Host an Alice in Wonderland Party - Burton Style
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How to Throw a Tim Burton Alice in Wonderland Themed Party
Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland is likely to inspire a new style of Alice in Wonderland Themed Parties. We are hosting a Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland premiere party as a birthday party for our two girls this year.
On the heels of last year's Mad Hatter Tea Party, this year we're doing a Burton-inspired Alice in Wonderland or Underland Party complete with Mad Alice Hats, Mad Hatter Cupcakes, Eat Me Cakes, Drink Me Bottles and Underland Gift Bags. I'll be adding pictures after the party.
Travel down the rabbit hole to discover party ideas to host your own Alice in Wonderland premiere party, birthday party or unbirthday party a la Tim Burton.
On the heels of last year's Mad Hatter Tea Party, this year we're doing a Burton-inspired Alice in Wonderland or Underland Party complete with Mad Alice Hats, Mad Hatter Cupcakes, Eat Me Cakes, Drink Me Bottles and Underland Gift Bags. I'll be adding pictures after the party.
Travel down the rabbit hole to discover party ideas to host your own Alice in Wonderland premiere party, birthday party or unbirthday party a la Tim Burton.
Plan an Alice in Wonderland Party Tim Burton Style
When planning an Alice in Wonderland Party a la Burton, you need to consider several things. Follow the links to get ideas on creating Invitations, Decorations, Party Food Ideas, Costumes and Attire, Make up, Activities, Music and Underland Bags.
Host a Tim Burton Alice in Wonderland Party
Invitations
Alice in Wonderland Inviations
I used the Alice in Wonderland Door Hanger and the Mad Hatter cupcake topper to create invitations for my daughters' party. The Alice in Wonderland cards will be for the boys and the Mad Hatter for the girls. I also printed out the Drink Me images from the shrinky art, which we attached on a ribbon to the top of the card.
You may want to pick different imaged depending on the theme of your Burton styled Alice in Wonderland and your targeted audience.
Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland Graphics for Invitations
- Alice in Wonderland Door Hanger | Entertainment | Disney Family.com
- Are you in an Alice or Red Queen kind of mood? Make sure everyone knows it with this bedroom door hanger. Trespassers, beware!
- Alice in Wonderland Cupcake Toppers | Entertainment | Disney Family.com
- Whether they are for a birthday or un-birthday, these Alice-inspired cupcake toppers will be the center of attention at any party.
- Alice in Wonderland Stickers | Entertainment | Disney Family.com
- These illustrated Alice in Wonderland stickers are the perfect way to decorate any Alice fan's notebooks or journals.
- Alice in Wonderland Shrink Charms | Entertainment | Disney Family.com
- Just like how Alice shrunk to a miniature version of herself, watch these fun charms shrink into a piece of long-lasting plastic jewelry. Make a charm bracelet, necklace, cell phone charm -- any trinket you desire!
Alice in Wonderland Invitations on eBay
Alice in Wonderland Ticket Invitations on eBay
Decorations
Alice in Wonderland Triptych
Decorate for your Alice in Wonderland Burton Style Party with the Triptych from the movie featuring Alice, the White Rabbit, the Mad Hatter, the Caterpillar, the White Queen, the Tweedles and the Red Queen.
Alice Triptych available on Amazon.
Alice in Wonderland Standups on Amazon
Decorate your Alice in Wonderland Party with Standups of Alice, the Mad Hatter, the Red Queen and Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum.
Alice in Wonderland Posters on Amazon
More Alice in Wonderland Posters from the movie to transform your party place into Wonderland or Underland.
Alice in Wonderland Crepe Paper on Amazon
Decorate with Crepe Paper for your favorite Alice in Wonderland Character. Aqua blue for Alice, Red for the Red Queen, White for the White Queen, Black and White for the Tweedles and Green and Orange for the Mad Hatter.
Other Alice in Wonderland Party Setting Ideas
Many of the Alice inspired parties are still based on the older Disney or Tennille versions.
- Surreal Party Scenes - Alice in Wonderland Party Design
- Alice in Wonderland Party Design by Gabriela Rabelo is Absolutely Epic (GALLERY): This Alice in Wonderland party theme design by Gabriela Rabelo is absolutely amazing.
- essence of 'alice' cupcakes on Flickr
- A last minute order and teeny-tiny budget to work with, but hopefully i captured the essence of the "Alice in Wonderland" theme they were going for...
- lots o' alice cuppies on Flickr
- one dozen down...one to go....
- Palachinka: Foodbuzz Alice in Wonderland
- An Alice in Wonderland inspired party theme. Includes many different ideas an a recipe for Mad Tea Cookies.
- Lovin' From the Oven: Day 4: No Fail Sugar Cookies
- A recipe for no fail sugar cookies.
- the celebration shoppe blog - mad hatter tea party
- Pictures of an Alice in Wonderland Mad Hatter Tea Party. The hand painted gigantic tea cups are a wild and wacky touch.
- Real Parties: Another Alice in Wonderland Birthday
- Another awesome Alice party from the little things.
- Mad Hatter Tea Party for Moms and Kids
- You can throw an Alice in Wonderland Style tea party in a large backyard or rent a section of a city park.
- A very merry unbirthday
- to me! Actually, it's my real birthday smack-dab in the middle of June and it's the big 3-0. I normally don't do much to commemorate another passing year, but I wanted to do something big for this one. From the Violet Cottage.
Party Food Ideas
Decorate Mad Hatter Cupcakes
Last year we created Mad Hatter Cupcakes for the kids to decorate themselves. We made two different cupcakes, one mini and one normal, out of a strawberry version of Hungry Girl's Berry-licious cupcake recipe using Berry flavored mineral water in place of the Black Cherry soda. We frosted the cupcakes with a white-chocolate pudding and cool whip mixture or marshmallow whip and cool whip mixtures.Using a heart shaped long toothpick, we skewered the two cupcakes together to create a mad (crazy) cupcake. We had a variety of toppings, including red sugar, edible card shapes (hearts, spaces, clubs and diamonds), sprinkles, sliced almonds and mini chocolate chips.
The kids had a great time creating their own mad cupcakes.
Image: Kirsti A. Dyer, Mad Hatter Cupcake. Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0
Heart Cupcake Wrappers
Paper Orchid Heart Swirls Cupcake Wrapper Red, Set of 12
Amazon Price: $15.00 (as of 02/16/2012)
A quick and easy way to decorate Red Queen cupcakes with this heart cupcake wrapper.
Alice in Wonderland Food Ideas from Disney Family Entertainment
More Alice in Wonderland Food ideas from Disney Family. These include printable Alice in Wonderland Cupcake Toppers, Edible Tea cups and Cheshire Cat Cupcakes.
- Alice in Wonderland Cupcake Toppers | Entertainment | Disney Family.com
- Whether they are for a birthday or un-birthday, these Alice-inspired cupcake toppers will be the center of attention at any party.
- Edible Teacups | Entertainment | Disney Family.com
- Create Edible Teacups, a recipe inspired by the movie Alice in Wonderland, with step by step instructions provided by Disney Family.com. Enjoy this recipe with your kids and family.
- Cheshire Cat Cupcakes | Entertainment | Disney Family.com
- Create Cheshire Cat Cupcakes, a recipe inspired by the movie Alice in Wonderland, with step by step instructions provided by Disney Family.com. Enjoy this recipe with your kids and family.
Healthier Cupcake Recipes
- Hungry Girl - Red Velvet Insanity Cupcakes
- Red Velvet Insanity Cupcakes - These cupcakes are so moist, so delicious, so RED, and so completely guilt-free, that writing extra words to introduce this recipe would be a complete and total waste of everyone's time.
- Hungry Girl's Berry-Licious Cupcakes - 301490 - Recipezaar
- This recipe is from Hungry Girl's new book. Weight Watchers points value is 3 points per serving.
Mad Hatter Cupcake Recipe
This year we will be using the recipes that I ended up using for my daughters' Alice in Wonderland party last year. The Mad Hatter Cupcake recipe is a modification of the Hungry Girl's Berry-licious cupcake recipe with the Red Velvet Insanity frosting recipe.For the cupcake recipe we used pureed strawberries in one batch and pureed blueberries in another batch using Berry flavored mineral water in both versions in place of the Black Cherry soda. We frosted the cupcakes with a white-chocolate pudding and cool whip mixture and let the kids do their own decorating with edible red heart confetti, colored sugar and mini chocolate chips. This year we'll be topping them with the special Alice in Wonderland cupcake toppers from the Disney Family site.
Image: Modified from Muffin. Royalty Free Use. Alice in Wonderland Cupcake Toppers available on Disney Family.
Edible Heart Confetti on Amazon
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More Cupcake Decorating Ideas on Amazon
We provided the kids with different sprinkles for them to decorate their own Mad Hatter Cupcake Hat.
Edible Playing Cards on Amazon
An option for an easy Alice in Wonderland cake is to make a tiered cake and cover it with playing cards
Lucks Dec-Ons Playing Cards Assortment, 192 pk
Amazon Price: $27.85 (as of 02/16/2012)
Decorate a towering card cake or cupcakes with these edible hand-painted card molded sugar decorations.
Tea Party Ideas
Host a Mad Hatter Tea Party
Last year we hosted a more traditional Alice in Wonderland Mad Hatter Tea Party. We decided on the Mad Hatter theme, so the boys would feel like they could still attend.I found New Year's Top Hat Pinatas that were modified into Mad Hatter style. We served a lot of healthy red foods with red strawberries, red grapes and tomatoes, which the kids devoured. We also served butterfly shaped crackers.
Image: Kirsti A. Dyer, Mad Hatter Tea Party. Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0
Giant Teacup Planter on Amazon
Giant Tea BLU Planter
Amazon Price: $43.43 (as of 02/16/2012)
Fill a Giant Tea cup with party decorations or flowers.
More on Hosting a Mad Hatter Tea Party
Learn more about Hosting a Mad Hatter Tea Party.
Children's Tea Sets on Amazon
Children's Tea in the Amazon Spotlight
Davidson's Tea Children's Tea, 8-Count Tea Bags (Pack of 12)
Amazon Price: (as of 02/16/2012)
This is a lovely, light caffeine-free herbal tea created just for children! Each teabag contains just under a teaspoon of real dried honey, which perfectly enhances the sprightly berry punch flavor.
More Tea Options on Amazon
Adult Tea Sets on Amazon
Costumes and Attire
Alice in Wonderland Costumes
I spent a couple of years during graduate school working as one of the seamstress for the costume shop at U.C. Davis. Ever since then I have been interested by the costumes, particularly period piece costumes, in movies.
The Alice in Wonderland costumes have been inspiring people to make their own versions, long before the movie came out. The Mad Hatter, Alice and the Red Queen were all popular costumes for Halloween 2009 and will continue to do so, I predict, for many years to come.
There are many ways of modifying existing costumes or making your own Alice inspired costumes and hats. Follow the links to the lenses below to find out more about making or modifying your own Alice in Wonderland Costumes.
Alice in Wonderland Costumes and Attire
Make Your Own Mad Hatter Hat
Make up
Alice in Wonderland Make Up
The Make up for Alice in Wonderland comes in two different types.The first is the designer make up inspired by the movie, like OPI nail lacquer or Urban Decay's Book of Shadows, complete with Alice in Wonderland themed eyeshadow collection.
The second Alice in Wonderland make up comes in the make up used to create the look by different characters like the Mad Hatter, the Queen of Hearts or the White Queen. There are many different tutorials available now online with the "How to's" apply different Alice in Wonderland Character Make up.
Image: Absolutely Alice Blue available on Amazon.
Alice in Wonderland Nail Polish on Amazon
OPI Nail Lacquers Alice in Wonderland (Set of 4/ 0.5oz)
Amazon Price: (as of 02/16/2012)
Decorate your nails with OPI nail polish created for Alice in Wonderland. Absolutely Alice in blue, Mad as a Hatter in purple, Off with her Red and Thanks so muchness red.
Alice in Wonderland Make up on Amazon
Urban Decay Alice in Wonderland Book Of Shadows
Amazon Price: (as of 02/16/2012)
Tim Burton and Disney asked Urban Decay to develop a product for the new Alice in Wonderland.
The result is the amazing Book of Shadows with colors inspired by Alice in Wonderland like White Rabbit, Jabberwocky, and Oraculum.
Urban Decay's Book of Shadows on eBay
Alice in Wonderland Nail Laquer on Amazon
Mad Hatter Costume Kit on Amazon
Mad Hatter Costume Kit
Amazon Price: $12.95 (as of 02/16/2012)
This Mad Hatter Costume kit contains a mad hatter hat, orange wig and white facepaint.
Activities
Alice in Wonderland Activities
Just some of the many ideas we've come up with for Activities at Alice in Wonderland Parties.
- Host a Mad Hatter Tea Party
- Play Flamingo Croquet
- Read Disney's Alice in Wonderland 2010 Book
- Take the Alice in Wonderland Quiz
- Follow Alice in Wonderland on Twitter
- Read Disney's Alice in Wonderland: A Visual Companion Book
- Break a Mad Hatter Pinata
- Mad Hatter Pinata from Amazon
- Vote on Your Favorite Alice in Wonderland Character
- Make Mad Hatter Hats
- Listen to Alice in Wonderland Music
- Create Underland Gift Bags
Playing Flamingo Croquet
Play Flamingo Croquet
One of the games we decided to play was Flamingo Croquet. With inflatable flamingos and rolling hedgehog balls, the kids were able to bat around a croquet ball on the grassy lawn. We'd created wickets out of black pipe cleaners and red and white heart wired wreath.The inflatable flamingos are kind of floppy and a bit challenging to get them to really hit a ball. Using the hedgehog-like balls are better than using the hedgehog toys.
Image: Kirsti A. Dyer, Flamingo and Hedgehog Croquet. Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0
Pink Flamingo on Amazon
Inflatable Flamingo 20in
Amazon Price: $2.69 (as of 02/16/2012)
Inflatable pink flamingos for your flamingo croquet game.
Hedgehogs on Amazon
Plush Ganley the Hedgehog 3" Set of 2
Amazon Price: $12.75 (as of 02/16/2012)
# 2 Plush Hedgehogs - One Redish Brown & One Dark Brown
# Approximately 3" tall.
More Hedgehogs on Amazon
More Hedgehogs and hedgehog like balls that can be used to play flamingo croquet. The hedgehog-like balls are probably better for getting them to roll on the ground rather than the hedgehog toys.
Read Disney's Alice in Wonderland 2010 Book
Disney: Alice in Wonderland (Based on the motion picture directed by Tim Burton)
Amazon Price: $2.75 (as of 02/16/2012)
This book tells the new tale of Alice in Underland, an older Alice going back to visit the changed Wonderland she had visited as a child.
Take the Alice in Wonderland Quiz
A fun Alice in Wonderland Quiz based on the new Tim Burton version of the film. See how much you know about this new version of Alice.
Follow Alice in Wonderland on Twitter
Read Disney's Alice in Wonderland: A Visual Companion Book
Disney's Alice in Wonderland: A Visual Companion
Amazon Price: $17.98 (as of 02/16/2012)
This splendid "Making/Art of" will take readers to the world behind Burton's camera, revealing the secrets of performance-capture technology, the marriage of live-action and CGI technology, and displaying its singular style in a deluxe, artistic format.
Break a Mad Hatter Pinata
To create a Mad Hatter Pinata, I found a black New Year top hat. We added a crepe paper hat band and tucked in the price tag with the "In this style" attached.To make it easier on us and more fair for the kids, we filled up the pinata with individual bags. We'd placed mini cards, fruit leather, stickers, mini pens and sugarless gum into bags, so when the pinata burst, everyone was able to get the same prizes. It took a bit more time to create the individual bags, but there were not hurt feelings from children getting uneven amounts of pinata fillers.
Image: Kirsti A. Dyer. Mad Hatter Pinata. Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0
Mad Hatter Pinata from Amazon
Rabbit in the Hat Pinata
Amazon Price: $15.99 (as of 02/16/2012)
This rabbit in a hat was the best I could find for a Mad Hatter Hat Pinata. We'd used a New Year's Hat and modified it into a Mad Hatter Pinata by adding a hat band and a 10/6 card.
Vote on Your Favorite Alice in Wonderland Character
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Make Mad Hatter Hats
Making Mad Hatter Hats, either as a party favor or as an activity is another fun Hatter-inspired thing to do for an Alice in Wonderland Party.There are different sizes of felt hats that can be purchased and decorated in a Hatter style.
For the Johnny Depp Hatter, you need several hat pins, a 10/6 price tag, a salmon colored sash or scarf, a peacock feather and a patchwork ribbon.
We used black felt top hats and created Mad Hatter Inspired hats for the kids to wear at the Alice in Wonderland Premiere party.
Mini Felt Top Hat on Amazon
Stiffened Felt Top Hat: 5-1/2" Black
Amazon Price: $1.18 (as of 02/16/2012)
Miniature top hats just waiting to be decorated and turned into Mad Hatter Hats.
Black Felt Top Hats on Amazon
Roaring 20's Black Velvet Felt Top Slash Hat Magician Costume Prop
Amazon Price: $6.99 (as of 02/16/2012)
We used felt hats similar to these to create our Mad Hatter Top Hats.
Make a Mad Hatter Hat
Music
Listen to Alice in Wonderland Music
Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland has not only one musical release connected to the movie, but two.The soundtrack for Alice in Wonderland has been composed by long-time collaborator Danny Elfman, who has created another haunting theme for this Burton film.
Also being released is the Almost Alice soundtrack, a collection of Alice-inspired songs from favorite alternative artists and new talents rising up from the underground.
These two soundtracks for the Alice in Wonderland film will make great background music for any Alice in Wonderland party. A few of the Almost Alice songs are even danceable.
Alice in Wonderland Soundtrack on Amazon
Alice in Wonderland
Amazon Price: $8.71 (as of 02/16/2012)
Tim Burton's many-time musical collaborator Danny Elfman wrote the score for Alice in Wonderland.
Listening to clips it sounds a bit like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and a bit like Nightmare Before Christmas, other Burton-Elfman collaborations.
More about Almost Alice
Almost Alice on Amazon
Almost Alice
Amazon Price: $7.00 (as of 02/16/2012)
Out of the rabbit hole from Wonderland comes 15 new tracks from today's MADdest artists.
Almost Alice features a unique collection of today's favorite alternative artists and the next round of superstars bubbling up from the underground.
Alice Underground as a MP3 Download
- Trippin out
Spinning around
I'm underground
I fell down
Yeah, I fell down
Film Trailers
Watch Film Trailers
Another way to get everyone in the mood for the movie is to watch the film trailers on the computer or on television.The Disney Channel is doing a whole week of clips, leading up to the opening of the film on March 5, 2010.
You can let people vote on their favorite character, or try predicting how the story is going to end.
Alice in Wonderland Trailer
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Underland Bags
Party Gift Bags
Create Underland Gift Bags
For the Underland Gift Bags, I used the images from Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland that are now available through the Disney Family site. I picked out one of the images that the girls liked, printed it out and let them glue the images to kraft paper bags.We filled the Underland Gift bags with a variety of healthy snacks and fun Alice in Wonderland related items.
For the Healthy Snacks we had Orville Redenbacher's Kettle Corn Popcorn, Rice Thins, Cut Apples with Cinnamon, 100% fruit leather and a Water Bottle with a "Drink Me" label.
For the Fun Alice items we included Alice in Wonderland Pens, Alice in Wonderland Buttons, a mini card deck, a black and wild colored pencil and a variations on the Mad Hatter Hat, or a Mad Alice Hat.
Image: Bags available on Amazon.
Ultimate Sticker Book on Amazon
Ultimate Sticker Book: Alice in Wonderland (Ultimate Sticker Books)
Amazon Price: $2.82 (as of 02/16/2012)
These sticker books make great additions to an Underland Gift Bag.
Underland Bag Fillers on Amazon
More Underland Bag Fillers on Amazon
More about Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland Burton Style on eBay
News Updates about Alice in Wonderland Parties
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- The desperate creature found himself at a tea party in the café in Lyme Regis, Dorset, just like the cute critter in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. But this dormouse was scooped up by a visitor and taken to the Secret World Wildlife ...
- Celebrities turn out for Queen of Hearts Tea Party
- Organised by the Guildford charity, the Queen of Hearts-themed tea party on Wednesday launched a 12-month partnership with the hotel. Staff, dressed as characters from Alice in Wonderland, greeted guests as they arrived and around 20 children along ...
- Make a date for Alice in Wonderland tea party
- The Alice in Wonderland tea party will take place between 2.30pm and 4.30pm. Admission costs £7.50 for children, which includes lunch, and admission for adults is free. All proceeds from the event will go to Crossroads Caring for Carers ? a local ...
- It's Haggis In Wonderland in another delightful show
- WHAT a marvellous collection of 26 characters appeared in Alice In Wonderland, with attractive choreography from Judith May, musical numbers old and new from musical director Karen Crane and her six-piece band, all brought together by producer Sandy ...
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MJSchrader
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- An Alice in Wonderland Party would be loads of fun!
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MJSchrader
Jan 23, 2012 @ 7:50 pm | delete
- An Alice in Wonderland Party would be loads of fun!
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whaleriders6
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- I love the movie, and your lens has incredible ideas for making a truly grand party! Well done!
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