Fairy Birthday Party

Love Bug turned three this month and we celebrated in Fairy style!

Thank you to pinterest for always having way more ideas than I can cram into one event.

I borrowed heavily from it. So many creative people out there.

Her cake:

I loved this cake and this cake (the house...scroll down). Put them together and what do you get??

This cake (or at least my version looks like this)

This cake looks so much smaller in a picture than it really is.

It was 16 inches tall :)

Fairy food-

We had fairy blossom sandwiches, snail sandwiches, lots of fruit and berries for lunch....not sure how we missed photos of those.

 Raspberry lemonade with frozen raspberry cubes.

Fairy games-

We decorated fairy houses. I didn't want to deal with paint at the party, so I painted the houses and let them put stickers on them.

We played musical mushrooms

 Thistle toss

Went on a fairy treasure hunt

We used some fairy magic in our fairy magic show.

Fairy goodies

All of the fairies were given wings, tutu's and a head garland.

The tutus were made with chiffon ribbon. 6 inches wide. I cut them into 22 inch pieces and then cut a point from the center (3 inches) to 3 inches down the side.

The wings are made from heavy netting. I cut them into 18x22 inch pieces. Each set of wings had 8 pieces of netting. I trimed the outer edge a bit into a wing shape using a rotary cutter. From the top corner in 2 inches to the center (9 inches). Repeat from the bottom corner. I tied them with ribbon in the center. Then I hot glued a flower to each one, and sprayed them heavily with Tulip fabric glitter paint.

 The boy fairies also had wings and a crown. The wings were made of a less girly but still sparkly fabric (I didn't pay attention to what type it was, sorry). I made capes out of it by cutting the fabric into 28x18 inch pieces. Fold over one of the short ends by 1.5 inches and sew to make a casing. Put ribbon through it. Cape, done. Then I layed the cape down and folded the short ends into the center and used two safety pins to hold the ends in place, being careful to have the pins go on each side of the casing so the ribbon could still slide.

I pulled the ribbon tight and brought it around and tied a knot. The "wings" could then be tied to the boys. I don't have a picture of them wearing them because neither of the boys put them on. I'll try to make another and get photos of it on here.

Decorations-

I mentioned in a previous post that I came upon a great find after Christmas. I bought all kinds of bright colored, glitter coated Christmas decorations on clearance.

Here's how I put them to use

 These were my favorite!

I *just* happened to have a large quantity of organza lying around that I used as the backdrop for the food table and also to hang above the table where the kids ate lunch.

I made a mushroom in the same fashion that I made the chicka chicka boom boom tree (another post).

And the cute sign was made with a clipart I found online and using the font Caribbean Island.

 It was a fun party, and especially fun to celebrate my Little Love Bug turning three!

Thank you to my husband and family for all their support, and my husband for taking great photos.

Fairy Birthday Party plans

UPDATED:

My little Love Bug is having a birthday next month. In case you couldn't tell, she loves all things tutu, so I had to get thinking about what theme we could do that would appease her inner floof. We've done princess, and straight up tutu parties in the past. She's not at all into ballerina (mostly because she hasn't discovered it yet) but she does adore fairies. Fairies wear tutus of a sort...so bingo! Fairy party it is!

Now this is just in the planning/preparation phase still, and I have just under 2 months to get it all together. BUT because I know there are other fairy lovers out there, I just wanted to give you a glimpse of what my plans are so you can RUN (don't walk) to your nearest craft store and score some AMAZING deals on fairy party decor and craft items.

WHY are we running?? Three words: Clearance Christmas Items.

It wasn't three weeks ago that I was in Michael's completely disappointed that I couldn't find anything that fit in with my Christmas decor. EVERYTHING was covered in glitter, bright colors, and fairy junk. It's Christmas for pity's sake!

But.....what a change a few weeks and a different focus can make. Here are some of my major scores from this morning's outing to Michael's.

Fairies, normally $10 down to $2 each

 Gobs of glitter covered foliage- anywhere from $.13-$.75 each.

Very fairly land looking, no?

I have been trying to come up with inexpensive wings for our little fairies, and all the DIY ideas consist of hangers and pantyhose. Problem is, these little fairies are three year old at most! Can you say "snag"? I sure can.

So what to use...I thought that tulle might work but its so flimsy. So I checked out the mesh netting at Joann and found some in bright colors that I think will work out perfectly.

Here is a little peek at how they are going to look.

It's a bit hard to see what my entire vision is, but you get the picture.

The best part about this path is that the netting was/is?? On sale so it was only $.75 a yard.!!! Bonus.

Hard to see, but the wings are covered with spray on glitter- as is the flower. I'm going to try adding some adhesive rhinestones here and there so long as it doesn't weigh them down too much. It will add some sparkle to that glitter.

The whole party is going to be covered in glitter!

For the Tutu's I bought some 6"sheer chiffon ribbon in colors that coordinated with the netting. I'm cutting the ends to a point to make them fairly looking. Not a great photo...but you can see that its cut to a point. I found the chiffon in their "deal zone" baskets.

Also you can currently get star wands at the Target $1 zone, which I plan to tie lots of ribbon to for their little wands.

Hope you can catch the great deals this week while they are having them!!

I'll be posting some tutorials and the whole party in the coming weeks!