My daughter was turning 3 years old and wanted a winnie the pooh birthday party Of course the planning began First we hired a look alike pooh to be there. The more we talked about her birthday to her the more she decided that if pooh was coming then all the other characters from the show should come too.This was something that I really couldnt give her and I had to come up with an alternative. My daughter and her friends loves to play dress up so I gave her the whole cast of winnie the pooh.  Her birthday is In late November I started searching for after Halloween bargains childrens costumes and found the whole cast in the various sizes of our childhood guests of the party.  It was great I found a rabbit, pooh piglet,tigger,eyore, I ended up with 9 of them total that way for various sizes and this time of the year costumes are extremely inexpensive It was so cute. My daughter and I made invitiatons that each card had different character on it and they all had a been printed up to sound like that character for example Piglets card stuttered pplease come to Hanna's pppparty in the Hundred Acre Wood with the rest of the details following. Tiggers card read come on over to the Hundred acre woods for Hanna's  birthday it will be a Ti-double- gerr ific good time and so on I think this took the longest out of any of my planning!!! My husband and I painted Honey Pots in bright colors with the words hunny on them an we used this to hold balloons. The cake was absoultly beautiful and  it was picked up from a bakery. On the tables we had enlarged alot of coloring pages and a pooh puzzle to occupy the little ones. I had varios decorations aroud our shelter.  We had pooh nut butter sandwiches and vegetables from rabbits garden to eat.All the favor bags had winnie the pooh note pads, stickers,snacks and more. We had our party  at a park and the day of the party when the kids all started arriving in their costumes it was the cutest! We even had a christoper Robin minus the shorts but he pretended all afternoon for his little cousin. My daughter and her friends were having so much fun in there costumes and then The big Pooh showed up and they danced to songs from the book of pooh and did the hokey pokey and played pin the tail on tigger.The look alike pooh stayed the whole party they were having so much fun I wish it could have lasted longer for them all and the kids did not want to take their costumes off for the party to end. The look on my daughters face was so worth it all. In my planning I did not make sure my camera worked!@ So that is my only regret of the whole thing not a lot of pictures to show what a great day it was. My daughter and her friends still play in the costumes and I have been able to take some more photos.  It was such a great day.  She just asked me in January what kind of party was she going to have for this year. I hope I can top this one because her 3rd birthday was perfect and she loved every minute of it!!  I guess I need to start scoping out new ideas from your website.