Mad Hatter Tea Party

Variations:  Madeline, American Girl, Magic Attic or other doll tea party.

Invitation:
Don't Be Late!
For a Very Important Date
"name" Birthday Party

Decorations:
Make from construction paper-hearts, spades and diamonds.  Place these around the room and on the backs of chairs.  Make large playing cards on poster board to set around the room.  Toss hats everywhere.

Cake:
Make a straw hat cake.  Bake a cake in a round 11", 6 cup oven proof bowl.   Invert the cake, frost and decorate with sugar flowers.

Food:
Serve gingerale in champagne glasses, or tea cups.  Make small cookies, cakes that say eat me.  Set out conversation hearts.

Goodie Bags:
They will take home a hat that they make themselves.

Games and Activities:

Decorate Hats: 
Need: straw hats that will fit the children.  "Silk" flowers, tissue paper flowers, ribbon etc.  Let them put these on their hats.  Use a glue gun with older kids or brads to attach.

Creative Hat Contest:
After they are done decorating.  Hand out awards for their accomplishments.   Make sure you have a ribbon or prize for everyone.  Make up categories - most creative, most beautiful, silliest, etc.

Paint the Roses Red:
Need: butcher paper, one piece per team, with drawn roses with black marker.  Red crayons or markers.
Divide kids into teams.  On go the first person in line picks up a red marker/crayon and races to the rose sheet and fills in one rose.  They then race back to the next in line.
First team to color all their roses red wins.

Teacup Relay:
Need-plastic teacups and saucer.  Water.
Have teams ready, first must fill the cup with water and race to designated area and back again with out spilling.

Mad Spotter:
Need Colored stickers (different colors).  Assign a point value to each color then stick these all over outside or in. 
To Play:  Give each player a card or paper and let them find as many spots as possible.  Total the scores to see who wins.

Play Croquet

For a Doll Tea (Madeline, AG, MAC, etc):
play the above games, but the roses could be another color.

Hats:
Make sure you purchase smaller hats to fit the dolls.  Let the girls decorate these also.

Sachets:
Need:  Material or lace, potpourri, ribbon.
Let the girls make their own sachets to take home.

Make sure the invitation also invited the girls dolls.

Please e-mail me with additional ideas
boardlr@coupeville.net
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