For my daughter's 4th birthday she decided she wanted a Strawberry Shortcake party. We have a VERY large family so I knew there would be over 20 kids boys and girls ranging from babies to 10 year olds. Many of my ideas started from this and other websites with my own twist. For invitations I printed the following on pink vellum: Our sweet little_____ is turning 4. Please join us for a Berry special celebration at the strawberry patch" I included all of our information. I cut strawberries out of card stock and dotted them with black marker. I cut the vellum as well and attached it to the back of the red paper using green rafia ribbon. Then I placed some green "grass" in a clear candy bag along with the strawberry and tied it with a red ribbon and mailed or delivered them in red envelopes with a Strawberry Shorcake sticker attached. For decorations I covered everything like a strawberry garden. I used some of the SS party supplies but mostly made everything. I placed red table cloths over the tables and dotted them black and placed a round green table cover over it and cut that to look like the green top of the strawberry. I sprinkled each table with strawberry wrapped candy too. I coverered our backyard wall with white butcher paper cut to look like a picket fence and hung green streamers to look like vines. Then I placed baloons made to look like strawberrys on the "vines". In the patio I made a big happy face sun out of butcher paper and stuffed it to make it look bigger. i hung it in the middle of the patio and draped bright yellow streamers from it across the csiling of the patio to imitate sunshine. As the guests walked in through the side of the house I created arches of balloons in different collors just by blowing a few different colored baloons up with helium and attaching them to streamers and tying the streamers across the walkway. This was my "garden rainbow" entrance. I also had SS mylars and pink balloons strewn about. The kids had fun in the SS jumper we ordered and hitting the strawberry shaped pinata. We also had a play dough area and coloring sheets and crayons laid out. Then I draped a large white piece of butcher paper across one of our walls outside and let the kids draw on it if the wanted. For a craft they each made their own rainbow keleidescope (ordered from a teacher supply store) and decorated it. Indoors I had a SS DVD and CD playing and decorated with pink and red streamers. For lunch we served picnic style  food: sandwich salads prk n' beans and chips. The kids and a great time and each left with a goodie bag candy from the pinata and their keleidescope. My daughter loved it too and that amkes me happy.  "