For my twins 2nd birthday party we had a "Pooh" party. The invites stated " Sam and Joe are turning two Come celebrate with Tigger, Piglet and Pooh Lets have a picnic in the
hundred acre wood We'll probable have more fun then we thought we could!" Due to a big snow storm I decided to have the party inside so I turned my family room into "the hundred
acre wood". I bought astro tuff (fake grass)to cover the rug and laid picnic blankets out.
I created trees out of rolled up Kraft paper hot glued fake leaves all over the branches and taped them to the walls and over the windows. I got pooh, tigger a bee balloons and hung them under the branches. For food I did picnic fare -sandwiches, fruit and veggie platters -for the kids I took bread and cut the crust off to make a square and on one side of the sandwich I put peanutbutter and honey or jam and then on the other side I cut out a little bear with a cookie cutter in the middle of the square then I put them together. For the goodie bags I made honey pots. I bought plastic terra cotta pots (key was plastic with two year olds) at the garden shop and bought yellow felt and yellow wire ribbon at the craft store. I poked 2 holes on opposite sides of the pot and made a ribbon handle I then cut the felt in half and at the bottom of each piece I cut what I hoped resembled honey drips-just a sort of wave. I then hot glued it onto the pot. I then with a maker wrote HUNNY in the middle of one side. I filled them with Pooh fruit snacks, Pooh whistle, Pooh parachute, honey sticks and an acrylic frame (.49) which I got alphabet and bee stickers at the craft store. At the bottom of the frames I wrote the child's name and place the bees randomly around the frame. These frames were later used to house their Polaroid picture of them with "Pooh". I had called a group which specializes in character parties for kids and they happened to have a bear in a red shirt (licensing prohibits them from using the name of Winnie the Pooh) This was probably the most expensive part $100/hr we had him for one hour which was plenty. Pooh besides from posing with the kids helped with the games. We only did two games. One was fishing in the honey pot. I did the old fish game with a twist. I made a big honey pot out of cardboard -one dimension but high enough so that the kids could not see over the top. I used a stick with a sting tied to the end. For a hook I used a close pin. I had one of my dear friends get in back of the pot. I had a bag full of toys with each child's name on the toy for him/her. Each child took a turn and went fishing in the magic honey pot I said something like Magic honey pot please give "Jason" a prize and after three tugs on the string there appeared a toy on the hook - the kids loved it. The other game was "Pooh" bowling. I took six Pringles cans emptied them(wasn't hard to do) and covered them in pooh paper-they were the pins. We just set them up and used a ball and then let each kiddo take a turn they loved it - there really wasn't a winner. We just had fun (some of the parent even took a couple of tries) On the way out I handed out the Hunny pots with a balloon tied to it. Fun was had by all and our entire family had a two hour nap afterwards-including the dogs.