Teddy Bear Tea Pawty                           My daughter who was turning 4 was always having teas with her friends, teddy bears and dolls.  I thought it was a great idea to have a tea party for her birthday celebration.  We called it Teddy Bear Tea Pawty.  We made the invitations by taking a picture of Makenzie having tea with her stuffed animals. I bought card stock from the local office supply store and scanned that picture at the bottom. The invites read:                                                You are invited to attend a                  Teddy Bear Tea Pawty             to celebrate the 4th birthday of                        Miss Makenzie                     Saturday,Date                                   at 3 o'clock in the afternoon                        our home                        (address)          \*Bring you favorite stuffed animal to share.                    (Done in fancy print) I decorated the table with a plastic pink table cover, doilies, and pink and white balloons.  The chairs were decorated with pink tuleing with a pink and white flower put in the middle of where the tuleing was tied in the back.  At every place setting there was a plastic tea cup with saucer (placed on a smaller doily) a Ty beanie baby (brown teddy bear of course), a teddy bear shaped sugar cookie with pink sprinkles(placed on a cute little plate which was sitting on a fancy paper place mat), sequined hat, boa, and a little old fashioned looking purse (purchased from a local dollar store) which we used for a goodie bag. In the purse I put plastic jewelry, candy necklaces, etc... They got to take everything home that was at their place  setting.  I put ceramic tea pots in the middle of the table and filled them with Gatorade (not sure if all the girls would like tea). After the  girls put on their hats, boas, jewelry they all drank their tea and ate their biscottis (teddy bear cookies).  After tea, the girls that brought their favorite stuffed animals got to introduce their animals and share a story about them. The girls had fun prancing around the yard dressed up. I had the cake made from a local bakery and they put two small teddy bears on it that were dressed up having tea and the candle was a small tea cup and saucer (purchased from a cake decorating store). Before the tea, we grilled hot dogs and hamburgers while the girls were playing around in the yard also enjoying the Spiderman birthday party that was going on for my 7 year son.  We had the parties on the same day because their birtdays are only 4 days apart and its hard to get the whole family toghether.  It's a large family.  Did not realize that all the little girls for the tea party would be very afraid of Spiderman when he showed up. I took many pictures (not all of them were taken with the digital camera so I could not send the really good pictures) and enclosed a picture of the all girls dressed up in each of their thank you notes. Everyone loved this birthday party!!!!!!!!