Wiggles!

Today I need to get the Wiggles out. I hope it helps someone! If it does, please let me know. I'd love to hear from you :)


Decorations:

On one wall hang blue streamers down low looping them down to be waves. Above them hang up Wiggles characters, colored, and cut out of posterboard. Include a wiggly version of your child and put up a sign that says "_______'s Underwater Big Band". In empty spaces around the characters add little fish, crabs, etc. Here is a good oppurtunity to get your child involved. They will love seeing things they made hanging up for all to see. Put more wave streamers above the characters and fish and you have your Underwater Big Band.

Draw out a big tv shape and draw Captain Feathersword on it. Then draw a word bubble that says "It's a storm of cupcakes, followed by ice cream clouds" or something along those lines. Hang the tv on the wall and hang paper cupcakes, ice cream scoops, etc down from the ceiling in front of it. This will work great haning over a doorway.

Dora the door from posterboard would be a great welcome hanging on your front door.


The Table -

For your tablecloth buy a light colored plastic tablecloth or buy the cheapest fabric you can find. Then with red, blue, yellow, and purple paint help your child do handprints all over it. Write Anthony's name next to the blue handprints with a blue marker, etc.

For the centerpiece decorate a box like a treasure chest. Stuff bunched up paper, blankets, anything, into the bottom as filler and add whatever wiggles toys you may have on top. Another idea is to put your goody bags in the treasure chest and tie ribbons from each. Tie the ends around your napkins at each place setting.

Place Settings-

Cups - Green Cups with yellow construction paper spots gluesticked on become Dorothy cups, or you can do the Wiggle logo, or even little pictures of the wiggles themselves. Here is a good time to use up your cup stash if you have one, maybe a couple of Anthony cups on your leftover blue and Murray on your leftover red

Plates - Buy clear plates and make them match your tablecloth by making handprints on the underside. You could also do different colored music notes. Or if you happen upon really cheap dog bowls add on "Wags" with a paint marker. If your child is a big Wags fan you could do a doggy bowl just for them.

Silverware - Hot glue feathers (found in the craft section of Walmart,etc) on the end of your silverware to make "Featherswords"

Napkins - Use multi-colored or any solid color napkins and slip your featherswords into Big Red Car napkin rings



Here are a couple themes with multi-colored napkin options over at Birthday Party Express -

Bright Dots

Fiesta Stripes

Games -
First, the basics (Note-If you need any further explanation on these games, visit the Basic Games section-

Pin the Tail on Dorothy or Pin the Tail on Wags - Draw or print out wags or Dorothy, leave off the tail or draw dashed lines over it. Trace the tail and make multiple copies to be pinned (taped) on. To save time, put doublestick tape (or rolled over scotch tape) on the backs of tails with guests names written on them and lightly stick on the wall next to Dorothy or Wags before the party.

Find Dorothy's Roses, Wag's Bones, Anthony's Tools, Murray's Music Notes, Big Red Car's Wheels - Use what you have (toy tools, dog treat bones, etc) or draw or print out your item and hide in your house or yard. If you do roses you could lead it into your cake by having them put all the roses into a big bowl, adding a couple other things, mix it all up, and having them close their eyes and count down. Replace the roses, etc with red punch while their eyes are closed. Then "How about some cake to go with our tea!"

Throw the Bones in Wag's Dog House - Paint a box brown with darker brown stripes, add a door and Wags' name. Tape a big red paper triangle to the top. Take turns throwing in bones.

Matching Music Notes - Cut cards from yellow construction paper (only because it is light enough to see drawing on, any light color will do). Make them as big or little as you want depending on the number of guests you're having and their ages. Draw the outline of a music note on each card. Then add patterns to each musical note or have your child add the patterns if he/she is old enough. Have two with blue stripes, two with red polka dots, etc.

Musical Fruit - Cut out large circles or squares and draw different fruits on them. Place on the floor and play like musical chairs using "Fruit Salad" for your song of course.


Those are the basics, now here a couple of extras.

First of all, let's just state the obvious, Wiggles are all about music. Leading your guests in your child's favorite Wiggles song would be a great (and oh so easy!) game. Maybe play this game to lead into it -

Have an aunt, uncle, older cousin, family friend, anyone that is willing sneak off during the party and change into black pants and purple shirt. In a designated spot hang up a word bubble with "Zzzzz". At your signal "Jeff" can go lay down below the word bubble. Lead your guests in the "Going on a Bear Hunt" song. Just change the beginning part to "Gonna Wake Jeff Up" . Here's lyrics if you don't know it - http://www.timmyabell.com/music/lyrics/ol/bearhunt.htm I like a good segway and this game is a great segway. Jeff can yell out "Oh! I fell asleep. And I'm hungry, let's go eat cake!" or let's open presents, let's sing a song, etc. If you want to make it a little more interesting you can make a Jeff dummy and tuck away off in a corner but visible to your guests before the party and have your "real Jeff" take it's place later on.

Classic Hot Potato would turn Wiggly with Wiggles own Hot Potato song playing.

Feel Box - You've all seen these boxes at Halloween events. Cut out holes in several boxes. The children get to stick their hands in and feel different things. The object in the Halloween version is to pretend everything is something far grosser then it really is (peeled grapes=eyeballs for instance). In your Wiggles version you can either let them try to guess what each item is or just feel for the fun of feeling. Some things to include are - potato, cold spaghetti, mashed banana, wag's bones, roses, and tools.

Make Fruit Salad - Draw and cut out bowl shapes for each guest. On each bowl draw one of each fruit for fruit salad or if you have a lot to make you can just draw the correct amount of x's. Cut out one of each fruit for each guest. If you want to save time you may want to just purchase some Runts candy. Put each fruit in its own container. Immediately before the game, smear over the fruits or x's on the bowls and pass one out to each guest. Turn on the music, "Fruit Salad" of course, and have them pass the bowls around as the music plays. When the music stops, anyone with a fruit adds it to their own bowl. The first one with all the fruits wins. You can play till everyone wins.

I leave you with this video of a Big Red Car cake tutorial (for more cake ideas click here) -



Happy Wiggling!