I know this is late, but it's never to early to plan next year's Christmas party!  This party is called a Crafty Christmas Party!  You can use this as a combination birthday/christmas party if your child's birthday is in December.  This party is really only meant for people who celebrate Christmas. I don't mean to sound rude, but the fun is revolving around Christmas, and nobody wants guests to feel awkward. So here goes!!!! INVITATIONS:  Now, my family goes all out on parties, but here are 2 ways to make an invitation.  1st, you could make an Advent Calender. Have 12 or 24 days on it.  I recommend 12 and you will see why.  Take a bright piece of cardstock, any will do but I suggest yellow.  Take another piece of cardstock, red or green, and cut out 12 or 24 windows. Now, I mean, that you cut out the paper so there are little flaps, like windows. Then, number each flap 1-12 or 1-24. Then, inside each flap, write a detail about the party!  Finally, you can attach ribbon to the top corners to make it look like a hanging advent calender.  The second way you could do this is with felt.  Either works fine.  Some people like to go all out on invitations, but I wanted to provide options. DECORATIONS: Obviously, you want Christmas decorations. If you have your tree up, that's great. If not, don't stress yourself out trying to get a tree before the party. For other decorations, take different sized cardboard boxes that you don't need.  Wrap them up and put them around the house. Make them look as fancy as you can get them, so the kids will feel like it really is Christmas.  A lot of the decorations depend on your personal holiday decorations, but you could also put up red and green balloons, streamers, or Christmas tree lights around the house. If you have and Christmas related books, put them face up on the table you will be eating on as a centerpiece.  You may even want to put red and green candles. FOOD: Have the traditional pizza, hamburgers, hot dogs, there really isn't a lot of a theme when it comes to food.  For cake, I recommend making it look like a present, which isn't too hard. Just get a square cake, and decorate it so it looks like a bow and wrapping paper. If you want, you can put HAPPY BIRTHDAY _______ or HAPPY HOLIDAYS on a "gift tag" on the cake, made out of icing, of course.  Other fun snacks are Jello Jigglers.  You get jello and jello molds.  You can make snowmen, christmas trees, and other holiday shapes. They are cute and fun to eat. You can also get sugar cookies and cut them out with holiday cookie cutters.  You could put frosting and sprinkles on them, or you could leave that to a craft, which I'll explain later. Finally, Pillsbury (I think) makes round cookie dough, in the shape of a log. They have reindeer, santa, christmas trees, and snowmen on them. All you do is cut them and you have instant cookies! GAMES/ACTIVITES: Since this is a Crafty Christmas Party (or Crafty Chrismas Birthday Party), you need to have lots of crafts involved! 1)Decorating stockings:  If you are planning this activity, buy plain, stockings that you can paint.  You can get them out of felt, plastic, but felt is best to paint on. Also, get the stockings early so stores don't run out of them. Use puffy, fabric paints to paint a stocking.  Kids will love decorating their own stockings and once they dry, they can take them home and use them.  2)Sugar Cookie Decorating: If you decided to make surgar cookies and you didn't decorate them, give kids some surgar cookies, frosting, and sprinkles and let them decorate their own Christmas cookies! 3)Paper Chains w/Ornaments: Here is a new twist to an old favorite, along with an activity I did at one of my birthday parties when I was little.  Supply kids with paper to make their own paper chains.  Then, give them cardstock cut into circles, art supplies, like glitter glue, markers, etc., and ribbons. Kids can decorate their own "ornaments" and when they put the ribbon on the ornament, they can glue them onto the paper chains.  It's a cute way to decorate any space.  4)Christmas Crafts: orientaltrading.com has lots of christmas crafts to choose from, at affordably prices. You can get foam picture ornaments to foam snowmen kits to christmas bookmarks! This is a great way to occupy the kids time without spending a lot of money. 5)Candy Cane Ornaments: Get white and red pipe cleaners, and have kids shape them into candy canes. They can use them as ornaments or you can tie a couple together and put them in a glass or vase.  GOODY BAGS:  For goody bags, you can get any kind of bag.  Kids mostly care about what's INSIDE the goody bag, not outside :). Inside, put Christmas craft kits, small, inexpensive ornaments, Christmas candy (like candy canes or those candy ribbon things), and other Christmas related stuff. Wrap the goodies so kids can get an early christmas.  I hope my ideas help you. Have a Happy Holiday and Happy Birthday!