Let me tell you a little about our party, I always start planning our parties WELL in advance so I can buy little by little in small sums so it's not a LARGE sum of $$ come party time. So I have been working on this party for MONTHS!!!! We started out planning to have a FN ice cream parfait party at a local yogurt parlor, but then I found the skit online about how to host your own Meet Mrs. Devine event, so I changed the theme to fit that. The skit called for Mrs. DeVine to do story time with the Explorer book, so I had to alter my plans. I still wanted it at the yogurt place but I felt it was just a little to cramped to do all I wanted to do (crafts, story time, etc...). So I found an indoor location that I could just rent the space. Which was all I really needed. So we set up craft tables, a story time area, a gift table, a favor table, a food buffet and a tea party table. I had some of my 12 y/o's friends come and assist with the crafts and they all wore white shirts and the Posh Puppy aprons I whipped up (they aren't perfect, but definitely fit the bill and looked super cute), I also made everyone headbands to wear and that was their "happy" for helping. Mrs. Devine, was the director of the children's department at the local library, she wore a platinum blond wig and a leopard cape, but she kept all that stuff so she could host the event at the library herself. We started out by welcoming everyone with a boutique buffet,,,,,,(wands, wings, crowns, necklaces, bracelets, gloves.....) you name it, we had it! Then everyone just mixed and mingled and after everyone arrived the older girls started doing the crafts with them. Next we sat down for the tea party. I had each girl an individually wrapped plate with one of everything already on it, so all they had to do was untie the ribbon and dig in. This worked out great not to mention it added a lot to the tables! Our complete menu consisted of Pink Snowballs, pink iced cookies, animal cracker (regular and chocolate/sprinkle covered), white chocolate dipped pretzel rods with sprinkles, fruit kabobs, ant's on a log (celery with peanut butter and raisins), flower shaped PB&J sandwiches, turkey pinwheels, heart shaped turkey sandwiches, white chocolate covered strawberries, brownies, cheezits, cheetos, fudge, fairy bread, marshmellows and regular and pink lemonade to drink. I also had customed printed labels for water bottles. After "tea" Ally Harper sat down and opened gifts and as she finished Mrs. DeVine chimed in "Bonjour everyone!" I am Mrs. Devine, Fancy Nancy's neighbor and I have a story to tell you! Please join me over here! So she escorted everyone to the blanket we had on the floor and she proceeded with the Explorer skit! PERFECTION!!!! They learned all the RULES about insects and exploring and about being in Fancy Nancy's Explorer Club, and I handed each girl a "Rule" card and then as they finished up everyone got their very own Membership card! After story time, we sang Happy Birthday and had cupcakes. I had Kroger make the cupcakes, 6 with white frosting, 12 with pink and 18 with purple. I made cupcake wrappers (I can send the template) to match some of Nancy's dresses. I had pink wrappers with yellow bows (used with white cupcakes, to match her "Tea Party dress"), cow print wrappers with purple bows (pink cupcakes, to match Posh Puppy) and then I had purple polka dot wrappers with orange bows (purple cupcakes) to match her signature purple ruffled dress, Then I got a mini Fancy Nancy play set from Walmart and used the doll from it and Kroger made her into a "doll cake" that matched AH's dress just perfectly. Which, by the way, was made by Boutique Ollie Girl, along with my Fancy Nancy hostess apron. Everything was perfect! We had so much fun and everything looked priceless :)
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