Princess Party
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009Invitation:
My hubby created the invitation on photoshop and I wrote the poem. You can always do the Date: Time: Location:…invitation but I think that poems are fun.
Favors: Crowns and Tiaras
We gave all the boys crowns and all the girls Tiaras as their favors and they wore them during the party.
Food: “Tea and Crumpets”
We just had finger foods but a few years later I found a really cute book at a Kitchen Supply store that had a lot of princess type finger foods…sorry but I don’t know the name of it but I’ll look for it next time I’m in that store.
So here is what we ate:
mini pigs in blanket
Relish plate
Small sandwiches
Fruit
Russian Tea
Activity #1: Kiss the Frog
I found this idea online while planning this party. Basically you make a frog out of poster board paper, blind fold the girls and give them a pair of lip stickers to stick on the frog. Now what I did differently was put bright lipstick on the girls and had them actually try and kiss the frog and if I do say so myself this was WAY more fun. What little girl doesn’t love putting on a little lipstick?
Activity #2: Rescue the Princess
This game involved the boys because Princes do not kiss frogs. We assigned every prince a princess. Then all the princesses hid somewhere in the house and their prince had to rescue them.
Other Princess Activities Ideas: This party was for a 1 year old so those two games were enough.
- Do makeovers
- paint nails & toes
- Play Dress Up
- Ball – have a ball in your living room and let the girls dance with “prince daddy” or they can dance with mommy or together but there MUST be lots of twirling.
Cake:
This was my daughters 1st birthday so I made her a small castle cake (see How to Make Your Own Cake Pan in the Tips section). I made cupcakes for the other kids and stacked them to make a tower/castle. Then I made double chocolate bunt cake for the grown ups. I was ambitious and made WAY too much cake. 
PS Some cake shops sell princess cakes with a barbie in the middle they are very cute and perfect for a princess party.
Gifts:
Like I said before this was her first birthday so she wasn’t really sure what was going on so we just sat and opened gifts but here is a fun idea. Decorate a chair to make it look like a throne, it doesn’t need to be anything too extravagant but just make it look like an extra special chair for a princess.
Decorations:
We decorated with our favors, our frog prince, and I attempted to build a princess tower out of cardboard bricks. We also added streamers around the house because her birthday is jut before Christmas so we wanted to make it look more like a birthday party rather than a Christmas party. Here are some pictures of what we did.
