Party Hints

To hold a Winnie the Pooh party, turn your house or yard into the “Hundred Acre Wood.” Create child sized cardboard “trees”, green carpeting for grass and a large “One Hundred Acres” sign. Use a red-checkered tablecloth to emphasize the “picnic” atm…

Create a batch of Duck Pond Punch at the next Rubber Ducky Party. Simply float a bunch of rubber duckies in a bowl of blue Kool-Aid and have party goers select one. If they select one with a star on the bottom – they win a prize.

Have a Rubber Ducky themed party; make individual bath-time party favors for each person in attendance. Fill a pail with a bottle of bubble bath, a sponge, bath paint and of course, a rubber ducky.

For my daughter's first birthday this August, I plan on making cake pops, instead of giving her little friends a heaping piece of cake on a plate. I'm going to give them a nice little portion on a lollipop stick that can be removed, and eaten in a c…

For my daughter's first birthday, we had the party in the park so I made a butterfly and a ladybug. The cakes were really cute. And for my son I made a Teddy Bear with a 1 on the shirt. They love looking at the pictures of their cakes, every year the…

Everyone seems to do cupcakes for first birthdays so I thought using the giant cupcake pan would be a fun change and make a statement. I had lots of fun decorating it and, a year later, people are still talking about it! Check out the cake here: http…

It's an ongoing family tradition going back generations that the birthday child always get's their own cake for the first birthday. Typically this is the first cake the child will have ever had so it makes it even more special. The cakes are made s…

For my son's 1st birthday, I made cookies in the shape of the number 1, decorated them, and placed them in cello bags to send home with all of our guests. They were a huge hit!

Create a collage of photos taken of baby’s “special firsts” (such as first ice cream, first steps, etc.) Have the collage enlarged at a photo shop and mounted on poster board as a personal decoration.

For an activity to do, take a Polaroid™ or digital camera and take a picture of all the children in attendance with their stuffed animals. Display the photos on a poster board for everyone to see.