Child Tea Party

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A child tea party offers children time with friends, make-believe and real. It also affords an opportunity to learn how to exercise hospitality in a fun atmosphere that encourages manners and the art of entertaining.

Child Tea Party

Child Tea Party Invitations

The first step in planning a tea party is to choose invitations. Child tea party invitations can be purchased or hand made using specialty children note cards to aid in creating invitations with a theme. One popular idea is to purchase invitation paper and cut invitations into the shape of a tea cup to be decorated and personalized by your little hostess. If you don’t know where to start, check online invitations for possibilities.

Tea Party Themes

Themes for a child tea party can vary from traditional topics like a Teddy Bear Tea Party to cultural interests including current popular movies like Over the Hedge or Happy Feet. Such themes open the door to an array of tiny forest animals as tea party guests.

Storybook Tea Parties

Just like using a popular children’s movie to create a theme for a child tea party, you can create a storybook theme unique to your child’s favorite children’s book. Storybook themes can include items like:

  • Fairy Tales
  • Cinderella
  • Winnie the Pooh
  • Madeline
  • Snow White
  • Peter Rabbit

The fun of hosting a storybook tea party is that the theme caters to the child’s interest and gives them a fun and interesting way to celebrate that interest.

American Girl Tea Parties

This is a perfect party theme for little girls that like to still play with dolls. Guests bring their favorite American Girl Doll or the doll of their choice to an American Girl tea party. Decorate the table with a tablecloth and candles and of course your favorite china. Serve specialty sandwiches using a heart-shaped cookie cutter to cut sandwiches before they are served with the tea.

Teddy Bear Tea Party

Stuffed animals make perfect guests in many a pretend child tea party, so what better reason to actually host a tea party that incorporates these stuffed animal guests? In this case, you can create teddy bear invitations with stickers, or even cut them in a teddy bear shape. For fun, young girls can dress their teddy bears up for the occasion.

Dress Up Tea Party

Speaking of dressing up, this child tea party is a favorite theme among young girls. Before the party, visit thrift stores and garage sales to gather old dresses, jewelry and even purses. You might even check with mothers of some of the other girls to see if they have items they’d like to donate for the dress up affair.

When the girls arrive, let them hunt through the box of clothes picking and choosing the items they want to wear to make their fashion statement. Once they’ve tried things on, made their choices and helped each other get dressed, it’s time for tea.

Tea Parties for Boys and Girls

Although the child tea party most often caters to young girls, there’s no reason not to include boys and girls in any of the above themed parties (except maybe American Girl). Young boys and girls enjoy dressing up in clothes that are too big, and have favorite movies and storybooks. Of course boys may bring a super-hero or two with them as a party guest, but a child tea party exposes both boys and girls to etiquette and good manners while having fun. Along with tea and snacks, you’ll want to plan games that get the kids to mix.

Child Tea Party Etiquette

Tea parties are perfect place to teach etiquette and table manners. Etiquette should be encouraged and learned through example. Here are a few examples:

  1. Place your napkin on your lap
  2. Don’t talk with food in your mouth
  3. Don’t reach across others for an item on the table, but ask for it by saying, “Please pass the…”
  4. Don’t slurp or smack your lips.
  5. Don’t clink your spoon on the side of your cup as you stir.
  6. Pass the salt and pepper together.
  7. Don’t do all the talking
  8. Don’t push food onto your fork with your finger.
  9. Don’t move your plate away when you’ve finished.

Consider the age of the children attending the party. Don't make etiquette so strict that they don't have fun. Instead, allow the tea party to be an enjoyable learning experience.


 


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