I am having a Strawberry Shortcake party for my dd who will be 5 on May 22 (where did that time go?)! We are having 4 five yr olds, 1 four yr old, a 3 yr old and a 2 yr old at the party, that includes my 2. I am having the mom of the 2 yr old stay here, but the rest of the parents are dropping them off. The party is from 11:00-1:00, so i am trying to think of something cute for them to have for lunch. If I can't think of anything, i will just have a pizza. We went to a Disney Princess b-day party recently where the mom made magic wands usuing, sandwiches and cut them into star shapes and used a pretzel stick for stick. I want to do something like that, but am not creative.

Also, for the games i just plan to do musical chairs, duck duck goose, red light green light, this way i don't have to buy anything for the games. Any other ideas for that? TIA

By Cheerio on Tuesday, May 11, 2004 - 09:29 am:

I just had a Strawberry Shortcake party for my 3 year old daughter. I made PBJ with strawberry jam and used a big heart shaped cookie cutter to make sandwiches. They were really cute and very easy to do. Hi-C makes a strawberry drink that I served too. Since my party was mostly 3 year olds, I skipped serving real strawberries. We did rainbow fishies to be festive. They don't eat much at that age. The cake is the real meal! I recently went to a four year old birthday party that had some three year olds and some 5/6 year olds and musical chairs was a disaster. Everyone started crying when they got eliminated and the host quickly abandoned that game. Red light, green light and duck duck goose would be great. We also did pin the nose on the clown at our party. I was going to get creative and try and make a pin the stawberry on strawberry shortcakes hat game, but ran out of time and went with the premade clown! Good luck.

By Coopaveryben on Tuesday, May 11, 2004 - 09:21 pm:

For the invitations weave a basket out of paper strips and attached that to the card front, and then put small die-cut strawberries in the basket. Tie a red and white gingham bow onto the front of the basket and put a strawberry in the center of that with "You're invited" stamped on it.

As they arrive you can give them a straw hat (you should be able to find them really cheap this time of year), get some flowers and ribbon and have them decorate their party hat.

I have always found Pinata's a big hit for any age. I always put a masking tape line on the floor and tell them if they cross it they loose a turn, I don't blind fold them either...it is my experience that they have a hard enough time breaking it open without the blindfold.

You can get about six strawberry cups/baskets and make a small strawberry bean bag from red felt and line the baskets in row and have them see how far they can get, like Bozo's grand prize game.

Have them "go strawberry picking" get a bunch of red and green pom pom's put them in a bucket with a piece of cardbaord over top with a hole cut in it for their hand to get through. Have them reach their hands in and "pick" strawberies, if they get a green "leaf" they have to put it back in until they get out 10 red strawberries. This would be a lot of fun if you had container for each of them...make certain they can't see inside.

Make cetain no one is alergic to strawberries you can do tortilla's spread with strawberry cream cheese, roll and wrap in saran wrap over night then unwrap and cut to make spirals (saran wrapping it the night before will help them hold their place) and chocolate dipped strawberries. Whatever else you think they would like (I always order cheese pizza..you can't go wrong).

By Tink on Wednesday, May 12, 2004 - 10:52 am:

Chrissy, will you come do my kids' parties?...for the rest of their lives? What great ideas and all very easy (my favorite) I may steal a bunch of these ideas for my dds' party (7 and 3) this summer. Good luck with the party. Let me know what ideas you chose and how it goes.

By Kaye on Wednesday, May 12, 2004 - 11:05 am:

if you want to do a pin the tail game, find a strawberry shortcake poster and the decide what you want to pin on. For example we did nemo, pin the fin on nemo, so on the poster I colored in the fin we were aiming for with a sharpie and then cut several out of card stock. Very simple and they all loved it.

By Mommyathome on Wednesday, May 12, 2004 - 12:07 pm:

You could pin the strawberry on Strawberry Shortcakes hat. You know...that big one right in the front center.

Also, our bakery makes colored bread without crust. It would be cute to make PB&J sandwiches on pink bread!

I love Strawberry Shortcake!

By Bellajoe on Wednesday, May 12, 2004 - 03:42 pm:

Robin, i love that idea! Our grocery store has multi colored bread, i might do that. And cut it into heart shapes or something.

thanks for all the ideas.