests or more- no liners !
Frost bottoms and sides with green or yellow frosting.
Set them side by side to form a wiggly caterpillar. 
Make eyes with gumdrops, cut lengths of licorice or fruit shoelaces for legs and antennae. Add spots with sweet 
tart or gumballs.

Bug Birthday Cupcakes

The instructions for this cake are for a Ladybug.
However a simple frosting color change will make a different bug.
Read cake instructions >>


Edible Garbage Dump
You'll need:
Clear Plastic cups
Chocolate pudding
Chocolate cookie crumbs
gummi worms, fish, spiders and cola bottles
To make:
Layer pudding and cookie crumbs in the cup alternately. 
While making layers hide the Gummi "garbage" in the pudding. Top with whipped cream and garnish with a gummi also. Consider having the party guests make their own 
as an activity!

Drinks
"Waiter there's a bug in my juice!"
Place toy flies or bug fruit snacks in an ice ring, with water and a few drops of green food coloring.
Add it to a punch bowl of lemonade and 7-up.
in an ice tray ad water and a drop of green food color.
NOT RECOMMENDED for small children.
Let the kids know about the flies just in case.

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