It's Paw-ty Time

Katelyn turned five and in the Cook house that means she was of age for a friend birthday party. She decided that she wanted her theme to be a puppy party. We had a great time coming up with ideas for this theme. We started with a super cute invitation. When the kids arrived they went straight to the table to decorate the felt puppy ears that were attached to headbands. I had a bunch of felt scraps that they cut out in shapes and glued on their ears. During the same time Holly was using the dremel tool I ordered to make dog collars for the kids. She put their first name on one side and the nickname of their choice on the other side. Some of the nicknames included Birthday Girl 5 (I bet you can guess who chose that one), Princess, Barbie, Bell, Ninja, the Fridge, and Robin (as in Batman and Robin, but his older brother is Batman). After they were all dogged up we played pin the nose on the puppy. Then we had a best in breed dog show. Each puppy had to jump over some blocks, run up a slide, and jump through a hoop. The other puppies had to applaud by barking. We played dog trainer says. I got a good picture of all the puppies rolling over. My personal favorite and the favorite of all the puppies was our puppy chow contest. Each puppy got a bowl full of puppy chow (cocoa puffs cereal). The winner was the puppy who finished their bowl first. We then made puppy cupcakes, which turned out "special," but the kids had fun making them. We had "pup pops" with our cupcakes. I found the coolest things...plastic push pop molds. You put the ice cream of your choice in the mold, put the lid on, and pop them in the freezer. When you are ready for them, just pull them out and you have a push pop. In this case, though, they were pup pops. The gift bags were a plastic cup with puppies all over it and a little wrapped dog house with sugar cookie bones inside. Katelyn blew out a candle on her cupcake and opened all of her presents. Everyone had fun, most importantly Katelyn. Happy birthday to her!