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-- Coolest Tea Birthday Party Ideas-- Setting the Atmosphere 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. -- Coolest Tea Birthday Party Ideas-- Icebreaker ActivitiesAs 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. *Nametags: Have the kids prepare and decorate nametags and place them on the table where they'd like to sit. *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 -- Coolest Tea Birthday Party Ideas-- Food and Drink Tea Birthday Party Cake: 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. Tea Birthday Party Food: Tip: Serve these foods on silver trays. -- Coolest Tea Birthday Party Ideas-- Party Favors 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.
-- Coolest Tea Birthday Party Ideas-- Games and Activities 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. "Have fun!! Cheerio!" PARTY TALES 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: Amy's Teddy Tea Birthday Pirate PARTY TALE (Brownstown, MI) Click here to find more of the best deals on Tea birthday party supplies... Copyright © 2003-2005, coolest-kid-birthday-parties.com |
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