Tea Parties

                                       
Here are some ideas for tea parties:

Doll Tea Party: Use a shoe box, a stack of books, an upside down bowl, or a chair for a doll table. Decorate your doll table with a few paper doilies, or a piece of pretty fabric for a tablecloth. Use pillows for doll chairs. 

For doll-sized refreshments, put a small plate in the middle of the table and fill it with small chocolates or candy, berries, mini cupcakes, mini pretzels, mini cookies, or nuts. If you don't have a tiny tea set, you can make one with play dough or salt dough. My mom has a recipe for salt dough on her website. Click HERE for my mom's salt dough recipe. 

More suggestions for doll tea parties: Make tiny invitations and hand them out to friends, (make sure to remind them to bring their dolls!) ask everyone to dress up their dolls for the party, ( and themselves, too!) and make mini party favors for the dolls, like tiny bracelets, tiny stickers, tiny thank you cards, tiny colored rocks, or anything fun and tiny! (To make colored rocks, just paint rocks in bright colors.)  

Stuffed Animal Tea Party: For stuffed animal tea parties, just do everything you do for the doll tea parties, except for stuffed animals! 

Paper Doll Tea Party: Draw a tea set on paper and cut it out for your paper dolls. Then draw some refreshments, cut those out, and put the tea set and refreshments on the top of an old spool of thread or jar. 

Nancy's stocking

                   
                       Here is the Christmas stocking I made my doll, Fancy Nancy. Like it? =)

                                     P.S. I got my hair cut, as you can (sort of) see!!

Merry Christmas!

                                 Merry Christmas!! 
Merry Christmas, everybody! Here's a fun Christmas post:

Gift ideas:
For a baby: I always make the Christmas presents I give, but I couldn't find any suggestions for Christmas presents for my baby sister. Well, I finally came up with my own suggestions:
                                    Knit or sew a tiny teddy bear 
                                    Knit or sew a blankey
                                    Make a rag doll
                                    
Sorry! That's all I could think of. (I'm making my baby sister a tiny teddy bear.)

  Ideas for kids presents: Glue pretty buttons on a plain round box bought from Michael's. (It will make a nice jewelry box.) Decorate a plain notebook with buttons, glitter, stickers, ribbons, or rhinestones.(Maybe even decorate a matching pen.)

 Make a bunch of bracelets, rings, earrings, or even a whole set of jewelry. Decorate a notebook with a picture of a Lego guy or an action figure on it. Make a coupon for free back rubs from you for your mom or dad. 

Make a nice picture frame out of card board. Buy a blank book and make it into a coloring book, a joke book, or a story book.

Sew a doll Christmas outfit or dress. Knit some fun, decorative mittens or pot holders. Make a Christmas snow globe out of a clear jar, using confetti and glitter for the snow. Decorate a T-shirt with iron-ons, and the help of a grown-up. 

Christmas books: Here are some great Christmas books!! 

The Tomten by Astrid Lindgren

The Tomten and the Fox by Astrid Lindgren

Christmas in Noisy Village by Astrid Lindgren

The Night Before Christmas told by Jan Brett 

Holly the Christmas fairy by Daisy Meadows

Stella the Star fairy by Daisy Meadows

Paige the Christmas Play fairy by Daisy Meadows

Cheryl the Christmas Tree fairy by Daisy Meadows

(I think you can probably get all these books at your library)

Chocolate candy cane Christmas cookies: Mm!
Ingredients: Your favorite chocolate cookies, vanilla frosting, peppermint candy canes.
Directions: Spread vanilla frosting on one cookie. Crush up some candy canes, and put some on your cookie with frosting. Place another cookie on top. Dee-licious! 







                                    

Make a fairy box of secrets!

Instructions on making fairy box: Making your fairy box is very simple. All you have to do is decorate the shoe box with things you think a fairy would like, such as glitter, confetti, pretty wrapping or tissue paper, fairy stickers, colorful beads, ribbons, rhinestones, hand drawn pictures of fairies, or even a couple of Silly-Bandz. The main thing is to make the box pretty and fairy related. 

"Secrets" to put in your box: You don't really have to put "secrets" in your fairy box. You can always just put in your fairy things, or craft supplies, or whatever you want. But I put  my fairy wand, pretend fairy magic, and a little notebook that I call my fairy spell book in my box.

To make the pretend fairy magic, just put confetti in a small plastic jar or bottle. I labeled mine "Zoe's Fairy Dust". If you don't have confetti, just cut up tiny pieces of colored paper.  For the fairy wand, wrap a plain pencil in glittery ribbons, until you can't see the pencil anymore. Glue a glittery cardboard star on top of the wand. And you can use a pretty notebook with the words Spell Book on it. 

Have fun!  
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