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{ Spring Flower
Cupcakes }
{ Mother's Day
Flowerpot Cupcakes }
{ Little Cakes
with Fruit and Whipped Cream }
{ Cookie
Bouquet }
Peanut Butter and Jelly Finger Sandwiches: Make
sandwiches as usual and then cut out using a flower-shaped cookie cutter.
{ Flower Domino
Dazzlers } Make these classic Domino Lollipops in the shape of flowers
using a flower mold found at a candy or craft supply store.
{ Petite Four
De-Lites }
Have the guests come dressed in frilly dresses, hats, white gloves and shiny
shoes for a dainty afternoon. Boys should bring their bow ties, or make them
ahead of time from black construction paper. Make sure to gather everyone along
a white picket fence, either a real one or one that you've made from white oak
tag, for many pleasant pictures.
Set up a long table near the garden outside and decorate it with a lacy
tablecloth, teacups, and teapots with fresh-cut flowers in them. You can also
use doilies as placemats.
Using construction paper cut out shapes of large daisies, tulips and sunflowers
to hang around in the bushes, trees and fences outside.
Print out the coloring pages for a quiet coloring activity.
Purchase mini straw hats from a craft store along with a garland of small silk
flowers, beads and ribbons. Pull off the small flowers from the garland and
have the guests, glue them on along with beads and ribbons to decorate their
own mini straw hat.
Let the kids get some practice walking straight and tall as they balance a book
on their heads and relay race across the lawn.
Split up the guests into two teams. For each team, on one end of the yard place
a tin bucket in which you can add a few flowers. On the other end of the yard,
give each team identical watering cans. Then each person on the teams takes a
turn where they can have a grown up fill up their watering can from the garden
hose, then run to pour it out into the bucket. The first team to fill up the
bucket wins.
This is a great game that also gives the kids a lesson in Etiquette 101.
Properly set up an elegant place setting on a card table using the items listed
below. Then cover the table so they can't see it. Let the kids get a good look
for about 10 seconds, then remove everything to leave the table bare. Each
guest can then take a turn at setting the table exactly as they saw it. The
person who correctly sets the table the fastest, wins!
For "Set the Table" you will need: a stopwatch, a tablecloth, a place
mat, plastic pink cutlery, a pretty plastic or paper plate, a cloth napkin, a
napkin ring, a plastic glass, a small vase and silk flowers. The more items you
can think to add, the better, just make sure everything is safe for little
hands.
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Mini change purses filled with beads to make their own jewelry.
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A mini garden bucket filled with a packet of planting flower seeds, sunflower
seeds for a snack and a special birthday tea bag.
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For birthday tea bags: Using pink construction paper, cut out and glue over the
existing tea bag labels, then write the birthday girl's name on it. Write the
flavor on the backside of the label; try picking some fun fruity flavors. |
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