I had a party for my 8 yr. old daughter. Her birthday is in winter so we made a snowman cake. I frosted 3 different size cake rounds with white frosting, then spread coconut all over them. I made a black construction paper for the hat, black round candies for the eyes, a short carrot for the nose, and raisins for the mouth. I used more black rounds for the buttons, and pretzel rods for the arms. It looked great!! For the activity, we brought snow into the house in wide rectangular plastic containers. I had them ready outside, all filled with snow. I had the kids bring their mittens and gave them little toys they would play with in the sane box and let them play in the 'snowbox'! I had a towel down on the floor and put it on our little tykes table! They had a blast!! This was the hit of the party!  For opening of the presents, I sat them all in a circle, played Frosty The Snowman and when the music stopped, the birthday girl got to open that present! The kids loved this!  It's also a good way to keep everyone happy since they all want the birthday girl to open their present first! Another game was to set out chairs like musical chairs. Put dress up clothes on each chair in a bag or box. Play music and when the music stops, the child has to put 1 thing on. Then they keep going around and putting more and more things on each time the music stops.  After all the dress up clothes are gone, all the kids look so silly! We had a parade and a contest of who looked the silliest. Took pictures. We also played "Pin the Nose on the Snowman", using a paper carrot for the nose. They had a great time!! Benita