Winnie the Pooh Picnic Birthday Party

Winnie the Pooh party items are hard to find, so I made them. I purchased a handmade Winnie the Pooh Birthday centerpiece and my sons birthday shirt, on Etsy. The birthday banner, signs for the food table and table decor, name stickers for the kids picnic baskets, and the wooden birthday sign, I made myself, with a some help from the free Disney clipart. All the red checkered picnic tablecloths, the pinwheel flower card holders, medium baskets for produce and small baskets used for the kids picnic baskets, and weighted ants, were purchased from a local craft store. The tri-colored silverware, plates, and napkins were from Party City.

The wooden sign saying “Welcome to AJ’s 100 Acre Wood”  was created using an old pallet in our garage from an appliance we’d gotten several years ago. It worked beautifully.

I crafted the birthday banner of construction paper honeypots . I made three templates; one for the light brown honey pot, and two different “dripping honey” styles to glue onto the honey pots. The Eeyore, Pooh, and Tigger were free Disney clipart I’d found online, and sized to what I needed.

The kids’ picnic table was two wooden pallets stacked on a tarp , and covered with a checkered tablecloth. Each child had their own picnic basket lunch consisting on a sandwich, cheese, and fruit . To make the baskets, I purchased small baskets with handles from a local craft store, cut up a tablecloth into enough pieces, used one tablecloth piece to line each basket and secured with a rubber band. I printed each child’s name onto a sticker paper, designing Winnie the Pooh heads with the boys’ names and Piglets for the girls’ names, cut each one out, and stuck them to the baskets .

The food table was comprised of a picnic basket (borrowed from a friend) with ham, turkey, and cheese slices for sandwiches, displayed . I cut up a plastic tablecloth, lined the basket with one, placed freezer ice packs down, then covered those with another layer of tablecloth, to keep the meats & cheeses cold. There was plenty of condiments, along with breads, chips, and fruit salad, your typical picnic array. There were two baskets of “goodies from Rabbits garden” , a bowl of “Acorn from Owls’ Tree” cookies,  made using Hershey kisses, mini vanilla wafers, and mini chocolate chips. A platter of Chocolate Meringue “Beehives”, made by piping (I used icing tip #2A) the chocolate meringue from this recipe, form the “beehive” look I wanted  , bake on a silpat mat, cool,  then add the sugar bees (purchased from a local craft store) with a small amount of icing or melted chocolate . To create the “Honeycomb”, melt a pack of yellow chocolate discs (available at craft and cake supply stores, and online) and spread the melted chocolate out onto bubble wrap approximately 1/2″ thick . Allow the chocolate to cool and harden, then carefully peel off the bubble wrap . Have a round metal cookie or fondant cutter, hold under hot water to heat up the metal, quickly pressed onto a towel to get most of the water off, then cut out the chocolate circles .