Tea Party Guide: Freebies & Fun

The party guide helps plan a themed Tea event with ideas, tips in the food departments, creative crafts, and clever conversation chats, menus, recipes, cookies, cakes and food labels. Free printable games, puzzles, place name cards and coloring pages.

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Tea Event Music

What music is suitable for a tea party? Celebrating a special event with outstanding performances that include singing, dancing and acting is a great way to keep the guests involved in the celebration. These fun activities are perfect for guests of all ages and will add a great deal to the celebration. More often than not, these performances will be the perfect addition to a fun filled and exciting event. A tea party is a classy, sophisticated affair so choose classic songs and classic compositions from Beethoven, Bach, Mozart and Shubert. Why play the entire collections of these great composers when you can choose a select group of songs? A few selected songs from a variety of composers will do the trick. Some albums to consider for a tea party include:

25 Bach Favorites
25 Mozart Favorites
25 Beethoven Favorites
Schubert: Greatest Hits
(Popular works)
Pachelbel Canon In D
Bach Air On The G String
Arnaud Bugler's Dream
Beethoven Minuet In G & F�r Elise
Bach Minuet In G
Mozart Eine Kleine Nachtmusik: Allegro
Vivaldi Four Seasons: Spring
Handel Water Music: Alla Hornpipe
Boccherini Minuet
Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 3: I

Ensure the tea party music is not so powerful or scary but subtle and relaxing. A tea party is a great way for little girls to get together, have a fun time, put on pretty dresses, hats and party supplies (no boys of course). There are many classic songs to choose from to ensure quality music is played all throughout the party. Game idea: take a clear container, then fill with candy, toys or other objects and have the guests guess the number of items inside. Photos provide such lasting memories; take time to designate someone as the photographer at a social occasion. Gather up some leftover brown packing boxes, wrap them in a matching theme color design and place them throughout the event space for instant decorations.

Homemade Tea Party Supplies

A Tea party is ideal for homemade party supplies such as tablecloths, napkins and placemats. Your young lady and her friends will enjoy a Tea party complete with a variety of party goods such as miniature tea cups, dolls, miniature saucers and miniature teapots. Other homemade supplies such as hair bows, tiaras and handmade fancy dances also can add to this event.

Most hosts will find that fun and exciting activities will be a great addition to this fun filled celebration. More often than not fun activities in which everyone can play and participate along with decorative supplies will liven up the event and make it very special. For this reason, planning and organization will be very beneficial for the host and these extra steps will make a homemade Tea party very special. From the actual tea party supplies to additional party goods such as teapots, tea cups, streamers and balloons to handmade hair bows, dresses and tiaras the party can be very special. Research finds that party supplies for a tea party vary from those of a traditional children�s party.

Most often, handmade party supplies for a Tea party will include stuffed animals, handmade costume jewelry and hair bows, along with party supplies such as tea pots, cups, and beautiful centerpieces. Many of the girls at a Tea party will enjoy dressing up in homemade costumes. Therefore, personalized party supplies such as banners, signs and garden flags, along with other party goods such as paper plates, cups, napkins, noise makers and hats will make the party extra special.

Cakes for Tea

Tea parties are special times in the lives of little girls and therefore the perfect cake for this party would be a photo cake. This exciting and fun event is the ideal time for a variety of creative desserts and other tasty treats designed especially for this celebration. These items are always a great addition to a celebration and most often the addition of enjoyable fares that are designed especially for this gathering will make everyone feel very special. This tea party birthday cake will be exclusively designed for your own little girl and is very simple to make. A tea party photo cake is designed with your own daughter�s picture and is perfect for birthdays and other special occasions.

This unique tea party birthday cake can be made two different ways. First of all, using a regular photo and place it in the middle of the sheet cake after putting the icing on the cake. This decorates the cake and gives it a personalized touch. However, some people are starting to make their own photo cakes by using rice paper and edible ink to create photo cakes with a special laser printer. Regardless of which option is chosen, your photocake will be a very special addition to the tea party.

Most often, the party supplies and cakes that are chosen for the tea party are not nearly as special as the dresses and hair bows worn by the guests. These dresses and hair bows will be very colorful and along with the cake and party supplies, will add a great deal to the party.

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Most people do not think of tea as a health food, but the facts shows us differently. Throughout history, tea has been recommended for many types of ailments, but it has only been in recent years that the general medical population has recognized the true benefits of tea. In fact its a great drink to serve at that next Red Hat party. Various wines have also seen some health benefits. Many of these benefits relate to Chinese Green Tea and red wines, many medical doctors feel that any type of tea affords the same health and antioxidant benefits as those found in green tea.

For decades, our ancestors have schooled us on the advantages of drinking tea. One of the most common home remedies for colds in yesteryear was that of the hot totti, which consisted of hot tea, lemon, honey, and a swig of spirits (whiskey, brandy, scotch). The patient then went to bed and huddled under the covers to sweat the cold out of their body. Sadly, today it is illegal to use this remedy on children because of its alcohol content though many cold medicines indeed contain alcohol. Another useful home remedy for tea is drinking hot tea with honey and lemon for a sore throat � the lemon is optional; it is the honey that is important. The combination of the tea with the honey has a soothing effect on the sore throat, allowing it to heal without prescription or over the counter medications.

Green tea has been praised for its antioxidant qualities, and many people resort to drinking these Chinese herbal teas as soon as cold weather begins to show its ugly face in order to build up their immune system, and thus prevent many of winter�s viral and bacterial infections. Though some medical professionals believe that all of the teas have these same qualities, only the green teas have a history that connects their consumption to a decrease in illness as the result of a boost to the immune system. These healthy drinks along with cute supplies are always a great addition to a celebration and fun posters that include designs and greetings that are perfect for the celebration will liven up the event and make everyone feel very special. More often than not, these signs and posters will add a lot of fun to the celebrated get together.

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Tea History, Facts and Educational Resources

Add an educational twist to any birthday party, holiday celebration, or theme party. Share the history of the Tea theme to the guests. Play some free printable educational party games. Shhh don't tell the kids that they are learning!

Tea History & Facts

What little girl does not dream of having their own little tea party at one point or another? There are still adult women out there that enjoy having a tea party. So what little girl would turn their nose up at having a sleep over or other social get together that could start out as their very own tea party. History shows us that tea parties were an everyday occurrence in the early 1900s. Something that the women often look to as their one outing for the day. The young women will love the opportunity to get up, get all dressed up to attend a tea party, whether this is for a birthday party or just an afternoon lunch away from home. When you send out the invitations you may also include that they accompany their moms and that there will be two events in the home, one for the young women and a tea group meeting for the moms as well.

Most people are amazed at the history behind many celebrations and how music from the past and present will add to the event. Like other get togethers this small addition will add a great deal to the celebration. For this reason,guests of the party will find this celebration to be a lot of fun and very special. Tea parties can go from calm afternoon tea with sandwiches to dinner tea with other after dinner events and could transition into a family game night or girls slumber party filled with pretty nails, makeup and fun hairdos. Regardless of what your little lady is into, having a tea party is a great way celebrate a mile stone birthday, celebrating some other event or just a reason to get the girls together (yes the moms included) for an afternoon or evening of good times and friendly gossip among the ladies. Decorations help transform a room into something more for that special day so look forward to learning some exciting and creative ideas. If you specify the type of clothing for a social event like summer causal, give a few examples of what is acceptable and more importantly what isn't. Decorations help transform a room into something more for that special day so look forward to learning some exciting and creative ideas. The history of Tea has different interpretations by each person, so use your own judgement. Share these facts with friends at a celebration.

Educational Tea Resources

The Party Supplies Hut has more free elementary educational teacher resources for Tea to use in the classroom for active learning to create lesson plans with trivia questions, games and fun activities.

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