My son wanted a knight in shining armor party for his 6th birthday.  Invitations were sent saying "Noble Knights and Fair Ladies Of Camelot, you are invited to a royal tournament in honor of Sir Robbie's 5th year of birth. Please join us for feasting at the round table and festivities in the courtyard of Schreck Castle on May 8th from 12:00-3 :00 pm.We hope you are able to join us for a magical afternoon. Invitations were handed out as scrolls to Sir or Lady... Maps to the house gave directions to our castle via their family's royal carriages. I made the invitations and maps on the computer using script fonts.   We decorated the house by constructing a castle by the front door that the children walked through. Each child was greeted by Merlin (his grandfather in a graduation robe decorated with glow in the dark stars, a wizard hat, and a wand) and "knighted" by a princess with a bubble sword (for each child to keep) as they walked through the castle door. When the children entered the house, they drew their crests on knight shields (made of cardboard wrapped in aluminum foil with a blank piece of paper pasted to the shield). This gave the children something to do while others arrived. The children ate a menu consisting of dragon wings (fried chicken wings), dragon toes (bite size carrots), fairy trees (brocoli), wizard wands (celery), dragon eggs (olives), dragon scales (potato chips), unicorn horns (cheetos), Merlin's moat float (punch), and a dragon tail (a large sub sandwich for the adults). I made one cake of a fire breathing dragon and cupcakes with gray icing and small swords (my son requested cakes to pull the sword out of the stone).   After the children ate, they played medieval tournament games such as, pin the tail on the dragon, jousting (horses were made of boxes that the children stepped into and "rode" to the end of the yard to hook a ring - jousting poles were light sabers wrapped in tin foil), a wizard hat pinata filled with gold coin treasure and broken with a wooden sword, and "magic merlin" (his grandfather, still dressed as Merlin, had each child scribble on a piece of paper and he drew the scribble into a medieval picture for the child to take home).  For present opening, we decorated two chairs with dragon and knight and shining armor crests. One was a throne for the birthday boy and the chair next to him was for his guest to sit while he opened the present. My son gave each child his/her "loot bag" (he made each one especially for each child with a dragon, knight, princess, picture drawn on a shield and pasted on the bag). The bag was filled with gold coin candy, metalic bead necklaces (mardi gra with crowns), bubbles for their swords, wizard or dragon tatoos, and home made chocolate wizard hat lollipops. I took a picture of each child with my son which was turned into a thank you note postcard and sent to the guest after the party. After opening presents, the children went out to play with their bubble swords and my husband changed into a dragon hat costume - so the kids could slay the dragon.