For my daughter's first birthday, we had a lady bug themed party.  For the invitations, I bought greeting card stock and scanned her picture dressed as a ladybug in the middle.  Then I cut out a red oval and attached brads at the top and placed the oval over her picture. (Like lady bug wings) For the spots, I used black pom-poms.  I cut out a smaller oval out of black foam paper for the head and glued it over the brad.  Then I glued on googly eyes and drew antenna.  To be sure people knew to open up the wings for the picture, I wrote "Flip up my wings and you will find, a crawling critter of the cutest kind."  Then, using my computer, I printed on the front of the invitation "Our Sweet Baby is Becoming a Little Lady!" Then you open the invitation and read "Little spots and polka-dots, that's what little lady bugs are made of...Won't you come and have some fun?  There's a sweet little lovebug who's turning one!" Join us for a Buggy Birthday Bash for ______!  Then at the bottom of the invitation I wrote, "we hope to "spot" you there!" For hats, I did the headband with pipecleaner for antennae and styrofoam balls at the top. For favors, I collected the plastic containers you get out of the toy machines, painted the big part with black spots for the body, added googly eyes on the cap for the head and pipe cleaner for the antennae.  Then filled the container with red sweet tart hearts.  I hung a paper leaf from each one with the child's name and "A BIG Thanks from a little Lady! Bugs and Kisses, (child's name).  As the children left the party, I also let each child pick out a live ladybug from a container of them I bought at the nursery and let them take home their own ladybug for their garden. I made the Family Fun recipe for a ladybug cake.  We used simple red balloons for decorations. We had a ladybug pinata and played pin the spot on the ladybug and the ladybug beanbag toss.  For prizes, I found some ladybug PEZ dispensers.  Everything was a HUGE hit, especially the invitations.  For the thank you's, we scanned her picture of her at the party in her lady bug outfit and copied the saying from the party favors!  We had lots of fun and really didn't spend much money!