For my son's 3rd birthday party (at which there were several 5-6 year  olds) we had a Peter Pan Party. The invitations had a photo of my son  wearing Peter Pan costume with instructions to come to Neverland.  One the cake I drew a picture of Captain Hook sitting in a little boat with  the crocodile under the boat somewhat cradling the boat. The picture was adapted from an on-line card. I printed the card then made a photo copy of Hook, enlarged it to fit the card, then cut and pasted until it looked right. I used royal icing to color in the modified picture. To do  this, you need to glue to picture (non-toxic glue or some of the icing) to sturdy poster board and cut it out. On fill in the posterboard shape with royal icing (as if it were a cookie) and let it dry overnight. Place the photocopy on top of the dried icing (tacking it down with royal icing).  Then color in the picutre with icing and let it dry. I hand drew a rising sun around the picuture once it was on the cake. The base icing on the  cake was ocean blue with lighter blue where the sky would be. I used  plastic sea creatures to decorate the sides of the cake. It is easier than it sounds. Take Home: I made pan hats for all the children using green felt and red feathers (each wore his hat during the party). I found the directions  for newspaper hats on-line and followed the directions using the felt. (for 3-4 year old heads I used a width of 14"). I hot glued the folds and  the red feather. I used left over royal icing to make candy dots on a  piece of paper. Each child also got a parrot colored feather duster to  use as a sword (see activities below) Activities: We hung a sheet from the ceiling and used my husband's  portable shop light to create a shadow stage for the children. Two  children would go behind the sheet and dance, pretend to fight or what have you while the rest of us watched....laughing our heads off. We also rigged a "walk the plank" for the children. We used a long piece of 8" wide board. One end of the board went under the sofa (about 6") then with a little trial and error we found the balance point under the board where we put a piece of wood about 9" long, 4" wide, and 6-8" tall. This piece of board gave the "plank" spring. The children had tons of fun jumping off the plank.