This is one aspect of planning a party that can be lots of fun! (please note I do say it can be fun)
Especially when you get the kids involved and try to create food to fit the theme of the party. I had lots of fun with my children coming up with ideas for my son's 3rd birthday party based on his favourite book "The Gruffalo".  

The actual focus of the whole party became food, glorious food. We read The Gruffalo book together again and made a list of all the food featured in the story, and picked out some buzz words we could have fun with:

Gruffalo Crumble :  Scrambled Snake :  Roasted Fox :  Owl Ice Cream : Poisonous Warts : Knobbly Knees : Log Piles : Purple Prickles :  and the nut was good!

Then we went about brainstorming what foods we could use for each of the above and how we can improvise.  As we had a morning breakfast party followed by swimming, the food we served had to all be breakfast/brunch easy to eat items. Stuff everyone can nibble on before or after swimming. Which I think made it a little easier as breakfast food is generally easier to prepare  and this is what we came up with:



Scrambled Snake -  donuts, halved and cut up to make a snake shape topped with egg and mayonnaise which was supposed to look like scrambled something.  Topped with halved cherry tomatoes and chives.

Log Piles -  Pancakes filled with Nutella, rolled up and cut the shape and size of small log piles. These went down really well. Gruffalo Crumble  - Breakfast muesli mixed with yoghurt and berries

Roasted Fox  - mini grilled sausages in small wholemeal bread rolls

Knobbly Knees  -  large arabic dates .. and the Nut was good -  a bowl of whole nuts 

Poisonous warts  - Large wasabi peas (great for display but suggest to keep out of reach of children as they do punch a punch)  Chocolate and Orange cupcakes - Just because they are my son's favourite cupcakes

Purple Prickle Juice -  We originally went with Purple Prickle Jelly but then I realised we had way too much food and instead I did Purple Prickle Juice (Ribena and water :)

We also made some mushrooms, from Hard boiled eggs. Slice the top and the bottom so the egg stands on a plate, top with halved tomatoes. Put a few small dollops of mayonnaise and decorate with some chive. They were almost too good to eat and maybe guests didn't realize they were edible? as this was one of the only things remaining at the end of the party. 

Owl Ice cream -  Vanilla ice cream with huge eyes. The eyes were sliced large orange and chocolate aero balls, one of my favourite chocolate. We served this at the end of the party as a going home treat. It was a particularly hot morning and this was for sure a welcome treat. Didn't get a picture of this but the ice cream was served in cones. 

We  had some bread baskets scattered around filled with mini croissants both plain and chocolate, danish pastries and breakfast muffins. For drinks we stuck with Fresh Juices for all, tea/coffee for the parents and enough purple prickle juice to go around.

The food was loved and enjoyed by all the children and the adults :)
and my son still thinks everyone should have a Gruffalo party! but really there's no such thing as a Gruffalo.. or is there?!

All the Gruffalo party supplies are available at "Gruffalo party"

Birthday Cake : Nadia's Cakes
Printables: Roksana Dehn
Party Supplies : Party Camel