Strawberry Shortcake

Age of Birthday Girl: 7 years old
Age Range of Guests: 5-10 years old
Gender of Guests: boys and girls

Potential Age Range of Theme: 3-10 years, depending on specific focus & activities

Invitations: We cut out strawberry shapes from red card stock and glued party information to the back with a "you are invited" sticker on the front.  SC stickers were added to decorate the card and the envelope.

Cake: Using a simple template we cut a round cake into the shape of a strawberry.  Red frosting (it turned out more of a deep shade of pink but still looked OK) covered the cake.  We used yellow jellybeans as the seeds and green fruit roll-ups for the stem and leaves.

Games & Activities: Our first activity was a simple craft.  We found some inexpensive small plastic storage containers in red, pink, and purple at a craft store (Michael's).  Using various stickers, ribbon, and markers the party guests decorated their containers.

Next we created a SC scavenger hunt.  Guests were divided into four teams based on SC characters.  Each team was required to find items both inside and outside
the house, such as the longest blade of grass, something yellow, etc.  After a set amount of time teams gathered to compare results and a winner was declared.


Finally, we did a musical chairs or relay sort of game with pictures of SC characters on paper plates scattered around the basement. Teams had to race to find matches for characters and freeze when the music stopped.  Anyone with a match kept their plates.  Left without a match and you went to the back of your line to try again.  The team who got all the matches first won the game.

Goodie bags:  These were simple pink or red paper bags filled with SC stickers, pencils, erasers, and costume jewelry.  The boys' bags has bug themed items instead of SC.  All bags also included a small assortment of candy.