Giveaway closed!!!
*We love Elephant & Piggie at my house, and we’re so excited to partner with Disney-Hyperion on a sponsored post to celebrate 10 years of the series!
This Elephant and Piggie Party loaded with themed food, decorations, and delicious treats is sure to be a hit with little ones of any age!
If you are looking for a super fun way to get your kids excited about reading, especially now that school is almost out and summer is closer and closer, can I interest you in throwing your children a Book Party?!! 🙂 I put together a fun little Elephant and Piggie Party over the weekend to help celebrate 10 years of Elephant & Piggie books and it was a hit! (And PS. can you believe it’s been 10 years already?!) I also wanted to celebrate the newest release in the Elephant and Piggie Like Reading! series, The Good for Nothing Button by Charise Mericle Harper. Yet another great book in this wonderful series that gets kids reading!
Elephant and Piggie Party
I love a good themed party and so I couldn’t resist putting together a spread that I think would be Elephant & Piggie approved! Of course that includes Elephant & Piggie decor, food, and party favors!!!
My kids truly looooove every single Elephant & Piggie book they read. And I love that even though we have quite the library of them here at home, my kids cannot stop lending them from our local library every time we go! Here are some of our favorites as told to me by my kids:
- We Are in a Book!
- Pigs Make Me Sneeze!
- I Broke My Trunk!
- Happy Pig Day!
- There Is a Bird on Your Head!
- I Am Invited to a Party!
- I Will Surprise My Friend!
- Can I Play Too?
- Elephants Cannot Dance!
- Let’s Go For a Drive!
To decorate for this little book party, I made Elephant & Piggie faces with my kids out of pink and grey paper lanterns…seriously how cute are they?!
We were sent some super cute paper straws with character cuts outs on them as well as Elephant & Piggie squishy stress balls, party hats, new books to add to our collection that I wrapped in THE cutest Elephant & Piggie wrapping paper, and fun coloring pages and worksheets! I’d say those are some great party favors!
If you would like some free downloadable for your own party, including how to make your own Elephant & Piggie paper lanterns, check these out:
10 Years of Fun! Elephant & Piggie Anniversary Badge
Elephant & Piggie Like Reading! Activity Kit
Instruction Guide for DIY Elephant & Piggie Paper Lanterns
I decided to make our party food things that our beloved Elephant & Piggie might enjoy too! We had some Pink Piggie Lemonade, Elephant Trunks in the form of Apple Cinnamon Veggie Straws, Elephant & Piggie Smiles in the form of orange slices, Pink Piggie Cupcakes decorated with strawberry marshmallows and chocolate chips, and of course Elephant’s Favorite Snack…Peanuts!
The kids had a blast opening all their new books and especially enjoyed the newest one, The Good for Nothing Button By Charise Mericle Harper. It’s about two birds, Red Bird and Blue Bird, and they are excited to try the button. But when they press it, they discover that the button makes them happy. Happy is something! A flabbergasted Yellow Bird insists the button does nothing. But it sure does seem to be making him mad. Mad is something!
The hilarious debate that follows takes readers on an emotional roller coaster that pokes at the power of imaginative play.
We received our very own Good for Nothing Button and had hours of pressing it while someone else was talking, lol!!!
Here is a little bit about the ‘Elephant & Piggie Like Reading!’ series…
It is a new beginning-reader series created by Mo Willems!
Best friends Elephant and Piggie introduce kids to their favorite books – brought to life in original stories created by contemporary children’s book authors and illustrators.
Books in the Elephant & Piggie Like Reading! series:
- The Cookie Fiasco by Dan Santat (2016)
- We Are Growing! by Laurie Keller (2016)
- The Good for Nothing Button by Charise Mericle Harper (2017)
And now for the Giveaway Details….Celebrate 10 Years of Fun with Elephant & Piggie!
One (1) winner will receive:
- The Good for Nothing Button
- 4 books from the Elephant & Piggie series
- Plus Elephant & Piggie stress balls and temporary tattoos!
Giveaway open to US addresses only.
Prizing provided by Disney-Hyperion.
***Comment below with your favorite Elephant and Piggie Book!!! I’ll pick a winner on Friday!!!
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Love,
Maggie
My little grandkids would love this!! I love the Good for Nothing Button book – I collect buttons so this would be appropriate!
I love the “Can I Play Too?” book. My granddaughter would love to have these books.
Thank you for this idea. It never crossed my mind to do an Elephant and Piggie theme birthday party. A party based on these character would be so much fun since we adore these books and actually all books by Mo Willems. Our favorite is hard to choose but In out top three, according to the kids are: We Are In A Book, Waiting Is Not Easy and I Will Take A Nap. Can’t wait to get started on the activity pages and looking forward to reading Gerald and Piggies book recommendations as well 🙂
OMG, I forgot about “I will take a nap”! My daughter sings “I’m a floating turnip head!” all of the time. 😀
We love the book I really like sloop!
Such cute ideas.
How fun! Our family LOVES Elephant and Piggie (and, really, all Mo Willems books)! My personal favorite is “I broke my trunk.” It’s so silly and my daughter loves it, too! Can I pick a second? “We are in a book” – because it was the first one that we ever checked out and read, so it holds a special place in my heart. 🙂
I can’t pick a favorite, but we are huge Elephant and Piggie fans, and we love ALL the books!!
I really like the Thank You book, such a good lesson made fun!
We like “I Am Going!” the most!
My son loves them all but his favorite is We are in a book! This would be great for his birthday next month! I just found out about the books they read.
I am not sure I can pick a favorite, they are all great.
What a fun idea! The “we are in a book” is a funny one. Well, they all seem pretty funny actually!
I like “I Really Like Slop”.
Hmm, how to pick a favorite? We like “We are in a Book” and “I Will Take a Nap”
My favorite book is Let’s go for a drive
My kids and I love “I really love slop”. It’s one of favorites to read together!
We love all their books, even my teenage boys! I personally like “We are in a Book”. Banana!