Ricky's 4th Birthday Party!

Our friend, Monica, who owns a fabulous Orange County bakery called Two Parts Sugar, threw her daughter, Ricky, a Yo Gabba Gabba themed birthday party! Check out all of her amazing and original details, especially all of the delicious treats (Monica's specialty)!

Monica says about her invitations, "I obviously wanted to incorporate the theme, but wanted to keep it modern and clean…went with the circle Gabba faces for most of the decor."

"I chose colored buckets and made the faces of each character on the appropriate colored bucket. I then filled the bucket with some goodies: an apron they would be painting later, a windmill, a 5 page coloring book (one page of each character), a squirt gun (we had an inflatable water slide), a baggy of water balloons, and a bag of crayons and YGG stickers…each tied up with a black ribbon. They were finished off with name tags that read “My name is —– I like to dance!” The buckets also doubled as candy storage when it came time for the pinata!"

You can never go wrong with coordinating streamers hanging from above, but I wanted to Gabbafy it. So,I made double sided faces of each character that matched the invites and strung them from some black ribbon.

"Along with a giant water slide we rented (and ended up purchasing…Yipee!), we had giant water blasters, big bouncy balls, a kiddie pool, and a plex sprinkler (we never used cause it needed a hose and that was already being run to the slide). Oh, and did I mention the games? I made a pin the eyeball on Muno (pretty self explanatory right?), as well as a “Party in my tummy” Brobee bean bag toss (bean bag food and all). One of the awesome moms also volunteered to paint faces, you’d never guess what the request of the day was….THE CAKE!"

"These were my favorite! Originally I was going to paint the Gabba Lands and characters on containers but, I have 3 kids and a limited amount of time. So I picked up some clear plastic painters buckets and some paper, went to my computer and hit print. I then stuffed the buckets with tissue paper and popped in some rice krispie treats decorated to look like the characters faces….TOO CUTE!"

"My daughter’s favorite character is Foofa (the pink one) so I mad3 her a Foofa pinata. I found a Bratz pinata at party city on clearance for $5.00 (yes $5.00!) and grabbed a bag of pink tissue paper and went to town. I glued on the new tissue paper and cut out a face and eyes and viola…Foofa, fa Foofa, fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa Foofa! And yes…all my girls had on very colorful swimsuits to go with our theme!"

"Now on to the yummy stuff…..Dazzle berry lemonade anyone? In one of the episodes of YGG Muno’s mom makes “dazzle berry lemonade”, so we served some up. Of course we had to include polka dot cups and colorful squiggly straws to go with!"

"I tried to adapt each character into a goody…all thought up literally the day before and made with whatever I had lying around the house!

Foofa oreos, complete with her signature flower."

"Muno chocolate covered pretzels (and yes, I know I spelt it wrong on the label, I didn’t even realize until I was writing this blog)!"

"Plex….well, I had some left over rice krispie treats so I threw together some smores krispies and stuck them on a yellow stand (close enough)."

"Toodee got marshmallows. Nothing crazy, just some marshmallows dipped in chocolate and sprinkled with a little glitter."

"Here’s my favorite! Brobee popcorn! I decorated the box (which already had holes in the top) to resemble Brobees recognizable green stripes and to play off his signature red horns, turned them into popcorn cones! I then labeled each cone with his well know phrase “so yummy, so yummy”."

"What is a party without CAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"You can have cake without utencils and ours were wrapped up in polka dots and YGG stickers!"

"Here’s what it all looked like when it came together!"

Thanks for sharing your party with us, Monica!