A few years ago I planned a Hey Duggee themed birthday party for Bobcat. To be honest, I throughly enjoyed it! For those, not familiar with the character: this is the funniest animal cartoon on CBeebies, on a quite sophisticated way. Duggee is a dog running a scouts-like daycare and the little animal children have to complete a task in every episode, so that they can receive a badge for it. Bobcat used to loved it, he picked up the simple jokes from early age. I still absolutely adore it too, it’s probably will be my favourite forever. It’s hilarious and clever even for an adult. I sometimes watch it on my own.

Designing the party, making homemade party decorations and designing cute Hey Duggee themed invites for birthday party was a bit challenging as no Hey Duggee party-ware is available to buy in shops, so I had to come up with my own ideas and design. But that was the fun part for me! Feel free to use and share them 🙂

Hey Duggee themed birthday party

Badges

The badges are essential to be represented at a Hey Duggee themed party, since they are a vital part of every episode. Whilst looking for ideas, I found these free, downloadable badges on the CBeebies website:

Printable Hey Duggee Badges Printing them in A4 gives you just the right size to make badges. Pretty easy and they look absolutely amazing.

We just gave one to every invitees at the party, the kids absolutely loved them.

Tip: Custom pins would also be a great idea, if you have no time to make your owns. You can go Pinbadges.CO to make your own Duggee-themed custom pin badges. The pin badges can be customized with your child’s name or age, or a special message to make them even more unique. Choose from a variety of designs featuring Duggee and his friends, and select the colors that match your party theme. With their free design system and professional design team, it’s very easy to make these pin badges.

Party Bags

Party bags are nowadays just as important as the cake 🙂 Now, loot bags filled with plastic crap is one of my pet hates. So, I decided to make rainbow coloured crayon shapes for the party bags, in order to match with the Hey Duggee theme. Rainbows are frequently present in various episodes. Well, we ended up making Lego shaped crayons, and Bobcat helped too. The crayon melting was real mission, I had no idea, it’s not as easy as it looks. Read my guide about how to make shaped crayons at home: How To Make Shaped Crayons. The Lego brick and Lego man shaped crayons then filled a pretty little gift bag.

Also put a Hey Duggee activity pack with colouring sheets into the loot bag, it’s also free to download from here: Hey Duggee Activity Pack. Looked like this, matching very well with the idea of the shaped crayons:

I’ve bought simple, multicoloured paper bags to use as party bags and decorated them with the same paper cut-out badges I used for the badges. This time though, I had to get them printed in A5, so they were bigger. Extra source of fun, when the little ones are trying to match their badge with the party bag!

Cups, plates, etc

I used simple, natural white paper cups and plates, cheaply available even in supermarkets. I used the printed badge cut-outs again (sticking one on each cup). I didn’t decorate the plates as I was worried that the food would pick the colours up. But it looked fantastic on the cups and everyone remembered which was her/his cup 🙂

I unfortunately ran out of time, but paper straws could be also decorated the same way. I also got rainbow coloured paper decoration and personalised birthday banners.

CAKE! 

My local mummy friend provided the cake. Look at this amazing cake! And it was delicious too.We obviously had to get a cuddly toy for him, his favourite character Happy. He can do a brilliant Happy impression. 🙂