Puppy Paw-ty

My sweet little girl turned 6 this year and after changing her mind multiple times we FINALLY landed on a puppy party! We started off from doing a Build-A-Bear party, to a Tooth Fairy party, then a teddy bear picnic, and when I was about to loose it she said she wanted a puppy party so I put my foot down and went with that! But can I just tell you I had a blast panning this and loved the way it all turned out. So without further jabber I am pleased to show you pics from Avery's Puppy Paw-ty!

Let's start off with the treats because those are 

always my favorite part!

For the dessert table I made a cute little puppy cake for the centerpiece and then 

added treats themed by all a dog's favorite things. 

I loved the playful and simple look of the cake. If I actually found a dog that looked like this then we probably would have adopted it!

We went with a fun alternative for the backdrop banner, instead of saying the traditional "Happy Birthday" I wanted to play on words and say "Avery's Barkery" since they were all dog themed treats. I absolutely adore the assortment of printables from Marbella Printables we used throughout the party!

Here is a quick review of all the treats we had... but lots of pictures!

Next to the cake we had a bowl of mini bone shaped chocolates.

My amazing friend nailed it again with these 

adorable bone shaped cookies!

For the Beggin' Stips we just wrapped labels around 

Kit Kat candy bars.

These were 3 pieces of Twizzler's Pull 'n' Peel braided

together and knotted at each end.

The Kibbles n Bits was trail mix, and the Puppy Chow was peanut butter & cocoa ball cereal. I had to eat a couple bites myself to convince the kids that the puppy chow wasn't really dog food!

On each side of the cake we had some large jawbreakers I added white lines to look like tennis balls. 

But my absolute favorite treats where these candy kabobs from Sweets Indeed! They were so so so perfect! From the coordinating colors, to the bone and paw print accents, I honestly had a hard time letting the kids take them... I know I am pathetic!

We served beverages out of a cute fire hydrant drink dispenser that I painted pink to match the color scheme, love the way it turned out!

And the straw tags just make me giggle with joy...

Finally on the opposite side of the dessert table we had a bunch of little white doggie bags that the kids could fill up treats to take home.

Here are some of the fun little details from 

the table and place settings...

I made a little chandelier hanging of the table using brown lanterns, blue pom poms, pink honeycomb balls, and finished it off with 

dog bone shaped balloons.

The brown square paper plates where dressed up with a paw print printable on sticker paper in the middle.

wooden fork and a little napkin wrapped with a 

printable wrapper on the sides. 

I bought these bone shaped bottle from Oriental Trading and dressed them up by covering the lid with washi table and a water bottle label around the middle.

I found these mini dog bowls on Ebay for less than $1 each. They were the perfect size to compliment the cupcakes!

For the centerpieces we used printable party circles glued on some skewers and stuck in tall cylinder vases filled with dog bone shaped sprinkles some cute little signs.

I love, love, LOVE these dog bone shaped balloons!

Just a pic of all the extra cupcakes and cute 

varieties of toppers we had!

Now that I covered the little details that I love so much onto the activities that the kids loved so much. When all the friends arrived I painted their little faces with some Halloween makeup and put on a dog collar. Then they ran around the backyard playing in a bounce house we rented with large inflatable balls.

After awhile when the kids were all exhausted they came 

inside for the next activity. 

We had a table set up with some little stuffed dogs and houses.

The kids got to pick up a pet puppy to adopt and 

paint a little house for it.

The houses were actually bird houses from Micheals that my husband cut a larger opening and added a little dog bone cutout from Cut Line Craft.

We found these adorable pups from the dollar store :)

Each kid got an adoption certificate to fill out for their animal.

Here is the birthday girl's dog and house.

Oriental Trading had these adorable little bracelets that were perfect for dog collars. They also got a little box of tennis ball shaped 

gumballs to take home with their puppy. 

Well that pretty much wraps up the details and I hope 

you enjoyed our little Paw-ty!

Vendor Credits:

Party Styling and photographs: Sweeten Your Day

Printable banner, signage, labels, tags, etc: Marbella Printables

Dog bone cookies: Memories by AnnaDawn

Candy Kabobs: Sweets Indeed

Fire hydrant dispenser, dog collar bracelets, dog bone cups, paper lanterns, poms, and honeycomb balls: Oriental Trading

Tennis gumballs: Amazon

Dog bone balloons: K9 Cakery

Mini dog bowls: Ebay

Jumbo jawbreakers: Candy Warehouse

Summer Fun Human Bowling

Today I wanted to share a fun game to help kids beat the heat 

this summer, so this is our version of human bowling we call Wet & Wild Bowling! My kids have always loved to bowl so I thought this would be the perfect activity to kick off summer with some friends, plus it is SO simple!

First I ordered some large inflatable bowling pins online, I got mine on sale for around $15 here, but there are plenty different kinds out there so shop around, and then all you need is a slip’n slide. I was at good old Walmart one day and saw a 3 lane slip’n slide and just new it would be perfect, the bigger the better!

Now for the fun part just follow the instructions on your box to set up your slide, inflate pins and arrange at the end of the slide… let the games begin!

Oh my goodness, I can’t even tell you how much fun this was! Some of the adults might just have gone down a few times too… You HAVE to try it! Also to make it more fun we printed off a score sheet, gave the kids team names and kept track of pins knocked down, same style as regular bowling, but we made up our own point system since there was 6 pins instead of 10.

I thought it would be fun to make the kids hooded towels instead of bowling jerseys with their team name. There are lots of simple tutorials on Pinterest to make hooded towels, and I just added 2 strips of red ribbon to give them a bowling pin look. One of the sweet ladies in my neighborhood that my kids have deemed as their second grandma embroidered a team name on back for that extra fun touch!

I also used our simple patio furniture to set up place settings were the kids could sit back and relax to watch the games and enjoy some treats.

These adorable cookie favors and award ribbons were made by my incredibly talented neighbor Anna Dawn! Could not have pulled this off without her ")

And no summer party is complete without some yummy treats!

We used printables from Amanda’s Parties To Go and lots of treats you can find at the local grocery and party stores to create a delightful dessert table!

More amazing cookies from my amazing neighbor  “) 

I love it when cookies are standing up rather than laying flat on dessert tables, 

it really adds that extra WOW factor!

I just adore these bowling pin containers filled with mini marshmallows.

 Such a quick and easy party favor!

I hope you enjoyed our summer party and it inspires you to STRIKE up your own summer fun! If you like what you see then please leave a comment or check out some of our other parties! Thanks for stopping by ")

Vendors:

Event photographs and styling: Sweeten Your Day

Bowling printables: Amandas Parties To Go

Printable bowling score sheet: All About Party Prints

Jumbo inflatable bowling pins: Collections Etc.

Bowling Pin Cookies: Memories by Anna Dawn

Bowling pin favor containers: Sierra Products Inc. 

Gumball tubes, colored gumballs, lollipops, balloons, and chevron popcorn boxes: Zurchers

(This post was originally published at Design Dazzle on June 24th, 2015 as part of the Summer Camp series.)