For my son's birthday party, we had a Backwards Party at our local park. The invitation was a poem I made up, then wrote backwards so that the guests had to hold it up to a mirror to read it. All guests were requested to wear clothes that were turned inside out and/or backwards.  We decorated the pavilion at the park with silly homemade backwards" birthday messages such as "Birthday Happy!" and "Party Jackson's to Welcome!!!!"   For games we kept things very simple and stuck to the theme. There was the backwards race (kids start running backwards--race starts when the adult yells "Stop!"  We also played "Goose goose duck" which the kids thought was absolutely hilarious. I made the cake and used fondant to create a topsy-turvy crazy shaped "Dr. Seuss-type" cake.  It was great fun. The weather was freakishly cold and rainy that day and I thought the kids would eat quickly and want to get out of the cold but they were having so much fun they kept right on playing the "backwards games" long after the organized party ended. Everyone said it was great fun and very creative.  I loved that it made some really lasting memories and was very inexpensive!                                                                                         "