For food and drinks, we plan on going all out, using blue jell-o, blue drinks, and cupcakes decorated with Blue's pawprint using blue icing. We got the idea from another software, My Disney Kitchen , which has a number of cute kids' food ideas in its recipe box. Two years ago, we made a very successful and memorable pirate party centered on a much-loved program, Fisher Price Great Adventures Pirate Ship . Each child gets to design their own pirate flag as a souvenir - one of the activities in the software program. During free play, take one child at a time to the computer to do this simple activity.
Kids can make their own masks, do simple stamp activities, and print out finger puppets.
In her review of Elmo's Art Workshop , Alecia Dixon suggests printing out your child's artwork, gluing it to cardstock and turning it into a puzzle by cutting it into pieces. If time will be limited at the party, make the puzzles with your child before the party, one for each guest. If you have enough time and plenty of help, however, let the kids make their own creations, then print and assemble the puzzles. Rugrats Print Shop is a wonderful program filled with potential projects with a choice of over 600 clip art images of the Rugrats and more than 20 ready-made projects. This makes it especially easy to make invitations, wrapping paper, party banners, place mats and place cards, and envelopes.