Games and Activities

When the party guests arrive, ask them to choose their favorite pet and dress up like it with masks. Provide paper plates and various craft supplies for the kids to make their masks that turn them into rabbits, cats, gerbils, dogs and more for the party.

When a pet is in trouble, the animal calls the Wonder Pets! with a phone, which is a pencil cup holder. Create your own phones using tin cans.

• Two tin cans per guest (washed and dried)
• Masking or electrical tape
• Nail
• String
• Construction paper
• Colored markers, crayons, glitter glue (beware the glitter glue!)
• Craft glue (optional)

Before the party, cover the cut end of the two tin cans with masking tape or electrical tape. Make a hole in the bottom of each can with the hammer and nail. Have your guests thread one end of the string through the hole in one tin can and tie a knot. Do the same for the other can. Cover the tin cans with pieces of construction paper and use the tape to secure. Kids can write their names on the cans and decorate with colored markers, crayons and/or glitter glue.

Once all of your guests have arrived, ask someone to call your phone and let it ring. Then sing:

The phone, the phone is ringing…
The phone - we’ll be right there -
The phone, the phone is ringing…

There’s a birthday party going on
There’s a birthday party going on
There’s a birthday party going on right here!

The children can pick up their tin can phones to answer the call for help.

Provide each child with a Wonder Pets! cape to wear on the rescue missions.

Play Save the Animals and make sure that all of the activities are done together with teamwork.

• Search the trees to save an animal. Either use small bushy trees in your yard and hide various stuffed and wind-up animals or create your own using a large cardboard box. Cover the box with brown paper and cut different size strips of various shades of green construction paper to make the branches. Hide the stuffed animals in your tree for the kids to rescue.
• Fill your bathtub full of water, and place small plastic animals in the water. The kids must get them out of the water quick. Make sure to place numbers on the bottoms of these toys that correlate to a prize that they will win.
• The puppies have lost their bones! Have the kids go on a scavenger hunt to find the bones in the party room. (Use small dog bones and see who collects the most.) Offer dog-bone cookies to the kids as a treat to end this game.

Have the kids make their own flyboat based on items in the school classroom just like the Wonder Pets! Use a Frisbee® for the body, magic marker caps for the rocket exhausts, a marble, wheels, and a sheet of paper for the sail. Make one or more of these and allow the kids to free play with them.