Tasty Snacks and Fun Activities for your Family Event

Your Family Event is sure to be a hit if you serve snacks.

For the table, volunteers created animal cookies (PDF 30K) and pet cupcakes (PDF 30K). They decorated the table with a simple plastic tablecloth and skirting, and found pet wrapping paper to give the table a little bit of fun.


You can also serve goldfish crackers and animal crackers. It’s fun to serve the goldfish out of a goldfish bowl and the animal cookies from a dog dish!


Here’s a host fun activities for your Family Event:

• Hold a Pet Book Character Parade where students come dressed as their favorite pet storybook character (i.e. Clifford, T-Bone, Cleo, Ike LaRue, or Biscuit).
• Invite the Humane Society or another animal organization to come to the Family Event. Encourage children to sit with the pets during a pet story read-aloud.
• Hold a Dog Wash and invite families to bring “Rover” to the Family Event for a bath!
• Your Family Event is the best time to announce the winners of your Book Fair contests. Make it special by presenting the winners with achievement certificates and prizes.
• Invite a face painter (or talented volunteer) to paint student’s faces to look like their favorite pet.
• Call your local fire and police departments and ask them to bring a fire station Dalmatian or police dog to the event.
• Invite a veterinarian to give a talk and read a book on “caring for your pet."

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