Here are all the details to my daughter's 6th birthday party.  We decided to do an outdoor movie night.  The decorations and theme were based on popcorn and movies.  Because it was mostly outdoors, I told her she could invite 20 kids (which I know is crazy, but when you have school, church and neighborhood kids, the number adds up).    The invitations included a movie ticket.  They were told they had to bring the movie ticket with them to get into the party and mostly because there was going to be a raffle that night.  Everyone brought there tickets!   The party goers arrived and went straight outdoors to set up their pillows and blankets for the movie. They all played on the jungle gym as the rest of the kids arrived. Then we had the kids eat dinner. I had hotdogs and chips grapes and strawberries. I bought these so that the kids could just grab and go and since they were all the same there were no decisions to be made.  I also went to my local pizza place and bought $5 worth of cups with lids. Then we had the raffle.  I chose four names to win the prizes. We had a gift card for 1) one movie rental at Blockbuster and popcorn. 2) a $5 DVD from Target and popcorn 3) another $5 DVD from Target and popcorn and 4) a popcorn bucket full of movie concessions.  The kids loved this!  I also went to our local Blockbuster and tried to get a window poster as a prize. They throw away all their posters so if you can time it right (before they throw them away) your can get posters from Blockbuster. I didn't time it right :-) Then we opened presents and started the movie. We had to start it a bit early so it was still a little light out but not to worry within 7 mins it started to get dark. We watched Monsters vs. Aliens.  We had 20 chairs set up and some blankets at the front but the chairs weren't used by any of the kids (only adults). All the kids brought their pillows and blankets and only sat on the grass. I thought they would have used the chairs but not at all.  I was worried no one would watch the movie but a lot of kids did and most of them took turns going back and forth between the movie and the jungle gym.  They had free reign of the backyard and they took advantage of it and just played like crazy.  We had fun concession candy and an old fashioned popcorn machine.  I bought candy from the dollar store (that looks like the boxes at the movie theater) but forgot to put them out for the kids  Can you believe it 20 boxes of candy and I forgot!  And the cake... okay this was the thing I was most nervous about and the thing that turned out so great.  I love how the cake turned out. I baked a normal 9X13 cake and frosted it and then used fruit by the foot for the red part of the cake and giant marshmallows for the popcorn. I sliced a marshmallow into thirds and placed them together like a flower and then cut another marshmallow in half and placed in on top using frosting to hold it together.  Then sprayed them with water mixed with yellow food coloring (in a spray bottle) and waa-laa.... butter popcorn! I am not a cake maker or decorator (I do cupcakes) but this little "masterpiece" made me think twice about cakes.  I loved how it turned out. (Can you tell I am proud of myself).  When it got dark we passed out glow in the dark necklaces and bracelets and sang happy birthday to the birthday girl.  "