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Mickey Mouse Birthday Party – Part 2 of 3

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Mickey Mouse Birthday PartyM-I-C, K-E-Y, M-O-U-S-E! Replacing the Mouseketeers with Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, magical moments are still alive in the world of Disney.

With numerous toys, multiple television episodes, books, and a video game, my children play and keep Mickey Mouse and friends popular in our house.

To celebrate turning 3, my daughter chose a Mickey Mouse birthday party. Last week, I shared the process we took choosing the theme.

As each child is different, I talk through party elements to see how interested my child gets with helping. Just thrilled with the theme and wanting her friends to come to eat cake, I decided to plan the itinerary for her this year.

Part 2: Planning the Itinerary

Knowing how important it was to my daughter for her best friend to attend, we arranged our schedule to accommodate her friend’s family. Hosting the Mickey Mouse birthday party weeks after her actual birthday, we kept the guest list to grandparents, my daughter’s best friend’s family, and our family.

Rather than working around Saturday soccer games, we opted for a Friday evening party. With a dinner included, I chose the following tentative itinerary for my daughter’s 3-year-old Mickey Mouse birthday party:

Mickey Mouse Birthday Party Itinerary

Greeting

Welcome each guest and allow the children to play.

Activity

Allow each child to create his or her personal pizza from Papa Murphy’s and bake them.

Let the children continue to play while the pizzas bake.

Dinner

Eat pizza and salad.

Games
    • Pin the Ribbon on Daisy: Repeating this game from prior Mickey Mouse birthday parties we have hosted, I brought out the supplies. Based on the classic Pin the Tail on the Donkey game, I had printed a coloring page of Daisy. After coloring the picture, I laminated it and place it on the wall. Using purple ribbon, I write the names of the invitees and hang them on the wall with sticky tack. I then use a bandanna for the blindfold.
    • Finding Pluto’s Bones: Another repeat game for which I had the supplies was a game of hide-and-seek. I printed a sheet with bones titled with Pluto’s name, cut them out, and laminated them. Using sticky tack, we “hid” the bones around the room close to the floor. A dog dish is placed in the center of the room with participants crawling around, finding the bones, and placing them in the dog dish.
    • Mickey Mouse birthday partyMickey Mouse Bingo: My hubby spent lots of time creating this game for our son’s Mickey Mouse birthday party. Paul used clip art to make multiple Bingo cards with the larger pictures for the Bingo drawing. (We cut out the cards and pictures and laminated them before use.) We then place marshmallows into cups for each participant to mark their cards.

The prizes for all who participate in the games consist of the following:

    • Mickey Mouse ears headband
    • Mickey Mouse blowout
    • Flying discs toy
Cake

Sing, blow out the candles, and eat the cake.

Presents

Open gifts.

Goody Bags

Thank guests and give goody bags. Since we have children different ages attending, we have three different types of goody bags:

Girls – Age 3
      • Minnie and Daisy notebook
      • Mickey Mouse figurine
Girls – Age 5
      • Minnie Mouse notebook
      • Mickey Mouse coloring roll with crayons
Boys – Age 8
      • Mickey Mouse notebook
      • Mickey Mouse word search book
Play

Allow the children to play and explore until they go home.

Having hosted this birthday party three times prior to this one, I only needed to tweak and adjust the plan to fit my daughter’s personality and the flow of the party. Next week, I will post details of our executed itinerary in the third part of this series. Happy planning your next party!

Question: How do you decide how many items to include in your goody bags?

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