My daughter's birthday is not too long after Christmas.  This year I decided that she had enough toys and it inspired me to do a "Book Birthday Bash".  The invitations were little books I made using pictures to give all the details.  They read:  Run, Run, as fast as you can, follow me, I'm the Gingerbread Man! We'll make a great dash, to Jaydee's birthday bash!  Come take a look and give your favorite book to Jaydee Bodil, who is turning three, and you'll have the chance to capture me!  The day of the party I decorated the house be setting out all of Jaydee's favorite books and then used yellow balloons to fill in where needed. As the guests arrived they each decorated their own felt gingerbread man using google eyes, ribbons, buttons, etc...  After everyone was done we headed to the "reading nook". A few weeks before the party I sat done with Jaydee and we picked three of her all time favorite books. The first was "The Gingerbread Man". I read the book to the kids and then we all decorated the Gingerbread Man Cake.  Next we read "Who Stole the Cookie from the Cookie Jar". In a cookie jar I had 3 fabric cookies.  We played a game similar to "button, button, who stole the button". The kids loved this and we had to play it forever. We headed upstairs to check on our gingerbread man only to find that he had run away.  The kids had a ball looking for him. We finally found him outside by one of the parked cars. The kids got a kick out of this, thinking he was trying to get a ride to run away.  Finally we read "Hiccups for Elephant". We played the game "Elefun".  You can pick it up at any toy store.  Jaydee opened her presents, which of course were a bunch of books!  It was great, it solved the too many toy problem and she got some great new books to add to her collection!  We ended the party by eating cookies and ice cream cones (Jaydee's choice)!