For my sons first bday I wanted to do something that would make him go wow when he walked into the room. The party was planned at our home. We have a very large front room. I brought most of his supplies at or on eBay, party city, dollar store, celebrate express and birthday express.com. If you sign up on the mailing list you get great offers. He loves Elmo but I wanted to have all of the characters so decided on Sesame Street theme party. There were some family members who really couldn't attend due to their religion of not celebrating holidays or birthdays so what I did it all his supplies did not say happy birthday on them at all so they could attend and I had the party the day after his birthday. For the day of his bday we took him to sesame place which if anyone knows is a wonderful place for any child or parent. Now for his party since he was having a sunny days party I brought the invites plates napkins and cups. I only brought one of each as they are pretty expensive. Since I needed more I just brought coordinating cups plates and silverware in the sunny days color theme which is green and yellow.   I brought a large 6 foot banner that had all the SS characters on them and I had personalized to say Horraaay for Mar your one now! I also had a 6 foot table that had all types of things on it. Since Elmo loves crayons I had crayons all over the table with green and yellow confetti and of course a sunny days SS table cover that had all the SS characters on it. My son had 2 cakes one small one for himself and a larger Elmo cake with Elmo wearing a bday hat with letters and numbers surrounding his face and its said happy 1st mar. I also made Oscar the grouch cupcakes that I baked and decorated my self about 30 of those. Then I had ordered chocolate lollipops from a chocalatier on ebay.com. I ordered 18 pops that each had the SS characters face. They were a hit they were colored just like the character and had great detail. I then brought 10 more chocolate pops shaped like the number one and had those colored in different colors. All the pops came wrapped in cellophane with pretty ribbon colors I chose. I arranged those all over the table. Then I had an old diaper cake from his shower we kept as a souvenir we just couldn't take it apart to use those diapers! So I re decorated that with the SS color them green and yellow ribbon and on the top I had Grover sitting hold one of his 1st bday pictures, this was the center piece.  Then on the table there were 25 party favor boxes in all different colors. They came plain but I put SS stickers all over the boxes inside was crayons, coloring book I made by printing coloring pages off sesame place.com, SS memory game cards, balls, SS pencils, and his sunny days Thank you card for coming since I would probably forget to mail them after the party was over and it saved on stamps. I also had cookie monster at the end of the table with cookies I baked sugar and chocolate chip wrapped in green cellophane bags tied with ribbon. I printed little labels out to put on each bag that had a picture of cookie monster and it said C is for cookie. Outside when you walked up I made a banner about 6 feet long with balloons on each side and on the banner I drew the infamous SS sign in green and yellow and instead of it saying 1234 SS I wrote 1 at the top and then in the body of the banner I drew a picture of cookie monster in the middle I wrote Jamar Street� and then I drew a picture of Oscar the grouch on the end holding balloons. I had a table on the patio and as a centerpiece I had tons of SS figurines I brought off eBay and had them as balloon weights. Inside we have 2 side tables so on those I put SS books laying across. I had another table to hold his presents. His cousin I had her dress up as Abby Caddaby I made her tutu out of tulle brought a tee shirt and put an Abby cadabby iron on in the front of the shirt. She also had wings and wand.  I also had face masks for some of the children to walk around wearing which I found only on eBay as well. Big bird cookie monster, Bert, Ernie, and Oscar the grouch face masks. The kids love those. On the ceiling I had streamer everywhere and of course had tons of balloons in green and yellow. For the center piece in the ceiling right in the middle where all the streamer joined I had a sun Mylar balloon floating in the very middle (sunny day's theme). I also made clouds by twisting balloons together with string which I learned by watching a video on balloon twisting on eBay. I had brought balloon animals and was originally going to dress up as a clown to save $ and do the balloon twisting but a clown didn't match the theme so I dressed up as Zoe ballerina and made my own costume doing the balloon animals, My fiance had brought a plain white tee shirt and I brought a SS iron on that had all the characters on it and it said SS live and I put that on the front of his shirt. My son had on an Elmo shirt which I thought was plain. So I dress it up and brought iron on letters on the back I put Jamar under it there was big #1 and I put# 1 on the sleeve. He had a hat that was shaped like a cake that said happy to be one. I also dressed up his high chair with balloons and Mylar balloon # 1 and a cookie monster Mylar balloon and streamer.  I didn't have enough seating so I rented 20 chairs and I also had 2 large couches so figured this would be enough seating for about 25 people. Daddy and I had our own special decorated chairs one said mommy and his said daddy with Elmo looking like he was holding the word. I decorated our chairs with balloons and etc. I made balloon shaped trees to hand around the room. I had random balloons lying on the floor since my son loves balloons. Over the table that had the cake favors and etc I had a yellow balloon arch that I made by buying special balloons that would link together by just tying the ends together. In the bathroom the tub was filled up with bubbles and I drew a picture of Ernie that I taped to the wall and had rubber duckies aligning the tub. When you walked through our hallway there was a balloon ceiling nothing but floating balloons. I saved money by buying a helium tank for 35.00 at toys r us blows up 50 balloons! I even had clear balloons floating around that with confetti and shredded paper inside that was green and yellow. I also had my sister dress up as Elmo I rented a costume for 50.00 for the entire weekend she danced and took photos with everyone which was my sons favorite part! My other sister knows how to draw really well so I brought a face painting kit and had her paint everyone face only in SS characters. She had her own table and chair area with a sign I made that said Sesame paint and all over the poster board I had the pictures of different characters she could paint that I printed out off line.  I also played a video with him that I had taped from the day he came home all the way up until he was at Sesame Place (his 1bday) with a SS cd playing in the background. For food we kept it simple since we had vegans so we had pizza and soda. We played games that I made up myself games like SS street trivia questions about SS, how many characters can you name? (There are over 50) all about jamar questions about when his first tooth came and his favorite baby food etc. We played an hr of games and whoever won received a prize. Also there were a lot of adults all the children were 11 and up so that's why we had those types of games. I also had an Elmo pinata filled with candy and everyone had a chance to pull the string that would release all the candy. At the end of the party we opened presents since everyone wanted to see what he received. Everything was the right fit since in his invite I made a little card stating the sizes for everything from tops, socks, shoes, diapers, bottoms and etc so no one would buy the wrong size. As everyone was leaving I gave everyone an envelope with a label I printed on the front that had a picture of Elmo in a diaper and it said jamar 1st photos. Elmo handed out the party favor boxes, lollipops and cake. Inside was a his picture of him wearing the Elmo tee and party hat holding a cake with the #1 candle on it with icing everywhere! 1 Week later we visited everyone thanked them for coming and gave them a photo that they took with Elmo and the baby at the party which I had to carefully plan that everyone took a picture with him alone. We had a great time and everyone was amazed about how creative I was and how I did this all alone as I didn't want any help since I love doing these types of things alone it was so fun!