My daughter Morghane will be having her 7th birthday with a Strawberry Shortcake theme. Some ideas I have that may be helpful to others are: serving individual strawberry shortcakes to each person using premade shortcake cups you can purchase at your local grocery store in the bread section, topped with frozen strawberries in syrup in the frozen section or from Schwan's, and finished with coolwhip or the whipped topping in the spray can for a prettier look. The next idea I found while shopping for her pinata while will be as tall as her and filled with all the pink and red colored candy I could find. The store owner who makes the pinatas also had 3-foot felt cut-outs of various characters so I asked for a strawberry without the "seeds" then he will make me small black "seeds" either with velcro on the back or just some black tape and I will use this to play a version of pin the tail on the donkey I will give everyone a prize for participating and Morghane will be able to hang this up in her room to remember her party. I will also use a small about 6-inch strawberry pinata as a center piece on each table surrounded by small strawberry wrapped candies and pink confetti sprinkled on each table  (please remember small children or children running around with these candies in thier mouths can choke).I asked a baker at a   local grocery store for pink frosted sugar cookies when she asked me if they were for Valentine's Day which is about a week away from my daughters birthday I told her my theme for the party and she said she could draw a strawberry on each cookie I only ordered two dozen, more for looks than anything else I will use these to decorate the cake and present table where I ususally use paper and plastic plates and utincils. I will serve strawberry icecream and pizza which I hope will enable me to just roll the trashcan up to the back door when I am done with everything! My last idea is a gift card for a dvd of choice (because there may be boys) at a local video store wrapped as many times as I can in graduated box sizes (I hope to end up with a box at least as big as a shoe-box)to have all the children sit in a circle and unwrapp one section at a time untill the winner unwraps the "gift" (this was a game for every family birthday party for many years I believe my great-grandmother started the tradition.) I will be using a cotton-candy machine outside (wheather permitting) to make pink floss for everyone. This is quite messy for the person making the candy but that's what I have a husband for besides it will make him sweeter.This can be rented but it is really fun for the kids to watch it being made and the smell just makes the whole occasion memorable.I will also be using the idea of "rotten strawberry" and pass the strawberry so I am on my way to my local crafts store "Hobby Lobby" for a small strawberry and fabric to make a strawberry if I decide not to use one of the small pinatas for that game.