Your best ideas for fairy/princess party for 3yo...pretty please...

[foxtrot]

This is my DDs first proper party and i'd like it to be very girlie...where to start? Hopefully the guests (nine girls aged between two and four) will dress up, and i have the table and food sorted (gold plates, crown shaped biscuit cutter for sandwiches, pink jelly & icecream). Fab ideas needed for games and activities please.

Make your own princess necklace.
Pasta tubes that they paint/ cover with glitter, leave to dry and then string together.
Make your own tiara - you have the cardboard shape already cut out, they then decorate with glitter and 'jewels' and you staple to fit.
A different version of 'Pin the tail on the donkey' - 'pin the wand on the fairy'
Have fun

Some crafty ideas here , though not all princess themed.

You can buy pin the horn on the unicorn.
Unicorn pinata
Craft activity - decorate/make a crown and/or wand
Pass the parcel - use pink/princess paper and have plastic rings, etc. in each layer rather than sweets

thanks - JN that crown idea is lovely, i could make them up in advance and let the girls decorate them. Ditto the pasta - do the paint and glitter beforehand for the girls to string up.

When I was little, I always wanted to be a medieval princess with a hat like this

Could you get some of those to play with?

Also what about Musical Princesses instead of Musical Statues? They have to strike a regal pose when the music stops?!

I bought loads of stuff from this website...

including the decorate your own crown things here. I recently had a party for my 3 yr old DD and her friends... the children loved doing the crafts.. and the mums loved party aas they said it was really quiet....

Didn't finish them all, but put them in the party bag..

crowns

Enjoy

We didn't do party games for dd1's fairy ball - 3/4 seems to be the age you get volcanic tantrums from whoever doesn't win. Instead we had dancing (ABBA! ), colouring in (I downloaded some colouring-in pictures from the net - do a google and you'll get loads) and biscuit decorating - we had cheap digestives and the children decorated them with icing pens, pink and silver balls, chocolate flakes and 100s and 1000s. Each child had a plain plate with their name on so I knew whose biscuit was whose, and if they hadn't eaten them they took them home in their party bags with some sweets and balloons, their colouring-in and a helium balloon each (kits for balloons are about £35). We did have boys as well a sgirls, so that is why I opted for the biscuits rather than any other crafts as boys seem to like this just as much as girls to.

Instead of hiring an entertainer why not hire a manicurist instead?

do you have a play station sing star maybe ???

or collection of disney sing along songs

fancy dress competition

glitter hair spray little sparkly bottles of nailpolish give em all a malkeover

sleeping princess's instead of lions

lucky dips treasure hunts

I think fancy dress is a must.

Face painting - just hearts/flowers on the cheek dead easy

sleeping princesses rather than sleeping lions. I did pin the slipper on Cinderella - painted Cinderella and cut out shoes.

did singing - There was a princess long ago - with all the actions

nail varnishing is another good idea - if you have 2 or 3 friends to rope in, you can do the craft activity, face painting and nail varnishing all at the same time so they do not have to wait too long for any activity.

You could do a mini disco to. They love dancing once dressed up.

Thanks everyone. I now have a kilo of pasta, ready painted and glittered, to make necklaces, stuff to make wands, am about to do jackieno's crowns and some pointy medieval hats to decorate. Sparkly nail varnish (dries in 60 seconds ) and body glitter. Dug out the fairy lights, a bubble machine and disco ball for dancing. Need some music, though - did someone suggest Abba? Pass the parcel and party bags done. Phew! Roll on tomorrow

wish I was coming foxtrot - sounds lovely

Please come - bring earplugs, i suspect it is a myth that girls are quieter than boys!

It's prob too late but you can also make fairy cakes and out them into petit four cases, Tesco have sparkly ones like this , and we topped ours with bright pink icing sugar.

ooh, i have some of those in the cupboard WWW. Good idea, a chance they might even eat the cake and not just the icing if its only bite-size

Do you have Nigella's v quick fairy cake recipe?

Here you go if you don't or if anyone else reading this thread in the future wants it:

125g each of self raising flour, sugar and butter, 1 teaspoon each of baking poweder and vanilla essence, 2 eggs. Add all to a mixer, whizz, adding a tablespoon a milk as it's mixing. Bake for 15-20 mins

Thanks. The crowns (see jackino's post below) have come out really well and very cheap too!