American Girl Party Ideas: For my daughters 8th birthday I threw her an American Girl Birthday Party. Here are some of the ideas we used for the perfect tea party . First off we did not call it an “American Girl Party” because not every girl had an American Girl doll. So we called it an Doll party .. bring your own doll. I had extra dolls the girls could borrow for the day.

American Girl Birthday Party Ideas :Prep

I made a few thing and then had some crafts for the girls to do:

I went to the thrift store and purchased a tea set, along with tea pots, and lacy table linens. Super inexpensive ($12 for linens and tea set) and add the real feel to the party cost as much as buying paper stuff and it became a tea set for my daughter. I also purchase real flowers for the center of the table.

I made American Girl Party Hats the pattern is found here at Make it do.com it is a scrapbook paper pompoms and glue, one sheet makes about 4 hats

Cupcakes Stands I followed www.tammymitchellphotography.com to make the mini cupcake stands, the parts were purchased at AC Moore look for the package of disks much cheaper than buying loose 12 cost me under $10:

I also made every doll a dress to wear for the party it was also a American Girl favor. I won lie my fingers did hurt after making such small clothes. I made the pattern myself post coming soon or refer to my free patterns for American Girl Dolls.

Tip: I found an old vintage suitcase to display the dresses. When the girls arrived they could pick a dress for the doll to wear at the party.

Food Ideas for American Girl Doll Party:

Tea sandwiches: Peanut butter and Jelly, ham and cheese, cucumbers and cream cheese- I own the tiered stands if you don’t and what to make them Joy Hope crafts has a great tutorial on how to make a colorful tiered cake stand.
Cup Cakes and mini cup cakes – I bought cup cake wrappers and the mini wraps normally used for candy for the mini doll cupcakes. Wilton makes these and they are super
For tea we used pink lemon aid- in the thrift store pots

American Girl Party Crafts:

We had the girls make a few simple crafts like coffee cups from doll diaries… I went to burger king and got the ketchup holder for your condiments cups. Pipe cleaners are about .69 each. The small dollies I found at the craft store.

We also go the girl a American Girls Cards Historical Craft Pack so they can make cards. I found these at Micheals, Ac Moore or here on Amazon. The cards are a 21 pack of cards for about $12 on amazon so enough for the girls to make 1-2 cards each depending on size of party. Also another great Craft idea is the American Girl Doll Picture Frame with a little mod podge, American girl catalog, and in expensive wooden frame. Take a picture of the girl with her doll at the party and send it in the thank you note.

It was a super fun day for all the girls. American Girl Party was a hit. We start out making some crafts, because the dolls need a cup to drink. Them girls were super quiet once they started the tea party polite pass in the “tea ” to each other. Very Adult. Then they went and played with their dolls in a large group.