Alice in Wonderland Birthday Party | Alice in Wonderland Party Supplies

You can have great fun creating invitations for your Alice party. Although there are plenty of Alice in Wonderland invitations available to buy, you can have far more fun making your own!

* TEACUP INVITATIONS *

If your party is going to centre around the mad tea party, create invitations in the shape of a teacup or teapot!

These can be a single teacup or teapot, or make a double one that will fold in half. You can get craft templates and stencils in these shapes to help you, such as this sweet little teapot brass stencil:

Brass 4x6 Embossing Template:
Tea

Colour in or paint the teacups and pots, and decorate with stick-on gems, paper flowers or brads. Inside, write something tea party-themed, such as:

"Don't be late, but DO be mad... you are cordially invited to attend a Mad Tea Party at..."

"The White Rabbit hereby invites you to follow him down the rabbit hole and attend the Mad Hatter's Tea Party..."

"Time for tea! (Child's name) is having a Mad Tea Party at..."

You can find more teapot and teacup templates on eBay:

* WHITE RABBIT OR POCKET WATCH INVITATIONS *

Alternatively, make invitations in the shape of a rabbit head or pocket watch, or draw/print these on a square piece of card. For this theme, the wording should be along the lines of:

"Don't be late for a very important date!"

* PLAYING CARD INVITATIONS *

Create invites in the shape or design of a playing card (ideally the Queen of Hearts!)

* QUEEN OF HEARTS INVITATIONS *

Create cards in envelopes or even fancy scroll invitations, with a declaration from the Queen such as:

"You are cordially invited to play croquet with the Queen of Hearts. Don't be late and bring some tarts!"

Alternatively, you can buy some superb ready-made Alice invitations from sources such as eBay:

You don't have to use official party supplies to throw an Alice party. Have fun putting together lots of cool decorations and using what is available in creative and interesting ways.

The best way to theme an Alice party is to recreate the Mad Hatter's Tea Party. Ideally, if it is a summer party, hold it in the garden. But if this is not possible, create an outdoors feel inside with potted plants, fake trees, mad paper flowers and birds, and so on.

The centerpiece of your party should therefore be the table. More on that in the next section! Meanwhile, surround the table with the following:

BALLOONS, STREAMERS & OTHER HANGING DECORATIONS

Either go for black and red, in the spirit of the playing cards and Queen of Hearts, or blue and white, to match Alice. Or you could go for a Mad Hatter colour scheme, or purple and yellow stripes like the animated Cheshire Cat!



Or even better, go for the playing card suites with these incredible heart, spade, diamond and club shaped mylar balloons!



Hang paper lanterns over the table, or if outside, string them amidst trees and bushes, along with fairy lights! You can even get flamingo ones:

Pink Flamingo Fun Party String Lights
(SJ)

MAKE SIGNS AND SHAPES TO DECORATE

Cut out card clocks (or use real ones if you have enough!) that are stopped at tea time

Collectible Alice In Wonderland Alarm Clock

Have lots of signs dotted about that say "this way!" "that way" "up" "down" and so on

Cut out rabbit paw prints and have them lead the way to the table

Cut out a Cheshire Cat grin, paint it with luminous paint and partially hide it in a tree, bush or in a pot plant indoors

RED AND WHITE ROSES

Have lots of roses! These can be in the form of real rose bushes, or cut roses in vases, or even paper roses painted red and white

FLAMINGOS

Have a few flamingos dotted around! What, you don't know where to find a flamingo? Well you can get them here!

Garden Plast Pink Flamingos , 2-Pack

Sculptural Gardens by Heritage Farms Pink Flamingo Pair, Lawn Ornament

set of 6 whirlygig whirly gig Pink Flamingos spinning Twirling lawn ornament art YARD art STAKES whirling whirly bird spinner wings

To recreate the tea party guests from the Mad Hatter's Tea Party, you'll need a dormouse, the Mad Hatter, Alice and the March Hare, or the White Rabbit if you prefer. You can also add a Cheshire Cat - perhaps hide him in the overhanging branch of a tree if you're outside, or perched somewhere near the table indoors.

If your party is fancy dress, then Alice and the Hatter are easily taken care of. For the rest of the gang, and for mini Hatters and Alices, these plushies are ideal! Put the dormouse in a teapot, and stuff Alice into a dollhouse, to represent shrunken Alice!

Ideally, you will need a long table for your Mad Tea Party. Cover with a suitably mad table cover, and then have FUN stacking the table high with crockery and chintz! just be careful that nothing will topple over and injure any little ones. Think mismatched cups, saucers, teapots and more.

Giant Teacup ceramic Pink Planter TRV3B

Baum #TRV3A Giant Tea Blue Planter

Yedi Houseware Classic Coffee and Tea Dancing Fairies Tea For One

Yedi Houseware Classic Coffee and Tea Butterfly Espresso Cups and Saucers, Gold, Set of 6

Yedi Houseware Classic Coffee and Tea Polka Dot Espresso Cups and Saucers, Set of 6

Yedi Houseware Classic Coffee and Tea Polka Dot Teacups and Saucers, Set of 6

Have odd chairs for your guests - different heights and shapes and sizes are perfect. You can use playing cards for place name holders or miniature teacups. Decorate the table with Alice in Wonderland playing cards or have them set out for guests to play with!

Alice In Wonderland Playing Cards
Red Back Deck

Alice In Wonderland Playing Cards
Blue Back Deck

Alice in Wonderland "Double Deck" Playing Card Set

Gibsons
Pepys Alice in Wonderland Cards

Alice in Wonderland Pack of 20 Parchment Gift Tags

Finally, for the most ADORABLE table decor, how about something like this?



You can find the most beautiful felt fancies below, perfect for scattering about your party table, popping in teacups, pinning to cushions or hanging from ribbons and mobiles! (You could also use these designs as inspiration for your tea party cupcakes and cookies!)

Improvise with Alice-themed ideas when creating a table centerpiece. Just because you can't get an official Alice in Wonderland version, it doesn't mean you can't come up with something absolutely ideal!

You'll see what I mean right here - isn't this playing card centerpiece just PERFECT?

Card Night Centerpiece, Mini Foil W/Prt Base W/Att
(6pks Case)

Tea For You! Centerpiece Standup 3-D
(6pks Case)

Or how about this gorgeous tea time cardboard centerpiece? Again, totally tea party perfect!

You can also use an Alice figurine if you have one, or simply present a tier of "Eat Me!" cupcakes (see food section below) in the middle of the table. Or how about a Cheshire Cat or other Alice-themed pinata?

What is a tea party without cupcakes? Pile 'em high, stack them on pretty china plates, pop them on a tiered cake stand or cupcake stand (makes a great centerpiece!), bundle them in baskets or even put them in large teacups!

* For the BEST Alice in Wonderland cupcakes, make plain or chocolate cupcakes and top with coloured icing (you can make icing from icing sugar, butter and salt and colour to your preference with some drops of food colouring, or use ready-to-roll fondant icing). Write "EAT ME" on the cupcakes in different styles and colours. Dr. Oetker Icing Writing Tubes are ideal for this, or if you are making large cupcakes you can mould the words out of fondant icing or modelling chocolate!

You can also make mushroom or toadstool cupcakes. Bake 18 plain cupcakes and make red icing from 13oz icing sugar, 8oz unsalted butter and a pinch of salt. Cream until smooth and mix in a few drops of red food colouring until you get a good red colour. Spoon the icing onto your cupcakes and cut out white circles from white ready-to-roll fondant icing. Pop them on to the red icing to make a toadstool!

You can also get creative by putting teacups, teapots, playing cards, chessboards, bread and butterflies and more on top of your cupcakes!

For more inspiration...

From a game of flamingo croquet on the lawn, to giant chess, and everything in between (and upside down), here is my ultimate Alice party game guide!



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Make up Alice in Wonderland party loot bags for your guests to take home at the end of the party. There are lots of ideas for things to put in the bags as favors - here are just a few of them!

FABULOUSLY UNUSUAL ALICE PARTY FAVORS

Your party will be the talk of the town if your party bags are stuffed with these incredible and unique gifts!


Off With Her Head Lip Balm - Berry, The Red Queen Lip Balm - Blood Orange


Red Queen Heart Ring, Red Queen Key Chain

Red Queen Key Cap, Mad Hatter Earrings (6 pair) - give as one gift or break up for cool party favors!


Mad Hatter Key Chain and Mad Hatter Pewter Keychain


Cheshire Cat Flip Key Chain

MORE GREAT ALICE IN WONDERLAND PARTY FAVORS


Alice in Wonderland Wristband, Cheshire Cat Wristband


Mad Hatter Eyebrows, Cheshire Cat Mad Here Keyring, Cheshire Cat Keyring

How can you make your child's wonderland party even more amazing? Why, make it fancy dress of course! Go for full-blown costumes with everyone in character, or simply ask everyone to wear a crazy hat!

FABULOUS Alice in Wonderland Costumes for your Child!

Will the guest of honour be Alice?



Or will they choose from one of these fun Wonderland costumes?


Harlequin Costume, Tweedledum / Tweedledee Costume


Mad Hatter Child Costumes


Queen of Hearts Child Costumes

Alice-ify hairstyles with these CUTE accessories!


Alice in Wonderland Mad Hatter Bow Hair Clips, Alice in Wonderland Red Queen Hair Pins

Alice in Wonderland Scissor Bow Barrettes

Or have even MORE fun with these AMAZING Alice in Wonderland hats!


Mad Hatter Movie Child Hat, Mad Hatter Child Hat

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