Party in Fairy Tale Village ⇒

Guests arriving at Elise's 6th birthday party were greeted with a sign that said "Fee Fi Fo Farty. Welcome to Elise's Party" They were asked to eat a magic bean (pink and blue Jelly Belly's) and come on in where they were to climb the beanstalk to the top of our stairs. We had tied cutout eaves to a skipping rope that was attached to the top of our banister. I had made a paper beanstalk on the wall and used vines from my neighbour's wisteria plant on the banister. At the top of the stairs were cutout clouds and a castle and some stuffing. 6 little girls came dressed in fairy tale attire - lovely princesses! Elise Coutts, Lydia Dumont, Nikki Winters, Jaime They made a magic wand with either a purple butterfly, pink flower, pink lady bug or blue seahorse. They decorated the cutout wand tipper with glitter, buttons and sparkles and we stuck them on sticks. Voila! Beautiful magic wands. First the sea horse fairies got to sprinkle fairy dust on the other girls and we headed outside for Ariel's Shipwreck Treasure Hunt. We had hidden human stuff and the kids worked in teams to find the 10 human items. Then the flower fairies sprinkled fairy dust on the others and we went back inside for a tea party in Pixie Hollow. We served berry juice and small snacks to refresh the fairy princesses before going back outside where the ladybug fairies sprinkled fairy dust on the others. From our front yard we followed the path to the back yard and played Little Red Riding Hood's relay race. Grandma Mavis sat at a chair at one end of the garden. Each team had a basket and they were given a cookie to take to Grandma. They had to skip around the pond (foil covered hula hoop), throw a "rock" (soft ball) at the Big Bad Wolf (Erin and Dave Smoliak), skip to Grandma and give her the cookie and then run back to the line so the next girl could go. So much fun! The last stop in fairy tale land was to decorate butterfly cookies and have ice cream sundaes. Elise didn't want a cake - she wanted ice cream. That's my girl. Always thinking out of the box! The goodie bags contained some fairy wall decals, a small pot of glitter with a tiny version of their wand topper, a line of string with mini clothes pins to display their artwork at home and a bit of candy.