Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass/Mad Hatter's Tea Party

INVITATIONS

• Teacup
• Playing card
• Top hat
• Old fashioned style invitation, complete with wax seal and addressed "For the Duchess, An invitation from the Queen, to play croquet."

FOOD

• Fairy Bread
• Cupcakes
• Jam tarts
• Chocolate crackles
• Heart candies
• Mushroom marshmallows
• Macarons, esp multicolours
• Bright mulicoloured lollipops
• Bottles labled "Drink me"
• Cookies iced with "Eat me"
• "Teeth" candies
• "Clocks" cookies (Tic Tocs)
• Strawberries and cream
• Old fashioned tea sandwiches (heart shapes, card suit shapes, little squares, butterflies [bread and butterflies])
• Cups of melted chocolate
• Mini quiches, savoury tarts
• Lemon or Blueberry curd
• Cream puffs, eclairs
• Madeleines
• Vol au vents
• Bacon wrapped chipolata sausages
• Oysters
• Sweet potato chips
• Chicken nibbles
• Party pies/mini sausage rolls/savoury pastries
• Rice paper rolls
• Petit fours
• Fruit salad in little jars

ACTIVITIES/ENTERTAINMENT

• Croquet (with "flamingo" mallets, "hedgehog" balls and giant "cards"
• Horseshoes/quoits
• Old fashioned card and chess games
• Giant backyard chess/giant board and use people for playing pieces
• Bubbles by "hookah" (for the Caterpillar)
• "Fun House" with optical illusions (such as growing & shrinking rooms), fun house mirrors, etc
• Caucus race
• "Pin the grin on the Cheshire Cat"
• Charades/riddles
• Old fashioned parlour/garden games
• Musical chairs
• Petting zoo

DECORATIONS

• Lanterns above table
• Checkered tablecloth
• Mismatching tea cups
• Different style/size chairs
• Large mirror (or a large frame to pretend as if walking though the 'looking-glass')
• Black and white checkered floor
• Mushrooms
• Clocks
• Signpost
• Flamingos
• Bright balloons and streamers
• Paper (or linen) doilies
• Teacups on sticks
• Cheshire Cat carved pumpkin lantern