For my Daughter's 4th birthday I did a Wizard of Oz party.   INVITATION: I made the invitations by making a Ruby Slipper stencil and at the top of the invite used the stencil with red glitter.  The read There's No Place Like Maddie's Home" and had them R.S.V.P. the Wicked Witch. GAMES: At the Party we played a ton of games each game followed Dorothy's path down the Yellow Brick Road. Our first stop was the Scarecrow; I handhade Scarecrow dolls for every kid-using old fabric buttons and twine the head was drawn on and pre-stuffed.  We purchased a bail of hay and the kids stuffed the scarecrow and then put him in their basket.  Then we went to the Crappy Apple trees.  I had a large wardrobe moving box on that I used for the next threee games. I drew a large apple tree and cut out a good size hole for the mouth and the kids threw plastic apples in the tree for a prize. The next side of the box was Pin the Heart on the Tinman.  And the last side was what I called Put 'Em Up! I made as many holes as there were guests and covered each with tissue and then attached a bag to the back that contained a prize. the idea was to punch out a hole to become King of the Forest so whomever punched the hole that contained the crown won. I purchased small ceramic horses from the craft stores and the kids painted their Horse of a Different Color. We then had Wicked Witch races. I got cheap witch hats and used old graduation gowns and kid size broom sticks and the kids seperated into 2 teams. The best part of the relay race was watching the kids try to get out of the costume the fastest to pass it to the next kid.  The final activity was a Rainbow Pinata a made.  And I used brown paper bags that I rolled down and attached blue gingham ribbon to look like her basket to collect their candy in. DECORATIONS: As for decorations I made tissue paper flowers for the field of poseys and had them everywhere. I bought cheap yellow table clothes and drew the yellow brick road over the whole thing. Above the door I made a rainbow with streamers hanging down so the guests were crossing the rainbow to get into the party and using a pair of my daughter's old tights drew black stripes and had Ruby Slippers on the end sticking out from "under" the house.   CAKE: The cake was the big deal I spent about a week preparing for it but it was worth it. I had to use an old canvas board for the base because nothing else was big enough. I made the entire scene from when she lands in Munchkinland. The cake part was the house.  I used white and brown Necco wafers for the roof which I made look sunken in from the fall and decorated the entire house only in brown and white (to give it the Sepiatone effect)I used black and white striped candles for the witches legs and the shaped red gumdrops into slippers and wedged them under the house. For the rest of Munchkinland I made over a 100 candy flowers from Necco wafers gumdrops small candies and pretzel sticks. then using varying sizes of cupcakes with green frosting inserted the flowers and covered the "ground." I made a ton of sugar cookies to give varying heights to first the Munchkin houses (cupcakes with licorice chimneys) and for the platform dorothy stands on. I just used a plastic Dorothy to put on the steps. I made a pretzel stick bridge over a blue jello lake with gumdrop shaped lily pads and light posts.  It was a lot of work but all the little girls loved it! PARTY SNACKS: I used plastic cups with balloons attached to look like hot air balloons for the silverware. the baloons read Happy Birthday Madeline.  And then had witchs punch (lime sherbert with lemon/lime soda)with a floating foam witch hat.   FAVORS: I had gotten Dorothy baskets from Birthday express and the kids put al their prizes throughout the day into their baskets and at the end they got their Glinda Good Witch Bubbles a Lollipop from the Lollipop guild and their Degree of Thankology. It was the perfect amount of activity to keep the kids engaged and keep a little free time to play at the end!"