Coolest Dog Party Theme Idea
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This paw-fect party theme idea gives the guests a license to bark, roll over and gnaw on bones.
- THE DOG party pack
offers by far the coolest and most original selection of dog-themed party supplies you'll find anywhere.
Here are a few more Dog party packs for you to compare with:
- Bolt the Dog Party Supplies
- Party Pups Birthday Kit
- Coolest Dog Party Trinkets
- Scooby Doo Supplies
- Party Dogs in a Box Party Supplies
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Lots of visitors from all over the world have contributed their Dog theme party ideas to this section. As you enjoy and find inspiration from the ideas here, take a moment and submit your own Dog party theme idea. You'll be taking part in creating the Web's "coolest" kid birthday party ideas resource that's ALWAYS FREE for everyone to enjoy! |
Dog Invitations
You can create invitations in the shape of dog bones or dog houses. On the front put a little picture of your kid and have it say:
"[child's name] is 42! (in dog years, that is.)" - Remember that the way to know dog years is to multiply the number by seven, so in this case the child is actually six years old. On the back of the invitation write something like: "Come join us for some puppy chow and a howlin' good time. We'll frolic in the sun and it's sure to be a "pawfect" day and some doggone fun!"
Then write the needed information: "Time, date, dog house (or "kennel" whichever you prefer), Woof your ARF!SVP's!!"
The finishing touch can be a paw print on the address label.
A great party theme idea for Dog thank you notes is to use dog language!? Here's how: Print out a picture of your child on the front of the thank you card with a cartoon dialogue balloon saying: "Woof-woof arf Bike grrrrr woof-WOOF! Rrrr, (kid's name)", and at the bottom write "Translation inside". Inside write: "Thank you for the great Bike for my birthday! Love, (kid's name)."
Dog Printables
We've created these cool Dog theme birthday party printable invitations. envelopes and coloring pages for you to download and print:
 Worded Invitation Blank Invitation Env.1 / Env. 2 |
Worded Invitation Blank Invitation Env.1 / Env. 2 |
 Dog Coloring Pages |
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Make sure you also check out these awesome customizable birthday party invitations!
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Dog Decorations
Here's an entire page full of dog pictures, posters, coloring pages, and all sorts of other imagery to help you create awesome homemade decorations and invitations.
Start off with this incredibly cute Dog Banner that you can personalize with your child's name and hang in the party area.
A great party theme idea for decorations is to cut out giant dog bones from white poster board and hang them from the ceiling around the party area. On your balloons you can draw more dog prints and even make each balloon look like a dog face by taping ears and drawing a face, nose and mouth. You can also twist dogs from long balloons - here are simple balloon twisting directions.
Use brown chalk to draw paw prints leading to your house and cut out paw prints and hang all over the walls and floor. Here's a a *life-sized* paw design to help you create paw prints. Just click on the image to print the full-sized prints. |
Put up lots of signs around the party area in dog language and possibly make up a translation and write it in smaller letters underneath the word: "Woof", "Arf", "Bow-Wow", "Ruff-Ruff", etc. On the front door you can put a sign saying "Kennel".
Another cool party theme idea is to stamp your tablecloths with paw-prints so that it seems like dogs and puppies have walked all over the tablecloth. On the table (and around the party area) you can put lots of stuffed animal dogs as centerpieces.
Pitch a tent and put a sign above the entrance saying "Dog House". You can also build a dog house from a big refrigerator box. It's pretty straightforward. Just cut the top off and make it into a triangular roof, then cut out a rectangular door. Paint the body white and the roof a different color and then put a sign on top of the door saying "doghouse". You can have the kids decorate it as part of the icebreaker activity. Check out this Dog House.
At the entrance to the party area, set up a table with a sign above it saying something like "Fifi's Grooming Salon". As the kids arrive, give them dog ears, a dog tail, dog collars, dog tags and paint on them a dog nose.
You can make your own doggie ear headbands by gluing on two pieces of felt or faux fur (ears) on the tops of headbands. For dog noses and whiskers, use black face paint or an eye liner.
You can also have an area that's called the "Veterinarian's Office" with medical equipment and stuffed dogs, and also a "Pet Shop".
Another cool party theme idea is to have dog music playing in the background. Some songs that fit are: "Who Let the Dogs Out", "How Much Is That Doggy In The Window", "B-I-N-G-O", "Wags the Dog" (The Wiggles), "You Ain't Nothin But a Houndog", the Clifford theme song, etc.
Top Tip! Before you buy anything online, make sure to check out the Dog supplies being offered on eBay. Often, you'll find new supplies at a fraction of what they cost at the stores:
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Costumes
 Homemade Dog Costumes |
It's rather easy and fun to create a homemade Dog costume for the birthday child. Take a look at these cool homemade Dog costumes submitted by our visitors with photos and detailed how-to tips... |
Dog Icebreaker Activities
Dog Tags and Collars
Here's a cool party theme idea. Have the kids create their own dog tags by cutting out the bottoms of aluminum plates, punching a hole to put a string, and carving with a point the name of child's name. (Write the child's name backward on the tag's reverse side so that the type is embossed). Make sure to bend the tag's sharp edges. For the collars, use strips of felt with Velcro and have the kids glue plastic beads and jewels to their collars.
Mini Doghouses
Have the kids make their own little doghouses out of small milk cartons with a triangular top. Have them cut out a door and decorate their dog house with markers, crayons, glitter, glue, stickers, etc.
Dog-Bone Biscuit Bakeshop
Before the party, use Dog-Bone cookie cutters to prepare several sugar cookies (bones). You can let the kids knead the ready-made dough and then write their name with chocolate chips. Then they can frost their own cookies with vanilla frosting. Prepare several different kinds of sprinkles and decorations. This can be added later to their favor pack or eaten during the meal.
Dog Cups
Here's a fun-to-make and creative party theme idea. Take brown plastic cups and make them look like a dog. Use a black marker for eyes (or even better, glue on googly eyes), a nose and mouth. Then cut out brown floppy ears from felt, paper, or any other suitable material and tape to the top of the cups.
Homemade Dog Cakes
Check out the cool Dog party theme idea for cakes on coolest-birthday-cakes.com, the Web's largest gallery of homemade birthday cakes. You'll find thousands of cakes submitted by visitors like yourself with photos and how-to tips.
 Dalmatians |
 Poodles |
 Other Dogs |
 Dog Bowls |
 Dog Houses |
 Dog Paws |
| More Character Dog Cakes: | ||
 Blue's Clues |
 Clifford |
 Scooby Doo |
 Wags the Dog |
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Dog Party Food and Drink
Dog Party Theme Idea for Food
You can place many of the foods and snacks in little dog dishes and even give out dog dishes instead of cups and have the kids eat and drink out of them. without using their hands. Heck, it's a dog party, isn't it?
- Hot Diggety DOGS
- Corn DOGS
- Dog Bones: Use a dog-bone cookie cutter and cut bones out of refrigerator dough bread sticks baking it according to package directions. While the bones are still warm, use a little butter or olive oil and brush the tops with it. Then sprinkle the dog bones with a good amount of parmesan cheese. Pour spaghetti sauce or marinara sauce into individual bowls and give them to the kids so that they can dip and eat their yummy doggie treats!!
- Dog Burgers: Use that same dog cookie cutter to create hamburgers in the shape of bones. Cool!
- Raw-hide Bones: Take refrigerated breadstick dough (like Pillsbury), they are about 10" long, halve them and twist a knot on each end, sprinkle with parmesan, bake and they look just like little rawhide bones!
- Raw-hides 'n' Cheese: You can find pasta shapes that look like twisted rawhide sticks (Barilla brand has these). Kids love mac 'n' cheese, so they're sure to go barking up a tree for raw-hides 'n' cheese.
Dog Party Theme Idea for Drinks:
- Dalmatian shakes: Use chocolate chip ice-cream (or simply buy vanilla ice-cream and put chocolate chips in it).
Dog Party Theme Idea for Treats:
- Canine Crunchies: If you really want treats that look like dog treats but are really cookies, let the kids chow down on these great Kooky Chew Treats
- Homemade Puppy Chow: Take one package of chocolate chips, half a cup of peanut butter and a fourth cup of butter, and microwave on high for one minute. Then stir, microwave half a minute more until it's smooth. Then add one teaspoon of vanilla and pour over a large bowl full of 9 cups of Chex and stir. After this, pour everything into a large Ziploc bag, add half a cup of powdered sugar, seal the bag and shake. Then spread evenly on wax paper to cool. This treat resembles dog food and so you can serve it in little doggy dishes.
- Doggie's kibbles and bits: Any mix of dried cereals like Chex.
- Doggy bones made out of meringue
- Doggy Faces: Out of ice cream make little dog faces. Take a large scoop of ice-cream for the head, a melon scoop for the dog's snout, Oreos cut in half for the ears, M&M's for the eyes, and a mini marshmallow for the nose. You can use chocolate-chip or cookies and cream ice-cream (Dalmatian ice cream).
Tip: decorate a cereal box and it's label to look like "Canine Crunches", "Bonzo", "Puppy Chow", etc. to refill the puppy chow during the party.
Birthday Doggie Bags
Brown paper lunch bags can be used as doggie bags (stamp paw prints all over them or make ears on the bag and a dog face). Another cool dog party theme idea is to put all the goodies in Dog Bowls with the names of the kids written on the bowls.
Dog Games and Activities
Here's an entire page with the coolest game ideas for a DOG party theme idea, such as:
- Doggie Drink Race
- Dog Bone Balance
- Barking Contest
- and many more (including visitor-submitted game ideas)...
You should also read these VERY important tips to help you survive (and enjoy) game time!
Your Dog Parties and Ideas
Lots of visitors from around the world have contributed their party theme idea and tips to this site! Click here to see another page full with lots more visitor-submitted Dog birthday ideas.
We'd love for you to take a moment and submit your own Dog party ideas.
Some of our visitors have gone the extra mile and written up their complete Dog party story with photos and everything they did. We call these stories "Party Tales" and they serve as a great inspiration! Take a peek at other people's Dog theme Party Tales and you're sure to find lots more outstanding Dog party ideas:
Holly's Dog Birthday Party Tale (Middleburg Hts, OH)
If you'd like share your complete party with us, then once your party is over, send us your own PARTY TALE and we'll create your very own theme party page and photo gallery that's hosted on our site! (Family, friends and just about anybody will be able to find inspiration from your child's birthday party and comment on YOUR party theme idea!)
