Brynn's 10th Blacklight Alice in Wonderland Party

After everyone arrived we got the girls to decorate their tiny Mad Hatter Hat, that my sister and I had made up previously.
We used highlighter markers, fluorescent paper tape (after all it is a blacklight party), feathers, wire with beads and decorative tape. The Mad Hatter's team got blue, green and yellow markers and the Red Queen's team got red, pink and orange markers. They turned out fantastic! While they were busy colouring and decorating hats, we pulled aside 2 girls at a time to come pick out nail polish and marble their cups (we wanted to get this done first thing, so they would have time to dry).
After all of the cups were marbled, the girls were chomping at the bit to go see the basement. So we all fell down the ribbit hole to the office were I had small bottles full of coloured sprite to drink. After we cheered and drank our potion, we were finally "small" enough to fit through the key hole.
Upon entering the basement, my husband had put on the "Caucus Race Music" (from the original 1950's Disney cartoon) and " Follow Me" (from the sound track of the Tim Burton version) and we proceeded to play a game of musical chairs. I wasn't sure how the girls would react to this, (since they are 10) but they were having a ball. I was almost afraid someone was going to get hurt...full contact musical chairs!
We followed that up with the tea party, before everyone started eating the dainties we sang "A Very Merry Unbirthday" to my daughter as her actual Birthday was 2 days later.
After we cleared the plates away, I set up the tables for the "Fix the Watch Relay Race" Watch, salt, butter, 2 spoons, jam, and lemon. They would get on the tables, pick up the closest item, step over the other things, jump off the table and place it on a chair at the end. They all loved walking on the tables (just like Johnny Depp did in the movie).
Next was "Toss the Card into the Hat Game" Self explanatory, except for the part about the hats. My nephew's, girlfriend's, Aunt, made them from scratch and they turned out amazing!
Next, my husband cued the song "Painting the Roses Red" and we all marched upstairs to do just that. We had duct taped 2 pylons for each team on the floor, one girl stood at the rose bush, she was the caller. The other ones were each given a red rose and the first in line was blindfolded. The caller had to talk them through the pylons up to the bush and they had to exchange a white rose for the red one they had. This game was a lot of fun to watch, the callers kept forgetting that turn right to them, meant the opposite to the person blindfolded.
By this point it was pretty hot in the house, so we sent the girls outside for a game of "Wonderland Freeze Tag". Two girls were Alice and everyone else were rabbits. They had to hop everywhere. That only lasted a short time because it was a bit chilly out.
"The Croquet Relay Race" was next. I didn't have time to make proper Flamingo mallets so we just used the ones from our set. I did however find those super cute Pink Hedgehogs at Party City, and they worked out great...and they are super cute. At the end of the party I gave one of them to my daughter (she was the birthday girl after all), and the other went to the girl who had won the musical chairs game.
Next up was "Build a House of Cards" it was a team event but the houses didn't have to be joined. At the end of the 10 minutes, we picked up the cards each team had still standing and the team that had the most won. I think this one was a bit frustrating at times for them, because their houses kept falling down...its harder than you'd think.
At this point, the team that had won 3 out of the 5 games got to pick a full size chocolate bar out of a hat as their prize.
As the finale to my parties, I always like to have a treasure hunt...kids love finding things! So I set up a "6 Impossible Things" Treasure hunt for them. The final clue being "I can slay the Jabberwocky". I found a Dragon piñata at Party City that worked just fine...tough as nails though (at least 8 girls got 3 direct hits each), with our Vorpal Louisville Slugger Bat!

• What People Ate

  We had veggies and made custom order sandwiches for the girls and cut them into hearts using a large cookie cutter.

• What People Drank

  We served iced tea and for those who didn't like that, there was coke and water.

• Desserts

  There was banana bread and lemon cake cut into flower shapes, sugar cookies and Tim bits ( doughnut holes).

• Party Favors

  I had found these large coffee cups at the Dollar Store that were the perfect size to give out instead of treat bags. We got the girls to pick 2 different colours of nail polish and then marbled the one side of them. This activity was awesome, all the girls oohed and ahed when we took them out of the water. I figured they could have them in their rooms and put jewelry or change in them. I also picked up hair mascara for each of them.

• Activities / Games

  Decorate mini hats Marble the "Tea" Cups Jolly Caucus Race musical chairs Tea Party Fix the Watch Relay Race Flip the cards into the hat game Painting the Roses Red Race Croquet Race Build a house of cards 6 impossible things Treasure Hunt

• My excellent Husband and my awesome Sister.

  Photos were taken by my nephew Matt on his Samsung phone

  Except for the portraits (they were colour pages that I printed off the net and painted). I drew all of the decorations and painted everything myself. My sister helped me make the hats, and roses out of paper and she embellished (with a deck of cards) the treat stands we purchased from the Dollar Store .