“Make your day kitty-riffic!”
Invitations
- Sticker cards – take either construction paper or card stock (thick paper.) Add lots of popular cat stickers on them (Garfield, Hello Kitty, etc.) The greeting could be something like this:
Meow Meow Meow
_(name)_ is turning 4, WOW!
Join us at __(Address)__, that is the house.
You will leave with a smile just like you ate a mouse!
_(time)_ is the time and please give _(phone number)_ an RSVP call.
This will be a party to remember, you might even cough up a hair ball!
Decorations
- Cat Litter Box Cake – bake a square cake in a 8 X 8 or 9 X 9 pan (use your favorite boxed cake.) Place the cake into a “lining or NEW litter box.” If you don’t have that, a cardboard box/ trash bag liner works the same. To decorate you… mix 1 box of vanilla pudding (prepared by the directions on box) and about 10 – 20 vanilla sandwich cookies (crushed.) Ice the cake with that mixture. Crumble up some extra vanilla sandwich cookies split that mixture up and add green food coloring to ½. Sprinkle cake with the green and plain mixture. You will need about 5 tootsie rolls. Heat them in microwave until pliable. Bend them in any fashion you wish and lay them on top of the cake to represent – well, you know!
- Have all the children wear cat or mouse ears
- Hang fun things from your ceiling, like cat toys!
Favors
- Growing Cat Nip – find small flower pots at your local $ store. Have the children paint them with cat faces. Fill them with dirt along with cat nip, water and watch their kitties grow cat nip hair!
- Goodie Bags - Fill goodie bags with popular cat items like “Hello Kitty” or “Garfield.”
Games
- Mouse Hunt – Have one person be the “mouse (typically the birthday child.)” You then clip close pins all over them and have the other children race to get them off. The child with the most “mice (clothes pins)” at the end, wins!
- Scratching Post – Break the kids down into partners. Give each group a small ball of yarn (the smaller the yarn, the quicker the game goes.) Have one child wrap the yarn around the other child’s hands or feet. The team that unwraps the yarn the fastest is the winner. To get the yarn back onto the spindle, play the game again and have them wrap it around the spindle.
- Cat Catch – one person is IT. He/she gets blindfolded. The other guests are assigned animals (one person is assigned a cat.) The animals and the IT person crawl around the floor making their animal sounds. The object is for IT to tag the cat. Once that happens you can switch who is IT. (this can be adapted for many different animal parties.)
Crafts
- Make Meow Mix – get a bunch of snacks and have the children put them together to make their own snack (examples: popcorn, chocolate candy, nuts, pretzels, etc.)
- Making Cat Dishes – buy a cat bowl for each child attending ($ store.) Have each child decorate with puffy paint ($ store.) Do this as one of the first crafts so they can use this while eating at the party.
- Face Painting – get a creative adult to paint the child’s faces like kitties. Black nose, whiskers, stripes, spots and ears. You don’t have to have too many artistic skills.
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Cat Party