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I want to do a Winnie the Pooh birthday party for Silas. He adores the folk in the 100 Acre Wood (though he has yet to make it through one of the actual stories--he reads this about 30 times a day). Also, he totally looks like Christopher Robin right now. And I sooo need an excuse to make him some gingham checked versions of the 100 Acre Wood shirt
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*Search for Small. There's a story where Small is lost and everyone goes looking for him. If I remember correctly, Small is a beetle - or other insect. You could get one a toy beetle (or other insect) and hide it and everyone has to search for Small - just like the book.
*Letters out of sticks. In another story, Eeyore learns how to make an A out of three sticks and then taunts Rabbit with his knowledge - as if Rabbit doesn't know what an A is. You could have teams, give each team three or four sticks, and they have to make a letter out of them by working together.
*Create your own Owl or Piglet. Brown and pink construction paper, crayons, scissors, glue sticks, table space and adult helpers are all you need.
*Tigger and Roo bouncing. Everyone jumps a lot. This may help to expend some energy and tire them out.
Food/drink ideas:
*Quiche or pies that you could call Cottleston Pies. (Mini individual ones or larger ones that you cut up into pieces.) Although the actual poem is more about one's own inner nature than pie it could still work.
*Tea from Owl's relatives.
*Honeycakes - they eat them when they go visiting. With the beehive cake I don't know if you want more cake and cookie ideas but they'd be easier than the Bumblebee cakepops. You can always get someone to make the cakepops for you - lots of people make them out of their home or bakery.
All ideas are what came to mind from what I remember of the books not the Disney stories. I've always loved the A.A. Milne stories. Which is another activity idea - reading a story. When Pooh gets stuck in Rabbit's house Christopher Robin reads to him as they wait for him to get thinner and be able to fit thru the opening.
Hope this helps!
Love,
Heather
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