DINOmite Dinosaur 1st Birthday Party

We had a blast planning, preparing and hosting Fletcher's first birthday party.  We went with a dinosaur theme since he goes around roaring at people and loves playing with his dinosaurs.  I love a good theme so this seemed perfect.  My nephew asked my sister, "What's the theme??" when she told him it was time to go to Fletcher's party!  So sweet that he has already picked up that Aunt Whitney loves to throw a themed party.

I picked up some cute things at lots of different places so I'll try to let you know where everything was from.  We did a dino party with each side of our families one weekend and packed up all our party supplies to have it at my parent's house and then Kevin's parents house.  Right now it's easier for us to travel to all of our family instead of asking all of them to make the trip up to us.

There are LOTS of cute dinosaur details 

so I am doing one GIANT dinosaur post instead of several little ones.  

Party #1 DINO Details:

I mailed out invitations that I made in Picmonkey.  I did a little dinosaur photo shoot with Fletcher and added a couple of my favorite pictures to the invitation.  I love making them and love that they're free.  I always print my invitations at Sams because they give you free envelopes.

Dinosaur tracks on the back of all of the envelopes we mailed out.

I just stamped our toy dinosaur's feet in paint.

Treat bags:

Dinosaur erasers and finger puppets from Meijer.

Sweet Treats for the Sweetivores:

Chocolate chip cookies, White chocolate covered dinosaur bones & Funfetti cupcakes.

 Dinosaur Party Hats:

We used scrapbook paper, pom poms and a glue gun to make these cute hats.  Olive loved helping me.  She picked out the color combos. 

 Dinosaur Table:

Wrapping paper table runner and paper straws (24pk for $1!!!) from Dollar tree, napkins, dinosaurs, and succulents from Wal-Mart.  We served a nacho bar for my family and I couldn't have pulled it off without my mom's help.  She chopped, cooked and cleaned all before we got there so I could just rush into town and decorate right before the party.  Everything turned out great! 

I decorated with Fletcher's Dinosaur photo shoot pictures and they were really sweet.  I also added some fun dinosaur themed food labels that the kids liked.  Jurassic Juice, Dinosaur eyes, 

 I found these dinosaur masks on Amazon and the cousins LOVED them!  Both of my kids wore dinosaur shirts from Target for the party.

Fletcher had lots of help opening gifts.  He didn't mind one bit.

Sweets for the Sweetivores

 The dino party was a success!!

Thanks for a fun party weekend, Mimi & Papaw!

Fletcher's dinosaur t-shirt was from Old Navy.

Party #2:
I just reworked all of the same party decorations for a new space at Kevin's parent's house.

I loved the long table lay out with all the succulents, dinosaurs and pictures.

Kevin was in charge of the burgers and I helped Kevin's mom with all the sides inside.

 I no longer have any living grandparents so this picture is super sweet to me.  Fletcher has FOUR GREAT GRANDPARENTS on Kevin's side and they were all able to come to his party.  He sat at the table and just smiled and talked to everyone through dinner.  It was precious.

He was way more excited about his burger than his cake.

Fletcher really took to Papa... he blew him a kiss and tried to snuggle him when we was leaving.  It was super sweet!

I found fun dinosaur figures at The Dollar Tree, Amazon & Wal-Mart.  I gave them to Fletcher for his birthday and then used them for decorations.  He LOVES them and both kids play with them all day long.

Thanks for sharing in our dinosaur FUN!!