Fairy Party for Kids

Amount of Time: 10 to 20 hours
Budget: $100 to $500
Number of Guests: Up to ten, with helpers of course.
Age of Children: 1 to 7 years old
Indoors/Outdoors: Either would be fine.

Special Notes: This is a wonderful, fanciful party mainly for little girls. Boys can be invited, but girls will most likely want this theme. This is also a versatile theme, one that allows you to have your party at your home, or at an outside venue if you prefer. There are lots of activities listed below you can choose from. Some are particular to being indoors or outdoors, but they certainly are here to provide you with a plethora of ideas for your fairy party. Enjoy.

Invitations:

Dress your daughter up as a fairy and snap her picture. Use this as the front of the birthday invitation. Inside, provide all of the party details.

Cut out cardstock in a fairy theme, such as a magical wand, tiara, or fairy wings, and use the colors chosen for the party. Write the party details inside.

Inside the envelopes, include fairy confetti or dust for the guests to enjoy when they open their invitations.

Ask your guests to come dressed as fairies.

For the thank you notes, write, “Thank you fairy much!”

Decorations:

Use light-colored balloons and streamers to decorate the party area. Ask your birthday kid what her favorite fairy colors are, and use those as the color scheme.

Have signs made up as the guests enter, saying, “Welcome to Fairy Land.”

Create a magical forest for your guests to enter through by hanging lots of green streamers in your front entrance. You can also hang plastic animals or bugs to give it a further authentic feel, such as butterflies.

Put up twinkle lights at the front entrance of the party.

Play the music of “Swan Lake” in the background.

Use a bubble machine and have it spew forth bubbles at the party entrance.

For the party table, you can buy fairy party goods, or simply match the tableware to the primary colors you have chosen for your balloons and streamers. You could use a white paper tablecloth, and have the guests draw their own fairies at their seats during the party feast as well. Tie a balloon to each of the chairs for added festiveness. Sprinkle fairy dust, glitter, and confetti all over the table for an added decoration.

Crafts:

Provide fairy wings to the guests to decorate with ribbon, silk flowers, glitter, markers, and stickers. They can wear these during the party and take them home as well.

Make magic fairy wands. Glue two pieces of glitter cardboard paper together, and decorate them with glitter, confetti, and stickers. Affix a straw for the wand portion.

Color and/or draw pictures of fairies.

Decorate plastic champagne glasses with sequins, beads, and glitter using a glue gun. The kids can drink their fairy punch out of these or take them home as another craft.

Games/Activities:

Have your guests be greeted by two fairy princesses. These could either be hired entertainers or some older kids you employ for the party, such as your babysitter. Upon each guests’ arrival, have the fairy princesses ask her, “Would you like to be a fairy for a day?” When she says, “Yes!” have them spin her around twice with a blindfold on, give her a magical wand, and spray fairy dust and bubbles on her as she enters the party.

You could hire, or have, other helpers to paint fairy faces onto the guests as they arrive or as another activity.

Play Musical Fairies, similar to Musical Chairs.

Have a Fairy Ring Toss. Have the guests throw a ring over a flower in a flower pot.

Play Pin the Horn on the Unicorn.

Play Fairy, Fairy, Toad.

Play Pass the Magical Fairy Parcel.

Have a treasure hunt to find the precious gold and silver coins the tooth fairy lost the previous evening out in the garden. Have the kids search for chocolate coins and keep them as a treat.

Have the kids make fairy houses. This is a good outdoor activity. Provide the kids with a list of things they will need to collect to make their fairy house, including three brown leaves (to help build the house), two pebbles (for the fairy garden), something green (again for their garden), something shiny (to decorate the house with), and anything else you can think of. The first kid to collect all of the items and to build their house will win a prize.

If hosting this party at an outside venue, a ballet studio may be a very good location. The girls could enjoy a dance class or free time to dance around in ballet costumes and act like the fairies of the woods. If at your own home, you could also provide them with little ballerina outfits or leotards, and have them enjoy dancing together as fairies would do either in the party room or the garden.

Break a fairy pinata.

Menu:

Serve fairy food to your guests:

• Chocolate-dipped strawberries
• Other fruits, melons, and berries, with a yogurt dip
• Fresh veggies with dips
• Cotton candy
• Fairy cookies (sugar cookies cut into fairy shapes – the kids can decorate and frost them!)
• Jell-O Jigglers cut out in star shapes
• Small sandwiches cut out into star shapes
• Hot dog wands
• Fairy punch, with added Pop Rocks to make it fizzle
• Marshmallow wands
• Rice Krispie treats on a stick; you could also dip them in in chocolate

Cake:

You could serve any type of cake and ice it with your fairy colors. You could make two or three tiers, and ice each tier a different color. Purchase a “Fairy Topper” for the cake. You could also ice the cake with flowers and butterflies.

You cold do the same thing with cupcakes.

Of course, this Tinker Bell Birthday Cake is really special.

Goody Bags:

Provide little fabric bags (sometimes also beaded), and fill them with a little vial of fairy dust, fairy stickers, Pop Rocks candy, Pixie Stix, bubbles, etc.

Let the kids also take home the crafts they may have made: wings, tiaras, magic wands, etc.