Parties: Fairy Party

Fairy parties are arguably one of the most over-done genres in the party theme kingdom, yet they never fail to enchant. Creating a fairy garden or castle can be simple yet magical, and little girls will be totally besotted with the magic.

When Ella was 4, I threw her a fairy garden party in Adelaide in July. Being winter, we had to also flutter our wings indoors, so I decorated the family room leading out to the garden.

INVITE YOUR FAIRIES
The party invitations were simple to make. I collaged a Felcity Wishes fairy with my own text, then printed both sides of white card and trimmed the edges with decorative scissors.

DECORATING THE CASTLE
In lieu of helium balloons, which are expensive and short-lived, I strung regular balloons from the ceiling with ribbons, and joined them with double-sided paper hearts and paper chains. I also printed out fairyesque words in pastel colours, cut them out and tacked them to the walls.

FAIRY NIBBLES
Party food included fairy wand biscuits - simple butter cookies cut with star cutters with paddlepop sticks gently pushed into them and baked. They are then brushed with runny icing and dipped into pink sugar. Silver cachous would look amazing, too. I also served popcorn dusted with pink sugar in fairy cones made from white card. I cut a scalloped edge on the cones and printed and glued the word 'pop!' on the side. I also served little pink meringues, pinwheel sandwiches with jam and cream cheese inside, and baskets of pink and white marshmallows.

FAIRY FAVOURS
Goodie bags were also simple - white paper bags glued with Felicity Wishes fairy printouts and clipped with inexpensive pastel bulldog clips.

FAIRY PINATA
The piñata was deceptively easy - in fact, I find piñata-making a pleasure. Flour and water and newspaper pages covered the balloon first and then once completely dry, I glued rounded petals of crepe paper from the tip to the base of the bloom, finishing off with green leaves and a short stem (green crepe paper wrapped around the string).

FAIRY GAMES
We played classic party games - pin the wings on the fairy (I made these from paper and card, magical chairs (an old twist on the musical ones), pass the parcel and eating donuts from strings. We also had a ball with 'pull the jelly snakes' - where little fairies hold either end of a jelly candy python and pull with all their might! Then of course, there was the flower pinata that cracked open to spill its fairy treasures and glitter to the ground.

The fairies then ran around the garden and played, as little fairies are want to do. 

 

FAIRY CAKE
This was one of my favourite cakes ever. A simple round cake filled with jam and cream, covered in icing and fairy floss (cotton candy) at the last minute. Its first incarnation was a disaster. I put on the floss 2 hours before the party began and when I went to bring it out, the floss had dissolved! So be sure to decorate no more than half an hour before serving. Top with a fairy statue.

Even little Riley, just 18 months at the time, enjoyed this magical fairy party. And Ella - well, she was just queen of the party realm.

 

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