For our son David's 1st birthday, we are hosting a Sesame Street Sports Party. I handmade the invitations- Elmo's face- using red card stock, red fleece, orange fleece, white pompoms and black felt. I took one of our Sesame coloring books and enlarged Elmo's face, then used that as a template to cut the cards/fabric shapes and glued them in place. On the inside of the card, I printed on paper, "Elmo says,"Come have a ball at David's 1st Birthday Party" (of course, I used 'crayon' font!) On the back of the card I made another label and printed "Brought to you by the letter D and number 1" (the D and 1 I did not print on the computer, but wrote by hand using colorful markers). The envelopes were decorated with Elmo stickers. Big Bird's footprints (cut out of colored paper) will lead our friends up the driveway to the frontdoor decorated with a large handmade fuzzy Elmo saying,"Guess what Elmo's thinking about today?" "David's 1st Birthday!" I bought Sesame Street characters for the cake. One is Ernie pitching a baseball and another is Bert batting and then various other charcters posing. I designed a baseball field on a square cake and plan to use green icing for grass, cookie crumbs for the dirt and cookies for the bases and all of the characters for the baseball players (in-field and out-field). Then, on the sides of the cake I plan to have "ABC" and baseballs. For David, I'm having a small oval cake decorated like Elmo's face.  We have many games planned as there will be kids ages 4 and under at the party. We are going to play Ernie's Lucky Duck (I am using our Lucky Ducks game and adhereing an Ernie figurine holding a duck into the center of the game and will have kids choose a duck to win a prize- all win!) Big Bird Bowling- I bought a bowling set and am decorating the pins with Big Bird. Of course, Put the Nose on Elmo, Oscar's Treasure, Our Trash (I decorated a piece of posterboard to look like a garbage can and made a fuzzy Oscar with green fleece, white pompom's and bushy eyebrows to stick on the lid- kids will toss garbage (crumbled paper) into the can to win a prize, Cookie Monster's Cookie Jar (guess how many cookies are in the jar and you win it!) and Journey to Ernie- this is our version- you have to complete the obstacle course! I am using our "Funky Footsteps" mat, pylons (to zig-zag between), two inner tube-style floats to step into and a tunnel to crawl through) this will be fun for the big kids and get some of babies to walk and crawl! (for this prize, I found Olympic-type gold medal stickers).     We will have lots of snacks, such as, Elmo fruit snacks, Goldfish, blue punch with a floating plastic goldfish in a fishbowl to represent Dorothy and Sesame Street juice boxes. The dinner is still to be determined.  For party favors I found ball-shaped sippy cups, "magic" sport-themed bath cloths (they expand when placed in water), Sesame Street character pool floats, baseball, football and soccer ball-shaped candy holders and various ball-shaped whistles. I bought clear bags and found Sesame Street Alphabet stickers to label each child's bag (the first letter of each name will be the sticker and then I will hand write the rest) then finish with colorful ribbon streamers.  For centerpieces I plan to use our huge collection of Sesame Street themed toys to anchor ballons and I found sport-themed confetti pieces to sprinkle- all on top of primary colored table cloths. I also found various jumbo character balloons to have around the rooms (Super Grover, Ernie and Bert, Big Bird and Elmo). I have many Sesame Street CD's and videos to get everyone feeling like they are on Sesame Street! We hope everyone has a ball at our party!