Sabrina's Littlest Pet Shop Party

Sabrina is crazy about Littlest Pet Shop, so together we worked on pulling together a fun party for her friends.  I totally underestimated how long things would take, so I won't bother trying to assign start times for the activities.  Let's just say that the party ran over by a good 30-45 minutes.  It was fun, though, and hopefully the parents didn't mind too much.

When the girls walked in, I painted their faces to look like their favorite animals.  Most picked dogs and cats, but Devon was a wolf and Sabrina and one of her friends were foxes.  We took a purple ribbon, cut it to size, put on a jingle bell and stick-on velcro as a closure and let them decorate their own "collar."  They also got to decorate their party bags, in suitable neon colors.

Next, we worked on Make-It Bake-It kits.  Each girl had a cat frame that she filled with colored plastic beads.  We put them in the oven and baked them during the other activities.  When they came out, they each had a beautiful sun catcher!

While the suncatchers cooked, we next went to the "Pet Shop Pick-Up" game.  Rob his behind a sheet with goodies.  The girls through a fishing rod (a dowel with an alligator clip tied to some string) over the sheet, and Rob would attach either a bracelet, a pack of goldfish, or a pack of bone-shaped graham crackers back to them.  Rob made different strange animal noises during the proceedings.

Next, the climax of the party - the string game.  We had strung yarn all over the den and upstairs.  The girls had to unwind the string to find a prize (a Littlest Pet Shop blind bag) at the end.  To do this, they had to climb over and under everyone else's string.  This took waaaay longer than I thought it would - every bit of 45 minutes.  The girls had fun, though.

We then played the "Animal Acoustics" game, where I gave them a list of possible animals and they had to figure out which animal's call I was playing on the pc.  While some of them were easy, like a cat, dog, or frog, the giant anteater and hippo were a bit challenging.

Of course, it's the details that really make parties fun!

Afterwards came cake, shaped like Littlest Pet Shop paws, ice cream, and opening the presents!  We all had a great time!