Fairy Party Help

FAIRY PARTY INVITATION WORDING

•  Sparkly pink and purple too
• Tiny fairies around me flew
• Dancing in the morning dew
• They made my birthday wish come true
• A birthday party!

  

FAIRY PARTY COSTUMES

• Have the little ones come in their fairy best (leotards and a pretty pastel coloured dress if they have it).

•  If the child has taken a ballet class then they have a tutu lying around … if they come dressed in a tutu – even better.

•  Dress in costume yourself and let them know that you are the “Fairy Godmother” and they must listen carefully to you.

• You can have a “fancy fairy” station where the children can put on make-up and glitter hair spray (if they are allowed), stick-on earrings are fun (and you don’t have to limit it to sticking them on their earlobes!)

• The wings can be made from wire hangers (use the thinner plastic coated ones that are more pliable and attractive than the stiffer more basic metal ones). Cover the wire hangers with nylon hose in pretty pastel colours and secure . Secure the two hangers together in the center securely using duct tape. Cover the area where the hangers are joined with some tulle or decoration. Then attach two loops of sewing elastic in the center (so that the loops can be slid up the arm and worn where the arm and shoulder meet). You can decorate the wings any way you choose (although it is often easier to decorate the wing material before sliding it onto the wire hanger forms).

• Wings can be made more simply be bunching up a length of tulle and securing it in the center and then adding the elastic loops for wearing.

• These can be made from edible ingredients: star-shaped cookie and pretzel rod, decorating the wands can be a fun (and tasty) activity if the pixie magic is edible: coloured sanding sugars, sprinkles, drages, M & M’s or jelly beans secured with royal icing.

• Wands can be made from a star  (made of foam,cardboard or wood) with a dowel or natural stick.  A wand  not to be eaten can be decorated with rhinestones, glitter, puffy fabric paint (the gold fabric paint is especially good as it gives the appearance of the jewels being set in gold… although it takes eternity to dry!)

FAIRY PARTY DECORATIONS

• Those giant hanging tissue paper flowers that they sell look great for a fairy party theme, (you can also make them yourself).

•  Most people when they think of fairies they think of a woodland theme … so if you can… hold the party (at least partly) out of doors.

• If you are feeling adventurous, bring the outside “in” .  Use cut tree branches (with leaves or not) as decor.

•  Make “fairy”  leaves from paper and glitter … or forgo the leaves and spray paint the branches silver or gold and hang something magical from them (raid the Christmas ornament box).

• Decorate with fake flowers and ivy (check the thrift shop first).

• Any beaded curtains look great…. you can make your own with old mardi-gras beads or cut-up flower leis or old fashioned paper chains (it’s nicer if you use mylar).

•  Decorated hanging canopies are very attractive, you can make one out of a pretty scarf with flowers/metallic shred hung from it.

• Tulle works well for a fairy theme if you have some around.

• Garden netting can have things attached to it as well (even fresh flowers if you have a cutting garden at your home).  Ferns and Baby’s Breath are particularly nice.

• Use paper doilies.

• Christmas twinkle lights look nice (especially the white ones).

•  Hot glue a long paper cup to a paper bowl and spray paint them red, add large daubs of white paint and you have fairy mushrooms.

• Make a fairy/butterfly mobile.

• Have classical music playing to add to the ambiance. (Something not too heavy and dramatic)

FAIRY PARTY ACTIVITIES

• Have the children decorate their fairy cupcake or their fairy cookie wand.
• Have them search for fairies (hidden in the garden) or the magic ___________ (to make it “magic” cover it in gold paint and rhinestones).
• Have them pin the wings on the fairy (print off an illustration from the internet).
• Do “fairy dancing” (when the music stops they do to). Use celtic music for lively dancing, and classical music if you want to see them using all their best ballet dance moves!
• Read Fairy stories if they are getting a bit rambunctious.
• Have an Obstacle race/Tossing Game/Scavenger Hunt/Relay Race geared towards the fairy theme (see the “Good for any Party” help in this section).
• Use the decoder (look under the spy party) and add old celtic symbols (for Celtic style fairies only).
• Have them gather the food in the garden (above in the Outdoor Garden decorating section) into straw baskets, the one with the most food gathered is the winner.
• Teach them a few words of fairy language (maybe Gaelic or Welsh)
• Have a “confetti fight” (have your camera ready)
• Make “amulets” with shrinky dinks or fimo clay. Don’t forget to make a spell over the dough before they use it so the finished amulet will have magical powers

FAIRY PARTY FOOD

• Anything light, and pastel coloured would fit the theme nicely. Make sandwiches and cut them  with flower or star cookie cutters.

• In the interest of nutrition – have a “veggie garden” (the skewered raw veggies could then be placed in row anchored to a base).

• Give them “nectar” (fruit juice) and rim their glasses with “Pixie Dust” (coloured sugar).

• You can have a few drops of dried food colouring at the bottom of some clear plastic glasses (the Wilton Paste is the best) and when the glasses are filled with “Sprite” the drink magically changes colour.

•  If you are ambitious you can put everything into star shapes and put them on skewers for the fairies’ “ambrosia” lunch. Fruit works well this way. Starfruit (if you can get it) looks marvelous cut (although the flavour is just okay).

• Hand out Pixie Stix.