Tea Time Fun and Games

Crafts and Games for Tea Parties

Throwing a tea party for your young one? That can be a lot of fun with the right games to keep kids occupied! Try setting up the party so that when all the guests arrive in their tea time attire, each guest gets a paper with a list of tea party essentials on it. The following list is a prime example:

"Tea Time Must Haves:

A Bonnet

English Party Crackers

Tea cup

Tea Cookies

Placemats

Namecards"After handing out your list, the kids will be allowed to go to stations where they can acquire the items needed, with tea time being the end goal to the little maze of stations.

Follow your list! If your list says "Bonnet" as mine does, prepare a station where the kids can either pick out, or make their own tea-time bonnets. If you are on a budget, help the guests create paper bonnets. I found the following instructions for this option at www.child-tea-party-game-ideas.com

"Materials:

Newspaper

Masking Tape

Scotch Tape

Stapler

Scissors

Colorful markers

Colorful yarn

Multi-colored feathers

Glitter

White glueInstructions:

Unfold 2 to 3 sheets of newspaper. Stack them together.

Then place the newspaper stack on your head. Be sure to center the newspaper so that the front, back and sides of your head are evenly covered by newspaper.

Hold the newspaper down over your head, so that the edges are hanging straight down. You may even want to gather the newspaper ends around your neck. This will allow the tape to go on easily.

Have another person wrap masking tape or scotch tape around your newspaper-covered head just above your eyebrows.

Remove your newspaper hat. Trim the "brim" of the hat as you see fit.

Decorate the newspaper hat with feathers, glitter, tissue paper scraps, yarn, etc.

You may even want to roll up and staple the brim of the hat.Turn this craft activity into a little contest. Awarded party prizes for the biggest, craziest, daintest, and most elaborate hats!"

I found the idea for the party crackers station also at www. child-tea-party-game-ideas.com.

"English party crackers

Materials:

Brightly colored gift wrapping paper

Craft glue

Cracker snaps - or thin wooden sticks that will break easily (at craft store)

Glitter

Paper towel roll