(graphics: my modified versions of designs by Lisa Warren–formerly of Little Dreamer Designs, font: blackadder)
Their adventures began at the “Transformation Station“ where each child (who was willing to wear their costume) was magically transformed into a fairy or a gnome.
CHEAP TRICK ALERT: I found the wings at the DOLLAR STORE (score!) with their Halloween stuff. We made the tutus as inexpensively as possible with large rolls of tulle from Walmart. Tessa’s tutu is a nice quality one that I won through an on-line giveaway! (Score again!)
CHEAP TRICK ALERT: The gnome hats are regular party hats spray-painted a glossy red. Beards were cut from inexpensive felt and tied on with elastic.
The feast was laid out underneath a gossamer canopy held up by friendly butterflies and dragonflies like this one.
Guest enjoyed a Feast fit for fairies, gnomes or other mythical woodland creatures. On the menu:
Our forest friends sat on tree stumps and ate off green leaves on a wooden table hewn for the occasion.
And feasted on their favorite fairy foods…
After the feast, it was time for more Fairy Fun!
Each friend was given a small silken pouch in which to collect treasures scattered through out the merry meadow. They searched for magic rocks, and musical bells, as well as sweet pixie sticks. (Yes. the candy.)
PARTY SECRETS: This was almost an afterthought, but the kids LOVED this treasure hunt. Most of them needed some guidance on eating the pixie sticks, but they were almost more excited about the shiny rocks and bells. It was pretty much like an Easter egg hunt, but the treasures were smaller and so were their bags. Mostly dollar store finds again.
Before leaving, Tessa’s guests stopped to rest in the shade of a large leaf near some colorful toadstools.
PARTY SECRET: The bases of the toadstools are made from an 8″ concrete form sawed in pieces and spray painted white. The tops are just round decorative pillows with white felt circles.
TRUE STORY: I didn’t want to do anything too permanent with the pillows so I just set the circles on. The toadstools did get knocked down a time or two, spilling their dots, which is why the short one is bare in this photo.
AMAZING party!!! Wow!! Kendra you just blow me away!
I love that cake!
I shared your awesome party on my FB page and linked to you 🙂
xox
Jen
I know firsthand how much planning, shopping, crafting, baking, making, fluffing, and stressing went into this party! It turned out so beautiful! Well done girlfriend!
SO sweet & adorable!
Adorable party!
It is beautiful! Beyond beautiful! It is MAGICAL!
I love this party! You had so many creative and imaginative ideas on the theme! Love the gnome station for the boys (even if they didn't necessarily!), love the toadstool cake and the flower cupcakes, all the fairy foods, the table and decor, flower cups, well – all of it really! Great job 🙂
I am super duper impressed! And thank you for sharing the "not so perfect" details about the party. It is nice to hear that others have little hiccups as well 😉
Oh and great tip on hiring the babysitter to help!
Pretty much the cutest party I have seen in a while! I love it! Looks like they had a blast. Love the cake!
Your cake turned out way better than my toadstool cake! Looks like a fun party.
What a great party, you're so creative! And, thanks for including the things that didn't quite go to plan -nice to know I'm not alone! Visiting from http://www.lifeisaparty.ca
A party any tiny girl would love. Or big girl like me. 🙂 Beautiful–creative and joyful.
Kendra…you did a wonderful job! Everything looks great!!!
Amazing! What a very, very clever idea for a party! I'm sure this will be a party that the kids will remember for a long time! Love the cake, snails, dress up ideas, table~everything! Super cute!
Jody
I always look forward to seeing your parties. The food ideas were so clever! I would love it if you could link it up to my link party: http://phubie.blogspot.com/2010/11/sassy-photo-creations-giveaway.html
i m really impressed and amazed about the way you turn a party in something so magical!!!.it makes me dream like a little girl!!
i couldn t imagine a party like that!!! i m from france and i ve never seen that kind of party!!
i 'd like soooo much to offer this kind of party to my 2 little daughters!!you 're a great inspiration,but it seems really hard to do!!
thanks a lot for sharing your ideas and your tips.
Fabulous!!!
AMAZING!!! Too cute.
Oh lordy, the cuteness is KILLING me! Love it!
Awesome, just awesome!! :o)
That party is incredible. I love the tree stump stools and the toadstool cake. The details are fantastic. Thanks for hosting the blogiversary party!
Wow! Love this!
Incredible! So creative and well thought out. Great job, I feel like this should be a movie. "The Fairy and The Gnome" How Cute!
WOW! This is incredible.. i just found your blog and am blown away. Makes me feel lame with my own parties! Thank you so much for all the inspiration. My daughter is having a garden fairy party this summer and I can't wait to use some of your ideas!
http://www.itsybelle.com
WOW! This is incredible.. i just found your blog and am blown away. Makes me feel lame with my own parties! Thank you so much for all the inspiration. My daughter is having a garden fairy party this summer and I can't wait to use some of your ideas!
http://www.itsybelle.com
this is genius! You described it and made it look super easy to do. I never have thrown such a great party for my kids! One has a bday coming up, and I was looking for ideas and came to this, and she came up behind me and asked if I was going to throw this party for her. I said that I would do my best, and she hasn't forgotten that statement. lol. wish me luck!
I am sooooo glad I found this via Pinterest…I'm planning for my daughter's fairy party and was going crazy thinking how to incorporate boys…gnomes = genius! Thanks!
I love this idea and I am planning one for my 5 year old boy and 7 year old girl joint party. Their birthdays are only a couple days apart. I am so excited! Quick question, what is in your snail sandwiches? Thank you for the great ideas!
Love the ideas!!!! what did you make the snail wraps out of?
I was just looking back on this post and caught the questions about the snail sandwiches. They are really just the pinwheel rolls people make all of the time. I believe that I used tortillas, ham (sandwich meat), and cream cheese. You can use whatever tastes good and will slice well. We thought about adding olive heads with a toothpick on the side, but ran out of time/steam for that.
Your ideas are GREAT! I’m totally borrowing your food ideas for my son’s 1st b-day party. It’s a woodland theme, but very similar — just more animals instead of fairies. Most parties have beautiful, whimsical foods that I know my kids won’t eat and would be way too hard! twigs and berries! YES! I can do that. 😉 Thanks.
I love all of these ideas, just darling! I’m planning a fairy garden party for my almost 3 year old. Do you have a template for the Gnome beards I could use? Thanks so much for sharing!!
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This turned out so darling! I’m using your treasure hunt idea for our winter fairy party coming up soon!
is there any way to get a hold of the invitation that you used? I can’t find it on little dreamer designs.
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