HELP!!!!!!!! Fairy party Sunday I need your ideas now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[MilaMae]

Been a bit lax in the preparations (ok very lax) Xmas and all that.

Spent too much time working out how the heck I'm going to actually make the mushroom shaped cake I foolishly promised to make.

Got all the frippary but the actual useful stuff(fairy food, games, crafts etc )is just not in my head. Boys parties I'm now an old hand at but girly parties are a new thing.

Going shopping Friday so any ideas will be gratefully received. We're making wands and tiaras but could do with some more ideas up my sleeves(don't want the little monsters getting bored) and as for fairy food just where do I begin???????

Thanks in advance.

Food - can you get hold of a butterfly or similar shaped cookie cutter - do sandwiches and cut into shapes. Failing that, stars should be easy to find and are pretty fairy like - or Sainsburys have some gift sets in pale blue boxes with angel cookie cutters down to £3.50.

Pink plates so any crisps/carrots etc look fairy like.

Fairy cakes

How about a fairy treasure hunt? I bought wands for DD's 4th b'day and the kids had to follow the clues - v simple rhyming ones I read out to them (eg I have a face and go tick tock, the next clue is behind a -, In the kitchen you are able, To find a clue beneath a -) then the final clue was where the wands were hidden.

we got some glass paint and painted jam jars ready for them to have tea lights in to have on the table - only try this with girls !!

how old are they?

Simple 'treasure hunt' but on fairy theme ie. hid fairies around the party room / downstairs, one each. They find it and bring it to you for a prize! Easy!!

Make one area of the room a fairy grotto, a chair with some sparkly or shimmery fabric draped above and around it. Use this area to Paint their faces with butterflies,flowers, bees etc, then it can double as a photo booth for a picture to take home. Could also do a bit of a fairy make over with sparkly nail varnish etc depending on age!

Let them ice their own fairy cakes with edible glittery icing.

Meke all the food tiny, I think fairies just take small bites, pin-wheel sanwiches, mini jam tarts, rice crispie cakes in petit four cases, strawberries out of season but she can't help when her birthday is! dipped in chocolate and also in petit four cases. Party sausages with a pink dip (think Marie-Rose here!). Mini jammy dodgers, they have a cut out heart so will look cute, tiny chocolate fingers and little bowls of vegi's.

If you run out of ideas at the end I would have a good story about fairies (Barefoot books) and get them all sat on the magic-carpet as a cool down.

I did 'pin the wings on the faiy' pic of tinkerbell with a larger sparklier pair of wings to stick on.

musical mushrooms/toadstools game, cut out large circles of red card decorate with small white circles (could get the girls to do this?) and use for a game like musical chairs either sitting or standing on them.

Plain white fairy lights from crimble strewn around the gaff.

Painting butterflies and daisies onto cheeks.

Proper little fairy cakes with the wings, or cupcakes iced with pink icing and sugar strands.

Pink smarties go down well, if you allow smarties. You can get giant tubes of those, just pink.

Everything has been pretty much said I think.

Would love to throw a girly party!

Oooooo you are all good-many thanks,some lovely ideas . It would be good if we could have a MN party themes place somewhere and we could add any ideas following a successful party, would save people like me hours,maybe there is one.

Anyway thanks again, compiling shopping list now

For all my parties as a child i had fairy bread, white bead, a little butter and hundreds and thousands sprinkled on, also can be done with nutella. Nothing beats fairy bread.

(milamae - there is a 'parties/celebrations' topic under 'fun and games', but I guess you mean something more um, structured, by theme? - like the review section?)

For dd's 7th birthday we had a craft table and it was easily the most popular activity we did. I cut out lots of different sized hearts out of different shades of pink paper and tissue paper and they stuck them onto paper plates.

Yes all the themes in an alphabetical list and we (well you creative lot) add to themes if we come across something good.

I tried looking on line elsewhere but none of the ideas were anywhere near as good as MN ideas.

Anyway off to start cutting out my giant toadstool shapes, will definately be having pink smarties and fairybread(adds 1002 & 1000s to list) oh and mini jammy dodgers.

sigh