Friday, May 17, 2013

Bubble Guppies Birthday Party Ideas

Bubble Guppies Party Ideas
Personalized PDF files of all items pictured below are available for purchase as a package. 
Email me for package details and pricing.

Bubble Guppies Invitation Wording Ideas:

There's a celebration coming on! Join us for Katie's 4th Birthday!
Calling All Umi-Friends! It’s time to celebrate Manny’s 3rd Birthday!
Join us for an umi-riffic birthday party as we celebrate Justin’s 5th Birthday!
Join Team Umizoomi for a very special birthday party! It’s time to celebrate
Devon’s 4th Birthday!
Join Team Umizoomi for lots of fun and adventure as we celebrate Johnny’s 5th
Birthday!
Hey Team Umizoomi fans! Are you ready to party?! You’re invited to celebrate
Jordan’s 5th Birthday!
Join us on a Team Umizoomi adventure as we celebrate Justin’s 7th Birthday!
We're blowing up balloons and icing the cake! There's a big birthday party in Umi-City we hop you can make!
Come along and join the fun, our little Aiden is turning ONE! With Geo, Milli and Bot too, we look forward to seeing you!
Team Umizoomi Girl Invite & Thank You Note


Bubble Guppies Party Favor Ideas:
  • Bright colored play ground balls (see adorable pic from customer below)
  • Shape flash cards or coloring books
  • Number flash cards or coloring books
  • Personalized play doh, bubbles, sidewalk chalk, candy bars, gum, etc. from my package pictured below.
Bubble Guppies Party Games & Activities:
  • Milli's Head Band & Geo's Shape Belts: Head on over to the Nick Jr. website and download templates and instructions. This is a great welcome activity that the kids can wear during the party.
  • Geo's Shape Hunt: Hide foam shape stickers (either in eggs or loose) all around the party area. Use the found shapes for a foam craft after the hunt (decorate door hangers, crowns, picture frames, etc.)
  • Milli's Pattern Power Circle, Circle, SQUARE: Play like duck, duck goose
  • Geo's Shape Bingo: Make basic BINGO cards with shapes in different colors. Make a card for each shape and color you use and put in the bucket. This is a good game for opening the gifts. Let whoever gave the gift choose a shape card for the game.
  • Bot's Freeze Dance: Play music and whenever the music stops the kids have to freeze. Everyone does the "Crazy Shakes" if someone is caught moving.
  • Milli's Pattern Power Wall: Tape a long sheet of contact paper to the wall but with the sticky side facing out. Give the kids foam shapes, felt, foil, crepe paper, small pom-poms to create pictures and patterns. The contact paper is sticky enough to hold the items but also easy to remove and move around the items when playing.
  • Pin the Pigtails on Milli/Shapes on Geo's Belt/Belly Screen on Bot: Play like the classic pin the tail on the donkey. Go to Nick Jr for printables.
  • Hot Bot: Tape a picture of Bot to a small box (could also use a stuffed animal or toy if you have one) and have children pass in a circle. Play like hot potato, but give a small prize to each child as they are caught with Bot and are out.

Team Umizoomi Party Printables Package for Boys






Team Umizoomi Party Printables Package for Girls
The Team Umizoomi Decorators Set
Sold as an add on to the regular Team Umizoomi Party Printables Package

Team Umizoomi round favor tags from decorators set used
Napkin wrap from regular package used to make Team Umizoomi sidewalk chalk

Team Umizoomi round favor tags from decorators set added to dollar store
balloon weight to create inexpensive balloon weight centerpieces.
Team Umizoomi Pennant Banner from decorators set


Team Umizoomi small 2" round favor tags used as cupcake picks.

Large Team Umizoomi round favor tag used as cake topper.

Left over Team Umizoomi printables used to decorate gifts

Doc McStuffins Birthday Party Ideas

Doc McStuffins Party Ideas
Personalized PDF files of all items pictured below are available for purchase as a package. 
Email me for package details and pricing.

Doc McStuffins Invitation Wording Ideas:


  • The Doc is in! Please join us for Lexi’s 4th Birthday Party!
  • Doc Hailey invites you to celebrate her 3rd Birthday!
  • Join us for tons of fun! Our little Doc Ashley is turning ONE!
  • We can hardly believe it's true! Our little Doc Emma is turning 2!
  • Our little Doc is turning three, Please join us for Hailey's 3rd Birthday Party!
  • She's cute, sweet and so much fun. Our little Doc is turning ONE!
  • She's cute and sweet, it's true. Our little Doc is turning TWO!
  • She's cute, sweet and fun as can be! Our little Doc is turning THREE!
  • She's cute, sweet and so much more, our little Doc is turning FOUR!
  • Join Doc McStuffins for a very special birthday party! It's time to celebrate Dianna's 3rd Birthday!
  • Join Doc McStuffins for lots of fun and adventure as we celebrate Jessie's 5th Birthday!

    Doc McStuffins Invitation
Doc McStuffins Party Favor Ideas:

  • Doc McStuffins clip board (see craft idea below)
  • Band-aids, cotton Balls, tongue depressors (wide popsicle sticks), gauze (toilet paper), paper patient ID bracelets
  • Big book of boo-boos (see craft idea below)
  • Personalized play doh, bubbles, sidewalk chalk, candy bars, gum, etc. from my package pictured below

Doc McStuffins Party Games and Activities:
  • Doc McStuffins Play Clinic: Encourage children to bring their favorite stuffed toy or doll to use as a patient for play in the clinic. Set up tables with small pillows and white craft paper down the middle for the patient toys to lay on. Put out cotton balls, band-aids, tongue depressors (wide popsicle sticks), gauze (toilet paper) and patient ID bracelets. Or you can give every child their own medical bag with those items in them.
  • Doc McStuffins Clip Board Craft: You can get inexpensive clip boards at dollar stores or you can make your own by cutting white foam board into small clip boards and attaching a large binder clip to the top. Tie a piece of string to the binder clip and the other to a crayon. Let kids color the clip board and add stickers to it. Make up a little check list with body parts for you little doctors to check off as they examine the toy patients. You can use clip art of the body parts if all the kids a really young.
  • Doc McStuffins Big Book of Boo-Boos: Make copies of the Doc McStuffins half page coloring pages that are included with your package. Staple the coloring pages to a small stack of plain white paper and staple on the sides. Let kids color the covers and use the book at the clinic.
  • Hallie's Cotton Ball Relay: Tell kids Hallie has to help Doc and fill up a bucket with cotton balls, but the trick is they have to carry the cotton balls on spoons. Or you can play in regular relay fashion with teams.
  • Doc, Doc, BOO: Play like duck, duck goose
  • Lambie's Freeze Dance: Lambie is a gifted dancer. Play music and whenever the music stops the kids have to freeze.
  • Pin the Band-aid on Chilly: Play like the classic pin the tail on the donkey. Draw a snowman on white poster board and pass out band-aids for kids to take turns blindfolded (or not) sticking the band-aids on Chilly.
  • Hot Stuffy: Tape a picture of Stuffy to a small box (could also use a stuffed animal or toy of Stuffy you have one) and have children pass in a circle. Play like hot potato, but give a small prize to each child as they are caught with Stuffy and are out.

Doc McStuffins Party Printables Package



Friday, April 19, 2013

Team Umizoomi Birthday Party Ideas

Team Umizoomi Birthday Party Ideas
Personalized PDF files of all items pictured below are available for purchase as a package. Email me for package details and pricing. Please share your ideas and pictures. You can leave party ideas in the comments section below and email me your pics (no faces in the pics, please)

Team Umizoomi Invitation Wording Ideas:

There's a celebration coming on! Join us for Katie's 4th Birthday!
Calling All Umi-Friends! It’s time to celebrate Manny’s 3rd Birthday!
Join us for an umi-riffic birthday party as we celebrate Justin’s 5th Birthday!
Join Team Umizoomi for a very special birthday party! It’s time to celebrate
Devon’s 4th Birthday!
Join Team Umizoomi for lots of fun and adventure as we celebrate Johnny’s 5th
Birthday!
Hey Team Umizoomi fans! Are you ready to party?! You’re invited to celebrate
Jordan’s 5th Birthday!
Join us on a Team Umizoomi adventure as we celebrate Justin’s 7th Birthday!
We're blowing up balloons and icing the cake! There's a big birthday party in Umi-City we hop you can make!
Come along and join the fun, our little Aiden is turning ONE! With Geo, Milli and Bot too, we look forward to seeing you!

Team Umizoomi Girl Invite and Thank You Note


Team Umizoomi Party Favor Ideas:
  • Bright colored play ground balls (see adorable pic from customer below)
  • Shape flash cards or coloring books
  • Number flash cards or coloring books
  • Personalized play doh, bubbles, sidewalk chalk, candy bars, gum, etc. from my package pictured below.

Team Umizoomi Party Games and Activities:
  • Milli's Head Band and Geo's Shape Belts: Head on over to the Nick Jr. website and download templates and instructions. This is a great welcome activity that the kids can wear during the party.
  • Geo's Shape Hunt: Hide foam shape stickers (either in eggs or loose) all around the party area. Use the found shapes for a foam craft after the hunt (decorate door hangers, crowns, picture frames, etc.)
  • Milli's Pattern Power Circle, Circle, SQUARE: Play like duck, duck goose
  • Geo's Shape Bingo: Make basic BINGO cards with shapes in different colors. Make a card for each shape and color you use and put in the bucket. This is a good game for opening the gifts. Let whoever gave the gift choose a shape card for the game.
  • Bot's Freeze Dance: Play music and whenever the music stops the kids have to freeze. Everyone does the "Crazy Shakes" if someone is caught moving.
  • Milli's Pattern Power Wall: Tape a long sheet of contact paper to the wall but with the sticky side facing out. Give the kids foam shapes, felt, foil, crepe paper, small pom-poms to create pictures and patterns. The contact paper is sticky enough to hold the items but also easy to remove and move around the items when playing.
  • Pin the Pigtails on Milli/Shapes on Geo's Belt/Belly Screen on Bot: Play like the classic pin the tail on the donkey. Go to Nick Jr for printables.
  • Hot Bot: Tape a picture of Bot to a small box (could also use a stuffed animal or toy if you have one) and have children pass in a circle. Play like hot potato, but give a small prize to each child as they are caught with Bot and are out.

Team Umizoomi Party Printables Package for Boys






Team Umizoomi Party Printables Package for Girls


Team Umizoomi Playground Ball Favors
Photo submitted by customer. Love the idea!


Love the tulle and multi-color curling ribbon
So festive and fun - perfect for this theme!


The Team Umizoomi Decorators Set
Sold as an add on to the regular Team Umizoomi Party Printables Package

Team Umizoomi round favor tags from decorators set used
Napkin wrap from regular package used to make Team Umizoomi sidewalk chalk

Team Umizoomi round favor tags from decorators set added to dollar store
balloon weight to create inexpensive balloon weight centerpieces.
Team Umizoomi Pennant Banner from decorators set


Team Umizoomi small 2" round favor tags used as cupcake picks.

Large Team Umizoomi round favor tag used as cake topper.


Left over Team Umizoomi printables used to decorate gifts

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Dora and Diego Birthday Party Ideas


Welcome to our Dora and Diego Birthday Party! My kids have birthdays less than 3 weeks apart. I get a little crazy with their parties, but because they share the party I can get away with doing more. For this birthday, my daughter, Hailey, will turned 3 and my son, Alec, turned 1.


DORA DECOR: We decorated the interior of our house with Dora decor everywhere. The outside of the house and patio was decorated with Diego jungle decor. We served the kids some snacks as they arrived and used the Dora patterned tableware with centerpieces. We also decorated the inside with tissue paper garlands, helium balloon bouquets, regular crepe paper streamers, 100 tissue paper flowers and 80 stars. DORA STARS: In the background of the above pictures you can see the Dora stars I made. I cut out a bunch of different size stars from colored copy paper. I glued two colors together added some googly eyes and drew in the mouths. TISSUE PAPER FLOWERS: Tissue flowers are super easy to do (tons of instructions available everywhere online) and really looked nice all over the house. I made them with pipe cleaner stems so they could be attached to practically anything. Some were arranged in vases, some were attached to the anchor spots of the streamers and the rest were placed everywhere in the house including the bathrooms. I wish we would have gotten more pictures of the inside, but things were a little crazy in the beginning and then after the first half hour the entire party took place outside. I actually held back quite a bit on the decorating inside because the majority of the party took place outside.


CRAFT TABLE: My daughter at the craft table we set up to keep the kids entertained as as we waited for all the guests to arrive. They had the option of making foam door hangers or frames. All of the children were held inside the house until it was time for the Dora and Diego adventure to begin in our backyard.


CAKE TABLE: Our cake table was outside so the cupcakes took on the Diego Jungle theme. With everything planned, I never have time to make and decorate the cake and/or cupcakes. This year we had cupcakes for all of the guests and a small individual cake for my son and daughter. I did this mainly because my son was turning one and needed the traditional smash cake. The cakes I had the Target bakery decorate to look like a jungle (the did better than I expected). I added the Dora and Diego figurines and some little toothpicks signs that said Feliz Compleanos and Happy 1st Birthday Alec or Happy 3rd Birthday Hailey. The cupcakes were done at Sams Club and were actually the Backyardigans icing design, but I had them leave off the charachters. Sams Club cupcakes are delicious and only $12 for 30 of them. We usually have 90+ people at the kid's parties so I have to be thrifty with things. Some of the cupcakes are decorated with the Diego cupcake toppers and some are decorated with the jungle finger puppets from Oriental Trading. They came out really cute! DIEGO CENTERPIECES: Our Diego Centerpiece is in the backround of the above picture. I had these on all the tables and the food buffet. They were made with 2 dessert plates from the Diego partyware line. In between the 2 plates I wrapped a small cereal box with aqua tissue paper. I filled the bottom of the cereal box with glass beads to weigh it down and then in the top I cut a piece of florist foam to fit inside. I taped the 2 plates to the outside of the cereal box and then stuck fern leaves into the floral foam. You can't see in the picture, but there were little plastic lizards and insects sitting on top of the ferns. They looked cute, were really easy to make and very inexpesive.



CRAFT PAPER VINES: All around our patio and under the green tent we hung craft paper vines, stuffed monkeys and snakes. The craft paper vines were very easy to make. I bought a large roll of brown craft paper. I cut the paper into 6 small rolls by making the cuts down the long way of the paper. I then just twisted the craft paper and every 18" to 24" I stapled 1-3 leaves on the vine. The stapling helps to keep the vine from untwisting. The leaves I made by cutting long thin leaves out of green copy paper. Family Fun has a similar version of this craft using brown paper bags. I neeed ALOT of vines so I bought the rolls. Worked out great because I ended up lots of really long vines.