Growing UP UP UP birthday party (with sock monkeys)

Penny hemmed and hawed about her birthday theme, she wanted space, sock monkeys, earths, and flying. Since Ellie had already picked outer space theme, we decided on a 
Growing UP UP UP theme, (with sock monkeys).

The cake stand is just a white stand with cotton balls taped on and marshmallow clouds.
Earth Cake by Pink Princess Cakes

I like to make cupcakes to go with the cake because I cannot afford a fancy cake big enough for everyone. These were topped with tiny "hot air balloons", by poking a long-stick lollipop into a Reeses cup and covering the frosting with marshmallow clouds. 

I found this hot air balloon height chart at the dollar tree.

 

For decorations, we did blue tablecloths, clouds table runners, (one is behind the cake table with dollar tree roockets and teacher supply store paper monkeys taped on) inflatable globes (from Dollar Tree, each family took one home in addition to the goodie bags for each child) and hot air balloons back drop with little sock monkeys rockets and planes around the room.

  

hot air balloon backdrop  helped decorate(cover) a trophy case at the pizza parlor.

Party Favors were plane (get it) blue bags with a dollar tree plane or hot air balloon sticker and a handwritten note.

Inside were little earth candies (half of which went in the outer space gift bags)



Air plane kits



Rubber sock monkeys

and
Air heads (get it?)


and cotton candy, (which I intended on renaming "cloud candy" or "fluffy clouds"

Tableware was a sock monkey kit from Amazon: ( I didn't use the red table cloth)
 and these plates  

Cupcakes were wrapped with these: cloud side out
 I also used some to hold the globes too.


I provided amazon links ( some pics are links) mostly above but the tablecloths, paper rockets, inflatable globes, cotton balls and air plane cut outs were from Dollar Tree.