Celebrating my daughter’s birthday has been really funny.
She has chosen Doc McStuffins theme, after watching this cartoon for about 20 hours on a flight from Italy to Melbourne (that’s a lot, I know!!!). I didn’t know anything about it since 3 weeks ago, when she decided to have her birthday party with this theme. I must admit I quite like Dottie, a nice girl who likes taking care of others (especially toys).
I started planning ASAP; first of all the invitations. This is what I made:
Front envelope
Back envelope
Front card recalls Dottie’s headband
template I used for the invitation
After that, I started preparing the decorations:
on the front door bilingual sign
simple home-made garland
lots of paper hearts hanging from the ceiling
a big sparkling number 5 surrounded by balloons
the table is set with matching coloured deco
In the meantime I started thinking about the cake (recipe and design) and I decided to bake a vanilla sponge cake with chocolate buttercream covered by marshmallow fondant.
Doc McStuffins cake
I also baked chocolate chips muffins with buttercream icing
There were chips, popcorn, pizza, grissini, M&Ms, marshmallows to fill up the little guests’ tummies.
To entertain the guests I prepared a few things:
heart-shaped crayons
first activity was colouring in Doc Mcstuffins while waiting for all the guests to arrive
These are the ones I used: DMS_TFYC_coloring_FIN
When all the guests were there, I read them a short Doc McStuffins story to make sure everybody knew the character of our party.
Next I gave each guest a doctor badge
free template
doctor badge to wear 🙂
then I called out each “Doctor” name once at the time and gave each doctor a paper “doctor” bag
simple coloured in red cross
They were now ready to fill in the bag with a few doctor’s tools they had to find in a treasure hunt.
stethoscope made with pipe cleaners, head band, felt
syringe bought at a local pharmacy and thermometer made out of an ice-cream stick
Once they had found everything they needed, they were ready to visit their patients:
very busy clinic
After eating the cake I explained to the guests that all good doctors say “an apple a day, keeps the doctor away” and we went to play a great apple game:
try to bite the swinging apple with your hands behind your back
That was really good fun for everybody!
After that we tested another sense: touch (and luck) by pinning the tail (try to put a plaster on a toy):
Finally I decided our guest deserved a special kind of plaster:
tattoo, everybody likes tattoos
That has been a lovely party, we thanked our guests with a little treat:
to be taken after party’s check ups
It’s been a very hectic tiring week but worth it!
moving around mum 
wow! avrei voluto esserci, sembra tutto così divertente!!! *-*
complimenti e auguri alla piccola! ^_^
grazie, in effetti ci siamo divertiti tutti 🙂
Che splendida festa e che mamma meravigliosa 🙂
grazie, troppo gentile! io mi sono divertita a prepararla ma la cosa più importante è che i bimbi si siano divertiti 🙂