Basket Birthday Party  Invites:  Get a LARGE cookie cutter that is shaped like a basket. Trace it on to paper (floral design paper would work great). Or use little flower stampers do design the birthday invite and stamp Happy Birthday messages. There are stamps you can purchase individually or ones that say Happy Birthday. When you cut it out have it doubled, so the top is still connected and when it opens up you could write the party information. Activity:  Make basket cookies (using basket cookie cutter) and have the kids decorate them. This doubles as a favor/activity.  Might want to also have a FLOWER cookie to decorate (see below)\*. Cake:  Do a round cake.  Cut it in 1/2, use the bottom portion for the basket base and then use the upper part and cut it out for the handle. Then decorate it with gum drop roses. You take a couple red/pink/purple/yellow gum drops and roll them out with a roll pin, then shape on a stick and same with the green for leaves and put them on a toothpicks. Then stick them at an angle into the basket. Favors: Each girl gets to take home as favor.  Purchase baskets and use dough of any kind (dry ingredients) in a baggie along with recipe and put in the basket, put Styrofoam on top of basket and plant the flower(s)\* cookies that is. If using a large cookie cutter you would only need one flower.  Another idea would be to add a package of wild flowers to plant, or purchase little plants and have them plant them in the basket with liners.  Option put green plants in them and let them stick their flowers in the plant soil. Game:  NAME THAT FLOWER Cut out pictures of flowers, easy ones like daisy, tulip, rose, daffodil and do several varieties and paste them on posterboard. Then pass it around and let them look at them and then put the board away and have them write down as many as they can remember. Might through a couple hard ones in and put the names under them.  Also could use a certain amount of time to do this game in (5 seconds) to look at the board and 1 minute to list the names. Option: could also do that with different packages of flower seeds. For little ones that can't write yet, ask them the colors of the flowers. They could make a check if you ask them white (and if they saw it they check it on their paper (just a check mark) and then say green and maybe some would check it! List the other colors and through in a couple you don't have.  Winner gets a prize! How about a real rose? PIN THE FLOWER IN THE BASKET Have the invite blown up to good size.  Then make or copy some flowers and do one without a stem or the one without the flower and they pin the flower on the stem.  Everything is coming up ROSES!