Serving tea from tiny plastic teacups to stuffed animals that flop over in the chair – and adults that can’t fit IN the chair – is a delightful past-time for little girls everywhere. Carry the tea party theme to your daughter’s next birthday party and you’ll have a hit for sure.
Visit thrift and antique stores for items that may be used for your tea party birthday – teacups and saucers, teapots, vintage clothing, costume jewelry. Ask friends and relatives if they have items on hand that you can borrow for the occasion.
Every birthday party starts with invitations to the event and Shannon Wilson shares some unique ideas for
Best Tea Party Birthday Invitations. Her article points you where to find invitations in the form of teakettles and teacups and various other things associated with a tea party. Using those for inspiration, you can also make your own invitations from cardstock adorned with stickers or free graphics found online.
Crumpets may not be high on your list of refreshments for a tea party, but cake should be at the top. Cut a sheet cake in the shape of a teapot, frost with pastel colored icing and embellish with edible silver, gold or multicolor dragees. A round cake of two or more layers made to look like a table can be set with tiny teacups, sure to delight the birthday girl and her guests.
You may opt for punch instead of tea, but pour it from a colorful teapot into teacups with saucers to keep with the tea party theme. If you don’t have a play tea set that’s suitable, look for inexpensive mismatched pieces at thrift and antique stores.
Marie’s teapot version of the classic game of ‘hot potato’ is a great game idea for a tea party theme. Penny Richards also has some great ideas for games to be played at a tea party birthday. I think the activity she calls ‘Dress Grandma’ is a shoe-in to bring on little girl giggles.
Guests love to have something to take home from the party, so have party favors with a tea party theme to remind them of how much fun they had. Lyn McAllister made some adorable tea party cookies from felt that I know would be a hit. The cookies are simple to make and Lyn says you can hand stitch them if you don’t have a sewing machine, but I think fabric glue might work also. Put the colorful felt ‘sugar’ cookies in a pretty serving bowl or tray for a nice centerpiece.
I love Marie Daniels’ idea for a party favor shaped like a teabag. A simple white paper bag is quickly turned into a giant teabag to be filled with candy or trinkets. Marie also has game and refreshment ideas to inspire you.
