Beauty and the Beast Theme Party Supplies, Party Decorations, Favors,Tips and Ideas! If your child loves Beauty and the Beast, Party Supplies by Vicki is the place for for all of your Beauty and the Beast Theme Party Supplies and Party Decorations!

Fun Activities

Secret Admirer

Your guests will enjoy being Beast and Belle in this fun game. Beast, a former prince cursed with his current looks until he can find true love, secretly admires Belle - but is too afraid to tell her!

To begin, choose a child to be Belle. Seat Belle in a chair and gently blindfold her. Choose another guest to be Beast, who disguises his or her voice and says "I’m your secret admirer." If Belle can guess the identity of Beast, Belle remains seated. When someone successfully stumps Belle, the two children trade places.

Chip’s Tea Cup
Relay To prepare for this game, cut four tea cup shapes from cardboard. Each tea cup should be approximately 12" x 15" in size. (Birthday Express shipping boxes work well for making them.) Bring the tea cups to life by drawing a happy face on each one; to make them look more like Chip, draw a tiny crack and cut a small piece from the rim of each tea cup as if it’s been broken off.

Divide your guests in two equal lines and give the first person in each line two tea cups. Participants must travel from the front of the line, around a chair, and back to the start - stepping only on the pair of tea cups they are given.

To begin, the first player on each team places one of their tea cups on the ground and steps on it with both feet. Then, he or she places the other tea cup on the ground and steps on it, etc. The game continues in this manner until the first players have completed the course and returned to their teams. The tea cups are passed to the next players, and the relay game continues until everyone has had a turn. The team that completes the course first, wins!

Belle’s Ballroom Dress-Up
Invite your guests to a ball in honor of Belle and her new prince! For the ladies, collect skirts, dresses, blouses, scarves, high-heeled shoes, wigs, ribbons, shawls, hats, gloves and costume jewelry to create your own dress-up box. If there are young men attending your party, make them a dress-up box with glasses, coats, ties, capes, top hats, old watches, fake mustaches, etc. (Neighbors, friends, relatives and secondhand stores are excellent sources for dress-up items.)

Encourage your guests to prepare themselves for the ball by donning the clothing and accessories of their choice. To make everyone feel like royalty, create crowns from construction paper and give one to each child. If possible, provide a mirror so everyone can admire themselves in the party room, or allow guests to use a mirror nearby. Set the mood with music while everyone dresses up. The movie soundtrack makes a wonderful background melody, if you have it.

Once your guests are elegantly attired, give them a chance to dance around to the music. During this perfect photo opportunity, use a Polaroid camera so you can send a photo home with each guest, (or e-mail digitial photos to everyone as a reminder of your wonderful party.) If you choose to use regular film, develop it as soon as possible and send a photo to each guest with a thank-you note from the birthday child.

Delectable Treats

Mrs. Pott's Tea Kettle Cake
Bake your child's favorite kind of cake using a round ball cake pan; cool. Purchase refrigerated sugar cookie dough from the store, or make your own. Roll out the dough and cut it in the shape of two tea pot handles and two spouts. It's a good idea to make extra pieces, in case they break.

When the cookies are cool, place frosting on one tea pot handle cookie and stick it to the other. Do the same for the tea pot spout. After the cake has cooled, assemble it into a round ball. Then, carefully press the cookie handle and spout into the cake. Decorate your tea pot with white icing using a star-shaped frosting tip; use colored frosting to pipe designs or flowers on the tea pot.

Tea Time
Be prepared to offer your guests a beverage other than real tea, in case they do not like it. Hot apple cider, cocoa, or iced apple juice make wonderful substitutions. Serve in tea cups!

Belle’s Fantastic Feast
This is truly a feast for your eyes as well as a snacker’s delight! On a large decorative tray, arrange a variety of visually appealing sandwich substitutes, including lettuce for filler. Try some of the following options for a great nutritional meal:

Belle’s Cheese Squares
Cube several kinds of cheese; decorate with frilly or colorful toothpicks.

Mrs. Potts’ Cream Cheese Rolls
Spread softened cream cheese on thinly-sliced ham and roll it up. Add pineapple to the cream cheese for more sweetness. Cut rolls into 1-1/2” lengths.

Cogsworth’s Celery Sticks
Fill stalks with peanut butter. Keep feathery ends for decoration.

Beast’s Enchanted Roses
Peel the outer layer of a carrot and discard. Continue peeling, making peels of assorted lengths and thicknesses. (Thin peels are easier to curl.) Assemble roses by arranging several peels inside one another, placing the larger ones on the outside. Gradually stack the peels in a rounded shape, with shortest, curliest peels on top. Spear an olive on a toothpick into the middle of your rose to hold it together.

Lumiere’s “Snack-ers”
Choose several different shapes and flavors of crackers and serve on the snack tray with cheese cubes and vegetables.

Gaston’s Fruit Kabobs
Select a variety of seasonal fruits, rounding melons into balls, and slicing your child’s favorites into bite-size pieces. Spear pieces of each on every skewer to make a pretty pattern. Stick skewers in an upside down melon half. Display in the center of your tray!

Chip’s Silly Sandwiches
Your guests will giggle when they see these finger snacks. Make sandwiches; cut into fun shapes with a cookie cutter.

Rainbow Fruit Parfait
This refreshing treat is sure to hit the spot! In a parfait cup, layer: yogurt (any flavor), granola, and fresh fruit (pineapple, blueberries, strawberries and raspberries work well). Top it off with whipped topping and serve with a long handled spoon!

Decorating Tips

Spread your tablecover on your party table. If your child has any theme-related toys, you can add them to the table for a more festive display. Cut several one-to-two-foot-long pieces of curling ribbon. Curl the ribbon by pulling it between your thumb and the blade of your scissors. Lay the resulting curls on your table for added color. Hang balloons in bunches for the best effect. If you choose to fill balloons with helium, wait until the party day to ensure they float well!

Use balloons to mark the party spot; hang them on the mailbox, near the front door, or tie them to the birthday child's chair to mark the seat of honor.

Place balloons anywhere that strikes your fancy. The more the better!

Gather six or eight streamers and attach them to the ceiling in the center of the party room (or over the table). Use a light fixture over the table, if you have one, as the center point for the streamers.

To create colorful two-tone streamers, put two differently colored streamers back-to-back, twist as you walk them to the wall, and attach at shoulder height.

Smile for the Camera!
Be sure to take lots of pictures. You and your child will want to remember this special party. A helpful hint: Order extra prints and send them to the parents afterward. Remember, it's not necessary to have everyone in each picture. Focus on small groups and avoid posing all the photos. Candids capture the laughter best!

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