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Sugar Cube Relay

Purchase sugar cubes and place in a bowl with one spoon. Find over sized tea cups or use plastic tea cups for this relay.  Divide guest into 2-3 teams.  Set a start and end line.  At the start place the bowl of sugar cubes and spoon.  At the finish line place the tea cup.

The race is to transfer all of your sugar cubes to the oversized tea cup by using  the spoon.  Each team member gets a chance, if the sugar cube falls off the spoon the player must go back and start over. First team to move all their sugar cubes wins!   

Tea Party Match Game

 Tea Pot Piñata

Opening Party Craft 

 Dress Up Time 

Manners Session 

Start your party with an opening Craft Activity:

- Decorate mini white lace hats with ribbon, beads, satin flowers. Glue on a satin ribbon to the back of the hat to create a door knob hanger.

- Decorate white or light solid color fans with feathers, gems and markers.

- Decorate foam craft tea pots magnets (precut before party) with markers, gems, glitter glue, etc.

- Decorate White Lace Placemats with markers, satin flowers, sequences, etc.

After craft time let your guest fancy themselves up in a corner with extra dress up items like boas, scarves, costume jewelry, tiaras, etc. 

Set up a make-up corner that is adult supervised. Add a little face glitter, rouge to the cheeks and lipstick or lip gloss for each guest. 

Take photos of each guest.

If using a digital, see if someone else can print them off while you continue with the party. Then put a photo of each guest in a Tea Party Foam Photo Frames (4 count) for a take home party favor. 

Manner sessions - spend a few minutes with the girls at the tea table explaining how to hold a tea cup, if using a spoon for adding sugar, you only dip once into the sugar bowl, stir gently and lay spoon on saucer.  Also, 

 teach them how to ask for items and how to pass them around the table.  Don't forget to add the "Darling, please pass the sugar"  to the session.  

Children's Tea and Etiquette: Brewing Good Manners in Young Minds

Sing Along

Story Time 

Napkin Folding Lessons

I'm A Little Teapot

(Music copyright 1939 Kelman Music)

I'm a little teapot short and stout; (stick your tummy out and pretend you are very short)

Here is my handle (place your hand on your hip, so your arm is a handle)

And here is my spout. (Bend your other arm and hand like a spout)

When I get all steamed up, then I shout: Just tip me over and pour me out! (Bend over and pretend you are pouring out your tea!)

Story Time - Read a Tea Time Story Book

Napkin Folding Lessons -Simple to fancy depending on the age of party guests. 

Use large paper dinner napkins or to get the best effect use starched linen napkins. 

Try these folds: 

Rose bud

Rose 

Lady Windmere's Fan

Tea Party Dress Up Accessories 

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Menu Suggestions

Tea Sandwiches - Use wheat, rye, or white  sandwich bread and cut off the edges. Or opt for mini bagels or croissants.  Fill with peanut butter and jelly, jelly and cream cheese , or plain or flavored cream cheese.  You can either cut into triangles or use a flower shaped cookie cutters for a fun shape.

 

Pinwheel Sandwiches - Using flour tortillas, spread with cream cheese and turkey or other filling, roll tight in cellophane, refrigerate for 2 hours, then  cut into 8 pieces and hold together with toothpicks.  Click here for an easy recipe.

 

Tiny Fruit Muffins - Sprinkle then with powdered sugar. 

 

Assorted Cookies - Shortbread, Jelly Jams, Sugar or Lemon are favorites!

 

Scones - Simple recipe for scones.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Petit Fours

 

Small Fruits - strawberries, grapes, raspberries or blueberries.  Even better chocolate-dipped strawberries.  

 

Fruit Salad - Served with cool-whip

 

Beverages

Tea - mint tea  mixed with lemonade, served warm

Iced tea 

Cider -serve warm

Any fruit drink - preferably a lemonade blend like raspberry-lemonade for a darker color. 

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Party Consultant M. Hylton
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