Kids Party Ideas: Rainbow Magic Fairies

Rainbow fairy party via Childhood 101

Immy has been mad about the series of Rainbow Magic books for ages now – there is always a good sized pile of them in our stack of library books! So when the question of a theme for her recent 6th birthday party came up, she wouldn’t hear of anything other than a Rainbow Magic theme. Fortunately there is lots of inspiration for rainbow inspired parties on Pinterest and we have enjoyed a fairy party before, so this one wasn’t too hard to pull together. Here are our rainbow and fairy inspired activities, games, food and cake!

Rainbow & Fairy Inspired Party Activities

Rainbow magic party ideas

We created a colourful relaxation tent for our nail polish artist (a dear friend) and face painter (I outsourced this one this year – our one big extravagance) to work in.

Kids party games and activities

The tented area was also fun for lots of dramatic play for our fairy and elf guests.

Rainbow Magic activities

Immy helped me to create a fun small world for her fairy figurines in our sand and water table. We used a variety of fairy stones and shells, and a couple of artificial pond lillies. This area was very popular with our guests.

Rainbow Magic party activities

I borrowed a friend’s ball pit and added a rainbow of rice and a variety of scoops, spoons, bottles and containers for pouring and scooping.

Kids party at home

Immy set up a tea party and lots of bright, colourful dress ups and accessories in the cubby house.

We also sprinkled the trampoline with a colourful bed of artificial flowers ( from disassembled Hawaiian-style leis from the dollar store).

Rainbow Magic Fairy Games

Rainbow magic party theme ideas

We only played two party games, which was plenty for our crowd of mainly six year olds. First up was ‘Pin the Wand on the Rainbow Magic Fairy.’ I scanned the fairy from the book cover and printed it out on A3 paper, then mounted that onto some poster board. The wands were small pipe cleaners.

Rainbow magic fairies activities

The second game was a Goblin Hunt! For those unfamiliar with the Rainbow Magic books, Jack Frost and his gaggle of goblins are the main protagonists in the books. As we played Pin the Wand on the Fairy, Dad 101 hid a collection of goblin tokens all around the backyard. Each child was tasked with finding two goblins which they could then trade for a prize – a mini notebook and metallic pen.

Rainbow Magic & Fairy Food

Rainbow fairy party food

Our party food table was adorned with so many wonderful rainbow colours.

Rainbow fairy party food

I prioritised foods that could made at least a day before but there were still a few items on my list that didn’t get made in time! The 22 little fairies and elves running around our party garden enjoyed the following for fairy snack time…

Rainbow fairy party food_ Fruit and vegetable platter

A fruit and vegetable rainbow (time saving tip: wash and prepare the vegetables the day before, cover them in water and refrigerate.)

Rainbow fairy party food_ Fairy donuts

Fairy donuts: small circular cereal (like Cheerios but we actually used a Freedom Foods version) dipped into icing and then into coloured sprinkles. Prepared the day before.

Rainbow party food_ Rainbow marshmellow treats

Rainbow marshmellows: melt white chocolate, add in few drops of food colouring. Spear your marshmellow with a fork then dip into chocolate. Place onto plate and add a chocolate button (Smarties, M&Ms). Refrigerate to set. Prepared the day before.

Rainbow party food_ JellyRainbow Jelly: I was planning to make individual mini serves of jelly in a range of colours and then I found these rainbow coloured, plastic shot glasses which provided an instant colour hit 🙂 As I had already purchased the jelly, I did still make a number of different flavours. Prepared the day before.

Tea cup biscuits | Childhood 101

Tea cup biscuits: see a full tutorial at Planning With Kids. Prepared the day before and stored in an airtight container.

Rainbow party food_ Sprinkle stick wands

Sprinkle Stick Fairy Wands: see instructions for how to make these over at Danya Banya. Prepared the day before.

Rainbow party food_ Fairy Bread

Fairy Sprinkle Bread: made just before the party and cut to shape with my trusty star cookie cutter.

Not individually pictured but all prepared the day before;

  • Mini quiche (gluten free)
  • Pizza pinwheels
  • Gluten and dairy free chocolate crackles (I will share a recipe in the next few weeks)

The Fairy Castle Cake

Fairy castle birthday cake

I can tell you how many sleepless nights this cake caused me in the lead up to the party. Immy really wanted a Fairyland castle cake and I somehow committed to making it myself. It actually turned out much better than I could ever have imagined with thanks to the advice of a good friend’s MIL about cake preparation, and these three sources of inspiration – Bondville, Three Lil Princesses, and Paging Fun Mums.

Decorations

Rainbow party decoration ideas

It really helps to have a good friend who loves party planning 🙂 I cannot take any credit for making the marvellous collection of paper fan decorations – I think she made at least 40! They were quite simple to make, each requiring two A4 pieces of paper, and I think they are simply perfect for a rainbow party.

Rainbow Inspired Party Favours

Rainbow party favours

We paired a rainbow watercolour palette with a cellophane cone of rainbow lollies as a thank you to our guests. Our watercolours were supplied by our favourite kid’s art supply company, Micador.

Rainbow Fairy Costume

Rainbow party costume

Immy poured over her Rainbow Magic Annuals debating which fairy she wanted to dress up as for the party. I breathed a sigh of relief when she settled on Kylie the Carnival Fairy as I knew that it wouldn’t be hard to make a rainbow skirt using lengths of soft tulle and a ring of elastic – no sewing here! We added a yellow singlet top and a headband adorned with colourful ribbons and she was set to party – fairy style, of course!

The children had so much fun and Immy has so many happy memories of the day which in the end makes all of the preparation so worthwhile 🙂

What has been your child’s favourite birthday party theme?

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3 Comments

  1. This year Miss 5 had a Charlie and Lola theme which was lots of fun and provided lots if inspiration for decorations, food and party favours. Miss 7 had a Mexican fiesta which was also great fun with the highlights being the Mexican hat dance and a Sombrero Cake that was also a piñata and when cut open m&ms tumbled out!

  2. I absolutely love this – it looks like it was such a special day, and I adore all those little touches and details you added – not to mention that beautiful rainbow fairy costume skirt! I actually came here looking for inspiration for my niece’s 6th birthday party, as my sister has asked me to help out! Because I have two boys, my parties have all very much been along the pirate/star wars/super hero ilk – not to mention that I normally use a party planner to do my parties (their name is Dazzle and Fizz if anyone is interested) , so I am very much out of my depth here! I’m very nervous about the whole thing as I’m not a very creative person, but posts like yours are really helping me come up with some great ideas – which hopefully my niece will love, so thank you x

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