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Tea Party Birthday Theme

Ages: 4 to 10

Invitations:

Create a card that looks like a teacup on a saucer. Put a slit in the cup so you can insert a tag that looks like a teabag. Make a pocket on the backside for the tag to rest in. Write the party information on the tag.

Another fun idea is to pick up some teaspoons at a thrift store. Tie a tag onto the spoon with a pretty ribbon and write the party information on the tag.

Decoration Ideas

At a tea party the food is the main decoration, but you can enhance the mood by putting table cloths on the party tables, and having multiple flower bouquets throughout the area. Put out tea sets as centerpieces on the tables or even a single teacup and saucer set filled with a small bouquet of flowers.

Craft Ideas

Get each of the tea party guests a straw hat and provide them with pretty ribbons and flowers so that they can decorate their hats.

Decorating cupcakes or cookies would also be a wonderful craft for a tea party.

Game Ideas

Play a game similar to “Who’s Got the Button”. Divide the group into two teams. Give the first team a button or other small item and explain that they need to pass it under the table to a team member, but they want to do it so that the other team doesn’t know who has the item. Then the second team says “hands up” and everyone on the first team has to put their hands up in a fist. Then the second team says, “Where’s the button” and everyone on the first team has to put their hands down flat on the table, keeping in mind that they are trying to do it so that the button is not found. If the second team guesses successfully they get a chance to hide the button; if not the first team goes again. The first team to hide the button without the other team guessing correctly four times in a row wins.

Pass the parcel is a perfect game for a tea party as well. Wrap a small prize up in multiple layers of different kinds of paper. For younger age groups you might want to add small flat prize in each layer (such as a piece of gum or a sticker set) so that they all feel they earned something. Then play music and have the guests pass the parcel. When the music stops, the person holding it gets to open a layer. Continue playing until all the layers have been opened.

Food Ideas

Almost anything done in bite size or miniature is perfect for a tea party. Small bite size cookies, brownies cut bite size and individually decorated, small bread loaves, scones, small tarts or pies and of course don’t forget the punch.