Tuesday, November 17, 2009

The Birthday Party

For Callie's birthday, we had an "Adopt a Puppy Party". It was a HUGE hit. This was the easiest (and least expensive) birthday party I've done, and the girls just ate it up. I already had everything, except the puppies, for the party. We sent out invitations which turned out so cute. I can't seem to take it off our fridge. I made them in Photoshop, and then just printed them out on 4 x 6 photo paper. Easy breezy.





I made these huge flowers from tissue paper for the decorations. I think I will move them to Callie or Isabella's room because I don't want to throw them away.



Each girl got to pick a puppy from the Adoption Center. I couldn't believe it when I found these puppies at the Dollar Store- they are so adorable! They filled out an adoption certificate with their picture with the puppy, name, breed, color, etc.


Then they moved to the grooming center where they brushed, cut, and sprayed their puppy with Bath & Body Works sprays. We needed to open the doors to air the house out with all of the different scents flying around! But those puppies smelled great by the time they were done :)




Then they made a name tag for their puppy out of shrinky dinks. I think you could just throw a shrinky dink party for these girls, because they were fascinated by it shrinking and curling in the oven. These came out soooo cute.


We had snacks and paw print cupcakes.




We had a pinata with all of that Halloween candy the Great Pumpkin took. We had a few minutes left over before it was time to go, so the girls decided to do puppy training classes. They took turns being the instructor, and taught their puppies how to sit, stay, etc. All in all, I think everyone had a great time.











5 comments:

Meteor magnets said...

You're so creative! I will have to keep this one in mind! Thanks for the great idea! Happy 7th Birthday Callie Girl! ~Robin

Sara said...

Cher, I think you should have a segment on Martha Stewart! You seriously ROCK!

kristin said...

I agree with Sara! Such a cute idea!! I wish I had just a tiny bit of your talented brain:)

Laura C. said...

totally cute! I'll have to keep this in mind when my little girl is a bit older!

Rochelle said...

You should be a full time party planner. Jeff would never have to work again. I need to hire you to do my parties!