I really despise character stuff but ....

[nappyaddict]

DS wants a mickey mouse themed party. We are having someone dress up as mickey mouse and having a mickey cake. I was planning on printing off pictures off mickey and friends to put up in the hall.

Howver the plates, cups, tableclothes, banners etc are all very expensive in small packs and we have around 40 children coming.

I'd buy the themed plates or napkins (to wrap the cake) then go for red and white for everything else. Tesco usually have a good selection, with red stars or spots or similar.

Get a roll of paper from the toy section at Ikea (or somewhere else) and use it as a table runner. You could draw on it yourself or put pencils our and the guests can draw on it.

Get plain plates. You could get black or red.

Have you looked on pintrest? I will have a look now.

Ohhhh there's loads! Have a look.

Do you have the patience to cut out 80 circles from black sugar paper and stick them on cheap white plates as ears??

Save ink - print off black and white pics and stock a table with colouring pens

PurplePidjin I thought about doing that for party bags. Get plain white paper ones, cut out pics of mickey, minnie, pluto, donald, goofy etc and get them to colour them in and stick them on their bags whilst waiting for other guests to arrive. But the hall really needs to be decorated for when people arrive surely?

Any good?

These are my party ideas

I love the fairy cakes made from oreos on your link.

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