Some days entertaining your children is the easiest thing in the world – other days it seems that climbing everest would be easier. However, with careful planning and a list of children tea party ideas, you can have a few constructive afternoons at home, with other children and without taking out every toy your child has ever possessed!!!
If you want to be able to invite your childrens friends around without a major crisis the day before it is worth spending a bit of time collating children tea party ideas. Below is a step by step guide to managing your children tea party ideas.
First you need a book to keep all your children tea part ideas in. This should be a hard back book, kept somewhere where it is easy to access and near to hand when you have an idea. Always start a new page with each idea, and only write on the right hand side of the book. The left hand side of the book is for comments after you have used them, for example if the idea on the right hand side was biscuit decorations then the comment on the left may be ‘never use hundreds and thousands – they get everywhere!’ You need to keep your book updated with both ideas and comments, don’t rely on your memory.
Secondly you will need a box or draw specifically allocated to your ideas. This is going to contain certain staples which you will always need to have. It is important not too run out of things! The best time to stock up is just after you have done an activity, firstly you will have just realized how easy the world can be when you are organized, and secondly it means that there will be not time pressure on getting more supplies.
Inside your drawer or box you will need a list of the supplies for your children tea party ideas. Remember you are not going to be keeping everything you need in this place; flour will still be in the kitchen; but bits that make the children tea party ideas special like, pipecleaners, coloured straws, glitter, coloured card.
First entries into your children tea party ideas book should be simple. Try a shortbread biscuit recipe to start. Making the biscuits should only be a short part of the activity, the main activity should be rolling, cutting and decorating. Write the recipe for the biscuits in the children tea party ideas book and add to the list in the drawer/box the bits and pieces you need; a light rolling pin (you can use a Playdo one for this), food colouring, biscuit cutters, decorations to stick on the biscuits.
You will need a reliable sticking activity for your children tea party ideas book aswell. Try this one, it is really simple and great fun. Draw circles on some stiff card (about the size of a large mug), cut from the edge of the circle to the centre, make a cone shape and secure it with sticky tape. Cut the end off the cone to create a hole about the size of a straw. Push the short section of a bendy straw through the hole and secure it at the opening with poster putty. Bend your straw so it is at right angles and cut about half the long section of the straw off. Using a bit of kitchen foil make a small ball (about the size of a cherry) which can be placed in the cone. Decorate the cone and then see who has the most puff and can blow the ball out of the cone! Put this description in the children tea party ideas book and add the paper, straws, foil to the list in the drawer/box.
Now you have one biscuit and one sticking activity for the children tea party ideas book and a very small out lay! Keep building your ideas and then you will have successful tea parties and in turn your children will be invited to their friends house and you will get time out!
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