We had a peppa pig theme for my daughters first birthday, we also had a naming day at the same party.

Has he turned one yet? I had a ladybird theme for my daughter but found I had to turn it into a garden theme as there wasn’t a lot around. You could expland on the caterpillar themes and incorporate garden items too – mini pot plants, watering cans etc we had these on tables with lollies and lollypops in them. Could also use them as party favours

My sister did a Very Hungry Caterpillar theme for my nephew’s first birthday. It was just for immediate family so it was very small. The cake was actually several cupcakes in the shape of the caterpillar. I think she downloaded some printables for cupcake wrappers. She bought some plain party hats from a cheap $2 dollar store and glued the printables onto them. Then there were streamers and balloons.

There are lots of free Hungry Caterpillar printables to be found on the internet at the moment that can make for fun party activities! You can also imitate all or most of the foods in the stories as your party food and use cupcakes to form a caterpillar for the cake.

My niece did The Hungry Caterpillar theme for her son’s combined 1st & 2nd birthday & the green iced cupcakes in the shape of the caterpillar were divine! She also had a lolly selection were kids could help themselves. Cheese & biccies on all the tables & BBQ snags & salads. Every child had fun with a hired jumping castle.

We made a ‘caterpillar’ birthday cake using muffins, Super easy.
Good luck!

That is such a great theme for a little ones party and so many commercial products around also. Food wise I would use the story to help you. You could make fruit salad cups using the fruits from the story.
You could have a big platter of triangle watermelon slices and use a little circle cutter to cut a hole from them the little holds could go in the fruit salad.
There are lots of ideas on Pintrest I would definitely head there for visual clues.
The birthday cake could be a caterpillar made of cupcakes or I have also seen a really cute one done with cake pops.

You could do a photo board and have photos in paper frames shaped like fruit.
Don’t go too overboard with the first birthday. Most little ones are too overwhelmed to enjoy them.

Don’t feel the pressure to go overboard as 1st birthday parties are really about the parents! If you have other little kids coming then definitely make things appropriate for kids! I didn’t go overboard and honestly in the scheme of things party themes really aren’t that important!

You could make the birthday cake out of cupcakes shaped like a caterpillar.

I did this theme for my daughter too. I made the food represent the food from the story and also made little food tags with images from the book. I found plums hard so I did jam drop biccies with plum jam. For decorations I bought the large paper lanterns-4 green and one red and made them look like the caterpillar.

Thanks I’m getting so excited about making all these things!!

lots of great ideas on Pinterest and just goggle very hungry caterpillar birthday ideas and there are heaps of ideas depending on your interest

Thanks for asking this question; some great ideas here.

Look at this page for an idea for a caterpillar cake made with cupcakes. I find it so cute!!
http://www.piecesbypolly.com/2010/03/very-hungry-caterpillar-cupcake-cake.html

I did hungry caterpillar for my bub. He was too young to appreciate it but his cousins loved it. I used the foods the caterpillar ate and had little signs on them. Google was my best friend. There were some printables available. A very cute invitation with circles and split pins that when you open it up looks like a caterpillar. Easy decoration for the wall is a heap of green balloons blown up and stuck on the wall like a wiggly caterpillar, one red balloon at the front with eyes and feelers on it for the head. (You can cut out little feet and put on the bottom of the green balloons if you are keen)
Enjoy it, it makes for great photos!

You can hire or make a crawling tunnel if you make it you can decorate so it is like a cocoon and when the children emerge they can be fitted with butterfly wings and led off to blow bubbles or some other activity. Depending on the ages of the other children, you will need to have fun experiences for their age of development. At one year of age some babies are not walking. For some special ideas ask a Liberian as they have a wonderful amount of suitable ideas as do Day Care Centres and play groups. Water play is fun babies are happy without too much going on and for not too long.

What a great theme idea! This might be more for adults or older children (choking hazard for younger kids), but I saw a cute one on Pinterest where they threaded green grapes on a skewer, then did dots of white icing on the end grape for eyes: Instant caterpillars! Another idea was to use a line/lines of cupcakes to make a caterpillar body, with a slightly larger round cake for the head, for a caterpillar birthday cake. Heaps of piccys on Google. Have fun!

Check out Pinterest! There are zillions of amazing hungry caterpillar ideas on there! Use all the food from the book to makes bite sized portions and have a cake that is made from green cupcakes to make the hungry caterpillar! Enjoy his special day.

first birthday parties are for the parents not the kids so dont go overboard decorate the wall behind the food table for great pics. hungry caterpillar is a great theme you can have treats inspired by each thing he eats in the book.