Decorations

Mark the party spot by hanging Dora the Explorer foil balloons around the front of your home.

Write Dora the Explorer on a map and attach it to your front door.

Create the Spooky Forest by hanging green streamers from the doorway, so the children must walk through them to enter the party area.

To create Windy Valley, attach blue streamers to fans so that the streamers twirl around.

To create Rainbow Road, wrap blocks in construction paper and place on the floor in a road formation.

To create the notorious Crocodile Lake, fill up a kiddie pool with water and put floating crocodiles in it.

Cut out trees and shrubs from green butcher paper and place on the party walls.

Using a large appliance box, create Dora’s Casa that the kids can play in during the party.

Draw poster board-sized characters from the show: Dora, Boots, Swiper, Benny, Tico, Isa, and the Fiesta Trio. Color them with oil pastels and laminate them (if placing them outdoors). Attach dowel rods to them and place them at various points along the path of your adventure.

Add big tropical leaves by cutting long, wide ovals from green construction paper and taping them to the hanging streamers.

Cover the party table with a Dora the Explorer table cover and ensure each place setting has a Dora plate, napkin, cup, and utensils.

Add any Dora the Explorer toys or dolls your child may have to the table as a centerpiece or use a Dora centerpiece display. Turn a Sombrero upside down, and have balloons anchored to the inside of the hat.

Alternatively, use tissue paper flowers for the table centerpiece

Cut several pieces of curling ribbon one to two feet long. Curl the ribbon by pulling it between your thumb and the blade of scissors. Spread the curls on your table.

Hang balloons in bunches for best effect by tying a colorful ribbon around the strings of several balloons, so they hang together.

Attach streamers, each of a different fiesta color (red, yellow, purple, turquoise, orange, green and brown) from the corners of the room to a light fixture in the center of the party table to add to the festive environment.

Create multicolored streamers by placing two different colored streamers back-to-back and twisting (try orange and yellow or red and purple).