Adley's Fairy Party

 Adley requested a fairy party for her 6th birthday, and this ended up being such a fun idea! Adley helped with a lot of the planning and preparation, and this made her even more excited for her big day.

I loosely copied the idea for her cake from a photo I saw online. Adley and I both loved how it turned out!

Adley had a group of 6 sweet friends attend her party. When they first arrived, the girls signed Adley's new hardcover "Twinkle" book, and then each girl colored a picture for our fairy garden.

Jaden and Cody were excellent helpers on the day of the party. Their first job was hanging up all the fairy pictures under Adley's homemade "Fairy Garden" sign.

Once the girls were finished, I took them into the living room to explain the party format. The girls were excited to see the 4 treasure boxes on the piano. I told them their job throughout the party was to collect keys that would open each of the boxes. I explained that they'd earn keys by completing 4 different activities.

The girls listened so intently and were very eager to begin. What a sweet bunch!

The girls' first activity was to use lily pads to cross the pond where they'd find keys awaiting them on fairy island.

Each of the girls easily collected her first key!

Each time the girls found a key, I let them all "twist" their keys in the lock before we'd open the treasure box together.

The first treasure box contained fairy wings! Each of the girls was so excited to recieve a set of wings and practice "flying" around the room. This led right into our second activity-- fairy action cards. Each girl drew a card out of the bag, and the whole group had to complete the action. The cards said things like "Leap onto 4 giant toadstools," "Spin around 8 times," or "Sprinkle fairy dust onto 3 people." The actions were extra fun to carry out while wearing fairy wings!

The girls earned another key for completing all these action cars and found a set of fairy wands in the next treasure box. The plain-colored wooden wands were just begging for some color, so the girls decorated their wands with stickers and glitter.

Our next activity was outside where I captured a cute shot of the newly winged fairies. Don't they look so cute?!

Activity #3 was a fairy scavenger hunt. While the girls were inside decorating their fairy wands, Jaden and Cody snuck outside to hide sets of pictures in the yard. Each girl had 6 images to find, all color-coded so no one would pick up another girl's picture. The images were all (you guessed it!) fairy-related, things like a wand, a toadstool, fairy slippers, or a fairy dress.

Some of the pictures were hidden in tricky places, so the girls ended up all helping each other at the end.

Finding their full set of pictures earned the girls another key! The key opened Treasure Box #3, which contained fairy candy (pastel M&Ms) and face paint. The girls happily munched on their candy while I painted (quite amateur) designs on their cheeks and while Grammy read Adley's Twinkle book.

My face paint designs were veeerrrry simple, but the girls were just thrilled! What a fun age this is!

The final activity was Catch the Gnome. The girls' objective was to tag all three gnomes (Jason, Cody, and Jaden) before the gnomes could set one another free.

The boys sure gave these fairies a workout! Eventually (after a pre-determined code word from Mom), all three gnomes were captured, and the girls got their final key.

Treasure Box #4 contained fairy houses! The girls went back to the craft table to paint their fairy (bird) houses.

After each treasure box was opened, Grammy and Papa helped add the keys to the girls' fairies in the fairy garden. 

 

Then, with all the activities completed, it was time for gift-opening,

pizza dinner,

and fairy cake!

We sure love our new 6 year old and enjoyed celebrating her! What a fabulous party with these great girls!