Littlest Pet Shop Birthday Party Ideas

Alanna decided she'd like a Littlest Pet Shop birthday party this year for her 6th birthday. I scoured the web and racked my brain and I think we've come up with a pretty good plan. I thought I'd post it here so that others could use it if they'd like as well.

The activities below are meant to fill a total of 2 hours time. For this age, the party has to keep moving and I'm anticipating no more than 10 minutes doing any one thing other than maybe eating cake and opening gifts which will take 11 minutes ;)

Arrival Activities-
Temporary Tattoos - These can be purchased on ebay inexpensively. The seller I found also sold the large LPS stickers which we're going to give out as part of the goodie bags.

Make a name badge neclace - This actually is important for the goodie bag portion of the party. We purchased a 10 pack of LPS critters from Amazon.com for $20. I then scanned the picture from the back into the computer and cut them apart to make little name badge circles. The children will pick a name badge at the beginning of the party and as a surprise at the end the name badge they chose will determine the LPS critter they "adopt". I bought brightly colored lanyards at Michaels as well as the clips to put the little circles on the lanyard with (just punched a hole in the little picture circles to attach them). We also have assorted color pony beads to decorate their name badge necklaces with.

Sign Alanna’s poster to hang up - I made a large posterboard card for all of the guests to sign and decorated it with a large number 6, Alanna's name and various Littlest Pets that I drew.

Color if waiting for other children and have finished own activities - I printed off LPS mini coloring books by doing a search for free coloring pages and then formatting them to fit four pictures to a page, stapled and folded.

Games-
Simon Says with an animal theme (“Bark like a dog”, “Flap your wings like a chicken”, etc)

Pin the Tail on the Cat - I drew the little LPS tabby cat onto posterboard for this

Animal Charades - I printed LPS animals onto cardstock and cut apart ot use as cards since our guests are mostly non-readers

Musical Lily Pads - I cut out large lily pads from green cardstock and made an animal music cd to play for this game

Bean Bag Toss - We picked out animal fabrics and made little bean bags. We'll have the children try to toss them into dog bowls.

Animal Relay Races (Gallop like a Horse, Walk like a Monkey, Dog, Duck, Crab, Bunny, etc)

Dance Freeze Game using the animal music cd

Cat Cat Dog (Duck Duck Goose)


Cake and Presents

Departure Activities
Adopt Littlest Pet Shop Animals (each child gets an animal based on the nametag picture they chose)

Pick Sticker “Prizes” to take home - at this age we decided that everyone is a winner and all will get stickers and LPS rings (also available on ebay--search for cupcake rings)

Decorate a house for their pet (foamies, markers/crayons, and colorful Chinese To Go containers)

Visit the Pet Buffet (Various different pet “foods” they can pick to put in a to go container to take home. These include Scooby bone-shaped graham crackers for dogs, Bug shaped graham crackers for lizards, Gummy worms for fish, Rainbow goldfish crackers for the cats, Gummy spiders for the birds, Gummy strawberries for the hamsters, Yogos for the rabbits, Banana chips for the monkeys, Apple chips for the horses. All of the bowls the snacks will be served out of into the to go "doggie bags" have little labels I printed with the appropriate animal on them.

Take home a balloon animal - I used to make these years and years ago and figured out that apparently you don't forget how to do this so I'll be making balloon animals for the children as well as they leave.

*Whew!* Should be fun and I'll post pictures when it's all said and done.