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Puppy Birthday Party Ideas for Kids
Need puppy birthday party ideas for your kids? Or maybe gathering some details to celebrate a milestone with your dog? My daughter's 9th birthday party is all things puppy! An avid dog lover, she jumped at the chance to have a puppy party in conjunction with Humane Society donations, making this our first official “ Party With A Cause ” on the blog!
How do you throw a puppy birthday party?
Would you like to “lend a paw” and try a donation party too? It's pretty easy to do starting with the invitation. { Read more about how to host a donation party coming soon }
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Puppy Birthday Party Invitation
On the invitation let people know what you'd like them to do. If you're requesting donations add it to the details.
This puppy invitation with the stylish “pawty animals” is perfect for the slightly older crowd. Set the stage for the party fun with a fun digital design that's cost effective and easy to edit. If you're not hosting a donation party, just delete that line! You can find this invitation* in the SHOP.
* 20% of all the proceeds will also benefit the Utah Humane Society
You've got the invite, now you need a plan …..and I've got you covered.
Puppy party entrance.
It's so nice to have something at the entrance of a party to let guests know there are in the right place. You can greet them with something as simple as this bone & tennis ball wreath. Or check out the party package welcome sign in the SHOP.
Decide your Color Scheme
For a girl's puppy birthday party the purple, teal, and blue worked well. Then start shopping for your supplies. This corgi plate has a cleaner feel and even though it's not dressed up, we decided she needed to come to the party!
What should I do for my dog party?
Choose your puppy birthday party activities.
Activities that keep children engaged are the best. Quick craft projects, something active, or an educational lesson are great places to start. Here are a couple perennial favorites:
Adopt a Puppy Activity
Adopting a puppy is the perfect activity for a dog themed party and makes the ideal take home favor.
Dog House Photo Booth Activity
A puppy photo booth is another great way to get guests involved in this dog party! Dressing up and acting like a pup helps burn energy and foster imagination. Especially with fun puppy ears and dog themed photo props.
Need more puppy activity ideas?
You can find details on all FIVE of our puppy activities here: Puppy Party Activities For Kids . And if you still haven't found what you're looking for there's a whole slew of 20+ Dog themed puppy party activity ideas ! So many ways to get kids involved and having fun.
Decide on Your Menu
But right now you might be most concerned with which snacks to serve at a puppy birthday party. At Parties With A Cause we like to keep our menus lower in sugar , with added protein so you can enjoy the day without a bunch of kids bouncing off the walls!
Our main event was a build-your-own puppy pizza bar. With fire hydrant cheese slices of course! You can find our whole puppy party food menu here .
Next up: Determine Focal Points
Puppy party focal point #1: food table.
Now choose your main area of focus and design it! The food table is usually the main event. And there are several ways to make it special:
- Backdrop : Use a backdrop graphic like this darling pug
- Balloons: Add balloons in your party theme colors with some puppy paws or confetti balloons thrown in. They can be a complex balloon garland or as simple as these tied helium balloons.
- Banner : Using a banner for the table is a fun way to add personality your event. Banner* is available in the SHOP.
- Food Labels : Having clever food names customizes your party menu and makes regular foods WAY more fun! Food tents* available in the SHOP.
*20% of all the proceeds will also benefit the Utah Humane Society
Puppy Party Focal Point #2: Dining Table
The next area of focus is usually the dining table. Now that you've got your colors selected it comes down down to the details. Items you want included in a tablescape:
- Table cover: Plastic covers are shown in the photo, which makes clean up a breeze, but not necessary if you have a pretty table or are trying to reduce your party garbage.
- Table runner: We used two runners here – a strip of paw print gift wrap, and a grass table runner you may recognize from my Big Game Football Party and our Garden Party Inspired Easter table .
- Place settings: Start with your patterned plate { or plates depending on what you serve }, then add color coordinated cutlery, napkins, cups, and straws { optional }. Napkins are another opportunity to add color and pattern.
- Then finish it up with as many details as you desire to make your vision a reality.
Puppy Party Table Details
Centerpieces are a big deal for a tablescape so it's a little surprising at the simplicity of these: Potted faux plants and a couple of French Bulldog Salt and Pepper shakers atop gold candlesticks.
I told you that was easy! Just goes to show it doesn't have to be complicated.
For a little more fun we added a dog bowl and dog house to each place. The dog houses held edible doggy biscuits and were quite the topic of conversation! Then, we actually served cake and ice cream in the dog bowls!
We chose not to create seating assignments, but these darling little houses are the perfect opportunity to customize with guests names.
Finally, round out your table with accessories like a paw print straw topper and sweet French Bulldog to show you were paying attention!
But you can have attention to detail without paying a ton of money!
- Straw toppers are created using a couple of paper punches and scrap card stock
- I've seen Bulldog figurines in higher end shops but keep an eye out at dollar stores and thrift shops for big savings. I snagged these cuties at Dollar Tree.
Wrapping up the Puppy Birthday Party
I arranged the donations on my hutch to get the guests excited about the magnitude of their impact. We spent a few minutes talking about the mission of the Humane society . Why the animals end up there and how important it is to understand the responsibility of owning a pet. Most dogs end up there because the family changes their mind.
Are we ready to get a dog?
Keep a pet out of the shelter by doing a little homework. What are some ways to know you're ready to have a dog!?
- Are you big enough to take it out? Feed it? Clean up after it?
- Do you have a backyard?
- If not, can you take your dog for a walk EVERY DAY?
- Maybe pet sit for a friend or neighbor to try it out before you make your final decision.
When the party is all done, gather up your donations and drop them off to the shelter. Hug your birthday child and let them know what a difference they made to the dogs. You should all feel really proud of yourselves. Once they feel how great it is to serve while having fun , they might just want to do it again. And again. Creating a habit of service that will last a lifetime.
The power of one is amazing, but the power of the YOUNG one is exponential! – Bri Adams, Parties With A Cause
Join the movement and commit to hosting a party with a cause this year! Little things can make a big difference to elevate your next event!
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Additional Puppy Themed Birthday Party Reading:
- 21+ Puppy Themed Birthday Party Food Ideas
- 20 Dog Themed Puppy Party Activity Ideas
- Puppy Party Activities for Kids
- How to Host a Donation Party { coming soon }
Until next time my friend,
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Where do you get the collars for the stuff dogs up for adoption?
Sadly they’re no longer available but they were just cute bracelet favors. This is a similar option that is even cuter in my opinion. https://amzn.to/3B36GV2 Or these black and white rubber bracelets could probably work on the plush dogs too. https://amzn.to/3J7xHcV
Hi where can I find the mini dog houses? Bowls? Leashes? Thanks
I picked up the bowls and leashes at the Dollar Tree. I make the mini dog houses and they are available in the Etsy shop. https://www.etsy.com/listing/771042396/puppy-party-dog-house-favor-boxes-puppy
Where can I purchase the pug backdrop? Absolutely amazing.
I’ve added the link to the post – thank you for letting me know it was missing. But here it is again to make it easy. It’s SUCH a cute one. I agree. I fell in love when I found it. https://amzn.to/3w7qx1X Have fun!
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Where Did The Phrase “The Dog Ate My Homework” Come From?
Dogs are known as man’s best friend. Dogs keep us safe, are hard workers … and can provide a handy excuse in a pinch. Maybe that’s why versions of the classic expression the dog ate my homework have been around for hundreds of years.
Today, the dog ate my homework is used as a stock example of the kind of silly excuses schoolchildren give for why their work isn’t finished. Very rarely do people say, “the dog ate my homework” and expect it to be taken literally; they use the expression as an example of a typically flimsy excuse.
So where did the phrase come from?
Forrest Wickman, a writer for Slate , describes the legend of the 6th-century Saint Ciarán of Clonmacnoise as the alleged first recorded “the dog ate my homework” story. According to the tale, Saint Ciarán had a tame young fox that would take his writings to his master for him. One day, the fox grew up and decided to eat the leather strap binding the writings together instead. Still, this tale is more Garden-of-Eden parable and less terrible schoolchild excuse.
The notion that dogs will eat just about anything, including paper, turns up in lots of stories over the centuries. An example comes from The Humors of Whist , published in 1808 in Sporting Magazine . In the story, the players are sitting around playing cards when one of them remarks that their companion would have lost the game had the dog not eaten the losing card. Good boy.
Some attribute the creation of the dog ate my homework to a joke that was going around at the beginning of the 20th century. In a tale found as far back as an 1894 memoir by Anglican priest Samuel Reynolds Hole, a preacher gives a shortened version of a sermon because a dog got into his study and ate some of the pages he had written. However, the clerk loved it because they had been wanting the preacher to shorten his sermons for years.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary , the first example of the dog ate my homework excuse in print can be found in a speech given by retiring headmaster James Bewsher in 1929 and published in the Manchester Guardian : “It is a long time since I have had the excuse about the dog tearing up the arithmetic homework.” The way this comment is phrased suggests that the whole dog ate my homework story had been around for some time before it was put in print.
When was the word homework created?
But in order for a dog to eat homework specifically, homework had to be invented (oh, and how we wish it hadn’t been). True, the word homework , as in what we call today housework , appears as early as 1653. But homework , as in school exercises to be done at home, isn’t found until 1852. Once we had homework , it was only a matter of time before the dog was accused of eating it.
How we use this phrase now
No matter the origin, sometime in the 1950s, the expression became set as the dog ate my homework . This inspired any number of riffs on the theme, like my cow ate my homework or my brother ate my homework . In the 1960s, the dog ate my homework continued to gain popularity. The expression popped up a couple times in politics over the years, like when President Reagan said to reporters in 1988, “I had hoped that we had marked the end of the ‘dog-ate-my-homework’ era of Congressional budgetry … but it was not to be.”
It seems unlikely that the dog ate my homework was ever used consistently or frequently by actual schoolchildren. In fact, it’s the unlikeliness of the story that makes it so funny and absurd as a joke. Instead, teachers and authority figures appear to have cited the dog ate my homework many times over the years as such a bad excuse they can’t believe students are really using it.
In the 21st century, students don’t spend as much time working with physical pen and paper as they once did. That may contribute to the decline in the use of the phrase. So, maybe soon we’ll see a new equally absurd phrase pop up. Come on Zoomers, you’ve got this.
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The Dog Ate My Homework - S31E13 Winner
Season 31, Episode 13
All of this week's videos got us totally amped, but only one of them can be crowned the champ!
Our three finalists are...
Stink Eye-Phone - The Batiste Family - Fresno, TX
When her older twin siblings got new iPhones for their birthday, this little girl gave them the gift of stink-eye.
The Dog Ate My Homework - The Fabel Family - South San Francisco, CA
A classic excuse became reality when the family dog actually ate this little girl's homework. Good thing the home security camera caught it all on tape so she can show her teacher the evidence!
Sasquatch Scare - The Bird Family - Bennington, NE
A family hayride turns to terror when Sasquatch makes an appearance. When the hairy beast later reveals himself as a family friend in costume, the tears turn to laughs.
And the $10,000 Winner is...
The family dog Duke is notorious for getting into things he's not suppose to, so it didn't come as a surprise when Mom Cassie found out he got his paws and teeth on daughter Lexie's homework. Luckily Lexie was able to show her teacher the security camera video as proof that she wasn't just using "the dog ate my homework" classic excuse. What will the family do with the prize money? Definitely buy Duke some chew toys!
Do you have a furry friend that's always getting into trouble? Upload your video for a chance to win like the Fable Family!
The dog ate my homework.
Here we are at the head of another week, and due to a king sized serving of goofing off these last seven days, I don’t have much in the way of offerings, so instead I’ll just say my birthday week has come and passed, and I was surprised by a full array of friends from near and far.
I can’t recall a time in my recent life when I felt so wholly loved, and I can’t begin to say how much my heart needed it.
And because I’ve been goofing off, and not really paying too much energy into the artisanally crafted barage of jibberjabber that usually lives here, I’ll just instead post a whole bunch of photos, which hopefully will suffice until next week, when I can offer a proper post, maybe.
I would also like to share an email and video I received from Cranpa , which I have a suspicion this here readership might like;
Stevil, Check out this Rumble video, one party rowdy, two parts kind. Another strange direction my life has turned! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Emu7KDnsrN0 Video can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: A DIFFERENT BMX CONTEST – RUMBLE IN RICHMOND (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Emu7KDnsrN0) Hope you like it, if not- go fuck yourself! – Wu Tang Cran
If I didn’t like it, I would happily go fuck myself. But I did. I loved it. I have goosebumps. Measuring engine power by the number of its Larry Edgars? Easily the most brilliant thing I’ve heard today.
Anyhü, if you didn’t watch it, go ahead. It’s ok, I’ll wait…
Even though they live many hundreds of miles apart, Mikey and Caro are just kindof a package deal, and have always been the Moe and Larry to my Curly, or something like that.
It felt really cool to have the gang back together
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5 Responses to “The dog ate my homework.”
So the jackets my wife and I have in the closet are now worth 5,200 $ ….. punks not dead it’s just a click away with your Amex card Keep bringing the awesome
For real: the art show glasses are *ridiculous*, so where can I get mine?
My Italian fashion designer cousin, Stephano Kineviltini made them for me.
Seems like something the Stevil store needs available. 🤔
Happy BeeDay StEVIL
Long time reader first time commenter from way back in the foggy brackish lowlands of Golden, CO
Keep on takin it easy & keepin the rubber side down for the rest of us sinners
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