The dog is the whole request this year, and the party may as well admit it. This card is a puppy party from top to bottom: a blue gingham bow, a felt bone, paw prints on the paper and two fluffy felted puppies in bandanas sitting at the bottom with their tennis balls.
Your child’s name goes in glossy blue to match the headline, so it looks like it was made with the rest of the card. Add the day and the backyard, and the pack is called.
For the party, give every guest a bandana at the door, set up a “dog bowl” of snacks, and run a fetch relay with soft balls. A cardboard-box doghouse takes ten minutes and gets played in for the whole afternoon. If a real, calm dog can drop by for ten minutes, that is the part everybody will remember.
