Calapittar Party

To celebrate our little Emm turning 5, we hosted a Very Hungry Caterpillar (or Calapittar=) Party. The plan was to keep the crowd number at 5, but one could not make it so we ended up with 3 little friends+ Emm, which was perfect for this age group (or any). Now why I tried to plan a themed party (with all the little details) in the mist of all the school and teaching going on right now..... WHO KNOWS...but it came together nicely and we managed to pull it off. I think we had a "Very Pleased EmmreyAlise" to say the least.


The invitations went out a week prior to the gathering...cute little caterpillars with all the info


We held the party right after school so that it could be over just in time to send the kids home for dinner full on cake and ice cream;) Okay so we weren't all that bad...we did have a nice little spread with all the things the Hungry Caterpillar eats in the book (plus and minus a few) most of it rather healthy!! During their little picnic, Mark read to them from the book:)


The guests were greeted with their antennae to wear and we quickly got them started on making a fingerprint caterpillar for their take home bag. This way we could do it one at a time rather than all the kids at once. They dried pretty quickly and turned out so cute.

After making bags and munching on our snacks, we headed out in the yard (PERFECT Fall weather:) to hunt for caterpillars and butterflies. I had made each of the girls these little personalized jars for housing their critters.

Bailee and Karsyn led them in a Very Hungry Caterpillar memory game while I got things cleaned up and cake and ice cream ready.

Emmrey opened her gifts from her friends. I love how kids this age are OVERLY excited to give their gift and open it FOR you:)

Then it was time for singin' Happy Birthday and eatin' some cake.

Now... at the end of the book the caterpillar turns into a beautiful..........BUTTERFLY!! So these cute little girls did as well. They ran around the yard with their wings just a fluttering. Such a sweet group of girls.....all of them were so well behaved, which makes you actually enjoy having other kids over!!

The little girls went home with their bags, jar, H2O bottle, Caterpillar Food, and a bead necklace that Emmrey had made for each of them all by herself....so CUTE!!

The party was short and sweet....and went very smoothly!! Before we knew it the time had come for the little butterflies to fly away home......(from l-r Peyton, Jane, Emmrey, Adrian)