Oriental Tea Party

This is Ellie's 6th birthday party.

Her inspiration for wanting an oriental tea party was 

Japanese Bobble Art Dolls

The Oriental Garden

What can be more perfect for an oriental garden than a butterfly bridge.

I have a collected oriental umbrellas over the years.  They have been placed them in a metal stand.

 Perfect for Chinese Princesses to use strolling over the butterfly bridge.

Several trees were placed around the party area filled with blossom stems and coloured lanterns.

 

I came across some curtains in an opportunity shop that were covered with 

blossoms in the perfect colours for this theme.  I made them into table runners.  

The flower windmills have been plastered into plastic pots making them perfect weights for outdoor parties.

These ceramic dolls were found at The Reject Shop.

     

The potted flower windmills were also used around the garden.

These items and more are available for hire at Wish Upon a Party in Perth.

For pricing and inclusions, please go to:

http://www.wishuponaparty.com.au/#!/c1gcp

Party or Summer Holiday Activity - Play Doh Sundaes, Cookies & Cupcakes

  

I came across this idea from a blog called Happy Hooligans, craft and activities for little people.

http://happyhooligans.ca/

This activity is a great idea for a party activity.  I loved the idea of making playdoh that was scented and coloured to resemble ice cream or cookie dough.

Weeks prior to making the dough, I began collecting ice cream scoops and sundae containers from thrift stores. I also gathered beads, balls, cupcake toppers, shells, gems, glitter and anything that resembled sundae toppings.  I decided on 3 "flavours", Spearmint, Cookie Dough and Chocolate.  

For the chocolate I follow the following recipe taken from another lovely blog called The Imagination Tree:

http://theimaginationtree.com/2012/01/easy-chocolate-play-dough-recipe.html

I used the following recipe for the other doughs and coloured them pink and green with 

scents of spearmint and vanilla. They all smell divine.Being a no cook dough, it is very quick to make.

The containers were bought from The Reject Shop and are shaped like ice cream tubs. 

Now the creations can begin

Sundaes

I collected cupcake trays and coloured silicone cupcake moulds to make cupcakes.

Chocolate Bread Men.

      

Tropical Sundaes

Chocolates placed in a gold chocolate tray

Goodies for a Sundae Shop.

Set up a toy register for the goodies to be sold.

This is also a good activity to practise money handling for older children.

Sleeping Beauty

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I am with Flora on this one.  Make it Pink!!

This party package has been put together for little girls who love the story 

Sleeping Beauty using the colours hot pink and gold.

The royal table is set with vases of hot pink blooms.

Sleeping Beauty's gown on a mannequin.

The table setting within the royal garden.

BPA free, eco friendly princess cups are used in this party package.

These items are available for hire at www.wishuponaparty.com.au

Taffyta Muttonfudge Costume

My daughter attended a party this year and insisted that she just had to dress up as the Wreck it Ralph character Taffyta Muttonfudge.  I only had a couple of weeks to put something together so I hit my local thrift stores to hopefully remodel some finds rather than buying fabric and starting from scratch.  I was so lucky to find a child size horse riding helmet for around $6.  I could not believe my luck to find something so similar to the shape I needed for the motor racing helmet.  I already had some pink lycra, green crepe and pink taffeta in my stash of  fabrics.  I found an adult sized striped t-shirt  and a fleece zip up jacket to cut up. 

THE HELMET

I cut triangles of fabric, enough to cover the helmet and after sewing into a circle 

I stretched it over the helmet.

After ripping out the lining and unscrewing the cap, I tacked the lyra to the velvet on the inside of the hat.

I traced around the peak of the helmet and cut a piece of green crepe to size.  

The tip of the peak was machine sewn and tacked by hand to the lycra.  I hand sewed a band of fabric cut on the bias to cover the join. I was not quite happy with the finish of the peak but time was against me.

I machine sewed some strawberry leaves and attached them under the cap.

I then  reattached the lining by hand.

For the strawberry pips I just used jewel stickers.

THE DRESS

I don't have any pictures of the construction of the rest of the costume however it was very simple.  I traced around a simple dress on butcher paper to make a pattern.  I cut out a back and front, overlocked, stitched together and hemmed.

THE PANTS

There was not enough fabric in the t-shirt to make the pants so I used the left over lycra to make the knickers.  Once again I traced around a pair of leggings folded with the crease down the front of the pants.  I cut the top of the pattern to use for the knicker pattern and the base for the legs.  Then cut out out from the t-shirt and lycra and sewed together.  I made a hem and threaded through some elastic at the waist.

THE JACKET

I found an old fleece jumper and cut of the arms off and made some taffeta arms instead and reused the old cuffs.  I did this as the jumper was a bit worn.  Then I added a stripe of white down each side of the zip and cut out a collar from the cream crepe.  Then a band of taffeta at the bottom of the jacket .

I bought a long white wig from Gone Bazaar in Canning Vale and cut into a bob.

A little bit of makeup. 

And we are ready to go!

Cinderella Party

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Out of all the Disney princess movies, my daughter first adored Cinderella. Disney's new version of Cinderella will be in theatres in March 2015.  

The following items have been put together in a package for hire for little princess who dream of 

carriages and glass slippers and being a princess on their birthday...

The story of Cinderella would have to be the catalyst to all little girls with an obsession of shoes.

This glass slipper table decoration lights up with a magical sound when you press the slipper.

Regal blue chair covers with gold sashes.

These chairs suit up to the age of 8 years.

BPA free, eco friendly Cinderella plates are used in this themed package.

A Cinderella gown complete with choker on a mannequin stands in front of a pink 

lemonade stand which also comes in blue and white

More miniature glass slippers.

Gold drapes frame the setting.  

This package comes with 10 chairs including the throne.

It can however comfortably seat up to 14 children.

A tiny blue bird sitting in a cage.

These items are available for hire in Perth, Western Australia at

www.wishuponaparty.com.au/#!cinderella/c24xrn