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Plan a Tea Party With Your PreSchooler

March 10, 2008 8:11 pm PreSchool Mama Games and Activities, Learning Fun

Tea Party PreSchool Activity There are opportunities to learn in the most popular games preschoolers play. All little girls love a tea party, and because all kids love role playing so much, your little boy will be ready to host one too! Give your preschooler some practice at entertaining on her own, by helping her host a tea party for her dolls and teddy bears.

First up, let her take the initiative in planning for the party. Let her decide the number of “guests” she’s going to have.

Help her make some little sandwiches or cheese and crackers for her guests. Here are some cooking ideas for preschoolers, as well as a mini pizza recipe if you want to throw a party your guests will rave about!

Let her set place mats for each guest with matching fork, spoon, saucers, cups and plates. Help her make her own placements out of cardboard or thick construction paper which she can decorate with markers, and little place cards out of tags with the name of the guest on each.

Get creative – use her bracelets as napkin rings.

Let her set the table with the cutlery, place cards, and place mats.

What this teaches her: This game is ideal for teaching her to set a table on her own, and gives her good practice using sorting skills to sort out forks, spoons, cup and saucers for each guest. It also helps her learn the importance of organization and the value of planning ahead.

Bon Appetit!

Tags: Activity, learning, preschool

6 Responses

Jen@BigBinder :

Date: March 11, 2008 @ 7:40 am

I LOVE THIS!! This is one of those “now why haven’t I thought of that?” ideas. My daughter and I went to a tea party place and she loved it, I’m sure she would even get so much more out of it by ‘hosting’.
PlanningQueen :

Date: March 11, 2008 @ 2:39 pm

Fabulous idea! We actually gave a small china tea set to a friend for a birthday present on the weekend. We do not have anything planned for tomorrow so I think we will do this. Thanks for the great idea.
PreSchool Mama :

Date: March 11, 2008 @ 2:42 pm

Thank you, ladies! This is one of those times I miss having a little girl.:)
Meshellyn :

Date: March 12, 2008 @ 3:19 am

What a fun blog! My daughter is only 9.5 months old, so you had better still be blogging in another year or two I can’t wait to enjoy some of these great activities with her!

Come visit my party this week if you get a moment, it’s nice meeting you!
Lazy Cow :

Date: March 13, 2008 @ 3:10 pm

My 5 yo son often does this when his friend comes over (she’s a girly girl). He dresses up as Superman, and she uses one of my daughter’s costumes and they have a lovely time.
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Date: March 26, 2008 @ 8:25 am

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