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Soooooo it was a chocolate party this year for my sweet newly 4 year old! Last year, she had a ketchup and french fry party and wanted to play it close to the food game again with a chocolate party.  I figured this party had been done a thousand times and every where on Pinterest and strangely, naw girl.  Take a gander of this party!  Hopefully it will inspire someone else who fancies chocolate as much as my girl does.  (Like me….for example.)

I borrowed tons of things and got a load of stuff from the dollar store!  You can rock this party, or any of it’s details, on a budget!

“Real food” hot fudge slime was the prize from a scratch-off game the kids played!  Looks like hot fudge, smells like hot fudge, packaged like hot fudge but it’s not.  I bought cute clear favor boxes, filled them with chocolate brown paper shred and my favorite…made bows from Hershey wrappers!  I sliced the back seam of a chocolate bar off, removed the chocolate, (ate it…both of them…none of your business), and tied the center with some small white rope trim.  Holler if you hear me.

I bought these scratch off game cards from Target in the one spot aisle months ago.  I didn’t have a purpose for them yet, but homie, I was about to find a way.  I bought a brown sharpie and added chocolate topping and sprinkles to take it from an ice cream party to a chocolate themed party treat.  Easy, cheap, cute and, again,  did I say easy?

I love to customize invites and typically, I look to Etsy but I just couldn’t find anything I was crazy about.  Zazzle is another great site to make or customize anything under the sun and I found these precious invites there!  I got them on a site wide sell for 40 percent off so yeah, I was super happy!

Alert the media!  I made these cupcake toppers last minute by just jabbing candy with a toothpick or plopping a chocolate covered pretzel on top of the yummy marshmallow frosting.  How cute did they turn out????!!!!

One of my first “visions” for this party was creating drip tablecloths.  I bought brown, round tablecloths and cut the drips into the cloths AFTER I put them on.  I would estimate that each table took me 10 to 15 minutes. Not too bad and was PERFECT for the theme.  As always, these are just dollar store tablecloths.  Can’t beat it.  I’m trying to be creative, not Martha lol.

I purchased a jumbo paper craft 4 from Hobby Lobby, painted it and used fine glitter and glue to cover it in “chocolate”.  Supercalafragalisticexpealldohshish.

Etsy did pull through major on these party favor boxes! These came from Paper Glitter on Etsy.  If you want to get some for yourself, just click on their name and I linked it there! I printed them off at a family member’s office and purchased the whole file with several different type of drink box favor files for only 5 bucks!  I folded each of them to construct them and wasn’t as tedious as you would think.  I hot glued them all together to hold their form because hot glue is the gift from the heavens of crafts.  You can totally use double-sided tape though.

Each box had a few chocolates and these dollar store chocolate scented and flavored chapsticks.  When I found theses guys, I was so excited and bought 11!  The boy favor boxes had chocolate drizzled characters that you squeeze and their eyes pop out because, you know, boys.

 

We had to have chocolate milk at this party, of course.  I wish these were cheaper, but I just couldn’t pour milk from a gallon like some sort of party barbarian.  I needed the cute cartons for decorations.  #should’vegonetoSam’s

 

Mixing bowls, foil, ribbon and scrapbooking letter stickers = giant Hershey kiss decorations!

I should take this time to tell you that Mendel rhymes with spindle.  You know, just in case you said MenDELL and a piece of me died inside.

Little plastic paint palettes make the world’s cutest tray for cupcake toppings! You can get a 12 pack for under 9 bucks! There was no cake at the party; just a stand and decorate your cupcake tables.  My girl would decorate it, lick off the toppings and redecorate it.  Work. the. system.

Hope you liked this chocolate goodness! Follow me on my social media accounts and on here for more ways to put on those party pants!