Coolest Kid Birthday Party Ideas

Excuse me… Would you like a biscuit and a spot of really cool tea birthday party ideas for your kid's next party?

Before we start boiling the Earl Grey, here are two Tea partyware designs for you to choose from:

And, especially for this sort of party, you'll also need a bunch of these inexpensive Tea Cups & Saucers.

Cut teapot or teacup-shaped invitations out of cardstock. Then, cut the same shapes out of flowered gift-wrap paper, making a slit in the middle of the teapot/teacup. Then, glue the two together (the gift-wrap on top of the cardstock, gluing only the edges). Leave room in the center to put a tea bag through the hole in the gift-wrap. You can write all of the tea birthday party information on the back. You can write something like:

"I'm having a tea birthday party, it's just for fun! So, Dahling, if you can make it ... I would love for you to come. Just throw on that frilly dress and gobs of jewelry galore (if there are boys coming just change this part)… We'll have snacks, play games and there's so much more! I'd like to know you better, and for you to know me... tea party place (address), tea party time (time). So, have your Mom call my Mom and we'll do tea! Here's the number so you can R S V P (phone #)", Ta-Ta!!" You can also ask the ladies and gents to come in fancy play clothes or Sunday's best.

It's lots of fun for the entire family to make your own tea birthday theme party decorations. Here are some tea birthday party pictures and clipart that'll give your imagination "arteastic" inspiration.

Now that your creative juices are steaming hot, let's get some crea"tea"ing done!

Decorate the walls, dressers and shelves with teapots, teacups or spoons on dressers and shelves.

Hang pastel-colored streamers and balloons from the ceiling and walls. Set the tables with a floral pattern tablecloth, linen tablecloth, or lace tablecloth. Spread sprigs of ivy and holly-berries, and decorate the tables, and if outside, any posts and fences with flowers (roses add an elegant feel). If the party is in the evening (and the kids are old enough), sprinkle a few candles on the tables and around the yard and also light up the pathway (by filling up brown lunch bags with sand and sticking a candle inside). And top it off with a red carpet leading to the entrance.

If your backyard is big enough, an outdoor tea birthday party is lots of fun. Set up the tables under a tree or in a shady place (preferably next to a flowering garden). A big patio umbrella and background classical music is excellent for the overall "tea"mosphere.

Glue real flowers to a barrette to serve as napkin holders and place a few bells on the tables for the kids to ring whenever they'd like to call for their servers, a.k.a… YOU! ;-) Get dressed up (together with a few other brave parents or siblings) as waitresses and waiters with aprons and don't forget to have a butler in a suit or tuxedo greeting the kids at the door. Make sure to call the girls "Madame", "My Lady" and the boys "Sir" etc. while escorting each one personally to their place by the table (if you can speak in a British accent-all the better!!).

Once the children arrive, you can send them to the "dressing room" to get ready. The children can dress in Victorian Style clothes, they can dress in formal attire, or they can simple wear their Sunday Bests (you can try shopping for cheap clothes at thrift shops and put all kinds of dress-up clothes in a dress-up box). The point is to dress up in something that isn't ordinary every-day attire. The kids can put their hair up in fancy hairstyles using ribbons, bows and curls. If you feel that they are old enough, let the girls put makeup and lipstick on for that lady-like feel.

As the kids arrive to the tea birthday party, it's always great to warm them up with a few fun activities that'll also serve as part of the decorations. You can prepare these decorations ahead of time and enjoy a few fun-filled moments with your kids.

*Handmade Jewelry: The kids'll love to make their own jewelry. Here's a great necklace and bracelet activity set. You can also buy Fruit Loops and some string and have the kids adorn their necks with fruit loop necklaces.

*Balloon Art: Have the little Rembrandts and Picassos draw on balloons. It's lots of fun when the balloons are filled with helium connected with only a string and the kids try painting with the use of only one hand, their mouth, etc. They can draw teapots, teacups and whatever else inspires them and you can decorate the house with this inflatable art.

*Teapot painting: You can use the Mini Tea cups and Saucers mentioned above for this activity. Have the kids can paint their own teapots, teacups and saucers, use 'em during the tea birthday party and then take 'em home.

*Nametags: Have the kids prepare and decorate nametags and place them on the table where they'd like to sit.

*Teapot Flowers: A few flower plants and teapots make for an excellent first course activity. Have the kids decorate the plastic teapots and plant flowers inside. Then have them place their tea-plants around the tables and house

*Decorative Fans: This activity will make a great party favor, and kids'll have fun creating their own fancy fans! You'll need crayons, markers, colored paper, glitter, possibly stickers and tape. Let the kids draw pretty pictures on one or both sides of the paper and then have them fold the paper accordion style and fasten one end with tape to create the handle. Gently spread out the other end for a beautiful personalized fan!

*Cake Quilt: Bake a rectangular cake and cut it into many squares. Have each kid decorate their square with icing, sugar decorations etc. and then put all the squares back together to form a cake quilt (you'll be surprised how nice these come out).

*Tea shirt: Have the kids bring a white "tea shirt" (or buy a package ahead of time). You can then thai-dye the shirts which is always a fun-filled activity. Put the dye in squirt-type water bottles to make it easier for little hands (and a lot less messy). By the end of the tea birthday party the shirt'll dry and the kids'll have a wonderful souvenir.

*Makeover: Give the kids some lipstick, perfume, fingernail polish and other non-toxic makeup and let them go wild (even the boys will love this…). You can also let them soak cloths in hot water and lay them on their faces for a soothing experience before the makeovers. A digital camera is an absolute must for this one…

Teapot-shaped cake: Use two 9" round cakes and one round dome-shaped cake. Put the two 9" cakes on top of each other (you can cut in a diagonal around the bottom to make it look like the teapot is slimmer around the bottom). Place the dome cake upside down on top of the lower two cakes so it serves as the lid (sounds confusing, but I'm sure you get the picture…). The spout and handle can be cut from foam core board (marzipan would also work). Then top off everything with vanilla frosting. Put icing swirls, frills, sugar roses, gumdrops etc. for the teapot decorations.

Table cake: Bake a cake in a 9x13 pan, and frost it to look like a long table with a tablecloth; you can also decorate this tablecloth with all kinds of little icing designs etc. Then set the "table" with little cups and saucers.

But still, my favorite is the cake quilt (as described above in the first-course activites…)

Tea Birthday Party Food:

Here are some ideas for tea birthday party food:

*Finger sandwiches (watercress, cucumber, cream cheese, Peanut Butter and Jelly-practically anything-but they should be petite and delicate and can be cut into different shapes with cookie cutters.)
*All kinds of breads and a platter of meats
*Pizza bagels
*Bagels with cream cheese
*Cheese and crackers
*Fruits out of wine glasses

Tip: Serve these foods on silver trays.

Tea Birthday Party Drinks:

*How about some… Tea :-)… Put out many kinds of tea, such as herbal and Earl Gray, with milk, cream, lemon, and cubed sugar to make them feel like ladies and gents)
*Iced Tea
*Hot Chocolate
*Hot cider
*Apple Juice (tea-substitute for those who don't like tea)
*A punch bowl
*Pink lemonade
*Ice Cream Punch (with sherbet ice cream and Sprite or 7up)

Tea Birthday Party Treats:

*Tea crackers
*Biscuits (you can have several jams as well)
*Scones
*Assorted pastries
*Meringues
*Chocolate-covered strawberries (melt chocolate chips in a mug in the microwave and stir, then let the kids do the dipping and afterwards dry on wax paper)
*Dinner mints
*A bowl of pastel-colored jelly beans

A nice idea is to put all of the tea birthday party favors in little wooden or ceramic tea pots like the ones the kids prepared during the icebreaker activities.

You can also create your own jumbo-sized tea bags. Just staple together two pieces of paper (or - if you're up to it - sow together two pieces of white fabric, or hotglue corrugated paper, etc). Leave one side open and place the favors inside, close it up and add a string with a little square thank you note at its end. The perfect tea (favor) bag...

You can place inside all kinds of cool trinkets such as stickers, stationary, beads, stamps, lipstick, costume jewelry, hair accessories, compact mirrors, ring pops, candy bracelets, an lots of other tea-rrific stuff.

Take a look at this complete page filled with the coolest Tea party games, such as Fashion Show, Tea Spoon Race, World's Best Butler, and more. You'll also find several VERY important tips to help you survive (and enjoy) party time.

Take your coolest party ideas, add a few colorful photos and you've got a "PARTY TALE ".

Many of the ideas you'll find on this site have been sent to us by people around the world. These people are an inspiration to this site, helping make this site an inspiration to others.

Once your party is over, we'd love for you to send us your own PARTY TALE and we'll create your very own theme party page and photo gallery that's hosted on our site! (Family, friends and just about anybody will be able to find inspiration from YOUR CHILD'S birthday party AND comment on YOUR ideas!)

Here's a chance for you to peek at other people's Tea birthday PARTY TALES and find even more ideas:

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