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Birthday Party Themes, Party Games and Fun Ideas |
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Puppy Dog Birthday Party Theme
A Puppy Dog birthday party is a wonderful theme for kids who love dogs and animals
| Invitations
Invitations are easily made for a dog party birthday theme. On the fronts of blank cards (any color) glue 5 circles to look like a dog paw print. One larger circle with four smaller circles (toes) at the top. Other fun ideas for dog theme invitations are cards in the shape of a bone, dog house or ball. Buy or make dog shaped cards. |
Decorate the Dog themed birthday party with black and white streamers and balloons. Cut out lots of circles (large and small) and make dog prints and tracks throughout the house, walls and entryway by taping them down in the form of dog prints. (Large circle with four smaller circles around the top of the larger circle.) Make a dog house out of brown tissue paper - twist the tissue paper into long tubes and tape to the wall to look like boards. Use black tissue paper in the shape of a rectangle for the door and hang a sign on the front with your favorite dog name.
Fun Idea
A fun idea - and a helpful one - is to ask guests to bring an item to donate to the local animal shelter. Old clean towels and blankets are always welcome along with food, treats, toys, leashes and collars. If possible take a quick trip to the shelter with the party guests to drop off the donations. If it's not possible to take all the kids with you, send a picture of your child dropping off the items in the thank you cards you send to all the guests. We've also come up with a fun Animal Shelter Scavenger Hunt list you can use to collect more items.
Puppy Dog Activities
Set up a fun craft for the guests and let them make dog ears from headbands and felt. Set out different colors of felt and fabric for them to choose from.
Face painting - paint the guests faces to so that they look like their favorite dog. Black noses, whiskers and lots of party fun!
Puppy Dog Party Games
Puppy Dig
Fill a small wading pool with sand and hide small prizes deep at the bottom of the sand. Give the guests 15 seconds to dig for a prize (they will have to dig fast and the game will last longer). Once they are done the next child in line must dig for a prize.
This can easily be expanded into a two team relay race by either setting up two pools or separating one pool in half (each team gets one half of the pool) by a string or divider. Place the same amount of prizes in each half of the pool and have teams race one by one to find a prize. The team who finds all the prizes first wins the prizes they found and also a grand prize. (The grand prize can be something fun like being served cake and ice cream first, or being first to begin the next game.)
Biscuit Search
You can also hide dog biscuits in the sand and have teams race to see how many they can find in a 5 minute time limit. Have kids line up one behind the other and one at a time run to the pool, dig for a bone and then return back to their team. Set up containers for each team to deposit the found bones. They can only bring back one dog bone at a time.
Obstacle Course
See our party games page for fun ideas on obstacle courses and relay races for your dog party.
Puppy Dog Party Food
Cake and ice cream served in small dog bowls that are new
Puppy chow mix (Chex cereal covered in peanut butter, chocolate and powdered sugar)
Cut any of these items with a done bone cookie cutter:
Sandwiches
Rice Krispie style treats
Fruit
Puppy Dog Party Favors
If you know the names of the guests who will be attending the party you can make up dog tags before the birthday party at local pet store. They come in all kinds of fun sizes and shapes. Write their first name on the tag - include an inexpensive chain so they can wear it right away.
Balls
Dog ears or headbands
Puppy Dog Party Goody / Loot Bags
New plastic dog dishes
Bandanas - wrap items up in the bandana and tie the ends together at the top.
Small wicker basket
Cups with dog pictures
Puppy bowls
