Organize a bug hunt. Hide lots of plastic bugs, ants, ladybugs, etc, in your yard or party area. Give the kids “bug jars or bags” and tell the kids to find as many as they can in a certain amount of time. The prize is keeping the bugs they find!

Be sure to check out our birthday invitation designs that can be customized just for your party, including our Red & Green Ladybug Birthday Invitation!

• Have the kids peel a banana with their feet!
• Monkey see, Monkey Do! (Like Simon Says)
• Build a Banana Split (set up a line of ingredients with bowls and plenty of paper towels to keep things moving).
• Monkey Bean Bag Toss
• Barrel of Monkeys relay – put monkeys in pails, have each player run & pick a monkey, add to the chain and pass to the next player. Continue until the pail is empty.

Also be sure to check out all of our monkey birthday party invitations!

1. For baby boys – our Blue & Brown Collage Photo Birth Announcement
2. For baby girls: Love, Joy & Wonder – Girl Square Birth Announcement – generally ordered as a folded card, but also available as a double-sided flat flip card.
3. For twins: Green Photo Twin Boy & Girl Birth Announcement – popular every month, this is often ordered for two girls or two boys as well, though and even work for triplets .
4. It’s the time of year to get engaged, apparently, as our photo save the date cards have been very popular lately. One of the favorites is our Custom Colored Save The Date Photo Card, which we do in every color combination you can imagine, and then some (see the additional images at the bottom of the page for some ideas).
5. Black & white wedding colors are big this year, so our classic favorite is still a top seller (also available in sepia & color): Black & White Photo Save The Date Card



6. A continuation of the black & white theme, our Black & White Five Photo Wedding Thank You is very popular, although other colors of this design are creeping up there too.
7. Available in any set of colors you wish, our classic square folded wedding photo thank you card is still also a top seller.
8. Birthday invitations are still the #1 item around here, starting with our 50th Birthday Party Collage Photo Invitation design, especially this turquoise design variation, which has been done for all ages from 1 to 90 and can be customized to any colors you wish.
9. The Chocolate Squares Birthday Invitation, available in blue & pink as well as custom colors, is our #1 seller for ages 1-5, and is also available in an adult birthday invitation design option.
10. Polka dots, along with black, pink & white, are in this year, we have many variations on this theme, from a 1st birthday princess, to a 13th twin dance party, to a 50th birthday party & more, and you can customize this to suit any party .
11. With the addition of Grandma Duck as one of our designers, she has been busily creating many designs, including the expansion of our baby shower invitation design line. She finds that the most popular design for baby showers is the Jungle Animal Baby Shower Invitation & its many variations, followed closely by the Stitched Flowers Ultrasound Photo Shower Invitation for girls & boys.
12. Our Christening thank you cards are always a hit, especially the Purple Butterfly Baptism Thank You Card for girls and the Brown & Blue Polka Dot Christening Photo Card for baby boys.
13. Birthday thank you cards are also fun, with the top sellers this month being our Prince Photo Thank You Card (we also have one for princesses) & the Pink & Brown Three Photo Polka Dotted Thank You for girls.

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