Games and Activities

When the guests arrive, have a box full of play gems, jewelry, and fancy shoes for the children to adorn their fancy outfits with.

Make Castle Picture Frames. Have the kids glue Popsicle^® sticks to cardboard along with rhinestones, glitter, and sequins. This is a great craft item for the guests to take home.

Make Princess Hats:

Using solid color felt squares, fold them into the shapes of a cone for party hats. Invite the guests to create a Princess Hat. Provide them with assorted stick-on gems, confetti, and feathers to decorate their hats. At the top of the cones, attach a piece of pink tulle to hang down from the top of the hats. Staple elastic strings to the hats so the children can wear their hats during the party.

Read your favorite version of the tale Princess and the Pea and play several games that follow this special story:

• Hide a small bouncy ball and/or marble under a pillow. Have the guests sit on each pillow and try to determine which pillow has the pea underneath.
• Play Princess Pop the Pea. Blow up small green balloons and have a popping contest by either sitting or lying on the balloons.
• Make Pea Bracelets using small round green beads and ribbon.

Hold a Princess Dress Up Relay. Divide your guests into two teams and have them stand in relay style at one end of the room. At the other end of the room, have a large gown, wand, crown, tiara, and slippers laid out for each team. Give the signal, and the first team member races to the princess outfit, puts it on, runs back to the team, tags the next person in line, and races back, takes off the princess dress up items, and runs back to the team line. The rest of the players do the same. The first team done wins!

Hold a Chocolate Coin Treasure Hunt. Provide colorful cellophane bags to your guests and give them two minutes to hunt chocolate gold coins that you have hidden throughout the party area. The guests can take their chocolate coins home as part of their party favor.