Dora the Explorer
Birthday Party Ideas
Get your little explorers ready for these Dora the Explorer party ideas with a birthday party full of Dora the Explorer games and Dora the Explorer birthday party ideas that are full of adventure and loaded with fun!
Printable Invitations
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Here is a thumbnail of the invitation. Click on the picture to download the invitation. After downloading you'll need the Adobe Acrobat Reader to view and print the invitation. You need to print the invitation on a "Letter" format page. After printing, fold the page once across with blank side inside, and then fold again.
DECORATIONS
Get off to an adventurous start by putting a Dora Star Banner on the door to welcome your child’s little birthday guests. Inside give your home a jungle feel with green streamers and green balloons strewn about. Highlight with orange, purple and pink balloons and paper tissue flowers. Make these beautiful and safe tissue flowers with green, orange, purple, pink and yellow tissue paper, glue and elastic bands or twist-ties. To make the stem, overlap layers of three or four sheets of green tissue lengthwise. Apply glue up the center and twist to the layers together to make a long stem. To make the face of the flower, ball up a sheet of colored tissue into a circle. Choose a color to match and enhance the color of the flower head for petals, and gather about six sheets around the center, letting them fall loosely open in a petal fashion. Gather the ends of the six sheets at the flower head, lengthwise again. Use an elastic band or twist tie to secure the flower head and the petals to the stem. Decorate with Dora and Boots (her pet monkey) toys and lay star cutouts from bristol board, spray-painted with glitter, on tables and walls. Add some Dora music or Spanish music in the background for the full effect. Once guests begin to arrive, start playing a Dora video so that children who are not interested in the structured activities will have a fun option!
GAMES and ACTIVITIES
Boots the Monkey Dance
Play some Dora music or Spanish music and get your little explorers to shake their diapers and do a monkey dance! Have an adult demonstrate by crouching over, curling his or her arms up like monkeys and shaking his or her butt in the air, while making monkey sounds. Listen to the children squeal with delight as they “hoo, hooo” like Dora’s best friend, Boots the Monkey and their parents cheer and clap them on. Use a stuffed monkey or Boots toy as a prop and remember to keep speaking of Boots and his great monkey dance, so the kids will remember the name Boots the Monkey. This is the perfect lead in to the next game!
Swiper Swipes Boots the Monkey
This game will require a good sport, like an older brother or sister, to dress up like Dora’s friend Swiper the Fox, who is quite fond of swiping things. All he or she will need is a set of “fox ears” (some fur material cut out into big fox ear shapes and sewn onto a cotton head band), some whiskers (drawn on with an eye pencil), and some furry mittens. After the monkey dance is over, slip the hidden Swiper volunteer “Boots the Monkey.” Ask the children, “Where’s Boots? Where’s Boots the Monkey?” Now get the Swiper volunteer to stumble into the room clumsily and goofily, with Boots the Monkey in his paw or jaw. Once the children notice Boots, exclaim, “Swiper no swiping!” Get the children to repeat this and shake their finger. Now get Swiper to go up to the children and nuzzle into them clumsily with the monkey until one of the children takes it back. Praise the child. “Yay! We got Boots the Monkey back!” And reward each toddler with an identical monkey toy each!
DORA FOOD
Serve your little explorers and monkeys some Mexican, of course! Try cheese casadias, mini tacos or chicken enchiladas on Dora Star Plates. Serve a Dora Star Beverage in Dora Star Cups. Lay out the table with a Dora Star Tablecover and hand out Dora Star Cone Hats. Bake your child’s birthday cake in a round pan and ice it with chocolate icing. Outline Boots the Monkey’s face with black, brown and white icing!
DORA LOOT
If possible, pick up some purple backpacks at a dollar store. Sew on the colored felt patches to recreate a likeness of Dora’s good friend Backpack’s face (just eyes, brows and a mouth). Or pick up some purple lunch bags, cut them in half, and simply draw on Backpack’s face. With the leftover bag, cut two strips for the backpack straps, two rectangles for the side pockets and one large rectangle for the top flap. Fill the “backpacks” up with loot like crayons, play dough, rubber duckies and bubbles. For more great Dora the Explorer birthday party ideas, check out our birthday party site for more party decorations ideas for your child’s first Dora the Explorer birthday party!
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