Fairy Party Ideas

Here are some great ideas for Food, Games and decoration's for your fairy party:

Invitations

If you are feeling really enthusiastic and want to make your own invitations, here are some ideas:

You can use a message like "(Your child's name) would like to invite all fairies to celebrate his/her _____ Birthday at a fairy picnic"

You can create your invitations in the shape of a Toadstool, Fairy or Fairy Wings

When the little ones arrive if they are not dressed as a fairy why not have some fairy wings or dresses waiting for them to put on as they enter the door.

Decorations

I used round polystyrene balls, cut them in half and taped a tube to the cut side.  I then painted the toadstool white and painted red spots over the top of the toadstool.  Well I had my niece and nephews paint them for me - they had a lot of fun and I just touched them up.  You can also use fake vine leaves, streamers and tull - I brought mine on TradeMe.

Table Cloth, if you get a large roll of news print.  You can create your own table cloth.  Cut out some templates for fairy's, butterflies, toadstools, trees, birds, etc.  Put the templates on your sheet of news print and then use a sponge dipped in craft paint and blot the paint inside the template.  Allow to dry thoroughly before using table cloth.

I used my table cloth as a picnic mat and put cushions all over it for the children to sit on.

Bubble machine

Create a poster to put on the front door saying "Enter Pixie Hollow Here" You can add the some pictures of fairies to the poster or try to draw a pixie dust tree.

I decorated our deck with tull, fake vine leaves, toadstools and streamers.

Goodie Bags

You can buy small organsa bags and put in them some fairy dust - little sparkly flowers, stars, etc.  You can also give each child a little wishing stone.  You just buy little shiny glass stones and you can use craft paints to put swirls on them or even the child's first initial.

Food

There are lots of options for fairy cakes.  I made a toadstool with a fairy sitting on top.  I just used a doll cake tin for the top of the toadstool and the base, I just filled the tin to two different levels.  I made the fairy out of icing.  (I recommend letting the fairy harden a bit before you putting on the top of your toadstool.)

I had a fairy, star and butterfly cookie cutter.  I made fairy bread in these shapes as well as biscuits and I made cheesy star wands (just puff pastry in the shape of a wand with a long thin piece of pastry attached for the handle.  I then sprinkled with cheese).

Party Games

How about making fairy wands?  These can be made out of MDF & dowel or out of stiff card board.  Cut a star shape out of the MDF, then cut some lengths of dowel, make sure the diameter of the down is smaller than the thickness of the MDF.  Then drill a hole in the bottom of each MDF star the same diameter as the dowel and glue the dowel in place.  Make one for each child.  I would recommend preparing these and getting all the decorating items ready at least the week before the party.  You can put the decorating items into containers i.e. ribbon, glitter, paint, glitter pens, etc and let the kids decorate their own fairy wand.  You can have some stations looking after each step of the decoration process - you will need some parents to help with this.  For example, station one might be to wrap some ribbon around the dowel, the parent can use a glue gun to glue it in place.  Station 2 might be the painting station, station 3 for gluing on sparkles, glitter, etc.

If you are using card board, just cut the wand out of one piece of card board and let the kids decorate.

Making a wand in advance can help you decide what stations and equipment you need to decorate the wands.  It also provides an example for the kids and parents.

I recommend labeling each wand to ensure you know who each wand belongs to.

You can make cookies ready for decorating and allow the children to decorate their own cookie.  There can be in star, fair or butterfly shapes and you can have edible glitter, sprinkles, bowls with different coloured icing sugar.

Pin the star on the wand

Musical Toadstools

Treasure hunt, you can put together a collection of items then hide them around the house or in your garden for each guest to find, these can include: small fairy wand, toadstool, bag of fairy dust, fairy stickers, fairy figurine.  Whatever you want, each child collects one of each item.  This is a great way of the children collecting their own items for their goodie bag.

Pinata - You can get these in the shape of a Fairy

To see what is included in our Fairy Party Package please click on this link.  Fairy Party Package

Rescue Party Ideas from Toys2Play

Here are some great ideas for Food, Games and decoration's for your rescue party:

Invitations

If you are feeling really enthusiastic and want to make your own invitations, here are some ideas:

You can use a message like "Calling all Rescue Heroes...We have an emergency, and we need your help! (Your child's name) is turning (age) and we want you to come celebrate with us at his/her Rescue Party!

You can create your invitations in the shape of a Fireman Hat, Police Hat, Police Badge, Fire Truck.

Decorations

Draw (or find pictures on internet) of firefighter and police hats and put up on the walls.

Table Cloth, if you get a large roll of news print.  You can create your own table cloth.  Cut out some templates for fire and police hats or badges.  Put the templates on your sheet of news print and then use a sponge dipped in craft paint and blot the paint inside the template.  Allow to dry thoroughly before using the table cloth.

Caution Tape

Create a poster to put on the front Door saying "RESCUE Training camp"  You can add the New Zealand Police or Fire Logo's to the Poster.

Balloons in the fire and police colours.

Goodie Bags

Red bags or boxes, you an buy at the $2 shop, play handcuffs, police badges, whistles, stickers and some hero snacks.

Food

Fire Truck Cake - you can either hire a cake tin (Sorry we do not have these yet), or design your own.  I just search on the internet for Samantha's cake designs.

If you use the Red Boxes as Goodie bags, then you can serve up lunch in these.  After the children have finished all their party games, they can each be handed a box (line it with a napkin or two) that contains various party food i.e. a sandwich, sausage roll, mini cupcake, etc.  With a fire engine cookie cutter, you could even cut the sandwiches and cookies into the shape of a fire engine.
If you give them stickers they can decorate their party box, so each child knows whose is whose (may be a good idea to write their name on the bottom to prevent confusion).  This also means if you have a child that has an allergy, they can be handed a special box containing their food.

At the end of the party empty the boxes and put the parties goodies in the box to take home.

Party Games

Pin the Badge on the Rescue Hero

Musical Buckets - instead of chairs use upturned buckets.

Rescue Hero's Training Course. - This involves having various activities for the kids to perform.

1.  Have the kids use one of our Super Soak Fire Hose Back Packs or the Spray & Rescue Fire Truck to put out a fire.  This can be red cups set up on top the the Playful Look Out Tree House, or you can even make some pretend flames out of cardboard and red paint.  They aim the hose at the cups and when they knock down all the cups they get a rescue badge.

2.  Cave rescue put a number of objects (Plastic Animals) in the Pop Up tents & tunnel filled with plastic balls,  They have to crawl into the first tent, down the tunnel and rescue the animals from the last tent.  Once they have rescued the animals they get a rescue badge

3.  Avalanche rescue, put a number of plastic people into the kids sand pit (or bucket of sand if you do not have a sandpit).  Let the kids dig out the people.  Once all the people are out they get a rescue badge

4.  Obstacle Course.  Each child puts on a rescue outfit, then they hop in the Police Cozy Coupe (or any ride on toy you have) , race around a course, get out and put on the Super Soak Fire Hose Back Pack, climb up the Lookout Tree House and slide down the slide, crawl through the Pop Up House filled with balloons, hop into a pillow case and jump to the end of the course.  At the end of the Obstacle Course they receive a rescue badge.

 

Pinata - You can get these in the shape of a Fire Engine.

To see what is included in our Rescue Party Package please click on this link.  Rescue Party Package