Monday, May 7, 2007

Wonder Pets Birthday Success

The Wonder Pets birthday party was a success and Parker had a great time. It was a homemade party because Nickelodeon has not yet produced any Wonder Pets merchandise. Not sure what they are waiting for - all of the other shows have a ridiculous amount of product. Anyway, we used red, blue, green & yellow plates, napkins, streamers, balloons, etc, had a craft area with WP coloring pages from Nick Jr & other animal stickers. I know there must be other parents out there trying to create a cool WP party so here's a list of some of the items that we created...
the "Tuck" pinata can be found here:
the fly boat:Parker's Dad made a flyboat out of the same stuff as the Wonder Pets...a red Frisbee, 3 purple marker caps, tinker toys for wheels & some other stuff from the toy tool box. very cool.
The fly boat cake & invitation:
The Games: "save the animals" Each partygoer got a chance to be like the wonder pets by searching into the tree to save an animal. The tree was stuffed with a variety of animals - from wind-up to plush. The "tree" started out as a cardboard box and I must admit it turned out better than I had imagined. I covered the box with brown paper and cut different size strips of various green construction papers & card stocks to make the branches. We also had a red WP cape and the idea was that the kids would line up and one at a time put on the cape and save and animal but it was more like a simultaneous rescue mission. Here's a peak at the rescue:
"Pin the wheel on the fly boat": We didn't even get to this one but here's a look and we printed out the wheels from the nick website onto sticker paper.The Gift Bags: Wonder Pet stickers printed from the official web site, a couple inside and one on the front of the brown paper gift bag, there is a cool little WP book binded together with yarn which I printed from the web site & the bubbles have a custom home printed WP label .
The decor: our building's community room always needs color. My friend Fran blew up pictures of each of the WP and made these cool portraits - which are not the decor in my little man's bedroom...It was an awesome party - Thanks to Teamwork!

14 comments:

Anonymous said...

WOW! What a party. Wish I was there!

nikki said...

So glad I found your site! My daughter is also turning 3 and LOVES Wonder Pets. You have some great ideas. Thanks for sharing!

Anonymous said...

your husband is very handsome. congrats

Anonymous said...

Glad I found your site !!! I have a 4 year old son who is fascinated with the fly boat. I will try to duplicate the one that your husband made. Hopefully mine will come out just as nice.

Thanks for sharing
Wendy from Santa Clarita, CA

Anonymous said...

Awesome Cake!!
Happy Birthday to Parker!!
Love & Miss ya!
M&M&M&S Hawkesworth

Marcy said...

Cute idea for the cake! Come this April my 2 yo also wants Wonder Pets for her 3rd birthday. Thanks for sharing your ideas and pics.

jennymc said...

I am having a Wonder Pets party this weekend and loved the hanging pictures of the team. I am having trouble. Can anyone walk me step by step on enlarging those images to print. I tried the NickJr site, but cannot locate individula shots.
Thanks in advance.

Anonymous said...

I am planning a WP party for my son's 2nd b-day and I also would like to know where the individual shots of the team were found ... ??? Can anyone post info ?? Thanks !

Anonymous said...

my friend used photoshop to isolate each wonder pet and she blew them up on a special printer at her office.

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the ideas! I'm working on a possible WP party for my DD's 4th birthday. I don't understand either why NickJr hasn't put out WP stuff yet!

Anonymous said...

Thanks, thanks, thanks! I live in Mexico city, so we have less party supplies! With your ideas I am pretty sure my son's party will be great! I'll let you know... you are really creative guys!!

Lacy said...

All those pictures are looking so nice!! Nick Jr provides really best stuff...

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Damien Gentle said...

Really nice collection of pictures. Our pets too deserve a rocking birthday party. You have a really nice collection of pictures.