Little girls love all of the things that go with a tea party...dainty tea cups, bears, cookies, dolls and all the frills.  Here are some ideas for hosting a lovely tea party.

Tea Party Party Supplies from our partner, Birthday in a Box.
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Also: Flower Fairies Tea Party
    

 Invitations

• You can find decorative note cards anywhere, ie: dollar stores, Target, Walmart, etc.. They have many different styles to choose from.  The best to use for your tea party, would be teddy bears, tea cups, or just flower-y and formal looking... very cute!

Use a tiered plate holder and white paper doilies to display mini cupcakes, mini quiches, and heart cookies...

Decorations

• Set up tables and use floral fabric tablecloths in a variety of prints for the different tables.

• For centerpieces, choose wildflowers (or silk flowers) and put in a small vase (one for each table)

• Gather teddy bears, dolls, and the like and display them in little chairs all over the room.

• If possible, use a child's tea set and set it up on the main table.

• Set up your teapot, creamer, and bowl of sugar cubes on your main table.

• Also display small cookies on paper lace doilies on a pretty dish.

Menu

• Of course, tea! (use decaffeinated tea) with plenty of sugar cubes and milk!

• A Variety of small cookies - (perfect for bears' and dolls' diets! Oh, and of course the kids love them too.)

• Mini muffins

Activities

• Encourage each child to bring their favorite teddy bear or doll to enjoy the party as well (make sure to note this on your invitation).

• Play dress-up!  Gather costume jewelry, gloves, hats, old party dresses and shoes for all to try on ~you may even check a thrift store if you are low on these items...

• Take lots and lots of pictures!

• Play musical chairs and other old-fashioned type games!

• Have them decorate their favor boxes with glue-on rhinestones, glitter pens, etc.. (see party favors)

• Have them make their own lip gloss ~ using a do-it-yourself kit

Party Favors

• mini purse-shaped favor box like the ones above (click on the image) or any other small purse, filled with stickers, barrettes, costume jewelry, and lip gloss.. Here are a few other Tea Party party favor ideas:
• personalized zipper pulls
• white gloves
• bracelets
• candy necklace kit