Rubber Ducky 1st Birthday Party  For my son's first birthday, we chose the Rubber Ducky theme.  Although I was able to find rubber ducky plates and such, they did not go with my color scheme so I chose not to use them.    INVITATIONS: I made die cut duckies and mounted them to white cardstock. Then, I made 'water' out of blue cardstock and attached that.  On the front of I printed off my computer "Rubber Ducky, you're the 1 who'll make Dustin's Birthday Party so much fun!"  Then on the back I printed "Waddle on over and help us celebrate Dustin's 1st Birthday!" This was followed by the date, time, and location "our pond".  Underneath, was the following " We'll be having lunch then getting our feathers wet, so be sure to dress in your ducky duds!  Join us.  It'll be a ducky good time."  DECORATIONS/PARTY GOODS: I used light yellow and baby blue streamers and balloons.  I used plain baby blue covers for the tables.  I couldn't find plain white party hats, and didn't have time to order them online, so I spray painted some white, then took a foam stamp I found at Michael's for $1.99 and stamped baby blue bubbles and a yellow duck on each. For the plates, I used clear plates I found at a local party store. I used the same die cuts I used for the invites and glued it to one plate and attempted to glue another plate on top of it using blue glue. Unfortunately that glue didn't hold and hot glue was a mess, so I wound up super glue on the blue dots, so you couldn't see it. I used transparent blue Solo cups from Wal-Mart. The games and food also doubled as decoration.  We played "Splish Splash" music throughout the party. Since I had found soo many duckies, I had some floating in the pool, that at the end of the party the guests were able to take home as part or the party favors in their goody bags. GOODY BAGS: I used the same stamp for doing the goody bags (again plain white). I hot glued a googly eye to each of the bags too.  I filled each with rubber duckies I got both online at Ebay and from Oriental Trading. I also put in some bubble bath. I found 2 oz white bottles online at Ebay and affixed labels to them printed from the computer "Rubber Ducky Bubble Bath  Splish, splash, for a ducky good time in the bath" along with a clipart picture of a ducky. Then I mold ducky chocolates and included them.  At each of the games, they were given more candy which went into the goody bags.  For those children under 1, I put Cheerios into a ziploc baggie and attached a label "Ducky Feed that will make you quack up!"  For the adults, I got the "relaxable" squeeze duckies from Oriental and printed out "When you get stressed, don't have a duck! Squeeze the quack out of me instead!" and attached that with baby blue ribbon around the neck. FOOD: We had a lunch of grilled chicken with the fixings. I used a washtub filled with ice for sodas and boxed juices.  I also had the glass punch bowl with blue Kool-aid and little duckies floating in it.  My mom made his cake using the 3D rubber ducky cake pan from Wilton.  It was put on top of 2 layers of round cake made to look like a washtub with tin foil and water which was blue piping gel. The 3D duck was removed (it was on its own seperator plate) and he dug into that while the 'washtub with water' was for everyone else. GAMES: Ofcourse we had the duck pond game. I ordered the weighted ducks from Oriental and since they were small, I had them in a washtub. The prize duck was good for a small plush quacking duck for the bathtub. We also had a bean bag toss - a duck cut from plywood and painted to make him look like his beak was open and pin the bill on the ducky. For the older kids we did the ducky bullseye with water balloons. Then we did the balloon stomp. I filled white balloons with a few pieces of candy and gave each child 2 balloons to 'stomp'. (Supervise carefully with very young children.)  All the candy went into the goody bags.  These balloon were decorative too, as I placed them in a washtub.  Finally they all played in the pool.  I had a kiddie pool for the very young ones.   THANK YOUS: I took pictures of everyone with the birthday boy and sent that with the thank you notes.   I was also able to find the cutest rubber ducky outfit at the Carter's outlet, so that's what the birthday boy wore.  It really was a ducky good time!