I chose to do a Halloween party theme for my daughter's 1st birthday which is in late October. I did the theme with Winnie the Pooh and his gang with their Halloween outfits. I started by planning 6 months in advance by getting ideas. I first went and ordered from a printing company her invitation. It was shaped like a pumpkin and it said, "Our pumpkin is turning 1, so come and join our fun, __________'s 1st birthday party." It led to say it was at our Pumpkin Patch, followed by our address. I also made her own return address labels with her name. I had bought all Winnie the Pooh Halloween plates, napkins, and cups. I had orange, purple and pink balloons everywhere. It rained that day, so we had it in our garage. I had a few tables set up with the tables cloths matching our theme. I had ordered a cake in the shape of a pumpkin with little pumpkins around it to look like a pumpkin patch. It was cute! I had made cupcakes and ice cream cones filled with cake mix and topped with icing! For games, we had pin the nose on the jack-o-lantern and a pumkin pinata. We had vegetable trays, fruit trays, hot dog and chili. We had PLENTY of food!  To save space I had a wagon for the gifts, instead of a table. I had hay stacks scattered for picture scenes, but were used as decorations! I had decided to let everyone eat first and then as they were eating we let her have her own cake which was a small pumpkin. After we went ahead and opened gifts while people were having their cake. Things flowed very smoothly. For the Party Favors, I had bought the brown gift bags at Party Universe and had sponge painted them with Halloween kids. I also had written every child's name on their bag that I knew was coming. Each bag had Halloween bubbles, a straw, bubble gum, a pumpkin or bat sippy cup, lollipops, sunglasses, pencils, animal crackers, rice kcrispie treat, and a candy corn picture frame magnet that I had made before. (I got almost everything for my gift bags from Oriental Express.)I gave the pencil and bubble gums to the older children. I had typed a thank-you message on the computer and glued it to a pumkin shape notepad that said thank-you for coming to my birthday party. I had this tied to their bags. There were many things I couldn't do because of the weather, but we all had a GREAT time!