How to Throw an Awesome Paw Patrol Birthday

INSIDE: Plan the ultimate Paw Patrol birthday party, with tips on decorations, food, and more to create a fun and memorable celebration for your little one

Paw Patrol is a HUGE hit in our family. We all love those pups!!! So for a certain pair of 4 year olds, we planned the perfect Paw Patrol Birthday!

Keeping to my fool proof planning guide, we planned an awesome Paw Patrol Birthday Party.

Theme

My nephew and youngest daughter are about 2 months apart, so we often have combo parties for them. This was no exception.

My sister and I consulted with the kids on the theme. They agreed to Paw Patrol and off we went. 

Location

As I’ve mentioned before, I love having kids parties at my home because I can do so much more. Such as, have a variety of food items, decorations, and we can have the party at our own pace. More on these things in a minute. 

But a few ideas if you would rather have the celebration outside of your house:

• Trampoline park
• Local gymnasium
• Park with swings, slides etc
• Local YMCA

Remember kids this age like to make a mess, expend energy, and have fun. Most of these places will let you rent a room with the activities.

Date

Since one kid’s birthday is in March, the other is May and we wanted to wait for school to be out, we picked June 5th. Most of our parties are on Saturday, but for this one we did Sunday afternoon because there was a concert in town on Saturday. 

Remember to consider holidays, weekends, when your venue is available, and potential other parties.

Invitations

For this party, I went on Etsy and searched for Paw Patrol. I found a TON of super cute invitations. After purchasing the invitation from an Etsy store, I printed the invitations at Walgreen’s. A 4×6 print is 29 cents…..so $5.99 for the personalized, digital invitation and $5.80 for 20 prints. Total of $12 – not bad, considering if you purchase 20 hand written invitations at Target – you’d spend $10 plus tax and your poor hand to write all the info……

Decorations

Next, I searched Amazon, because why go to a store when you can shop in your jammies!! They had almost everything we needed for decorations including plates, table cover, napkins, and party favors! Also if you wanted to add balloons – click here for another option. We also made our own centerpieces.

Centerpieces

Supplies –

• Printer paper
• Construction paper
• Bamboo sticks
• Shredded paper fill
• Foam bricks
• Plastic baskets

Instructions

1. Go online and print out pictures of the pups
2. Have the kids color the pictures
3. Glue the pictures to a piece of coordinating color construction paper
4. Tape or glue the kabob sticks to the construction paper in several places
5. Cut the brick foam to fit in the plastic baskets
6. Push the kabob sticks into the foam
7. Cover the foam with the shredded paper until the basket is full

Food

Now for the NUM NUMs!!!! I found these super cute dog food bowls at Dollar Tree, they were perfect for our kid friendly finger foods. 

I have ton of colorful trays and bowls from various different parties, which we use for almost every party now.

Menu

• Cheeseburger Sliders
• Homemade cheese pizza
• Chicken nuggets
• “Pigs in a blanket” or hot dogs wrapped in crescent rolls
• Popcorn
• Cheese balls
• Fruit tray

As for a cake…..we like cupcakes much better. When thinking about children and cakes….I kinda cringe. Blowing out candles – ummmmm, not post COVID. Cupcakes are safer, you can still sing, one candle on the birthday kiddos cupcakes means they are the only ones exposed to their germs!!!

Games (or lack thereof)

For this party, I did not plan any games. The kids wanted to open presents and play with whatever they got. I was completely fine with this idea. When we have double parties, like this one, we stay pretty busy. 

But if you check out this post from Crayons and Spice, you will get some great ideas.

Goody Bags

Now, let’s talk about the goody bags, I cannot say this enough…..do not waste your money on useless, pointless stuff. Do not send kids home with things that make a mess, annoy parents, or cause hyperactivity. It’s just mean!!!

I found little stuffed puppies in bulk here, enough for each kid to “adopt” one and take it home. Using these printed adoption certificates, each child named their puppy before they got their goody bag. The goody bags also had a pencil, a keychain/dog tag, ruler, and a bag of veggie straws. 

Remember the most important part of all of this……HAVE FUN!!!!

Happy Partying,

Have you had a Paw Patrol Birthday Party? Share your pictures with us!!!!!