For our daughter, Emma's, 1st Birthday Party last year we celebrated by throwing a Fairy Princess Party! It was an adorable party filled with lots of fun & cute, cute decorations (which Emma just loved). My mom & I spend 1 to 2 months preparing for the party & had a blast decorating the whole house! When the day for the party arrived & all of the little girls showed up in their beautiful fairy princess dresses, tutus, & wings--the party couldn't have been any more Perfect!!
At first, we wanted the party to be a ballerina theme. Emma loves to dance & we are planning on putting her in ballet when she's older, so we thought a ballerina theme would be just perfect for her 1st Birthday Party. However, after searching & searching for ballerina decorations on the web for a few hours & came up empty handed, we decided that a change of theme was definitely needed. We then started looking for 1st birthday party themes online & found fairy listed as one. We thought it would be so cute to have Em in a tutu & wings & I knew she would just love dressing up. We then found a site about a fairy princess party & we knew, right then & there, that it would be the perfect theme for her 1 year celebration--plus, it would be pretty easy to find decorations, dinnerware, & party favors with fairies or princesses on them.
When the guests entered the house, they were amazed to see a "fairy princess" hallway full of flowers, rose petals, fairies, princesses, crowns, wands, butterflies, dragonflies, & a frog prince! We also had a banner saying "Make a Birthday Wish for Emma" hung from the windows of the office doors & a small table underneath it with a basket full of butterfly cards with ribbon loops & colorful pens. When each guest entered the party, we asked them to grab a pen & a butterfly card & write a birthday wish for Em on it & then hang it on the "Wishing Tree" in the living room.
At the end of the hallway, we had green & pink tulle hanging down from the upstairs banister for a beautiful added touch & balloon bouquets of green, hot pink, light pink, & purple (the colors of the party) in the living room.
We made signs out of cardboard & painted wooden sticks (with fairies, flowers, butterflies, & dragonflies hot glued on), so the "guests" & the "fairies" would know which way to go. We also taped a small "bathroom" sign onto the cute frog prince.
The "fairies" were pointed to the dining room where we had Emma "poof" (tap them on the head with her wand) them & they were crowned "fairy princesses". In the "fairy princess" room we had a pair of pink wings for each girl, a small fairy princess purse (used for one of the games later), a lea to wear on their head (a fairy princess crown), a pink necklace, & a wand. For the celebration of them becoming "true fairy princesses", we had glittery fairy & butterfly tattoos that they could have put on their arms, hands, or faces. To decorate the table in the room, we had a fairy table cloth, centerpiece, fairy princess books (prizes for the game winners), & lots of glitter in the colors of the party sprinkled about. To add some color to the walls & ceiling of the room, we taped fairies & curled ribbon to the walls & strung hot pink, light pink, & green crepe paper from each top corner of the room to the lamp. We filled adorable pink, purple, blue, & green sparkly buckets with flower pinwheels, crowns, rings, necklaces, princess note pads & pens, princess bubbles (each bubble container had a crown for a lid), all kinds of sweets, & pacifiers (for the babies). We also had a treasure chest (the treasure chest was meant to symbolize the pirates from the movie "Peter Pan", where there was a fairy named Tinkerbell in the movie) filled with all kinds of little gifts & goodies for a Mommy-to-be at the party that was pregnant with a little boy.
One of the very first decorations we started on & one of the first that the guests saw was a "fairy village" by our front door. It consisted of a fake potted tree, lots of fake flowers & grass, butterflies, dragonflies, rope lighting, vases, & fairies (of course). We wrapped the tree with the rope lighting & hung butterflies, dragonflies, & fairies from its leaves & branches. We then filled three glass vases with clear marbles & flowers for extra decor & placed fairies in the grass that we sprinkled on the ground. We found an adorable "Dream" sign, which we placed on top of a fourth vase. It turned out looking absolutely adorable & really set the mood for the party!
For the table that the "fairy princesses" would be eating at in the kitchen, we decorated with a white table cloth, adorable grass mats with pink daisies, cute fairies, lots of colorful glitter, hot pink place mats, fairy plates & centerpieces, swan dishes filled with dinner mints, light pink silverware tied together with flower ties, green napkins, light pink cups, & a tiny bell for each girl. My sister also made a darling birthday centerpiece of a little girl with a dandy lion & tiny flowers all around her & painted "Make a Wish" at the bottom. We also decorated Emma's high chair with a soft, pink cover & a tulle skirt that we taped around the sides of her high chair table.
For lunch, we served the guests & the beautiful "fairy princesses" sandwiches, chips, fresh fruit & veggies, & sweet tea. For dessert we had a bakery in our town make a yummy two tiered vanilla cake with pineapple filling on the bottom tier & strawberry on the top. They, also, made Em her very own pineapple filled cake, which she loved putting her fingers in & then licking off the buttercream icing! Both of the delicious cakes were decorated to look like a garden--with grass, pink, purple, & white flowers, butterflies, & dragonflies! They did an absolutely wonderful job on them!
We decorated the living room & kitchen with princess signs, fairy dolls, flowers, streamers/crepe paper, curled ribbon, a princess carriage, "A dream is a Wish" photo album, balloons, an adorable pink butterfly chair, the "Wishing Tree" (which was decorated with pink, sparkly ribbon), & two big, comfy pink & green flower pillows (not pictured). We also strung pink tulle from window to window in the living room, with a cluster of flowers tied to the middle of each section & hung a fairy "Happy Birthday" banner from two of the windows.
The "fairy princesses" played many cute & fun games during the party too!!
~For one of the games we had bought gold coins & tossed them all over the floor of the living room. We had all of the girls get their fairy princess purses from the dining room & told them that the tooth fairy had come by to wish Emma a "happy birthday" & as she was leaving dropped her purse full of coins & that she really needed their help picking up all of them. We set the timer for a short amount of time & whoever picked up the most coins after the time was up would win the game!
~Then the girls played "Pin the Fairy on the Flower". It was an adorable game that we found by chance & luck on the Internet. It came with the poster (which we had laminated & taped onto a piece of cardboard), bandanna, & lots of fairy stickers. Each girl loved picking out their own fairy & had a blast playing the game!
~A bunch of us, also, danced the "Hokey Pokey" & the girls played musical chairs to music from the "Tinkerbell" movie soundtrack! Throughout most of the party we had the movie "Tinkerbell" on for anyone to watch. At the end of the party all of the girls went outside & took turns hitting the candy filled fairy pinata we had tied to a tree. All of the girls, big & little, had sooo much fun playing all of the games, no matter if they won a prize or not!!
Seeing the BIG smile on Emma's face after the whole day was through really made all the time & hard work we put into the party worthwhile. There is nothing better than seeing your daughter smile & knowing just how much she Loved her 1st birthday party!
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