Little M&M had a Winnie the Pooh party this year! He wore a shirt I made for him for our Disney World trip six months ago, using iron-on transfer paper.
He's just obsessed with Winnie the Pooh! He has dozens of Pooh books, and he reads them every night before bed. We tried to keep the party simple this year. Take a look at what we did:
Decorations
I used a couple yellow lanterns to make bee hives. I printed the bees onto cardstock, cut them out and taped them onto the lanterns. We also used our seemingly never-ending roll of craft paper to make some trees, and leftover green crepe paper to make the leaves.
I painted a flower pot to represent Pooh's honey pot, and filled it with honey sticks (found on Amazon). The honey sticks would then be passed out as prizes after the party games. They were a huge hit, with kids and adults alike. I was so surprised at how they hoarded them!
I hung a banner that I found for free at Bugboo City. And I also painted some wooden letters from Michaels to look like Pooh characters. Little M&M loved this, and has them up in his room now.
So here are all of those details from afar, complete with a Hundred Acre Wood sign I taped up there.
And finally, I created this open book in Photoshop Elements, and hung it on the front door to welcome our guests. I tried to make the text float across the page, as it often does in the original. Chapter Seven, obviously, because Little M&M was celebrating his seventh birthday!
The Food
Before we get to the food, let me first show you the tablecloth we made to look like dripping honey! Super cute, and all we did was cut out a yellow tablecloth and lay it onto a red one.
Tigger Tails - Cheetos.
Eeyore's House (some assembly required) - Pretzel Sticks
Rabbit's Garden Veggies - assorted vegetables with a yummy dip.
Piglet's in a Blanket
Owl's Wings - two types of chicken wings, honey garlic and buffalo.
Kanga and Roo's Tails - large subs from the deli.
Heffalump Droppings - Little M&M's three favorite types of cookies: chocolate crinkles, iced oatmeal and mini M&M.
And finally, Pooh's Punch. And I don't have a close-up picture, apparently, but as you can see in the punch picture below, I also made Pooh water bottle labels!
The Party Activities
The first activity was to guess how many Haycorns (this is what Piglet calls acorns) were in the jar. The person who guessed the closest won an Amazon gift card.
The next activity was a type of scavenger hunt. Little M&M loves math of all kinds, so I incorporated it into this scavenger hunt. Each child received this checklist with the answers, and they had to go and find each of the equations, hidden on honey pots around the house.
For example, when they find this honey pot, they can check off the 160 honey pot!
Little M&M loved this game. It was quite a challenge for our little party-goers, but no one gave up, and they all received honey sticks upon completion!
We printed a little game of Pin the Tail on Eeyore from Disney Family.
This game is always a lot of laughs; the kids were hilarious playing this.
And our last game is one we've been playing at most of our birthday parties, a balloon pop! We placed pictures of heffalumps and woozles into four balloons, and the kids had to pop the balloons to find them. Anyone who found them received honey sticks. Of course we played the song from our phone while the game went on.
We used craft paper and green balloons for this game to make a tree, because the heffalumps and woozles were hiding in the Hundred Acre Wood. As always, we taped tacks to the wall behind each balloon, and had the kids toss bean bags at them to pop them. Love this kid-friendly way to play!
The kids stood farther back, but here is Sweet E having a try. She loves Pooh too!
Little M&M mid-game, running up to see if he found a heffalump or woozle.
Thanks for stopping by to see our party!
