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A Book Lovers Tea Party for Young Ladies

The tea party club my daughter started almost 2 years ago with her Anne of Green Gables Tea Party (read about it here and here) is still continuing with this months tea party being hosted by Sophia, Meghan & Abigail. 

The tea party is for older girls but if the siblings have younger sisters, we welcome them, too.  The theme was a “Ladies Book Society Tea Party”.  What a fun theme that was!

Audrey decided to go as Pigling Bland, the character Beatrix Potter writes about in The Tale of Piglind Bland.

A few weeks prior to the tea party, Audrey wanted to play Pigling Bland with Justus so she got a stick and put a plastic grocery bag on the end.  For the tea party, we dressed her up just a bit…

pigling bland

Each of the girls could dress as their favorite character, or not, it was their choice.  They were then to read a portion of their favorite book aloud to the other girls.

Serenity isn’t much of a bookworm unfortunately, but she does like this series of books – The Young Underground by Robert Elmer.

This young lady loves the Mandie series.book lovers tea party

The setting for our luncheon was perfect.  I loved it!

book lovers tea party

book lovers tea party

We had the normal tea party fare, which was quite tasty, but then there were these fun little desserts!

Don’t you just love these little “bookworms”?

book lovers tea party desserts

Dirt cake anyone?

dirt cake for book lovers tea party

Up close…

dirt cake book lovers tea party

Who Wrote the Book…?

Another activity was guessing who wrote certain classics.  The titles were written on a piece of paper beforehand and then placed in a hat.  Each child would reach in a take a slip of paper and try to guess the author of the book.  If they couldn’t answer it, they would then ask the group of girls.  Whoever answered the most won a small prize in the end.

So long for now…

pigling bland

2 Comments

  • Melissa

    Faith and I enjoyed this post! How fun it looks! Faith really liked the dirt cake with flowers! She would like to learn how to do that. I like the centerpieces with books and roses. Faith says she would have brought one of the sugar creek gang books. She like the character Circus.

    • Anna

      That looks like fun! Our literature circle did something like this at the end of the year. We had a French tea party (after reading a book set in the French Revolution time period.)

      Cute costumes too!

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