You can create a successful Winnie the Pooh Party for your kids with just a few simple ideas.
Winnie the Pooh was first published in 1926. A.A. Milne created the character of Winnie the Pooh and his lovable friends for his son Christoper. Today, kids around the world still love the story of Winnie the Pooh and many young boys and girls would love to have a Pooh-themed birthday party. There are several inexpensive ideas that parents can use to host a successful Pooh Party.
Decorations
Place signs in your neighborhood that direct guests to your house. Have them say things related to Winnie the Pooh, such as "Bounce this way to Tigger's birthday party" and "This way to the Hundred Acre Wood!" Position red and yellow balloons around your house. For centerpieces, set out paint jars decorated to look like honey pots, along with some flower pots. Put crumbled up cookies, candy flowers and gummie worms inside the flower pots for your guests to snack on. Use the honey pots to hold silverware or place cards.
Games
Keep the children entertained with Winnie the Pooh coloring sheets and craft projects while waiting for all the guests to arrive. Once everyone has arrived, the Pooh games can begin. Have the children play Hot Potato with a stuffed Pooh character. Fill a jar with gummie bears and have the kids try to guess how many Pooh bears are in the jar. The winner keeps the jar of gummie bears. Tape a poster of Eeyore on a wall and play "Pin the Tail on the Donkey." Have the children bounce up and down like Tigger in a backyard relay race.
Pooh Party Favors
Kids love to take away treats and prizes from a birthday party. Paint a pot to look like a honey pot for each child to take home. Write each child's name on his pot and glue bee cut-outs or stickers to the front. Fill the pots with items like special treats, bubble soap and Winnie the Pooh pencils.
Food
Use honey as the theme of your menu, since that is Winnie the Pooh's favorite meal. Make peanut butter and honey sandwiches and cut them into bear shapes with a cookie-cutter. Serve a platter of vegetables and tell the kids they came from Rabbit's garden. Other finger foods that work for a Winnie the Pooh party include cheese curls for Tigger and bear-shaped honey graham cookies.
Cake
Purchase a cake from a local bakery in a Winnie the Pooh theme or bake your own. Wilton sells a special Winnie the Pooh baking pan that will give your cake the shape of the bear, which you can then decorate like Pooh. To decorate the cake, buy edible images and plastic figures of the characters from a baking goods store, along with frosting or fondant in the theme's principal colors.
You can also design Pooh's face on a round cake and use cupcakes as his ears. Use yellow and brown frosting for the details. If you'd rather bake a sheet cake, decorate it to look like the Hundred Acre Wood with all the characters from the story occupying the scene.
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