Here is the second fairy blog. On this one I will tell you how to plan a fairy party for kids of any age. Its the perfect way to have a fantastical fantasy experience!
Cicely Mary Barker has a great flower fairy website from which you can print all of your party needs, including, placemats, invitations, thank-you cards, and more.
For food, you can find many websites that have unique fairy recipes, including the website mentioned above. There is fairy punch, rose petal ice cubes, lavender cookies and more. Links for those recipes will be available below. For entertainment, you can set up a craft station where kids make fairy party favors such as, fairy wands made from felt and wooden dowels, fairy dust made from various types of glitters, and fairies made from faux flowers. Before your guests begin making their flower fairies you can make paper boxes and decorate them to look like fairy houses, and then allow your guests to put their little fairy inside. You can buy a flower fairy kit from Klutz, or purchase your own supplies from the craft store.
For decorations, use larger glitter for confetti if you wish, and place some fresh flowers both in a vase and on the tables being used. Cicely Mary Barker’s Alphabet Fairy CD or music by Enya can set the theme perfectly. To make any fairy party extra special, you can create fairy costumes for the kids, or allow them to help in creating their own,(you can also buy them) and then have fun “flying” around the backyard. A bubble machine can also make your fairy guests’ flying session spectacular. You can also tell a fairy story, or have the kids tell their own while in the costumes. Have a fairy scavenger hunt around the yard and in the flowers. You can hunt for flowers or other special items that represent fairies and then have your guests place them all in a little fairy album, which they can make themselves. Or just do a regular scavenger hunt and include a fairy prize for the winners. Type up some fairy “spells” on pretty pink or blue paper, in fairy scroll font and then include them in a goody bag, or a small bag of the fairy dust you made earlier. If you are making a cake, most craft stores have Tinker bell cake decorating supplies, including food coloring and a cake mold. You can also find these items online. If your guests are young and still believe in fairies, then you can pretend that a fairy visited your home by placing a small fairy house in the yard and sprinkling some fairy dust around it. Just remember to make the fairy dust very fine, and not at all like the kind you made with the kids or they’ll know that it’s fake. A website below has a kit to make your own fairy house, or you can purchase them as well. You can also enhance your yard with fairy doors and windows that you can attach to a tree trunk to make it look like a house. Plant some fairy seeds from the Cicely Mary Barker collection or give them to your guests as party favors. Don’t forget the craft ideas on the other blog to give your guests even more fairy fun!
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Found you via Twitter, which I am trying to figure out. Technology does not come easily to older fairies, but we do love the social aspects of it!
Your site is lovely and this article in particular tickled my fancy. When time permits, you might check out my party planning blog at http://www.askthepartyfairy.com. It’s designed to provide free party planning tips and strategies to moms planning fairy parties for their little girls.
I’ll be back to visit your blog; one can never get enough of fairy cake and fun blogs.
So cool, I love printables and didn’t even know of some of those sites. Also check out pixiehollow.com for some more fairy party ideas and prints, but it’s a bit less traditional.
Great post! I’m going to bookmark this one for when its time to have a party for my granddaughters.. wonderful ideas!