Fun and Colorful Party Animal Birthday

This little guy loves animals, particularly his favorite stuffed animal being a monkey. With this, his mother chose a party animal theme and I was ecstatic. A fun mix of safari and a traditional birthday party.

For the runner and photo backdrop, I chose a fabric made by Petit Collage, and the collection was appropriately called Party Animals. I love that it had multiple colors but wasn’t rainbow and are all really cohesive and blend well together. All the colors for the hats and banner mimicked the colors from these fabrics. The jumbo-sized safari wore tiny felt hats with pom poms that I made.

This felt banner ties the party animal theme beyond the animals on the table. Again I used colors from the fabrics chosen for the backdrop and table runner. It took me the most time out of all the decorations but was worth it with my cricut maker.To make the garland I bought a bag of inexpensive pom poms. Then I chose colors that worked with my palette and strung them together on this blue twine with a large upholstery needle. Lastly, clear balloons filled with paper confetti adorned the sides. Our local grocery store was kind enough to assist and let us fill the clear balloons they had with the confetti right there before they inflated them.

This backdrop looked just like confetti on the fabric in the same party animal collection. I once again used my Cricut to cut out the happy birthday banner. I cut two pieces of felt of the exact word and glued them together sandwiching the string. Props with festive colors and animals were for guests to use to commemorate the occasion in the party animal spirit.

This free printable features two 5×7″ invitations that you can customize yourself with your information. For all the details on this party and get this free printable invitation go to http://www.thewelldressedtable.com/party-animal-birthday/.