A fancy tea party can be a lot of fun without a lot of work or cost. I enjoyed visiting
other blogs with great tea party ideas before I got started. One of my favorite ideas from Melissa is wrapping paper in the center of the table. This added a nice level of fancy along with making clean-up a cinch. Brightly colored paper would have been lovely too, but the girls choose this elegant white design. Since I needed a little more width I added of paper from the kid's easel on each side. Tape it and all fears of damaging the table were eased. Next we added a few sand candles the kids had made(never to be lit) and cut out multicolored tea cups. Each place setting was fit for a princess. I layered one large piece of paper, a 12X12 scrapbook page, and one while 9X11 printed with their initial. The girls helped me cut out the
purple envelopes that we used to enclose princess stickers. A trip to the dollar store added a tiara, wand, princess pen, party horn, and tea set to each placesetting. The last envelope is filled with glitter. A quick wave over the girl's head added a little tea party sparkle! Each place-setting was about $3. The place-setting doubled as the craft set-up and party favor display as well as a stunning display. :)
Once all of the girls arrived we began making the placemats. I added gluesticks and scissors to the table and let their imaginations create. (My oldest girls has been using her place mat as a sparkle oasis.. each morning she rubs her arms over the placemat to add a little (or as much as possible) sparkle to her day.)
As the girls completed their mat we moved them to dry and the girls to washed up as we brought out the cupcakes and pink tea (lemonade). They each got to ice their own cupcake with the four different colored icing cups that we put on the table. I just added a little food coloring to each bowl to create the new colors. One tub of store bought icing easily made enough for all four colors. Some of the creations were quite fancy, while other were blissfully messy.
Once the girls finished their snacks they headed outside to play. Once we added make-up in the mix the girls transformed from the sweet princesses to .... well.... uh...something else. :)
Since this was a party that the
kids worked hard to earn, I asked if it was worth it....overwhelming YES!
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