| Homemade Sesame Street invitations is the place to | | | | Place a label on the back of each cookie, and a large |
| start when creating that very special 1st birthday party. | | | | Cookie Monster sticker on the front. |
| Your little one will thank you for taking a walk down | | | | Hand-deliver your cookie invitations to your guests. |
| one of their favorite streets - Sesame Street that is! | | | | SESAME STREET INVITATIONS - FEATURING |
| SESAME STREET INVITATIONS - FEATURING BIG | | | | ELMO'S FACE |
| BIRD | | | | Cut a large oval from shiny red cardstock for Elmo's |
| Cut 8 1/2" x 11" shiny orange cardstock into 4 pieces. | | | | head. Then cut a small circle from shiny orange |
| Type or hand-write your party details in calligraphy on | | | | cardstock to create his nose. Lastly, cut an |
| a piece of light tangerine scrapbook paper, that has a | | | | open-shaped mouth from either shiny black cardstock |
| faint complimentary pattern. | | | | or black felt. |
| Cut each finished piece of scrapbook paper with | | | | To create Elmo's face, start by gluing the orange nose |
| decorative scissors so that they measure 3" x 4 1/2" | | | | and black mouth to the red oval. Finish his face by |
| and glue to the 4 pieces of cardstock. | | | | gluing large goggly eyes above his nose. |
| Decorate the corners with Big Bird stickers and | | | | On the reverse side, type or hand-write in calligraphy, |
| embellish the edges with yellow glitter. | | | | the party details. |
| On the reverse side, decorate with Big Bird stickers | | | | Place your Elmo invites into a colorful envelope and |
| and die cuts of letters and numbers. | | | | decorate with Sesame Street stickers, or hand-deliver |
| Place invitations into bright orange envelopes. Decorate | | | | them to your guests. |
| them with Big Bird stickers and either hand-deliver or | | | | EMBELLISH READY-MADE SESAME STREET |
| mail to your guests. | | | | INVITATIONS |
| SESAME STREET INVITATIONS - FEATURING | | | | Buy ready-made Sesame Street invitations featuring |
| YOUR BABY | | | | Big Bird and embellish the picture. Add wiggly eyes, |
| Cut 8 1/2" x 11" shiny yellow cardstock into 2 pieces | | | | yellow feathers on the body, and red felt for the |
| and fold in half. | | | | mouth. |
| Using decorative scissors, trim the edges of a photo of | | | | For a variation to this idea, download your favorite |
| your baby in their favorite Sesame Street character | | | | Sesame Street character and glue the picture to a |
| costume, so that the photo is slightly smaller than the | | | | piece of cardstock. Then embellish the picture. For |
| cardstock. | | | | example, you could add blue yarn loops to a picture of |
| Glue the photo to the front of the invitation. Put "Come | | | | the Cookie Monster or green glitter to Oscar the |
| Celebrate My 1st Birthday!" above the photo. | | | | Grouch. |
| On decorative paper (finished size 4 1/2" x 7 1/2") | | | | Add Fun Wording To Your Invitations: |
| either type or hand-write in calligraphy the party details. | | | | (Baby's Name) Birthday Is Brought To You By The |
| Then glue to the cardstock. | | | | Letter (first letter of baby's name) And The Number |
| Place your invitations in a colorful envelope and | | | | "1." |
| decorate with Sesame Street stickers. Either | | | | Date & Time: |
| hand-deliver or mail out your invitations to your guests. | | | | Location: |
| SESAME STREET INVITATIONS - FEATURING | | | | RSVP To: |
| COOKIE MONSTER | | | | Remember to include the funtastic characters of |
| Make or buy extra-large chocolate chip cookies and | | | | Sesame Street on your invites, so your guests will |
| wrap each one in blue cellophane. | | | | know they will be celebrating your child's birthday with |
| Type or hand-write in calligraphy, your party | | | | the gang from Sesame Street. |
| information on large adhesive labels. | | | | |