My Favorite Bug Themed Party Food Ideas for a Bug Party!
This post contains editorial samples and/or affiliate links to products I recommend. While this adds no additional cost to you, I will earn a small commission on any sales made.
You won’t find easier bug-themed party food ideas than these inexpensive and easy food that look like bugs!! Kids will LOVE these!
When Sam announced he wanted an insect-themed party at his small birthday get-together with a few close friends, I was secretly excited. I knew we could have some fun with the theme especially when it came to the food. Bug-themed party food ideas are just so much fun!
Since we chose to do this at our local Birding Center, the theme couldn’t have been more perfect as the staff promised they would solely focus on insect-themed activities, to tie everything perfectly together.
If your child has a birthday coming up and you’re stumped on a birthday theme, consider running with doing something insect/bug related.
Your guests will love the food options you serve!
Bug Themed party Food ideas for an Insect or Bug themed party.
1. Worms in mud:
Dress up the birthday cake or cupcakes (homemade or baked) with a few gummy worms and crushed Oreos.
Our guests did a double-take when they saw the worms crawling out of the mud!
2. Petri worms
Make individual jello cups and place a gummy worm in each before the jello sets completely.
3. Grubs in a bun (Hot dogs!)
4. Ants On a log
Celery sticks filled with peanut butter, with raisins scattered on the peanut butter.
5. Silverfish croissants (Chicken salad or tuna salad filled croissants)
6. Spiders
Stick 4 mini pretzel sticks on either end of an Oreo cookie to create spider legs!
7. Caterpillars and Ladybugs (Grapes on kebab sticks and strawberries sliced in half )
8. Moths
Place 2 yogurt pretzels together to form wings and place on a graham cracker or chocolate bar cookie. (Let Nutella or peanut butter serve as your glue!)
9. Peanut butter-flies (Peanut butter sandwiches with jelly)
10. Bug juice
Any colored juice beverage becomes bug juice!
11. Wings and antennae (Chips!)
(Please excuse the clarity of the pictures. In the excitement, we forgot to change camera settings indoor and rushed through before the kids attacked the food!)
The staff at the Birding Center loved the food that looked like bugs ideas and said they were going to use the same during their summer camp activities. Yay!.
The bug party food was such a hit, we brought this back for Ana’s Little Explorers-themed party too!
Can you think of any fun bug-themed food ideas to add?
Those are all awesome ideas. I love the worms in the mud!!
I love the worms in the mud and also the peanut butterflies lol.Really great ideas thank you for sharing.
I wasn’t sure at first where you were going with this, and then I thought, well there is a lot of protein in insects!
But you went in a tastier direction!
thanks,
MItch
Eeyeew! I had a cousin who would torment us by chomping down on ants that would crawl by as we played. Ugh!
The worms in dirt is always a hit, and I love the butterfly shaped sandwiches. Great ideas here. Love this theme!
What a creative spin on all those foods. Kids get such a huge kick out fun things like that.
I like the peanut butter flies! I loathe tuna, and the combination with Silverfish name is ewwwww! 🙂
Lol! I’m not a huge fan of tuna so we did chicken salad croissants. 😉
What a fun collection for a party!
What fun ideas for an insect or bug themed party. Kids eat this stuff up..literally! I like the fruit skewers!
I love the grape caterpillars. You could freeze those too for tasty cold summer treats. 🙂
So creative! I like the fruit on sticks. A great way to get kids to eat more fruit!
I agree. My daughter is picky about a few things. As soon as they’re put on a stick, she gobbles them up without a murmur!
Those are such cute ideas. I don’t know if I would have thought of those great ideas.
I am so going to take this idea and use it for my two sons who will be having their birthdays in August! Thank you for sharing this.
Awesome ideas! We always make dirt pudding with the worms for Halloween and it is a huge hit!
Aww, what awesome ideas, I would have never thought to do this!
Worms in the mud have always been my fav! I can’t think of any others. I think you have them all covered!
What fun food ideas for a bug themed party. Love the caterpillars!
The caterpillars were the first thing to go at the party!
Worms in the dirt was my favorite dessert as a kid!
I love the clever names, so creative! I liked worms in mud too!
SO cute!
When J told me he wanted a bug party, I CRINGED! I scoured Pinterest and a LOT of what I found was ladybug themed. This is a fantastic resource for mom’s like me!
LOVE the butterfly sandwiches and the Worms in mud! haha too cute!
the worms are pretty cool. Lol. I bet the kids love that
My husband always comes up with ideas like this but off the top of my head, I’m blank. It’s a fun idea though so I’ll have to think some up.
Love the peanut butter-flies!!! I may have to do that for lunch around here one day this summer! We make dirt cake with gummy worms too and love it!
These are such cute ideas. My grandkids would love a bug themed party.
What a cute idea for a party! I especially love the worms in mud!
I love throwing a themed party. My son would love to have a bug party- super cute AND easy!
Just love all these great ideas. So much fun.
Oh my gosh, how fun! My son would get a kick out of this. I love the worms in mud cake!
There are so many ideas you can do for a nature party! You got most of the good ones here. Thanks for this!
this is brilliant. I love the peanut butterfly sandwiches. adorable.
we love making “dirt” cups similar to your worms in mud!
Really cute ideas, Marina! Thank you bunches for linking up and partying with us!
The ladybugs are my favorite!
This is so funny and yet simple so no host has to cry 🙂
Bugs and food don’t really go hand in hand, do they? But you did a great job coming up with some neat ideas for food for bug parties. Saving this one in Pinterest now, just in case I ever have to do a bug party! (Visiting from Freedom Friday link party.)
Cute idea for the kids – Thanks for posting this at the @WWDParty.
Your Bug Party looks adorable! Thanks so much for sharing this awesome recipe with Full Plate Thursday and come back soon!
Miz Helen