We're doing a fairytale party for Kendall's birthday in two weeks and I need some ideas. If everyone comes that's invited plus Kendall and Gage- we'll have 5 boys and 5 girls altogether. Any thoughts on food, time of day, length of party, games, prizes?
I want all the kids to come dressed as some kind of fairytale character- princess, knight, fairy, dragon- that sort of thing. I'm going to do some face painting for any kids that want to and we'll do cupcakes for cake. I wanted to do some kind of crafty thing- like make ribbon wands, but am having a hard time finding something gender neutral.
Oh Tara, how do you play pass the parcel? I remember that from Emma's birthday and Kendall talked about it forever afterward so we want to play that.
Ideas? Thanks much!
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you could do wands for the girls and swords for the boys... if they're knights, it will go with their costume
Kirst... Kendall's hair and face look ADORABLE!
I think the swords and wands are a good idea. You can do pretty pink princess cupcakes and get little play princess figurines and put them on the top, and then for the boys put dragon or prince figurines on top of say green frosting or blue. I would read them some fairytale books with all the characters voices like storytellers from that era.
Games could be:1."Cinderella" relay--Kids line up, take off one shoe, and hop to the finish line, where there is a "glass slipper", and the prize is a licorice shoelace or whatever you choose.
2. "Sleeping Beauty" musical chairs. Instead of chairs, though, they are blankets that they lay on to sleep when the music stops. At the end of the game, the prize for every child is a royal cape. Just make them out of fabric liner with a gold rope drawstring at the top. Doesn't take long to make at all.
3. Princess or Prince, Pop the Pea!
Have each girl/boy try to pop a helium-filled balloon by sitting on it (or laying on it). If someone is not able to pop their balloon, you can carefully yet secretly help them by popping the balloon with a toothpick while they are sitting on it. Whoever does it the quickest gets a prize.
Foods
Jello jigglers in diamond shapes (Crown jewels), fruit salad, rice crispy treats in the shape of stars (with a popsicle stick going through them, and curling ribbon attached).
Serve a pink princess punch (cranberry raspberry juice mixed with pina colada non alcoholic drink mix and raspberry gingerale).
That is all I could find for now!
The time is up to you, the weather has a lot to do with that! I would only have them for about 4 hours or so, play, eat, do cake and then presents. I would say around 12 or so if you don't want to feed them start later like 2 so play, cupcakes and then presents. I think 10 is a good number, I had 8 kids at her last party and that was plenty.
Good luck, can't wait so see pictures!
I liked all the above ideas. I would only have the party for 2 hours. 4 hours is way too long for that age.
Pass the parcel: You buy some gender neutral gift, like sidewalk chalk or arts and crafts supplies, and wrap it a ton of times using different colored paper for every layer if you can. In between each layer you put some small prize like a mini 3 Musketeers or a rubber ball. You get the kids to sit in a circle and turn on some music and they pass the parcel around until you stop the music. The kid holding the parcel gets to unwrap one layer and keep the small prize and so on until some lucky kid unwraps the last layer. It is a little hard to keep track of who unwrapped a layer so it is hard to keep it perfectly fair. I just tried to get every kid to unwrap on layer once at least.
They have an awesome princess and the pea cake in family fun magazine. It is not a cupcake, but it is so cute you might change your mind. http://jas.familyfun.go.com/recipefinder/display?id=52125
Or you could use the princess cupcakes in Hello, Cupcake. Those are really cute too. For ease, you might want to hit the dollar store and just get some plastic princess and knight figures and put them on the cupcakes.
It might be fun to have a "wizard" come and do some magic tricks. Collin did it for Emma's magic party and it was a HUGE hit. He also showed them how to do the tricks.
Can you get any of those lifesaver books to give as party favors? I think they often have fairy tales in them.
Thanks for the ideas too! I'm doing a princess party tomorrow.
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