diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 94da1d6..f5e2e08 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+2025-01-02: [FEATURE] More methods for generating `PopupMenu` objects
 2024-12-26: [BUGFIX] Fix control highlight border in popup toolkit
 2024-12-23: [FEATURE] Add ability to mask icons in `StatusNotifier` widget
 2024-12-11: [BREAKING CHANGE] `dbus-next` dependency has been replaced with `dbus-fast`. Update to latest qtile is also required.
diff --git a/docs/manual/how_to/popup.rst b/docs/manual/how_to/popup.rst
index 0930421..40b5478 100644
--- a/docs/manual/how_to/popup.rst
+++ b/docs/manual/how_to/popup.rst
@@ -385,5 +385,61 @@ the shutdown command.
 Note that the menu items can be configured individually. Configuration options for the layout
 (border etc.) are passed to the ``generate`` method.
 
+Alternatively, the ``PopupMenu.make_generators`` method can be used to apply a config to menu items
+and the layout. It returns three functions which are used to create menu items, separators and the layout.
+For example, to recreate the text menu above with a custom theme, you could do the following:
+
+.. code:: python
+
+    from libqtile.lazy import lazy
+
+    from qtile_extras.popup import PopupMenu
+
+
+    # Define config for menu and create functions to generate menu
+    menu_config = {
+        "foreground": "0ff",
+        "foreground_disabled": "666",
+        "foreground_highlighted": "fff",
+        "highlight": "900",
+        "border_width": 2
+    }
+
+    item, separator, generate = PopupMenu.make_generators(**menu_config)
+
+
+    @lazy.function
+    def show_text_power_menu(qtile):
+        items = [
+            item(text="Power Menu", enabled=False),
+            separator(),
+            item(
+                text="Lock",
+                mouse_callbacks={
+                    "Button1": lazy.spawn("/path/to/lock_cmd")
+                }
+            ),
+            item(
+                text="Sleep",
+                mouse_callbacks={
+                    "Button1": lazy.spawn("/path/to/lock_cmd")
+                }
+            ),
+            item(
+                text="Shutdown",
+                mouse_callbacks={
+                    "Button1": lazy.shutdown()
+                }
+            ),
+        ]
+        menu = generate(qtile, menuitems=items)
+        menu.show(centered=True)
+
+    keys = [
+        ...
+        Key([mod, "shift"], "q", show_text_power_menu)
+        ...
+    ]
+
 Configuration options for the menu objects can be found on
 :ref:`the reference page <ref-popup-menus>`.
diff --git a/docs/manual/ref/popup.rst b/docs/manual/ref/popup.rst
index 1b4a4c2..a735752 100644
--- a/docs/manual/ref/popup.rst
+++ b/docs/manual/ref/popup.rst
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ These are basic text menus. The layout is generated automatically and users are
 required to provide the menu items.
 
 .. qtile_class:: qtile_extras.popup.menu.PopupMenu
-    :methods: generate,from_dbus_menu
+    :methods: generate,from_dbus_menu,make_generators
 
 .. qtile_class:: qtile_extras.popup.menu.PopupMenuItem
 
diff --git a/qtile_extras/popup/menu.py b/qtile_extras/popup/menu.py
index b6a6cef..58bb69b 100644
--- a/qtile_extras/popup/menu.py
+++ b/qtile_extras/popup/menu.py
@@ -180,6 +180,38 @@ def __init__(self, qtile, controls, **config):
         PopupGridLayout.__init__(self, qtile, controls=controls, **config)
         self.add_defaults(PopupMenu.defaults)
 
+    @staticmethod
+    def make_generators(qtile=None, **config):
+        """
+        Returns three functions (``make_popupmenuitem``, ``make_popupmenuseparator`` and
+        ``generate_menu``) to help creation of menus with custom configs.
+
+        ``make_popupmenuitem`` and ``make_popupmenuseparator`` create those items but with
+        the supplied config already applied to them. Config values can still be overriden
+        on an item-by-item basis.
+
+        ``generate_menu`` creates the menu with the supplied config.
+
+        The ``qtile`` object must be passed to either the ``make_generators`` method or the
+        ``generate_menu`` function.
+        """
+        _qtile = qtile
+
+        def make_popupmenuitem(text, **itemconfig):
+            cfg = {**config, **itemconfig}
+            return PopupMenuItem(text=text, **cfg)
+
+        def make_popupmenuseparator(**itemconfig):
+            cfg = {**config, **itemconfig}
+            return PopupMenuSeparator(**cfg)
+
+        def generate_menu(qtile=None, menuitems=list(), **menuconfig):
+            qt = _qtile or qtile
+            cfg = {**config, **menuconfig}
+            return PopupMenu.generate(qt, menuitems=menuitems, **cfg)
+
+        return make_popupmenuitem, make_popupmenuseparator, generate_menu
+
     @classmethod
     def from_dbus_menu(cls, qtile, dbusmenuitems, **config):
         """