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Strawberry Tea Party Table
Decorations
The decorations can be a
simple or elaborate as you would like.
Any combination
of pink and white such as; a pink tablecloth and white napkins or the
opposite of a white tablecloth and pink napkins. This is a relaxed tea party
that would be wonderful to have in a garden or park setting, so paper
napkins would be completely acceptable. For a more formal strawberry tea
party, use pink or white chair scarves.
Bone china cups
and saucers are required even for an informal
tea. If you do not have
enough, request that each of your guests bring their favorite cup and saucer
to the tea. An formal tea would require china place settings and linen
napkins.
By each napkin,
place a white paper doily rolled into a cone shape and taped. Inside the
doily, just peaking out, place one strawberry dipped in dark chocolate and
one strawberry dipped in white chocolate. I like to freeze them and take
them out just before inviting everyone to the table.
For the centerpiece,
paint small clay pots pink (one pot per guest as a favor to take home after
the strawberry tea party) and one large white clay pot. Plant one strawberry
plant in the small pink pots and several strawberry plants in the large
white clay pot. Place the white clay pot in the center of the table and
arrange the small pink. If the table is really large or if a large number of
guests are expected, cover a large box with pink felt and place the large
white pot on top of the box. Cover smaller boxes with white felt and place
the boxes around the the pink box. Place individual pink clay pots atop the
white covered boxes. Then place the rest of the small pink pots around the
white boxes.
Placards for the
strawberry tea party can be made using plastic or foam strawberries, white
cardstock, red felt pen and an exact-o knife. Cut rectangles from the
cardstock and write the guest's name on the card. Using the exact-o knife
cut a small slit into the strawberry and place the name card in the slit.
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