How To Have a Dora The Explorer Birthday Party

Map Invitations, Backpack Cake and Dora Themed Food and Game Ideas

Mar 1, 2009 Megan Sheakoski

Use Dora, The Map, Backpack, and Boots from the popular kids' show Dora the Explorer to plan a birthday celebration that any young adventurer will love.

Capture the excitement of Dora the Explorer at your child’s next birthday party with invitations featuring The Map, Dora themed party food, a birthday adventure game and a Backpack cake.

Dora The Explorer Map Invitations

Use the Nick Jr. website to create Map birthday invitations.

1. Go to the Dora’s Make Your Own Map Printable section and print out a blank map worksheet.
2. Fill in the party details on the first blank square on the map and write ____’s house on the last square and decorate the square with balloons and glitter.
3. Make enough copies for all of the guests and have the birthday child color the pages or send them blank and have the guests color them at home.

Dora The Explorer Themed Party Food and Snacks

Boots’ Banana Sandwiches

Dora’s friend Boots, the monkey, loves bananas. Serve party guests banana sandwiches cut into the shape of stars using a large star shaped cookie cutter. To make the banana sandwiches layer slices of banana onto a piece of bread spread with peanut or apple butter.

Explorer Trail Mix

Mix together different types of cereal, raisins, pretzels and chocolate candies. Set brightly colored bowls out on a table for the kids to use to serve themselves.

Dora’s Ice Cream Tacos

Kids can make sweet taco treats using pancakes. Make large, thin pancakes for the taco shells before the party begins and refrigerate. During the party set out a bowl of tiny scoops of chocolate ice cream, green spearmint jelly candies, white coconut shavings and red M&Ms® to represent the parts of a taco. Then let the kids create and eat their own ice cream tacos.

Dora The Explorer Birthday Party Adventure Game

Instead of traditional party games lead the kids through a Dora themed adventure. Draw another map outline on a large poster board. Draw pictures of the activities the party guests need to complete to get to the Backpack cake.

Fill a small kid’s pool with plastic balls and tell the kids they have to find something hidden at the bottom. Next, set up a bubble machine and have the children hop, dance and crawl through the bubbles. Finally, gather all oe children for cake and presents.

How to Make a Dora The Explorer Backpack Cake

1. To create a Backpack birthday cake use a box mix to bake a cake in a 9 inch by 13 inch pan. After the cake has cooled, wrap it in wax paper and tin foil and place it in the freezer overnight.
2. Remove the cake from the freezer and use a sharp knife to carve the corners into a back pack shape. Take the extra cake and cut out a pocket shape. Frost the cake with purple frosting. Next use some of the purple frosting to attach the pocket to the side of the cake.
3. Use white writing icing to draw white eyes on Backpack. Cut a mouth shape out of a red Fruit Roll-up® and place it on the cake and use black writing gel to finish drawing the eyes and the eyebrows.

All fans of the Dora The Explorer television show will have fun reading the Map invitations, snacking on Dora themed party food, playing the birthday adventure party game, and eating cake in the shape of Backpack at a Dora birthday party.

For more birthday party ideas read: How To Have a Fairy Princess Birthday Party, A Circus Birthday Party and A Carnival Birthday Party.

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Dora the Explorer Backpack Cake

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