Fairy Party
Celebrate in the imaginative land of enchanted fairies and pixies.
Invitations
- Make the invitation into a scroll and tie with coloured ribbon, deliver placed inside a little organza bag. Fill the bag with magic stones, leaves and flower petals.
- Make your own invites out of plain card and then go wild with the glitter and jewels.
- Instead of using plain card, try writing on a large leaf with a metallic pen (real or plastic).
Decoration
- Guests can come dressed as a fairy, pixie or elf (anything magical).
- Give each guest a secret flower name on arrival - Iris, Lily, Silvermist, Bluebell, Daisy, Blossom, Violet, etc. (search the internet for more names, there are so many to choose from) - and get them to make a wish!
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Outside
- Find a shady place with lots of trees.
- Enhance the mood with magic stones, bubbles, fairy dust, flowers and toadstools.
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Inside
- Creat a fairy land by making a tent with shimmery fabric. Add fairy lights for a magical feel.
- Or you can decorate the house like an enchanted forest. Bring in all the pot plants you can find and cut out giant flowers and leaves from coloured card. Wrap ivy (real or plastic) around the furniture and around the front door.
Games
- Instead of Musical Chairs, try playing musical mushrooms or sunflowers. You can create cardboard mushroom or sunflower cut-outs to play with. Remove a mushroom or sunflower after every turn, until only one remains.
- Play Musical Statues, but call it Forest freeze. As soon as the music stops, the children have to stand as still as an ancient tree until the music starts again, anyone caught moving before then is out.
- Hide little magical treasures like spray painted pressed leaves, flower petals and acorns around the garden or house.
Food
- Cake - ice with pale icing, lightly dust with edible glitter (available at baking and cake decorating shops) and then top with sugared flowers (see below for how to make) or cake decorations like roses, lollies or cachous. An option is to place a favourite fairy doll in the middle of the cake, wrapping plastic wrap around the legs.
- Sugared flowers. Choose fresh edible spray-free flowers such as rose petals or pansies. Rinse and dry the flowers. Dip a small paintbrush in lightly beaten egg white and paint the flowers with the mixture. Dust the petals with Chelsea Caster Sugar and leave to dry on a paper towel. For the recipe, see our Frosted Grapes recipe.
- Serve berry flavoured jelly, with strawberries, blueberries or blackberries added in before it sets in the fridge.
- Cupcakes: Toadstool cupcakes. You can either buy ready made fondant and use circle shaped cutters for the toadstool dots, or use white chocolate buttons. Or try decorating the cupcakes with sugar flowers or butterflies.
- Serve miniature meringues - add the cream and strawberries (or any other fruit) just before the party begins.
- Serve coloured lemonade by adding food colouring to the drink. Add ice-cubes made with a berry frozen inside.
- Star and heart-shaped pikelets or pancakes dusted with fairy dust (icing sugar) or edible glitter from a cake shop.
- Fairy bread - hundreds and thousands sprinkled on buttered thinly sliced white bread and cut into shapes using biscuit cutters.