Guests arrived through a fairy bower of tulle and flowers. Tulle is a fantastic decorating option because it gives a lot of bang for the buck, especially when it goes on sale. Draping it, tying it in bows, gathering it over windows, so many possibilities for frilly-girly sweet decor! (Pic doesn't do it justice, it was so sweet)
Toadstools are just as essential as flowers for a fairy party, so we set to work making a bunch to place around. See my post for how to paper mache some toadstools of your very own!
Without wings, a fairy just isn't a fairy! But without the budget to purchase wings for all the guests, (and of course, the dollar stores never cooperate by having them when I want them, but a mere few weeks later have a whole display of wings in an assortment of colors!) I had to get creative. I love nothing better than to get creative!! I'll whine about it, I'll complain that stores should anticipate my needs, but in truth, I love trying to figure out how to do something unique. I already knew that I did not want to do the tights-on-a-coat-hanger method of wings. It is a lot more work than the tutorials make it sound like it is, and I've never been happy with them. So I created these fancy little gossamer wings that look very realistically pixie-like. For the tutorial, click here.
Finally, after playing flying games, and changing seasons games and other fairy games, the fairy guests did the last obvious necessity - they made fairy wands. The simplest of the simple crafts - a funfoam wand that they decorate with glitter, jewels and stickers. Lovely.
Then as they were leaving, they received a sweet little party favor that had strawberry candies, bubbles (I painted the lids with glitter paint to make them more pixie-dusty), and a butterfly barrette.
Happy Flying!!