Fancy Nancy Party Ideas - Guest Blogger Lisa Kothari

Looking for an alternative party theme to princess for your daughter’s upcoming party?
Fancy Nancy is quickly becoming a popular birthday party theme for little girls. Here are the essential elements to bring this party theme together:

• Have everyone dress up as fancy as possible.
• Upon arrival to the party, have the guests make a fancy craft, like a feather pin or a felt purse with jewels attached with a glue gun. This can also be taken home as a goody!
• Have guests bring something fancy to “show & tell” during your fancy lunch.
• Coordinate a dress-up relay.
• Play Pin the Jewel on the Tiara.
• Give the guests mini-manicures.
• Serve fancy food and drinks. Tea sandwiches with fancy toothpicks, petit fours, and parfaits are perfect choices.
• In keeping with the posh puppy theme, make fancy dog collars.
• A favor of glitter, feather pens, fancy cookies, and fancy candy jewelry would be perfect. Guests can take these home in their felt pocketbooks.

If you have boys attending your party, add in prince ideas for the boys to enjoy themselves as well.  As examples, have them make crowns and swords.  Instead of a dress-up relay, have them enact a mock sword fight.  They can also make the dog collars, but don’t need to make them fancy.  For a party favor for the boys, send them home with a felt belt to place their sword in as they depart.

Have a perfectly fancy time!

--Lisa Kothari
Peppers and Pollywogs, Inc.
www.pepperspollywogs.com