CINDERELLA PARTY INVITATIONS
Send invitations 2-3 weeks before your party. Purchase matching
invitations or make your own with light blue card stock paper cut in 
a wand, carriage or tiara.  Or, roll your paper in a scroll and tie with 
a thin satin ribbon.
"The King wishes your  presence at  the Royal Birthday Celebration of  ______ !"
A sprinkle of glitter in the card or envelope adds flare.
Attach a princess sticker with the guests name  
to the envelope or outside of the scroll.

Personalize It
Include personalized invitations, stickers or party banners
for an extra special touch...
personalize your Cinderella items here at Birthday In a Box>>

CINDERELLA BIRTHDAY PARTY DECORATIONS
The  colors of choice are light blue, pink, lavender and white.
Cover the party table with a white or pink table cloth
(white sheets are our party favorite). Set with matching plates,
napkins etc. Fashion a feminine table runner , using light blue tulle fabric. Sprinkle blue, pink and silver sequins, candies or beads down the center. Use frosted cupcakes place in a cupcake stand, as your centerpiece.

Your daughter and her guests will feel like they've walked into a real fairy tale when you create a palace party area. Place plenty of balloons and streamers, anywhere that strike your fancy. Drape the birthday girl's chair with fabric and tie a ribbon around it. If you are particularly artistic....
You may even want to paint palace scenes on butcher paper and mount them all the wall.

Advanced Decorations:
Use a large appliance box to create a castle that the children can color.
Before the party cut a door and windows. Spray paint the box or cover it with butcher paper. Provide crayons and markers for coloring.
This will not only add to the decorations, but also provides a party activity. Tip - Enlist a teenage artist for this job. One creative mom, fashioned towers out of smaller boxes and super-glued them to the top of the castle...very fancy!

CINDERELLA PARTY GAMES & ACTIVITIES
Several ideas are a natural for this popular theme. We've provide enough
for you to choose according to your time frame and party space.

The Princess Party Begins...
Dress your birthday princess up before the party, with a Cinderella tiara and jewelry. Announce the guests upon arrival and escort them to the royal preparation table, where they will receive a small amount of lipstick, blush and eye shadow. If you have not already suggested the girls wear their favorite dress-up dress...provide a box of special dress up clothes and a mirror.

Princess Face Painting
Purchase standard face paint or make your own:
1 tsp. cornstarch
1/2 tsp. water
1/2 tsp. cold cream
2 drops food coloring
In a small mixing bowl, combine all ingredients, mix well.

Images to paint for this theme are: roses, tiaras, glass slippers, twinkling diamonds or stars, castles and hearts. We use a very fine dusting glitter
to make every picture sparkle. You can find this in crafts stores or in the cosmetic department. Some children don't want a picture but may
want to have sparkling cheeks, Use Aloe Vera gel and the glitter applied with a Q-tip. Click here for sample images

Cinderella's Glass Slipper Game
Before the party design a "glass slipper" , using silver spray paint, or glue and glitter, on a high heeled shoe. You will also need an old shoe for game time. Position the girls into a circle. Pass the shoe around the circle while music is playing. Ring a bell to signal the stroke of midnight. The player holding the slipper when the bell rings, receives the old shoe to hold, while sitting in the middle. She is then in charge of the bell ringing for the next round. At the end of the game every player receives a Disney Princess prize; necklace, ring, Disney Princesses fruit snacks etc.

Cinderella is missing her favorite things!
Place several items on a tray or cookie sheet.
Try to find items that work with the theme.
Tiara, lipstick, Wand or royal scepter, silver spoon jewelry, handkerchief etc. One player leaves the room. Remove one or two items from the tray. When the player returns they must guess what's missing. 
Repeat until every child has a turn.

The Messy Stepsisters
Poor Cinderella, her sisters always make her clean up after their mess.
The object of this game is to be the first team to clean up the mess.
To play, divide the girls into two groups. You'll need clothing, shoes, plastic necklaces, hairbrushes etc. and a basket for each team. Establish a start and finish line. Then, scatter the items in a row along the ground from the start to finish line. When you say "go" the first player on the team will quickly gather one item into her basket, run to the finish line, return to her team and pass the basket to the next player. That player runs and gathers another item. this continues until all of the players have had a turn and the mess is picked up. 

The Stroke of Midnight
Oh no! - The fairy Godmother has lost her magic wand!
Before the party hide toy wands in the party area. 
The object of the game is to find a wand before the clock strikes twelve. Give the girls an appropriate amount of time to find a wand and then begin striking a bell twelve times.

Cinderella's Ball
It wouldn't be a Cinderella party without a royal ball!
Play classical music or the soundtrack from Cinderella while the girls dance. When the girls here the clock chime (bell), they must freeze.

Princess Puzzler
Before the party, print out Disney Princesses pictures from the Internet,
or use a coloring book. Attach each picture onto some construction paper with a glue stick. Cut the pictures into 2, 3, or 4 puzzle pieces. Hide the
pieces around the party area. The girls each need to find one puzzle piece and then find the the players with the matching piece/s.

Who Am I
Before the party, write the names of Cinderella characters on several 3x5 cards; stepmother, step sisters, prince, fairy godmother... 
To play, tape the cards onto the girls backs, so that they cannot see their own character. The object of the game is to identify who is on your back, by asking yes/no questions of the other players.
Example:
Am I a girl ? Boy?  Am I nice?
Do I have magical powers?

CINDERELLA  PARTY CRAFTS

Princess's Jewels
Bead jewelry with string and plastic beads to make necklaces or bracelets.

Make your own Tiara
Purchase paper tiara's (party store), glitter glue, and stick-on jewels.
Cover your work space and allow the little princess's to create their own tiara to wear and take home. Using stickers and/or glue dots when decorating cuts down on drying time, which allows your princesses to wear their new tiaras during the party.

Glitter Frame
Decorate Craft foam picture frames (craft store) with glitter glue and stick on jewels. Use a Polaroid camera to take pictures when the girls are all dressed up and wearing their tiaras. Each girl will have their own 
picture and frame to take home. 

Stardust Clay 
Make your own play dough.
Provide each child with a ball of dough and some fine glitter (craft store). The children will work the glitter into the dough. Package each of the guests dough into a Zip -loc bag to be taken home as a party favor.

CINDERELLA PARTY FAVORS

Fill a pink paper bag, or plastic dress-up shoe, with Cinderella party favors fit for royalty; glitter balls, stickers, Disney Princess fruit snacks, nail polish plastic jewelry, miniature Cinderella book, "Stick-on earrings", paper dolls...
Complete Cinderella party favor sets can be found at Birthday in a Box >>

CINDERELLA BIRTHDAY CAKES
Cinderella Cake
This princess was made with a 2 quart Pyrex glass bowl and an inexpensive craft doll pick. Wilton makes a doll cake decorating kits which will include a mold, doll pick and instructions.

The top of her dress was created with frosting and a decorating tip.
To make Cinderella, frost with blue frosting. Don't forget to fix her hair
and add a tiara!
Kit's tip: Although I don't have an image, I've made this same cake using white frosting. Then I used a food color spray to create a blue dress.

Easy Cinderella Cake

Make, or order a sheet cake with roses and add a plastic tiara and wand,
or Cinderella figurines.


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