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!

three

My little man is 3!

hearts & flowers

Completely inspired by this tutorial at skip to my lou, Parker and I got out some old crayons, the pencil sharpener, sissors, wax paper and the "Iron Boat" and made some pretty cool Valentine's Day Hearts for our window.









Now he says a couple times a day "I want to shave with you Mommy"!



Our friend Francesca performed a little science experiment with flowers which Parker has been really into. Here are instructions. I didn't take a before photo but it started with bright white flowers which were put in a cup with water & a few drops of red food coloring and 17 hours later here they are. very cool!

Happy Valentines Day!

911

When I asked my son what he wanted to dress up as for Halloween he said "a firetruck". I said "a fireman?" and he replied "no, a fire-truck". So the instant-on craft function in my brain went into overdrive. I started with 2 cardboard boxes from Fresh Direct and went to work...Basic stuff like cutting out the shape, spray painting the red base and cutting out the wheels then I ran into some difficulty. I was having trouble painting the white & yellow stripes that go all around the firetruck (half way through the process I realized that I could have just bought yellow & white tape and been done in 2 and 1/2 minutes but then I wouldn't have heard this...) I was having a pretty difficult time keeping the lines straight and out of nowhere, my 2.5 year old boy said "Great Job Mommy" and then continued to play with his trucks. I was almost done at that point but his encouragement made me add some extras: F.D.N.Y logos, the "window", crocheted "ladder" straps, working headlights (which his hands are covering in the photo) & red/blue flashing siren stars. Honestly - it was a pretty cool costume and he loved it!