Sugar Plum Fairy and Gingerbread Party
December 21st, 2013
This year I had a blast planning a Sugar Plum Fairy/ Gingerbread
Party for Kayleigh and a few of her closest friends. We chose a light pink,
lavender, and white color scheme with gingerbread brown to compliment the
gingerbread theme. I planned the party
the first Saturday of the Winter Vacation for
about 2-3 hours. I invited 5 little girls and planned on a small
gathering. Parents of course, were always
more than welcome to drop off or stay.
I had gone back and forth about whether to have real gingerbread
houses to decorate but also wanted them to be a keepsake, so I settled on
purchasing wooden birdhouses for about $1 each at AC Moore and painted them
brown. I used real candy such as peppermints, nonpareils, licorice, gum drops,
spice drops, Necco wafers, and royal icing to stick it all on. I purchased
little Wilton squeeze bottles in packs of 2 for about $1.99 at Christmas Tree
Shops to dispense the royal icing. I figured that I could spray them with clear
lacquer and they would not spoil.
For the table scape, I found a beautiful idea here.
From JoAnn’s I bought shimmery white and lavender
floral picks, some vases, and Epsom salts and created an adorable centerpiece.
I also bought shimmery lavender satin fabric to pair with a sheer shimmery
white snowflake fabric to use as an overlay tablecloth, and a white snowflake
pattern fabric for another tablecloth.
I wanted to have cute place settings for each girl so I found
shimmery lavender and pink 12 x 12 scrapbook paper squares that I decorated
with snowflake stickers and laminated so they could be reused. From Oriental
Trading Company I purchased pink aprons and a gingerbread garland. I cut the
gingerbread boys and girls from the garland and hot glued them to the aprons.
Now I had cute aprons for the girls to wear while they decorated their houses!
I also purchased little marshmallow pop ups and mini white popcorn boxes from
there to decorate and hold the candies at each decorating station.
I found a beautiful pink peppermint nutcracker on Amazon and
also purchased pink and white and mint green and white striped straws to use as
actual straws or for part of my dessert table. I found pink and white
marshmallows and peppermints, and various table items of cupcake liners,
plates, flatware, pink and purple swirl lollipop ornaments, and other
decorations to make this a winter wonderland.
Add a roll of Buffalo snow and it was complete.
I looked around local supermarkets and came across those pink
snowball desserts and thought, “Perfect! What a great dessert idea!” I also
decided the party fare would include snowflake sugar cookies, white chocolate
snowflakes, cupcakes decorated with little gingerbread men, hot cocoa, milk,
and “ice water”.
I found these adorable invitations on Zazzle.com here. They came out perfect and complimented the theme so well. I put little white shimmer snowflakes in the
envelopes to add to the magical effect.
I also bought a wooden letter “K” and a small square plaque that
I painted shimmery pink and shimmery white. I hot glued the K to the stand and
figured I could use that as part of a centerpiece for this party and for future
parties.
I found the cutest pink and white printables here for the
party labels.
One of my friends, whose daughter is friends with Kayleigh,
found these cute fairy wings that she thought would be perfect for the party
too. I set out little pink and purple tutus that the girls could wear as part
of their “Sugar Plum Fairy” attire too. These I plan to reuse for Kayleigh’s
“Under the Sea Mermaid Party” for her 7th birthday this year. Knowing a party theme ahead of time sure
helps with bargain shopping because I love to raid the clearance sections of
local stores to see what I find. Saves money, keeps it fun for planning
purposes, and who wants to spend full price for anything anyway?
The girls arrived and donned their “Fairy Attire” at the Sugar
Plum Fairy Boutique. I put on some Sugar
Plum Fairy music and the girls had fun dancing around the living room. I set
the kitchen table with the pretty table cloth, place settings, mini popcorn
buckets full of candies, icing bags of
royal icing to use as “glue” and the painted bird houses at each place setting. The girls donned their aprons and set to work
constructing their masterpieces. What fun we all had!
We decorated them first to give them
time to try before the girls took them home.
Party fare included pink coconut "snowballs", gingerbread cookies, hot cocoa on a stick or in the carafe, peppermint whip with Pirouline wafer cookies, cupcakes with little gingerbread icing decorations, and other confectionary delights. "Fairy Water" was also available and some wine for the "Sugar Plum Fairy Mothers".
The girls were so cute dancing around for a game of Sugar Plum Fairy Freeze Dance! They loved wearing the fairy wings, tutus, and gloves that we got!
Please be sure to check out my Sugar Plum Fairy Gingerbread Party Inspiration Board on Pinterest here.
Enjoy!!
Ariane
