Frozen Tea Party at Flower

Last week I realized it had always been winter and would always be winter, so I stopped fighting it and started reading The Snow Child, watched Fargo, and cut up all of my sundresses to make into a quilt.*

However, Suzie Renzi-Falge at Flower Memorial Library in Watertown took a decidedly more upbeat path and threw a Frozen-themed tea party. I'll let her talk about it:

We originally only planned for 50 kids (lol) and heard a lot more hustle and bustle so planned for 100. We had 211 total participants (including adults) but ended up having about 170 kids...luckily we had enough food stuffs and crafty things to make up the difference.

The tea party itself was in our community room. Myself and many of our clerks helped make homemade snowflakes that we hung from the ceiling. We cleaned up our collection of teapots and cups/saucers and made them the centerpieces of the tables. Though we did not actually serve the kids tea, they did have a few juice selections to choose from. I also made eight dozen Frozen themed cupcakes and when we ran out of those we had cookies on back log...

The first 45 families got a free book to take home. The first 50 kids each got their own tea cup to take home.

We had crafting stations where the kids could make their own snowman and make watercolor snowflakes. (Paint at a big event is a lot of messy fun, kids love love loved it.)

We had two different games to play with a random assortment of prizes. The games were Throw the Snowball Through the Snowman and Pin the Nose on Olaf.

The kids could dress as their favorite character from the movie if they wanted, and let me tell you, there were some very cute kids... including one little boy in an all white tuxedo.

We did not show the movie as there were too many other activities going on, but we did play the soundtrack in all of the areas.

My advice to others is to plan for triple, lol. Maybe have a costume contest or show the movie too, if time and space allows. I really loved the movie Frozen and apparently so did everyone else, so it was an easy theme for winter. Another take could be a Prince and Princess theme party.

Bottom line is people in the North Country are bored and want these kinds of activities to get their kids out of the house. It cost us around $250 for this party, for supplies and prizes. A good deal for all.

Sounds like a great library program at exactly the right time of year. Thanks for sharing, Suzie!

*Okay, not really. I don't know how to make a quilt.