Winnie the Pooh

Sonja Smart - Partyfanatix cc

Pooh's Heffalump Afternoon Tea - 1 year

As my eldest son had had a Winnie-the-Pooh picnic when he turned one, I didn’t want to do the exact same theme, but I love Winnie-the-pooh for 1st birthdays! The Heffalump movie had recently been released and so I decided on the Heffalump theme. Little did I know that just over a year later it would be my son’s favourite movie! The invitations and covers for the party boxes were made on the computer. As it was just going to be family, we decided to have the party in the late afternoon.
The adults had tea and savouries and the little ones had party boxes filled with Flings, soft marshmallow fish, meringues, a small chocolate & a Heffalump on a biscuit. Each child was also given a bottle of non-toxic bubbles. The birthday cake was a plain square cake with yellow butter icing. The name was written with chocolate letters from the local home-industry and we placed a Heffalump soft toy on the top of the cake. Easy and cost effective!

Bernadine - CAPE TOWN

Winnie the Pooh Picnic - 1 year

For our son’s 1st Birthday we had a Winnie-the-Pooh picnic on our deck. For the invitations I used an outline of Winnie-the-Pooh to photocopy onto different coloured pieces of cardboard. I then cut out the shape and pasted the party details onto Winnie-the-Pooh’s tummy. On the day, a picnic blanket was spread out on the floor and age appropriate toys strewn all over. I also put up a tent, filled with toys for the kids to play in. The picnic basket was filled with goodies that a one year old can manage to eat i.e. Flings & Boudoir biscuits.

In keeping with the theme we placed all the Winnie-the-Pooh toys on the picnic blanket and the tableware was colour co-ordinated with Winnie-the-Pooh serviettes. Inside the house, Winnie-the-Pooh pictures were put up around the cake table. The cake was in the shape of a one, and it had little honey bees on it. For honey pots I used lilac plastic cups which I filled with yellow jelly – messy but great fun!

Bernadine - CAPE TOWN