Tips in Hosting a Tea Party
October 20, 2010
One of the best ways to catch up with friends and loved ones is to hold a tea party. This way, all of you can have a lovely time enjoying tea and light snacks while exchanging stories at the same time. Now, hosting a tea party is not that difficult a thing to do. In fact, it is very easy. However, if this is the first time that you are going to host a tea party, then here are some simple tips that you can learn from.
First, depending upon the number of guests, you can either arrange a table for serving or arrange a table both for serving as well as for eating. If you chose the former, your guests will have to option to mingle about while they are served their teas, and if you chose the latter, your guests will be comfortably seated while the tea is served.
Another way to make it easy for you to host a tea party is that you should have everything you will need for the tea party on hand, and all the items should be positioned neatly at one end of the table where you will be serving the tea from. These items include not only the teapot and teaspoons as well as the teacups and their saucers, but it should also include the usual tea condiments like milk, sugar, and lemon. You should also include a pitcher that contains hot water for those who want to dilute their teas.
Your light snacks such as cookies and muffins or slices of cake and scones should be placed in the middle of the table. This way, your guests will have easy access to the refreshments. It would also be nice to include tea sandwiches in your refreshment selection to give your guest a number of light snacks to choose from.
Lastly, be sure to ask them what they prefer before preparing and serving your guests their teas. Would they want sugar with their tea? Or milk? Or lemon? If they chose lemon and sugar, you must remember to always add sugar before you add in the lemon so as to easily dissolve the sugar.
It is not unusual to serve two types of teas in a tea party, and you can place each of the tea sets on both ends of the serving table. However, it would be impossible for you to serve both types of teas to your guests at the same time. For this reason, you would need the help of one of your friends in serving the other type of tea. Be sure to ask them in advance though if they are willing to serve the other tea, and not spring the request on them on the day of the tea party itself.
I need ideas for throwing a tea party for 7 year old?
August 30, 2010
decorations
recipes
tea party ideas
games
dress up?
need a lot of differnet recipes.
thankyou.
With my daughter and her friends we’ve done this:
creating your own party hats/crowns/purses
arriving in dress up or doing a dress up party there
We had the girls dress EACH OTHER up, and we adults did makeup/hair/curls
Shrinky Dinks (no kidding!)
Large poster size coloring activity
Decorations–wands, glitter, frogs (for princes!), tulle (fabric shop), cheap velvet (clearance-fabric store) to cover the tables, chairs or make a ‘red’ carpet. Fake flowers (dollar store) for hot glueing on white party hats (adult help required!!), or for the table, white gloves, pearls, etc–dollar store.
Food: cream cheese and jelly sandwiches–use cookie cutters to cut out shapes, tea–cranberry juice and sprite, chocolate mini cupcakes with hershey kisses inside sprinkled with fairy dust (powdered sugar), angel food cake with strawberries, we did fondue one time-angel food cake, brownies, fruit. More substantial–rollups: cream cheese, tortillas, ham, cheese. Roll up, chill to firm, slice into rounds.
The Fruits Name Game in Tea Party
May 20, 2010
For a tea Party the game must be simple and easy, requiring no big space. Keeping in mind the interest of young people, try out the following game and have a success party.
The next game smacked of the familiar “Donkey and His Tail” of earlier childhood parties, but was quite a grown-up version. On the wall Helen had taped a map of the United States. Then each guest was given an American Flag sticker on which she put her own initials.
The girls then took turns being blindfolded and trying to stick their flags on Washington, D. C. The one whose flag landed nearest its goal received a sack of candied cherries as a prize. A “Cherry Race” was next in order. The guests were divided into two groups and assembled in two lines. The first in each line was given three large cherries. At a given signal each leader started across the room balancing the three cherries on the back of his left hand. If a cherry or two rolled off, the contestant had to pick them up unassisted and continue. When the leader reached the other side of the room he returned to his original place and gave the cherries to the next in line to continue the race. The team finishing first won the relay.
For the next game Helen used folding chairs because they were portable. The girls paired off in couples. All the couples but one seated themselves in a group. The remaining couple became George and Martha Washington. Each of the other couples secretly decided on a fruit to be their name. George and Martha wandered around the room calling out the names of various fruits such as cherries, apples, and pears. If a couple’s fruit name was called they left their chairs and followed after George and Martha. If George or Martha called out, “The fruit trees are all in bloom,” everyone left his seat and followed the Washington. When George called, “The fruit is all ripe,” everyone dashed for a chair. The two not getting chairs became George and Martha for the next try.
After this bit of riotous exercise a quieter game was welcome. Helen put a large glass bowl in the center of a card table. She placed nearby a bunch of cotton balls which she claimed were white cherries. Each girl in turn was then blindfolded, turned around three times and given a wooden spoon. The object was to spoon the white cherries into the glass bowl. (Try it sometime. You’ll have a surprise.) Because the cherries have no weight it is impossible to tell whether the spoon is empty or full, and not being able to see the bowl makes this game a real effort for the contestant, but very, very funny for the sidelines.
Place cards of paper hatchets proudly sporting bright red bows around a small cherry tree centerpiece similar to the larger one that started off the party made a gay refreshment table.
Generous slices of cherry pie topped with ice cream in hatchet mold brought the happy party to a close. The guests really enjoyed the Washington Tea Party.
Mitch Johnson
http://www.articlesbase.com/art-and-entertainment-articles/the-fruits-name-game-in-tea-party-53946.html
American Boston Tea Party Event
May 20, 2010
There are some events that took place during the historic time when America was declaring its independence from England that are so historic, so iconic that they have taken on the status of myth and legend as much as history. And certainly the Boston Tea Party fits that description. This is such a stand out event in American history that it is common to see school children reenact it during elementary school plays or skits. And the participants names including John Hancock, Paul Revere and John Adams have similarly become classic heroic figures in American folklore and history.
But the events of December 16, 1776 were not fable or myth but real and important parts of the development of the American Revolution that was crucial to the early foundation of this country. The situation of taxation that was being imposed by Brittan on goods that were coming into the colonies was one of serious stress on the colonists because they had no control over those taxes. And that tax situation was made more extreme with the relationship between the British government and the East India Tea company who was receiving tax breaks for their goods that would place them at a competitive advantage in the Americas.
These kinds of preferential treatment only aggravated the already tense relationship between the colonies and Britain and many in leadership over the American states saw the way England was handling the situation as conspiratorial to try to hurt the economy of the growing new country and to impose restrictive rule through taxation on the colonies and the colonists. That is why that famous proclamation “No Taxation Without Representation” became one that is historic for the outrage against the English that took the colonies into revolutionary war that eventually lead to the independence of the American colonies and the beginning of a new country.
Finally on Thursday, December 16, 1776, decisive action needed to be taken. And our forefathers were nothing if not known for bold and decisive action in the fact of tyranny. The East India Tea Company had docked the HMS Dartmouth in Boston harbor full of a fresh import of tea for the colonies. It was time for the colonists to make a statement that this unethical and immoral use of taxes on tea was for all intents and purposes an act of war and they were going to treat it as such.
Badly disguised as Indians, the brave colonists boarded the HMS Dartmouth and her sister ships, the HMS Beaver and the HMS Eleanor and skillfully and efficiently dumped the entire delivery of tea into Boston harbor. All totaled, over forty five tons of tea went into the water that night. It was a stunning blow. But more than that it was a slap in the face of the British government and a gauntlet laid down that their attempts to rule the colonies b tyranny were not going to be tolerated any longer.
This event was pivotal in pushing the hostilities between England and the colonies past the “nuisance” stage and setting forces in motion for war. But more than that, it was such a bold statement of defiance that many colonists were inspired to join the increasing chorus calling for war and independence.
For loyal Britains, the idea of separating and forming their own country was hard to grasp. But the leadership of the men who planned and executed the Boston Tea Party demonstrated a new independent spirit. This was the kind of backbone, the sense of pride and independence that was to come to define the American spirit in years ahead. But it took the courage and boldness of this little band of men to demonstrate that being trod on by a foreign tyrant was not something we had to put up with.
It made a statement to England and to the colonists at the same time that revolution was possible and they really could think of themselves as free people who would bow to no king. From that time forward the independence of America was inevitable. These visionary leaders showed us an America that gave power to its people, not to kings or governments and the result in how America works and our lives are lived is the direct outcome of bold protests such as the Boston Tea Party.
Jennifer Seaton
http://www.articlesbase.com/tea-articles/american-boston-tea-party-event-671251.html
The Perfect Princess Tea Party – 7 Simple Steps
January 2, 2010
Can you think of anything more feminine, more lovely, more “girly” than a group of young girls… all dressed in their princess finery sitting down to a decked out tea table with royal dainties? Girls across the globe love dress up and love tea…so why not combine the two and make the perfect event for your girls – a Princess Tea Party!
Here are 7 easy steps toward making the perfect memory for your little princess:
1. Set a date: Keep in mind the ages of your little ones and set the time when they won’t be too tired, too hungry or too cranky! The “official” teatime is late afternoon, but that doesn’t mean you can’t have a wonderful teatime in the morning as well.
2. Invite: The fun begins. Being a princess requires invitations of the most royal kind. Lovely linen paper is easy to find at your local craft or office supply store. Run it through your home printer with a fancy font and you’re done. Send the invitations out about 2-3 weeks before your tea so your guests can plan accordingly.
3. Decorate: Let your princess help with this part … after all, it is HER event. Royal colors include purple, gold, pink and silver and aren’t those the favorites of girls anyway? Balloons, streamers and more balloons! We’ll talk about the tea table in a minute.
4. Make the food: Traditional tea fare includes scones and clotted cream. Other royal tea treats are chocolate covered strawberries, thumbprint cookies, cucumber sandwiches (or substitute the ever popular PB&J sandwich for younger ones) and miniature teacakes. More details on tea party food can be found on our website at http://www.funevents4girls.com.
5. Set the table: Go all out here. Use a lovely tablecloth, cloth napkins and real teacups not plastic. Not only will this be fun for your little ones, but it’ll be a great lesson in etiquette as well as they learn to put on their finest manners for your tea.
6. Plan some games: Great princess games abound but keep it simple. Hide some gold-foiled covered coins around the house and have a hunt to return the royal treasure. Use a lovely glass bowl as the treasure chest. Spread your gold and silver balloons all over the “ballroom” floor and play classical music for a royal ball with much dancing.
7. Enjoy the day: Most of all make it fun. Take many pictures and record the memories. Your little princess will go to bed that night smiling from ear to ear with the joy of the day!
Annette Yen
http://www.articlesbase.com/careers-articles/the-perfect-princess-tea-party-7-simple-steps-46719.html
