Dora the Explorer Party

Mural to take pictures with. Sample painted on 5x7' foamcore using overhead projector and coloring book. Trace picture with fine point permanent marker onto an overhead transparency. Project the image onto the foamcore, trace lines with a pencil or permanent marker then paint.  Have guests take pictures with Dora and print those to go in the thank you cards.

Decorations:

Fiesta theme (piñata, streamers, bright colors)

Goodie bags (purple bags like Backpack from craft store):

• Sipper cups (Oriental Trading Company)
• Bracelets (yellow pony beads, blue foam flowers, white buttons) (*more detail below)
• Roll up coloring pages printed from Nick Jr.
• Dora stickers (OTC)
• Camera kaleidoscopes (OTC)
• Dora fruit chews (individual packets in the fruit snack isle of grocery store)

Activity ideas:

• Bracelets (blue flowers, white buttons, stretchy string, yellow beads)
• Have “kits” prepared ahead of time with just enough beads to go around child’s wrist. Let them string the beads and then tie them for a bracelet.
• Coloring Dora pictures printed from Nick Jr. (put bucket of crayons on table covered with a tablecloth)
• Pinata - burro shape or yellow star (check party supply places or make your own star)
• Scavenger hunt - follow a map

Food:

• Punch (Hi-C orange won’t stain carpet or clothes like red punch)
• Mexican finger foods like mini quesadillas (use cookie cutters to cut out stars), tacos, etc.
• Star shaped like Pinata
• Cupcake Pull apart – Grocery store bakeries will make 18-24 cupcakes into any shape you want and frost it all as one design. Then the kids just pull off the cupcake they want. You could do a piñata shape, star shape, or even Dora herself.
• Use solid color plates and napkins from dollar store instead of Dora print (pink, orange, yellow)

Bead bracelets

     Use shaped hole punch to punch 2" flowers from blue Fun Foam. Put a dome topped white button through the center of the flower with the button shank pushing through to the other side. Run elastic string through the button shank (long enough to go around a child's wrist and be tied in a knot). Put the flowered elastic in a small container with enough yellow pony beads to fit around the child's wrist. Kids string the beads and an adult ties it off.