Sesame Street 1 yr. For my son Jonathan's 1st birthday, we chose Sesame Street because he enjoyed watching the show in the mornings. For the DECORATIONS: (Party City)We purchased character faces(Elmo,Grouch, etc.) to stick around the house inside, sign in sheet w/birthday boys name; we had the guests sign in for Thank You cards, Party sign that said "It's___________Party!" place name in the blank. The balloons were the colors of the characters(ex:Cookie Monster-blue)and were tied to the chairs, tables, doorknobs outside/inside and Mylar Sesame Street ballon was tied to birthday boys` high chair to designate seat. Character plates, napkins, cups, tablecloth for gift table.(Dollar store) We purchased solid colors of the characters for the other tables(ex:red,orange,yellow,green,blue,pink-for girls party!)For the ACTIVITIES: we had "Ernie's Duck Pond," I used a large plastic bowl and filled it half way with water and bought little rubber duckies from the dollar store. I placed a star w/black marker under one of the duckies as a prize winner.(My son won that one!) I printed out coloring pages from sesame street workshop on the internet for the kids to color and take home while they were waiting for the other children to arrive. I printed out ELMO from the internet and colored him and cut out circles from orange paper for Elmo's nose to play "Pin the nose on Elmo." We used one of my husband's clean handkerchief for blindfold. The children loved that game! My husband and I had the children w/help from their parents guess how many cookies were in "Cookie Monsters" cookie jar. I bought the mini cookies and jar at the dollar store. My husband and I decided to take my son's stuffed animal characters from Sesame Street and have the children take pictures with a character as memorabilia to take home. We had a moonwalk with the Sesame Street theme and Cookie Monster pinata I made myself. For the Food&Drinks: My husband and I cooked beef fajitas, rice and beans for the adults and for the children we bought a large box of Fritos chips, cheese and chili for "frito pies" hot dogs and chips from Sams Club. I used baby food jars for jello in solid colors from Sesame Street characters(ex:red,blue,green,yellow)for children to take home. I bought small packages of goldfish snacks and sesame street boxed juices and fruit snacks from the dollar store to send home with the children. For the CAKE: I asked the local bakery to write ABC's and 123's with characters(Elmo, Big Bird and Cookie Monster) on the cake, his candle was Big Bird w/a 1 for first birthday. For Costume: My son (birthday boy) wore a long sleeved green shirt with "Oscar the Grouch's" face on the front, my husband wore a Bert & Ernie shirt and I wore a shirt that said "Sesame Street" on the front and on the back it said "Can you tell me how to get, how to get to sesame street?" My husband and I asked the guests in their invitations to wear Sesame Street themed clothes, if they had it. Misc: We played themed music throughout the whole party and played my son's Sesame Street DVD's on the TV and all the children went home happy with their candy bags full, prizes, coloring pages, snacks and a big smile on their faces. The adults enjoyed it as much as the children. Have fun and enjoy!