Prince & Princess party ideas for a 5 year old please

[Servalan]

Hi, my daughter wants a Prince & Princess party. A mix of boys and girls are coming - between 5 and 10 children at our house.

Haven't a bastard clue what to do for it - please can you give me any ideas for crafts, decorations, foods - anything?? Things that boys will enjoy too.

Thanks very much :o

[Servalan]

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[Servalan]

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[mycatoscar]

hi

i did this last year, we had a crown jewel treasure hunt in the garden (plastic gold coins from wilko's), and made crowns and decorated (you can get templates from baker ross but I just cut up card) and all the children dressed up as princesses and princes. You can get huge cardboard castles which can be painted online which I thought about too late. We also had a crown shaped pinata.

oh and plastic champagne flutes with tinsel on for drinks, silver platters and a silver cupcake stand for the royal table!

[LIZS]

Pinata - shape of a dragon (keep kids well back), send them on a Quest (treasure hunt to collect items ) around the garden, Bouncy castle. Castle shaped cake or a princess (or use figures form Playmobil !)

[mycatoscar]

i did a cake like this - which the kids seemed to like

[Servalan]

Ooh fab! Some replies :) Thanks for the suggestons.

More suggestions would be welcome as well, want to try to get together as many ideas as pos.

No idea where I'd get a pinata from? Any ideas who sell them?

Cake looks fab mycatoscar - how did you put it together?

[LIZS]

Pinata - any of the party websites. Woolies used to so maybe Wilkos and card shops

[mycatoscar]

its just a flat round cake, the turrets are white icing set around cardboard tubes and everything is cut out of roll out icing or piped on - it was actually not very hard, def easier than the bloody barbie shaped one I did the year before.

i got our pinata from woolworths online, they have a party shop online and were very quick to deliver.

[LIZS]

www.partydelights.co.uk/product_detail.asp?ProductID=PINADRAG2&src=gbase or make one instructions here

[pointydog]

I made it a Princess and Pirate party. Appealed more to boys and also to the girls who weren't into princessy.

[stealthsquiggle]

we did princess and pirate as well.

pinned the princess on her castle, made crowns (pirates can have them as treasure), um....the rest will come back to me (marking my place)

[Servalan]

Thanks - loving these ideas - please keep them coming :)

[stealthsquiggle]

IIRC, we basically did standard party games with a princess/pirate twist - musical castles (printed on paper, instead of musical chairs), pass the parcel (not themed!) and some other craft activity which escapes me just now.

For a knights party I did once get really cool giant cardboard castles which they coloured/decorated and used in games - those would work for princesses too?

Key rule for knights or pirates - all weapons to be checked in at the door - for knights party we then gave them all inflatable swords and let them riot after tea - it was chaos, but they absolutely loved it.

[Wendyhendy1]

You have to do a treasure hunt! I found this prince and princess one absolutely brilliant treasure hunt games online