mickey & pluto birthday party ideas

[striker3636]

Hi all! I'm hoping you will have a few ideas to help me out in planning the food for my ds 6th birthday party. I have been able to get a Mickey cake pan to decorate, but haven't had much inspiration in what else to serve. I was really hoping to find Wilton's Mickey ears cookie cutters for sandwiches but can't at retail and refuse to pay the up to $26 in shipping to get some off ebay that I have been quoted. So, beyond using dog bone cookie cutters for shaped sandwiches, and serving cheese, I'm stuck. Any ideas? tia!

 

[sk8bug72]

I'm not sure about the mickey cookie cutter, but for desert you could serve each kid a scoop of ice cream with 2 chocolate waffers or oreos on top as mickey ears. You could also make trail mix and call it pluto's dog food. Hope this helps!

 

[saturday97]

I don't know if they have this available on Disney Direct right now, but one of the Mickey Pumpkin Carving kits had a mickey cookie cutter made for cutting the design in a pumpkin but it would work great for other foods like mini sandwiches.

 

[goofy's friends]

I'm working on the same party right now as well. Have you checked Birthdaypartyideas.com? They have some good ideas depending on how much you are willing to put into it. I am serving Pluto's puppy chow using a chex mix and peanut butter (the recipe is somewhere on the website) and cheese crackers and cheese sandwiches (hoping to also find the cookie cutter.) We are getting a princess jupiter jump (its a girl's party), but the Buzz Lightyear jupiter jump is even cuter! I found Disney mouse ear cookies today at Walmart--cute, but didn't pass my kids' taste test--oh, well. They had some other snack choices. I'm also putting out only red, yellow, black, and white M&Ms. What party ideas do you have?

 

[striker3636]

Hi - thanks everyone for the ideas so far - anyone else?

Goofy's friends - I was planning on making the puppy chow, maybe in ziplocs for the loot bags. I was hoping to make ahead mouse ears from black head bands and black craft foam, but I'm still looking for the cheapest way to do this. (like several bands in a pack at the dollar store). We are planning a water fun party, so I will be having games like "feed Mickey" (throwing wet sponges into a cut out of Mickey's face in a big appliance box), some type of water relay that I haven't figured how to make Mickey oriented yet. I have to think of a water Pluto game too (fill up the dog dish??) I like to have everything keep along with the theme, but I haven't come up with easy ideas for a lunch yet. Being in Canada, we don't have all the same products up here, so I get very jealous when I read about all the great finds at Walmart etc! Ours just don't measure up! I did find today some Disney light up pens with a Mickey bobble head on it at our dollar store, so I wiped out their supply for loot bags. I make also try to make rice krispies Mickey heads too... I'm just stuck for the most part on "Mickey" lunch food. How about you?

 

[goofy's friends]

hi, I found a mickey mouse head cookie cutter on ebay for $10.00 plus shipping. Looked big enough for sandwiches--maybe cheese or even peanut butter and jelly if it is shaped like mickey's head. Serve with cheese crackers and fruit. Do you have Mickey juice boxes anywhere? Those would be cute for the drinks. We also have Mickey fruit snacks--do you have those? I am putting a zip lock bag of Pluto's Dog Snack in the treat bags too. Along with some princess nail polish, stickers, the mickey head cookies I found at Walmart, a Mickey sucker, and hopefully the Minnie headbands too.

 

[sk8bug72]

What about making a cookie cutter???? You could probably buy a strip of metal (make sure you can bend it) at a hardware store and then just bend it into a mickey head. I've never done this myself,but it seems pretty simple. Good luck with your party!

 

[sk8bug72]

I just found mickey cups, plates, and napkins on the oriental trading co. website. Hope this helps!

 

[we3disneygo]

I have a disney party handbook, some of the idea's for the dalmatians party might work for pluto....game called Buried Bones, just like an Easter egg hunt, use dog biscuits.hide them around the yard or house.use an equal of amount of each color.divide kids into 3 teams:the red team, green,brown. each team goes in search of it's bones.A bone in the team color is worth 3 points,one in another teams color is worth 1 point. the team scoring most points wins.Hope this helps...

 

[striker3636]

Thanks everyone for all the great ideas! Unfortunately in Canada I can't get some of the things you suggested, or the shipping and customs charges make it unaffordable. I really liked the Pluto game idea - I may do that if I can figure out how to keep our dog away long enough to set up and play the game!

I have had no luck getting a Mickey cookie cutter for under about $25 (expensive sandwiches), so I am going to try using frozen pizza dough and making Mickey head shaped pizzas. Hopefully this will work!

Thanks again everyone!