Princess Party for our 4 year old. Sept. 2002  My daughter requested a princess party but also wanted Barbie so I was lucky enough to find Princess Barbie invitations and decorations at Party City. In the invitation I requested the guests to come dressed as princesses or knights. I addressed the invitations to "Princess" or "Sir". Our little Princess was dressed in a Barbie Princess costume that will double as her Halloween costume. She was adorned with a tiara, wand, feather boa and sparkly shoes. We bought body glitter to put a touch of sparkle on the arriving princesses and the boys were given dragon tattoos. We decorated our Deck to look like a castle. I purchased a roll of flagstone corrugated paper from Shindigz.com that was perfect for stapling to the deck and cutting into tower shapes at the top. At each corner of the deck we placed a plastic red flag hanging out of each tower. My husband spray painted a piece of wood to lay down the deck steps to use as our draw bridge. I used a long camping table which has a low setting on it to seat the princesses at and bought a cheap purple piece of fabric to drape over the royal table. We decorated frames (1 frame per sibling group or guest) and I personalized them with "Shannon's 4th B-day Party" and the date with a glitter paint pen. We borrowed a digital camera and took a picture of each princess/knight or sibling pair and had a friend print them off our computer on photo paper so the frame was complete with photo prior to the guests' departure. We had a dragon piñata and had a bat transformed into a sword to "slay" the dragon. The princesses especially liked this game since we made a big deal out of this being the "modern" princess age were they can slay their own dragon. I had printed out a ton of coloring pages from disney.com and also from a preschool coloring book site of princesses, knights, dragons, in case of rain but we never needed this activity so I just had the children take a few pages with them as they left. I made a cake to look like a castle with edible glitter and ice cream cones for the towers. We also played musical carpet on a piece of red velvet fabric. I decorated a resin chair to resemble a thrown for our daughter to sit at for the cake/pictures. I also gave each princess a 36" blow up princess wand and the knights a 30" inflatable sword purchased from rhodeislandnovelty.com. A good friend made chocolate castle-shaped boxes filled with m&m's (she purchased the molds from a kitchen store) and also glittery chocolate stars on sticks (wands). We served star shaped chicken nuggets and mini-star shaped pb&j sandwiches as well as a pink sherbert punch for the little guests (in plastic goblets--of course!). They departed with their frames, coloring pages, piñata goodies, swords/wands, chocolate goodies and a goody bag which had Princess Barbie on it (for the boys I drew a mustache and eyebrows on Barbie just for a laugh!). An incredible time was had by all!