Scooby Doo Party- Food & Goodies

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This party was for a five year old boy.  It was held outside.

Food & Goodies

FOOD

We had some snacks out when the guests arrived.
These included:
-Devil Dogs
-Scooby Doo Fruit Snacks
-Scooby Snack Cookies
-Halloween Oreo Cookies (with Ghost shaped Peeps stuck in the middle of the plate)
-Multicolored Popcorn (found at TJ Maxx and the colors went with the theme!)
-Cheese Doodles
-Roasted Red Pepper Hummus (orange) & Crackers

Some of the serving pieces added fun...

-new doggie bowls for Cheese Doodles

-Halloween plates for the Oreos (we picked up the plates years ago from Pottery Barn)

-Found an old Scooby Doo McDonalds Kids Meal bucket at a yardsale and used for cookies

-The Christmas Tree Shoppe had lots of Orange/Blue/Green trays, placemats, plates & cups on clearance from their summer items.  The colors matched perfectly!

-Dog bone tooth picks

For lunch, Pizza was served.

DRINKS

For the kiddos, we had:

-Blue & Orange Gatorade

-Water

-Cold Apple Cider (the party was in October)

Waterbottle labels

-we had blue & green striped straws for the kids to use

-we wrapped the bottled drinks in Scooby labels.  I made them by modifying Halloween drink labels found on Peonies and Poppyseeds' website.

Gatorade labels

Gatorade labels

Since we also have grown-up family members attend the party (and out-of-towners that stay the night), we also offered a variety of "adult" drinks:
-Soda
-Hot Apple Cider
-Wine (all with a "Dog" or "Monster" theme)










-Beer (again with a "Dog" or "Halloween-type" theme)

CAKE

We went with cupcakes.  I was going to special order them, but then saw that they had Halloween themed cupcakes in purple & orange (and each had a little monster ring on top- perfect!)

GOODY BAGS

The goody bags were little boxes in the shape of the Mystery Machine.

Inside, we put:
-Scooby bouncy ball
-Flashlight
-Magnifying Glass
-Scooby fruit snacks

The kids also took home their stuffed dog from the craft activity.

                             PLAYLIST

Songs to consider for background music... 
some of them are a stretch, but the subtlety is sometimes half the fun!

Scooby Doo Theme (The Hit Crew)

What's New Scooby Doo? (The Complete Halloween Party Album)

I've Got a Dog and My Dog's Name is Cat (Barry Louis Polisar)

Where, Oh Where has my Little Dog Gone?

Dog Days are Over (Florence & the Machine)

Hound Dog (Elvis Presley)

Who Let the Dogs Out? (Baha Men)

Animal (Mike Snow)

The Underdog (Spoon)

Comeback Kid - That's My Dog (Brett Dennen)

Me & You & a Dog Named Boo (Lobo)

Scooby Doo, Where are You? (Tonic Sol-fa)

Atomic Dog (George Clinton)

Every Dog Has it's Day (Toby Keith)

D-O-G (Justin Roberts)

Hot Dog! (They Might Be Giants)

Additional ideas

Things I've found after-the-fact, that I would have liked to use!
(isn't that always the way?)

Scooby Doo Trick-or-Treat Pail

Scooby Doo Punch Ball

Add your ideas in the comments section below!

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St Patrick's Day Brunch

FOOD

This year, we had a brunch for St. Patty's Day.  We set up the food as a buffet (putting them in crock pots to keep warm).

Menu included:
Scrambled Eggs
Sausage
Oatmeal with fixings (brown sugar, cinnamon, dried cranberries, raisins, maple syrup)

Potato Cheese Soup (toppers of scallions & extra shredded cheese)

Corned Beef & Cabbage Paninis

Crab Deviled Eggs

Irish Soda Bread

Pastries
Brownies
Oh Ryan's Irish Potatoes

Drinks
Leprechaun Lemonade (yellow lemonade dyed green)

OJ
Coffee with Irish Creamer
Irish Breakfast Tea

Mimosas

Wine with green labels

Harp & Guinness beer

Baileys

Water bottles (with St. Patty's labels)

Soda


Games & Activities
We set up a kids table with some crayons and activities for them to do.
Roll-A-Leprechaun 

Coloring pages
Word find
Jokes
Trivia & MadLib from Snapfish

Decorations

Free Printables from How Does She 
Free Printables from Simply Create Designs on Catch My Party

Free Printable from Landee See Landee Do

Using picture frame coasters,
I inserted color printouts into the frame.
Used as spoon rests for the crock pots & coffee pot.
See photo below!

Dressed up an old wreath

For the labels on the lids of the crock pots, I used a cookie cutter to mark a shamrock shape on foam sheets.  After cutting it out, I used a sharpie to write, and wrote upside down on the other side (so that when the lids were hung up on the stand behind each pot, you could still see through the glass and read the sign).  To adhere them, I used an Elmers Glue Stick.  They stuck nicely, and the residue cleaned off easily with just some soap & water at the end of the day.

Kid-made Irish Heart craft/decoration:
-Paint a sheet of paper with green paint ranging from light to dark green.
-Let dry, then cut green paper into small squares.
-Cut out template into desired shape (heart, clover, etc.)
-Paste squares onto template in pattern from light to dark (or stripes, etc)





Recipes for:
-Potato Cheese Soup
-Corned Beef & Cabbage Paninis

Curious George Food & Goodies

FOOD

We had some snacks out when the guests arrived.
When possible, we created more little signs to go with the theme...

-Donuts (sign: Curious George & the Donut Delivery)
-Veggie Platter (sign: Curious George and the Perfect Carrot)
-Banana Chips
-Trail Mix
-Popcorn

For lunch, we served Pizza.







Our birthday boy likes ice cream cake, so we got the fun watermelon & orange rolls from Friendly's, as well as a chocolate ice cream cake.

DRINKS

For the kiddos:  Banana Punch

Recipe:  Use a blender to mix the following ingredients, then split into smaller containers & freeze:

-2 mashed bananas

-1 cans (12 oz) Orange Juice Concentrate

-1/2 can (12 oz) Lemonade Concentrate

-1/2 can (46 oz) of Pineapple Juice

- 1.5 cups water

Before the party starts, place the frozen portions in a punch bowl.  Pour unrefridgerated 7-Up over it.

For the adults:

-Monkey Bay wine

-Golden Monkey Beer
-Coffee
-Soda

GOODY BAGS

After printing out a small copies of the "Curious George and the Birthday Surprise" book cover, I used a glue stick to attach the image to plain yellow bags.

Inside the bags, we gave bubbles, slinkies, twirly lollipops, fruit by the foot, and bouncy balls.

We also had some Godparents and adult family members attending (without kids).  

For those guests, we made a mason jar of Banana Bread ingredients with recipe attached, & sent them home with a bunch of bananas with balloons tied to them.

PLAYLIST

Songs to consider for background music... 
some of them are a stretch, but the subtlety is sometimes half the fun!

Curious George Main Title Theme (Dr. John)
Hey, Hey We're the Monkees (Pop Feast)
Upside Down (Jack Johnson)
The Happy Little Monkey's song (Ooh and Aah)
The First Mate is a Monkey (Randy Crenshaw)
Monkey Wrench (Foo Fighters)
Shock the Monkey (Peter Gabriel)
Baby Monkey (Parry Gripp)
Funky Monkey (Siedah Garrett)
I Wanna Be Like You (Phil Harris)
Monkey Song (Big Bopper)
The Monkey Song (Rhythm 'n Kids)
Curious George (JoBoxers)
Follow that Monkey (Jackie Greene)
Life Less Ordinary (Carbon Leaf)
Coconut (Harry Nilsson)
Bouncing Around the Room (Phish)
Proudest Monkey (Dave Matthews)
Baby Monkey (Parry Gripp)

OTHER IDEAS 

Things I've found after-the-fact, that I would have liked to use!
(isn't that always the way?)

Food:

Chocolate Fountain with fruit for dipping (sign: CG goes to a Chocolate Factory)

Pinwheel cupcake toppers
More pinwheel cupcake toppers
Monkey party picks
Pinwheel straws

Favors:

Monkey bubbles
Curious George Tattoos
Treat boxes
Curious George Rings
Bendy monkey figures

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Knight Party- Food & Goodies

FOOD

The party was in the middle of the day- we were serving lunch.

The table was set as a Knights' Feast... with "gold" plates and goblets.  All food was served on silver & pewter platters.  Napkins had knights on them.

White Castle Burgers- I thought the "castle" tied in nicely :)  We bought two "Craver Cases" and served them arranged in their castle boxes on a tiered silver tray.

Chicken Wings- because all knights eat with their hands, right?

Fruit Kebobs with vanilla Greek yogurt dip- because knights will also eat anything on a stick!  (This went faster than anything else!)

Cheese & crackers- with sword toothpicks

Dragon Claws (aka Bugle chips)

Cupcakes- with Knight toppers

DRINK

For the kiddos:

Dragon Juice (aka Melon flavored Gatorade... thought any green "juice" would do)- served in a fancy punch bowl.  This was a big hit!

Apple Cider

For the Adults:

Wine- Castle Rock, Hess (has Gryffindor on label), Barbera D'Asti (has knight on label)

Beer- New Castle, Wee Heavy (has castle on label), Blithering Idiot (has jester on label)

Hot Apple Cider

Coffee

Soda

 

GOODY BAGS

 I got the bags from Meri Meri.

We stuffed them with:
Knight Paper Dolls- (see the "How To" below!)
Knight figurines
Dragon Gliders
Gold Coins

The kids also got to take home their costume, shield and balloon sword.

 How To: Knight Paper Dolls

I found this Knight Paper Doll Book when we were on vacation in Mystic, CT.

Buying one book for each kid seemed excessive, so we decided to give each child one knight, 2 outfits, 1 shield, and 4 weapons.

The book only came with 2 knights, so I photocopied the couple extra I needed on card stock.

Since the kids were ages 3-5, cutting them out would have been really frustrating (heck- it was frustrating for me!!!)

So I did the cutting ahead of time, but needed a way to keep them nicely together.
I created these little "bags" to package them in, using this tutorial for guidance.

I used the cover of the book on the front (so parents would know where to get more if they wished!)



My hubby was impressed- he thought the little packages were store bought!  hee hee!

PLAYLIST

Songs to consider for background music...

The Grand Olde Duke of York- 50 All-time Children's Favorites, vol. 1

Puff the Magic Dragon- Peter, Paul & Mary

We're Knights- The Backyardigans, Born to Play

The Ballad of the Brave Pink Knight- Backyardigans Groove to the Music

Dragon Mountain- The Backyardigans, Born to Play

A Challenge- The Backyardigans, Born to Play

I Just Can't Wait to be King- Lion King Soundtrack

Medieval Dances- Medieval & Renaissance Music

Sticks & Stone- How to Train your Dragon Soundtrack

December 1963 (Oh What a Night)- The Four Seasons

Rain King- Counting Crows

It's Good to be King- Tom Petty

OTHER IDEAS 

Things I've found after-the-fact, that I would have liked to use!
(isn't that always the way?)

Fairy Tale Finger Puppets

Medieval Rubber Duckies
Knight Garland

Wild West Party- Food & Goodies

FOOD

-Western shaped ice cream sandwiches (see below for "how to")

-Hot dogs

-Beans

-Corn on the cob

-Mac & Cheese

-Potato Chips

-Cornbread & Biscuits

-Cactus Juice (green Hawaiian Punch)

-Rootbeer

-Salsa & Chips

-Watermelon

-Cole slaw

-Serve food using baskets & cast iron cookware

GOODY BAGS

-Paper bags gathered at top with "Happy Trails to You" tag.

-Bag  was tied with wild west cowboy ribbon (found at Michael's, but could use twine)

-Coloring/Activity book attached to front with birthday boy's name.

-Sheriff Badges

-Cowtail Candy

-Clip on Mustache

-Horse toy 

How To: Ice Cream Sandwiches

These were really easy... but a little messy!

I had a kit to make them, but you could use cookie cutters (the deeper the sides, the better).

For Chocolate: Bake a batch of Brownies in a large baking pan

For Vanilla: Bake a sheet of Sugar Cookie Batter in a large baking pan

-Take a cookie cutter and cut the desired shape.  

-Gently push the "cookie" in, so it's now at the top of the cookie cutter. 

-Pack ice cream into the bottom of the cookie cutter, leaving about a half inch of the cutter exposed.

-Cut the bottom "cookie" with this same cutter, creating the sandwich inside the cutter.

-While still in the cutter, firmly press the cookies & ice cream together.

-Once you know it's compressed nice & tight, gently push the entire sandwich out of the holder.

-Store on a baking sheet in the freezer (cover with plastic wrap)

-Repeat for as many sandwiches as you need!

OTHER IDEAS 

Things I've found after-the-fact, that I would have liked to use!
(isn't that always the way?)

Barb wire cord

My Pet Cow Balloons

Cow patterned Balloons

Cupcake decorators
Cactus Party Picks

Haystack Hunt- hide little toys in a bale of hay for kids to pick through & find

Stick Pony Races

Potato Sack Races

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