Cookie Monster's Birthday

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Each child could decorate their own party hat and / or drinking cup. Start with a plain blue party hat or cup and write the child's name on the bottom. Print out a Cookie Monster mouth from the above template for each child. The child (or adult) then cuts out the mouth and glues it and some wiggly eyes on the side of the cup or hat to make a Cookie Monster face.

• Color some Cookie Monster coloring pages.


• Enlarge and print this Cookie Monster face stencil. Glue onto the outside of a box. When the glue is dry, cut out the mouth section to make an open mouth. Children play a game where they try to toss small items ("food") into the mouth.


• Choose one of the Cooking Monster pictures to color to enlarge and print it out to make a Pin the cookie on Cookie Monster to see who can get closest to his mouth.


• Play the game of duck, duck, goose with the words "Cookie" and "Monster"


• Fill a glass jar with cookies and get the children to guess how many cookies are in it. The child with the closest guess wins the jar of cookies.


• Play I spy but all the words have to begin with the letter C.


• Play Memorize the tray game with all objects beginning with the letter C. You could use a comb, cookie, crayon, toy car, candy bar, carrot, clip, card, coin etc.


• Ice cookies with blue icing and decorate with candies or chocolate chips