Puppy Adoption Birthday Party

   This past November, my daughter turned 5 years old! 5 years old! I can hardly believe that I have a five year old (insert ugly crying face here)!
   She has been asking for a puppy lately, and she wanted one for her birthday. Now while we love animals in our house, especially puppies, we have allergies, so the next best thing was to throw her a puppy party! So I came up with a Puppy Adoption Party!
   It turned out to be a very fun day and all her friends had a blast, and they loved the idea of taking home a cute little stuffed puppy of their very own. Hopefully she forgets all about a real puppy, at least for a while.
   First thing I did to plan this party was search for the adorable puppies for Charlotte and her friends to adopt. I found the cutest ones from the My Life Doll collection from www.walmart.ca/search/my%20life. They were the perfect size and there were so many options to please all her friends.
   To display the puppies, I used this crate I already had at home and just added this cute fleece dog blanket that I found at the dollar store. I found this wood sign at the dollar store too, and just added some sticker letters that spelled out "Adorable Puppies". Couldn't be any easier!
 

   I found some gable boxes with paw prints on them from  www.creativebag.com and cut out openings in them to make them look like dog houses. Once each puppy was adopted, they could put them in their own doghouse. In each box, was a dog leash and dog bowl, as well as a certificate for them to name their new puppy!

 
   The food was going to be kept very simple. We had the party at an indoor play place and only had a two hour allotment, so I couldn't go too crazy with an elaborate menu.
   We served pizza, hot dogs, snacks, cupcakes and, of course, the birthday cake. I had a simple candy bar set up as well. Serving hot dogs was a given, but I thought I'd kick it up a notch by having a little menu sign made up with ways to dress up your hot dogs.

    The sign also matched the birthday invitation and some of the other signs we had set up around the party.
   The candy bar included chocolates in the shape of dog bones and paw prints, made by me, and I found these adorable Scottish Terrier gummies in pink and black (which also happened to be the colour scheme for the party).

   I served the treats in these plastic containers found in the pet section of the dollar store, and had tented food labels made up. All the snacks were served in black and white dog bowls found in the pet section too!
   Along with the birthday cake, we had mini cupcakes in chocolate and vanilla topped with the cutest puppy cupcake picks!

   
   The birthday cake was from the grocery store, and consisted of two cakes stacked on top of each other and left with just plain white icing. I wanted it simple because I had this amazing cake topper that I wanted to use and it turned out even better than I thought! And believe it or not, the cake tasted amazing! This is going to be how we do birthday cakes from now on!

   The adorable topper was from Eden and Company, and it was sparkly and pretty and perfect.

  All in all, the party was a great success and the most important part was that my daughter had the best time with her friends and family.

PRINTABLES: www.loveitsoirees.com  www.howsweet.ca  www.etsy.com

STATIONARY: {invitations, thank you sign and tags, menu card} One Creative Bee

PHOTOGRAPHY: Jessica Groomes Photography

CUPCAKE TOPPERS: www.amazon.ca