Scooby Doo Party- Food & Goodies

Details

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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Scooby Doo Party- Games & Activities

Details

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

Games & Activities

As the children arrived, they jumped in the Bounce House until everyone was there.

We then ate lunch and as they finished, the children got to pick out stick on tattoos.

Once that gang was fed & had their tattoos, they were told that the phantom had stolen all of Scooby's dog bones!  Could they help find them?  We had hidden about 60 milk bones around the back yard for them to hunt. The four & five year olds LOVED this.

Next we told the kids that ghosts had stolen Scooby's treasure as we lead them to the "Ghost Garden".  Here we had white balloons that I had inserted quarters into before inflating.  Then I drew faces on each balloon with a black sharpie.  The children had to pick a ghost and pop it to get the treasure back.  They got to keep the quarters.

By now, the table was cleared of the lunch food, and we returned to pick out stuffed puppies from "Scooby's Adoption Center".  The kids each picked out their puppy and then made a beaded collar for them.  They were also able to make a matching bracelet for themselves.


The stuffed dogs, beads & elastic string were all purchased from Oriental Trading.  We kept with the blue/green/orange/purple color theme.

This activity was great for reinforcing the patterns that they had been learning about in school recently.





We sang happy birthday and had cupcakes.

 Then it was time for the pinata.

I made the conscious decision to get a pull-string pinata, since I couldn't see beating up a Scooby pinata with a stick!

We've tried pull string pinatas in the past where each child took a turn pulling one string... and it never worked (we always ended up just ripping it & dumping the candy out from above their heads).

This time we had all of the kids select a string and pull at the same time.

This worked so much better!  The pinata opened, and all of the children were centrally located under it, so everyone got to scoop up goodies.






I made little orange & blue "Doggie Bags" for them to hold their treats in.











The party wrapped up with children returning to the bounce house for a bit.

Additional ideas

-"Mummy Wrap"- Split kids into teams and have them pick one person to be the Mummy.  Give them a roll or two of toilet paper and have them race to make a mummy out of the selected team member.  This could roll right into a game of "Mummy Tag" where the mummies are "it".

-There are lots of ideas online for making a scavenger hunt, putting rhyming clues at each game/activity.

-We did a Doggie Bone Hunt, but you could also do a "Doggy Bone Toss", where the bones had to be thrown into a doggy bowl placed a few feet away.  Or, if really ambitious, you could make a carnival-style sign of Scooby with a hole for his mouth that the kids could throw the bones through!

-"Scooby, Scooby, Phantom"- Played just like Duck, Duck, Goose!

-Pin the tag on Scooby

-"Velma's Glasses"- One child is selected to be "Velma" and closes their eyes & counts to ten.  Meanwhile the other children are given a pair of glasses to pass behind their backs.  Velma then has to guess who has them.

Add your ideas in the comments below!

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Scooby Doo Party- Invitations & Decorations

DETAILS

This party was for a 5 year old boy.

It was held in October, outdoors in a field.

INVITATIONS

We came up with two designs and let the birthday boy pick the one he liked best...

Birthday boy chose this one!

We printed them up four to a page on cardstock.  

On the back of them we printed a bat with the year.
This makes it a cute momento for the baby book.

DECORATIONS

The best part about having a Scooby Doo Party in October is that we could decorate for Halloween & it goes with the theme!

So, aside from bats, spiders & other Halloween decor, we went with a purple/blue/orange/green color theme.

Since the party was being held outside in a field, we put up a 10x10 party tent to serve as a "base" for the food & drinks.

We set up a variety of tables to  serving food & drinks from.



We hung paper lanterns & streamers in the tent.

We had tables set up in the field for the kids.  

The table accessories included:

-Scooby Lunch Plates

-Dog noses

-Blow horns

-a Scooby Doo lunch box to anchor balloons

-Purple & black table runner (bought a large roll of it at TJMaxx during last year's halloween clearance)

- a Scooby Doo Happy Meal bucket to hold cookies

A couple of other fun finds that we used to decorate were: 

-an inflatable blue alien won at the county fair this summer

-New doggie bowls to use as serving bowls

-The Christmas Tree Shoppe had a summer clearance sale with all kinds of blue/green/orange plates, placemats, tableclothes, paper plates, napkins, and paper lanterns

-Helium balloons

-Lava Lamp

OTHER IDEAS 

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

Scooby treat bucket

Balloon Bouquet

Add your ideas in the comments below!

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Corned Beef & Cabbage Paninis

For the Saint Patrick's Day Brunch, we decided to have a Soup & Sandwich option.  We came up with the corned beef & cabbage paninis as a way to put a new twist on a traditional St. Paddy's Day meal.

Ingredients:

Bread- we used italian loaf, sliced pretty thin

Corned Beef- thin sliced from deli

Cooked Cabbage- Cook in water with a little beer, mustard seed, salt & pepper.  Cut into bite size pieces (otherwise sandwich will pull apart when trying to bite through it!)

Dill Mustard Chapagne Sauce (I found at TJ Maxx)

Gouda Cheese

Butter

Directions:

-Butter outsides of bread

-Spread Dill Mustard Sauce on insides of bread

-Stack Corned Beef, Cooked Cabbage & Gouda Cheese on bread

Since we were doing an "Open House" style buffet, we made the sandwiches ahead of time and used toothpicks to hold them together on the platter.  The panini maker was on the side of the buffet, so guests could take their sandwich and heat it themselves (so it was nice & hot when they were ready to eat it).

These went really well with the Potato Cheese Soup!

Potato Cheese Soup Recipe

Long overdue... I'm finally getting around to posting recipes from the Saint Patty's Day brunch.

We kind of winged it (which is the reason I don't have amounts of each listed below).
I wish I took up close photos of the food... this is the best I've got!

Ingredients:

Potatoes- cooked in salted water

Baby Carrots- cooked in salted water

Beer- 1 bottle

Cream

Beef Broth

Velveeta Cheese

Green Onion

Bacon

Salt

Pepper

Minced Onion

Blend in blender- potatoes & carrots with cream, beer & Broth

Added blended ingredients to crock pot with:

Velveeta cheese

Green Onion - chopped

Bacon - chopped

Celery Seed

Salt

Pepper

Minced Onion

Cooked for a three hours in crock pot

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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