Monster Snack #2

It was Wyatt's turn to bring the class snack today. We also got permission from Mr. Estrada to read "Paper Monsters," make them, and have a monster snack.

We made it a little different this time by adding eyeballs to the fruit "throw up." I hot glued googly eyes to toothpicks.

We also made a different kind of pretzel snack. We really liked these little guys. You know I'm a sucker for a treat with a face!

Mummy=dip pretzel rod in white chocolate add edible eyes and drizzle with white chocolate after the rod dries.

Frankenstein=dip pretzel rod in green chocolate candy melts and add edible eyes. Once it dries, add hair, mouth and scar using black chocolate melts in a piping bag with #1 or 2 tip.

Monster=dip pretzel rod in orange candy melts, add one big edible eyeball, and cover in sprinkles of your choice. I felt like these ones make them look a little hairy.

I don't think I could eat them. They should just stay in this jar as decoration.

We put them in pretzel bags and added a plastic spider to the ribbon for fun.

The kids loved their snack today and loved making their monsters. 

Monster snack

It's Lucy's turn to bring in the class snack today. 

We got permission from Lucy's teacher beforehand to read the "Paper Monsters" book to the class, make paper monsters, and then eat a monster themed snack. 

 It is a super fun book about some kids who created paper monsters that come alive and they have to figure out how to get rid of them before their parents wake up. 

Lucy was super excited about this day but mostly because of the fruit tray. She loved that he was "throwing up" the fruit.

We also made some monster pretzels. We melted a candy melt on the pretzel in the oven on low heat (150) then added an edible eyeball

Lucy also wanted to give her friends a special monster treat to take home. We ordered these cute monster boxes and filled them with...

gum and chocolate eyeballs. gummy worms, and stickers. 

Here are the kids making their paper monsters. It was such a fun day!

Patti and I both ordered several of these books and thought they would make good birthday gifts. So we made these fun monster bags to put the book and a bag of supplies (to make their own paper monsters) in.

This is what the bag of paper monster supplies looks like.

Monster Birthday!

Roar, John Taylor's 4!

I love love this theme for a boys birthday theme! I loved helping Shan plan and execute this!

Here's the cupcake tower! Shan did the cute monster face on tower and I helped her make the cupcakes.

This big guy was John Taylor's.  We used a jumbo cupcake with a regular cupcake stacked on top.  It was one heavy monster.  We put 4 marshmallows on top instead of candles, which totally fit him.  He only ate 2 bites of the cake but made sure all the mallows were gone. =)

Here's a close up of the mini cupcakes we did.  We used small marshmallows and six lets for his eyes.  We drew the pupils on with edible markers.

For the regular sized cupcakes we used marshmallows for the eyes.  We used star tips, the hair tip, and leaf tip for the monster hair.

The best part about these cupcakes, besides the fact that they were super easy is John Taylor picked them out. What good taste!

So here are some of the other super fun things Shan did for this monster bash! She and her dad made these monster boards out of wood and the kids loved throwing bean bags in their mouth.  They also made for cute photo ops. The kids heads fit perfectly in the mouths.

Love the goggly eyes!

Monster marshmallow pops

She added monster faces to capri suns.

Love the monster play dough take home treat and the glass monster jar with chocolate eyeballs coming out of his mouth.

This was the kids table she decorated.  Can you see the monster faces on the end chairs?

We also made these for John Taylor's preschool class.

I love how Shan decorated this cupcake carrier.

Happy 4th Birthday John Taylor!

Goblin cupcakes

We have a Halloween countdown box at our house and today Ethan pulled out a note that said we get to make a special treat together. He was excited and it was so cute that he went straight to the computer for ideas.  Like mother like son.

Earlier today we went to Lowe's to build these cute little monster boxes.  This was Ethan's inspiration for our cupcakes.

We had so much fun making these together.  Ethan was a big help.  We had fun at the store trying to find ideas for this little eyeball.

We used a white chocolate Lindt truffle for the eye.  We put it on a sucker stick, then used piping gel dyed blue for the iris and I painted black gel color for the pupil.  This was Ethan's favorite part.

We used a star tip for the orange goblin and tip 9 for the purple guy. We found the edible eyes at Wal-Mart.

Ethan did this one all by himself. It was so cute watching him, tongue out and all.  Pretty good for his first piping  job ever.

Thanks for the fun memories Ethan!  I love you!

Monster Cupcakes

Shan and I made these for the carnival cake walk at church. They were so fun! I got the idea from Annie's eats.

I used one cake mix to make 18 regular size cupcakes and 18 mini cupcakes. Once there cooled add a dollop of frosting to a big cupcake and place the mini cupcakes on top. Then frost your hair, let the frosting set up a bit then add the eyes.

To make the eyes you take a peach ring and wrap it around a dum dum sucker and then use chocolate to attach a m&m for pupil.

*I used tip 252 to make the blue monster.

*grass tip and 3 for the purple guy

*tip 21 for this green guy.

Note: Do not transport these guys with the eyeballs attached. I learned the hard way. Only half of my cupcakes made it to the party.