Today was my son's 6th birthday and his choice for a party theme was a bit unusual, in that he wanted a "President's Party."  As it is the day before George Washington's birthday, we decided it would be fun to do. Invitations were done on parchment style paper with an Olde English font. The title said, "Declaration of Invitation." And then, "We the people of the (last name) House of (our town), in order to form a more perfect birthday, a birthday conceived in the notion that all kids should have fun and eat cake, would like to invite you to (child's name's) sixth birthday and presidential gala!  Below that, we included the party info, calling our house the White House, and the name of our subdivision followed by "D.C."  We decorated using cutouts of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln  and lots of 4th of July type things, so we had red, white and blue streamers and banners and American Flags hanging on the walls. The party room (our basement, which we called the Oval Office) was set up with Lincoln Logs to play with as the kids arrived, and "Hail to the Chief" and other patriotic songs playing.  Each kid also got a "tri-cornered hat," which was three strips of black foam stapled together as a triangle.  We played several games, including "Pin the Wooden Teeth on George Washington, a hula hoop toss over Abe Lincoln's black top hat, and jump across the Potomic River (a sort of long jump game where you have two pieces of rope or streamers laid out parallel to each other and keep spacing them farther and father apart for the kids to try to jump across. We also had a "Presidential Physical Fitness" silly obstacle course, where the kids went around the room on George Washington's horse (a hobby horse), hopped across couch cushions, blew a cotton ball across the floor using a straw, crawled through a tunnel, bowled a ball of plastic bowling, then picked a "cherry" off the "cherry tree" (a construction paper tree taped to the wall with cherry flavored Life Savers to pick off).  We also did a round of "cooperative musical cushions," which is like musical chairs, only using couch pillows instead of chairs. The cooperative version had pillows being removed at the end of each round, but no kid goes out, so they have to all work to fit themselves on the remaining pillows each time.  This was done to more patriotic music. After that, it was a "presiential Luncheon" of pizza and carrts, and then the cake, which was the Cool Whip style American Flag cake (a rectangle yellow cake with cool whip as frosting, and the stripes done by halved strawberries and the stars represented by rows of blueberries).  Goody bags included small American flags, red, white and blue pencils, a notepad with money on the cover and play money (the money was used because presidents' faces are on them).  The party was highly successful, as noted by one of the moms that we had 12 kids, two hours, no tears and no injuries!