My boy has been absolutely obsessed with the TV show Wild Kratt's. I can't complain either because he actually learns stuff watching it! His 7th birthday was quickly approaching and he decided that's what kind of birthday he wanted. Of course I went scouring the internet and only found a handful of sites, so I took some ideas and ran with them! Here is what he got!
Since Wild Kratt's is all about animals, that's what we did! I bought the Zoo Pal plates and found camo and zebra striped napkins and table clothes at the store. I used a marker and colored in zebra stripes on the cups to hold the silverware. His cake was the difficult part. He really wanted something with the Kratt brothers on it. I couldn't find any figures so I printed them off on some cardstock and taped them to some skewers and stuck them in the top of the cake. I think it turned out pretty well!
For party favors, I found a little blog online that had created bags with firefly facts and fish facts, so I took that idea and changed it up a bit! I still used the firefly and fish, but added animals too! The firefly bags had glow bracelets in them, the fish bags had goldfish crackers in them, and the animal bags had chocolate and vanilla animal crackers in them! I just created textboxes in word and changed the colors up and printed them off.
The best part of it all was his creature power suit I made! The Kratt brothers wear these suits and put a creature disk in the suit and change into that creature.
I just took a black t-shirt and cut off the sleeves and trimmed off the bottom of it to make it a bit shorter for the vest. I took some blue felt to use for the shoulder stripes and the circle underneath the power disks. It was also used for the palm and tips of the gloves. I found pics of the creature disks online, printed them off, laminated them, and cute them out. I attached Velcro to each disk to attach to the vest. Here he is in all his glory!
These are some of the images I used to make the creature disk.
