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Party Themes. Storybook Party.

MMake your child's favorite storybook come alive by turning your party room into a King jungle, a Little Mermaid lagoon, or even a Dr. Seuss playground. For older kids, use chapter books based on Babysitter's Club, Goosebumps, or Sweet Valley Twins. 0pen the book and watch the party unfold!

INVITATIONS
COSTUMES
DECORATIONS
GAMES
ACTIVITIES
FOOD
STORYBOOK CAKE
FAVORS
VARIATIONS
HELPFUL HINTS

INVITATIONS up

Photocopy the cover of a favorite book and white-out the title. Replace the title with the name of your party theme, and then add the party details around the edge.
Make your own small storybook from construction paper, and use it as an invitation.

COSTUMES up

Ask the kids to come dressed as characters from their favorite books.

DECORATIONS up

Check out a bunch of books from the library and set them all over the part room.
Choose a favorite book. Use construction paper to reproduce items and scenes found in the book. For exam you might draw large trees for a jungle, fish for under the sea, and so on.
Ask the library for reading posters featuring books or famous people.

GAMES up

Read the first lines from a variety of favorite stories, and have the kids guess the book.
Ask trivia questions about popular books, and have a two-team contest to guess the answers.
Hand out picture books, juvenile books, or young adult books, one to each guest. Have the kids sit in a circle and read the first line or each book, one at a time, to form a funny new story.

ACTIVITIES up

Let the kids create their own storybooks. Supply the paper and writing materials, and give the kids some ideas if they get stuck.
Have a storyteller come to the party to tell some classic tales.
Award prizes for costumes. Make sure everyone gets a prize by creating lots of winning categories, such as cutest, scariest, funniest, and most creative.

FOOD up

Choose foods from favorite stories, such as a jam sandwich from The Giant Jam Sandwich, or muffins and honey from a Winnie-the-Pooh story.

STORYBOOK CAKE up

. Bake two rectangular cakes; cool.
Set the cakes side by side to look like an open book.
Frost both cakes with white frosting.
Write your party title and other inscriptions on the cakes with frosting tubes, to look like words on a page.
Place a piece of licorice between the two cakes to form a bookmark.

FAVORS up

Give each kid a Golden Book or a children's paperback book to take home and enjoy.
Laminate special homemade bookmarks, or buy some from a bookstore.

VARIATIONS up

Arrange a special story hour with your local children's librarian and take the kids to the library for an adventure with books.
Help the kids get their own library cards if they haven't got one already.

HELPFUL HINTS up

Teach the kids how to handle books carefully - especially library books - so they learn to appreciate them.
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