We held a four seasons birthday party last year. We decorated our basement
and each corner of the room represent a different season. For fall we had a large cardboard tree with paper apples and fall colored leaves. We hung fall-colored leaves from the ceiling to look like they were drifting down, as they do in fall. For winter we made our large table into a snow scene, covering it with a white sheet with towels bunched up underneath to look like snow drifts. We put wintery stuffed animals playing on it with styrofoam snowballs and building a stuffed animal snowman. We also hung up scarves, hats and mittens. For spring we made cotton puffy clouds to hang on the walls and hung tissue paper flowers all around the bottom rim of that corner with green paper grass. There were also butterflies hanging from the ceiling. For summer we hung a large paper mache sun and covered the walls with blue cardboard cut out like waves, with shells and sand glued on the bottom of it. We hung paper kites from the ceiling. We also made another table into a beach scene, with sand, sand toys, suntan lotion, and lemonade. We had everyone who came to the party dress like a different season. For the party games, we had one game for every month. For January we had a pile of crumpled papers to look like snowballs, and they took turns picking one which told them to take a snowman body part. They needed to be the first to put together a whole snowman (which were edible with marshmellow body, pretzel arms, etc.) For February, we had February related trivia, and every time someone answered a question correctly, they chose a chocolate from a box of chocolates. The first person to find a coconut chocolate won. For March we had riddles which were written on separate color pieces of the rainbow, which were paper arcs, making a rainbow. The red had a hint leading to the orange and so on, until the purple led to a pot of gold (which was glitter in a container). The first person to find the pot of gold won. For April, there was musical eggs, like musical chairs. Each person had a fake egg, and there were nests, and they played the musical chairs game with them. For May there was pictures of flowers, and cards with clues on them. They had to match the most clues to the right flower. For June, there was a cardboard picnic blanket with spots to lift off to try and find pictures of food which were worth points. For July, they had edible flags (bread, licorice), and took turns having a dog eat them. The person who had the dog eat it in the fastest time won. For August, they went fishing in a tub with paper fish with paperclips on them. They had a stick with a magnet on it with fishing poles. The person who got the most fish won. For September, there was scrambled apple varities written on actual apples and they had to be the first to shout out the unscrambled word for each apple. For October there were opinion questions related to Halloween, and people had to guess each other's answers for points. For November, there were cardboard Thanksgiving foods and they had to throw the most onto plates.