Sweet Pea Kayleigh & Little Ainsleigh too!

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.

The Planning:

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 7^th 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 Party:

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".