Birthday Party Ideas

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DIY Monster Birthday Invitations

• with templates!

By Virginia Wilcox
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Gather your materials

• You can find templates and a materials list for
  this project at the end of this presentation or
  you can make your own. Make sure to get fun,
  bright colored paper for the monsters bodies and
  a cool pattern for their party hats. You can
  also decorate the hats with markers or other fun
  things if you prefer.

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Color the mouths and pupils

• Do this BEFORE you start cutting because then you
  dont have to worry about staying inside the
  lines or coloring over glue!

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Cut out the body

• Use different colors of paper for the bodies! I
  used colored printer paper. You can use
  scrapbooking paper or construction paper if youd
  like, but if youre going to print, make sure the
  paper fits in the printer!

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Cut out the party hats

• You need to cut out two triangles per monster
  (you will glue them together to make the hat).

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Assemble the eyes

• Use a glue stick to attach the pupils onto the
  larger circles to make the eyes. If you are
  using a thicker paper, you can experiment with
  your monsters by hot-gluing googly eyes on
  instead if youd like!

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Youre Invited papers

• You want to make it look like the monster is
  eating the invitation. Cut out the Youre
  Invited slips and wrinkle them up into little
  balls and then un-wrinkle them (just dont tear
  them up!).

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Cut out the teeth and mouth

• You can add different sizes of teeth for your
  monsters if you want to.

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Attach the mouth to the paper

• Use the gluestick to attach the monsters mouth
  to a Youre Invited paper. The paper should poke
  out at the bottom and be seemingly entering his
  mouth at an angle (or it will cover his eye).

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Cut off the extra

• Cut off that extra bit of paper that is poking
  out from the bottom after the glue dries.

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Give him a hat!

• Use the glue stick to attach two triangle pieces
  together. The top of the monsters head should
  be sandwiched in the middle!

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Give him eye (s)

• However many eyes you want your monster to have,
  glue them on!

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Attach the mouth

• Put a line of glue on the reverse side of the
  mouth but dont glue down the Youre Invited
  slip.

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Attached mouth

• Place the mouth onto your monster with enough
  room for teeth to be added

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Add the teeth (or tooth)

• You can add as many teeth as you want now (or
  even none at all)!

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Address the invitations

• Please be sure to address your invitations BEFORE
  you glue them on. Its okay if you forget but
  markers do funny things on glued paper. If you
  forget, just let them dry for a while then go
  back to write the names.

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Front View, Back View

• Your monsters should look different than mine do.
  Be creative!

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Materials Needed

• Various colors of paper
• White paper
• Gluestick
• Scissors
• Pen / Marker
• Printer (to print templates if you want to use
  them)

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Templatesclick here to download Templates

• The first page has what you need to make one
  lonely monster with one big eye and one smaller
  eye. You can print the first page onto cardstock
  and use it as a stencil if you want to.
• The second page has two bodies and the third page
  has enough hats for eight monsters. The fourth
  page has what you need to complete two monsters
  (after you print off the bodies and hats).
• To make eight monsters print page 2 four times,
  page 3 once, and page 4 four times.
• Have fun!
• For more information on other DIY project for
  birthday party. You can visit the site birthday
  party ideas.

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BODY
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HATS
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