For my daughter's 5th birthday we decided to have a candyland party. I rented a building and arranged the tables in stations. We had a food table decorated with black and red decorations we called this section Licorice Bites.  We took contruction paper and made the candyland path to lead to each station. I even put the pink square with the character drawn on it for each place, such as a gum drop for gumdroppass and a candycane for Peppermint Forest etc. As soon as everyone arrived we had everyone eat at Licorice Bites, We had tables set up for everyone to eat on. they were decorated in different colored tables cloths with giant pieces of candy as the centerpieces. I used foam ball and cellophane to make them.   We had family memebers dress up as characters and do the activity at each station.  We had the Gingerbread tree station It was decorated with gingerbread men made from cardboard.  I dressed up like a Ginger bread cookie I wore a brown sweatsuit and sewed rick rack and buttons for the decorations I helped the children decorate there own gingerbread cookies. Then I lead the children down the path to Peppermint Forest. It was decorated with big Christmas candy canes and fake snow. My niece, who played Mr.Mint was dressed in red pants, red and white striped shirt and socks. She helped the children play the Candyland DVD game.  After the game was over she gave everyone a candycane. We followed the path to Gumdrop Pass. It was decorated with foam balls cut in half and painted with glitter paint for the gum drop mountains. My sister, dressed as Jolly wearing a blue sweatsuit stuffed with polyfil and foam balls cut in half and painted with glitter paint were glued on the back of the sweatsuit.  The children played a game were they passed a rubber stress reliever ball that resembled a gum drop back and forth blindfolded until someone drop it. At the end of that game each child recieved a small bag of gummy candy. We moved down the path to peanut acres It was decorated with big cardborad peanuts and a sign saying peanut acres. My mother,dressed as Gramma Nut was wearing mismatched clothing, gardening gloves,and a big hat.  She had a big wicker hamper filled with packaging peanuts and each child had to dig around and find a prize. We moved on down the path to Lollipop Woods, It was decorated with giant Lollipops of foam and cellophane.  My daughter the birthday girl wanted to be Lolly so I made her  purple dress with Lollipops painted on it and a crown from lollipops. We did dot to dot pages (that I printed off of the Hasbro website) of Princess Lolly and everyone recieved a big lollipop at the end. We moved down the path to Princess Frostine It was decorated in snowflake Christmas ornanments and cardboard ice cream cones with glitter. My other niece a wore blue shimmering gown with a tiara made of snow flake Christmas ornaments. Each child got to decorate their own cup cake with different candies. we moved down the path to chocolate swamp.  It was decorated with shoe boxes wrapped in brown paper to look like candy bars. My other sister dressed as gloppy, had on a baggy brown sweatsuit brown gloves and a brown hooded cape, all of the children had their own circle to sit on that I made look like giant skittles. The Birhtday girl hand her own chocolate" chair it was a chair draped in a brown plastic table cloth this is where she opened her presents. After that we moved to the last stop on the rainbow trail Candy Castle. It was decorated with all kinds of giant candies. My husband dressed as King Kandy in a big yellow shirt stuffed with pillows and red and white striped pants with a big robe and crown of candy. He gave each child a treat bag filled with candy. The bags were differnt colored paper lunch bag with two holes punched in them. We tied with shoestring licorice.  We had a doorway that lead to another room I hung red and black streamers in the doorway and put a sign up that read Licorice Wicket and 3 different time during the party Lord Licorice played by my Dad came out and scared the children they loved it.  He wore a red shirt black pantsglovesbootscapeand hat. The Party was very fun all of the children loved it."