Tea Party

We had two girl scout meetings covering a tea party.  At the first meeting we made party hats, out of old paper grocer bags.  The idea behind this was “use resources Wisely.” 

Take a paper grocery bag, turn it in-side Out, carefully not to rip it.  Then you roll up the bottom (roll out, not under) about half way up.  Make the rolled part look like a brim.  We spray painted the bags pink, and then sprayed with hair glitter.  We did all the hats the same, to avoid arguments.  We even made some for ourselves.  My co-leader (Jessica)’s mom (Linda) made some bows for the hats out of ribbon.  Sorry, but I don’t know how to make the bows.  We got some fake flowers at Good Will, Feathers from the craft store, and some decorative sequence.  The girls got to tie a ribbon around the brim, and choose the bow, flowers, and feathers.  They glued on their choices with tacky glue.  We only had 2 bottles of glue, and in retrospect I would get more bottles of glue, and some kind of glue that bonded more quickly.  The girls got frustrated trying to hold their bows and flowers onto the hats.

At the next meeting was the tea party.  The girls, and me and Jessica, came dressed in fancy clothes.  We wore the hats.  We covered the table with cloth table clothes.  I had bought a few different tea sets at Goodwill, on half price day, for 25 cents a piece.  They were really nice.  Some of the mothers thought that I had brought in my own china!  I Don’t Own China!!!  We had little plastic side plates (like paper plates, only clear plastic).  All the cups had saucers. 

We made sweet tea, peanut butter and Jelly finger sandwiches.   (crust removed, cut in to quarter triangles).  Jessica had made heart shaped, decorated sugar cookies for the girls. They were so cute.  We also got cream puffs from Sam’s Club.  In addition to the sweet tea we served fruit punch, and Sunny D.

All the girls seemed to have a great time!  We taught them about etiquette, and the reasons we want to have good manners, and etiquette.  I don’t think anything sunk in.

The book I referenced was from An American Girl Library.  Oops!  A girl’s guide to manners. 

http://www.amazon.com/Manners-Guide-Girls-American-Library/dp/0439455189/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1291062167&sr=8-2

The book was really neat, and had a lot of useful information in it.  Including what to do if you aren’t invited to a party, or what to do when meeting someone for the first time. 

The girls enjoyed the party, and I think they also enjoyed being waited on.  It was a huge success, and who knows, maybe someday they will all act like ladies!!