The Webkinz Party

Yesterday, we packed in all of the possible birthday fun with a Webkinz birthday party. Since this isn't a well established theme for a birthday, we had to make up more of the decor and games ourselves. Turns out that is a good thing, it was pretty inexpensive and pretty easy to pull off. Since Webkinz are just stuffed animals at heart, we used mostly animals for everything we did. Each of the kids brought their favorite Webkinz or stuffed animal, which turned out to be good on many levels. We had quite the crowd, so while kids were waiting for their turn at a game, they would play with their animals. Pretty handy.

A glimpse at our fun.
Gavin and his new Webkinz.

The brownies.

The spread- Zoopals plates and cups never fail.

At Gav's suggestion, I even created some Webkinz wrapping paper.
The party favors- some animal stickers, airheads, a tiny bean bag animal and a random sports whistle.
Then the Games-
Pin the Tail on the Webkinz... ours was a dalmation.

Don't Eat Wacky... (modified version of Don't Eat Pete). Claire was quite nervous about participating, what a good mom helping her.

The latest Webkinz craze... Gem Hunting at the Curio Shop. There was no pick-axe, just looking under 'rocks' for gems (polished rocks) or slag (gravel from the driveway).

And a good little guessing quiz game... no one really got close, but they seemed to have fun trying to think of a high number.

I made individual brownies, it was much less messy than cupcakes, and no drawn out discussions with Gavin about his aversion to strange colors of frosting etc.

Wrap up the fun with presents and playing with stuffed animals. What could be better?