For my daughter's second birthday we had a puppy/kitty party.  I knew a girl who just started making customized cards and birthday invititions.  I had her make birthday cards that had a brown furry dog and white furry cat with a pink bow. On the card it said, It's going to be a Paws-itively great time!" When the children arrived at the party.  They were greeted by signs that said pink and white balloons attached to them. On the sidewalk I had paw prints leading up to the front door.  I made the paw prints by cutting out 4 small circles and 1 big circle out of brown construction paper.  I then taped the circles in the shape of a paw to the sidewalk.  Also in the yard was a doghouse that my husband made out of a big brown box (refrigerator box or something similiar).  On the doghouse I had written "Welcome all puppies and kitties!" On the front door there were signs shaped out of dog bones. Each sign had a saying for example...wipe your paws cats allowed dogs allowed will work for treats etc.  When the children came in the house they were given puppy or kitty ears. I made the ears by cutting strips out of craft foam (brown-dogs white-cats). I then cut kitty and puppy shaped ears from the foam and glued them to the strips to make headbands.  Since the foam strips were too short to put around their entire head I hole-punched holes on the end of the strip and attached yarn to it.  Then we were just able to tie the yarn in a bow to easily fit the child's head.  The color scheme of the pary was brown pink and white. Each table had a plastic pink tablecloth.  On the tablecloth was either brown pink or white shredded paper in the center. On the paper were dog bowls (dollar store) filled with dog bones.  Attached to one the dog bones were pink white and brown balloons.  Also on the table were balls of yarn that were made by wrapping pink brown or white yarn around small styrofoam balls.  On the two big tables I did have runners. All I used was brown netting.  I found pink and brown polka dot plates that I used for the food.    We played two games at the party.  The first one was "Pin the Collar on the Kitty."  I made an outline of a cat on white poster board and then cut it out.  I made the collars by cutting strips of brown paper and then gluing circles in the middle. I wrote each child's name on the circles.  I then attached two-sided tape to the collars. Since the majority of the children were two I just had them walk up to the kitty and put the collar on it. The second game was the hit of the party. It was called "Doggie Bone Yard."  All I did was buy dog biscuits at the grocery store. I then put them in our sandbox. The children were given "doggie bags" to put the bones in. They had a great time finding the bones putting them in their bags and then dumping them out.   We had cupcakes for dessert. The cupcakes either had pink or white icing.  We made pawprints on top of each of the cupcakes.  The paw prints were easily made by placing one peppermint patty and four chocolate chips (faced down) in the shape of a paw on the top. The gift bags were brown gift bags filled with:  puppy/kitty board books (dollar store) tennis balls with paw prints on them (dollar store) puppy and kitty stickers (dollar store) Hello Kitty fruit snacks and Scooby snacks.  I put either pink or white tissue paper in each bag and attaced it with ribbon that had paw prints on it. The front of the bag said "You made my party Paws-itively Purr-fect!""