Use an easy wall mural to decorate your Sesame Street party

When decorating for your Sesame Street birthday party, easy isn't just better, it's great. Thousands of ballons, tons of confetti, streamers, banners - they all sound great. But if you want a lot of bang for very little effort, consider this awesome wall mural kit. It's easy, peasy and you can use it to decorate your child's room after the party is over.

The Sesame Street scene kit includes everything you see in the picture for a great price of $31.39. Or you can get just the pieces you want - the background room rolls ($19.99), the happy birthday scene with six characters, scene with Big Bird skating with Bert and Ernie, or Cookie Monster flying kites with Elmo and Zoe. The scenes run $4.99 each.

The rolls will cover an 8' tall wall, while the add-ons are over five feet tall. They all come in two pieces that you'll have to match up when you hang, but it's not that tough, really. Hang them with pins or other adhesives and you're done!!

Happy Birthday, Cookie Monster!!!

I think I know what he wants for his birthday. :-)

Sesame Street Music: Fuzzy and Blue (and Orange)

Time for another set of games taken from Sesame Street songs. I ran across this particular number while looking for Sesame Street songs for a new lens over at Squidoo, and ideas just started coming.



So what kind of games could you play based on this song? I thought of two almost immediately, but I'd love to hear any other ideas you have! Mine are both take offs from classic games and I worry that younger kids would have a little trouble adjusting to a new version.

Blue, blue, orange - So this would be a version of Duck, Duck, Goose only using the colors blue and orange instead. Challenge here might be to explain to kids they aren't looking for the colors on the other kids, but just using those words instead of duck and goose.

Blue monster, Orange monster - This would be a version of Red Light, Green Light only make the words blue monster and orange monster instead. Again, the challenge might be helping the kids understand the new rules of the game, but it could be a lot of fun.

I like both of these for a Grover or Cookie Monster party (since they're both in the video) or maybe just a general Marvelous Monsters party. Hmm. Liking that theme idea! More on that later.

Big, big balloons for your Sesame Street birthday bash

If your child had one wish for his Sesame Street birthday party, I'm sure it would be for Elmo to actually be there. As long as you don't have a skittish toddler, there's now a way to get pretty close, actually.

Check out these huge balloons of Elmo and Big Bird! Fill them with helium and rather than floating up and away, they float around the room like they're walking around! Pretty cool!!

Elmo is 50" tall, which seems a little big for a three-year-old Muppet, if you ask me. Big Bird comes in at 62", which is just barely over five feet, which is too short. Dang the lack of realism!! But still, they're pretty darn cool no matter what size. You'll need to get a helium tank to fill them, or see if your local party store will do it for you.

Sesame Smiles - birthday party supplies

I finally found a site that still sells my favorite Sesame Street birthday party supplies - the Sesame Smiles line. (Although, I suppose there's nothing specifically birthday about the designs, so you could use them for any Sesame Street party. And let's face it, any excuse for a party these days, right?)

Anyway, it seems ShindigZ.com still carries the Smiles line of party supplies, but I'm not sure just how much longer they'll be around. They have them marked down right now anywhere from 25-55%, including invitations and banner. It's already limited to just a few items (sigh), so you might want to hurry if you were really wanting those cute Oscar cups or Cookie Monster napkins.

(And because I love my readers, you can save 10% on party supply orders of more than $100 right now. Just use promo code SZCJC8 when you check out. Works on non-Sesame Street birthday items as well, although why would you want anything else?)