Mad Hatter Costume

How can I throw a Alice in Wonderland/Mad Hatter tea party in my garden and home?

Hi
I’m looking for ideas to include in my alice in wonderland/ mad hatter themed tea party?
I’m baking lots of cupcakes, and i’ve got loads of colourful and strange shaped tea pots to serve tea in, I’m thinking of making each of my guests one of those masks they wear to the vienna ball and stuff, But desperately need other ideas and things like how to decorate the table, house garden etc or music, food or anything …..Thank you for any of your input x

Set up a long table, covered with all different kinds of teapots, mismatched teacups and saucers, chandeliers, etc. Have an assortment of ‘odd’ chairs around the table, so that people have to sit at different heights. Use a colorful tablecloth.

Hide a stuffed toy representing the Dormouse in one of the teapots.

Hang colorful paper lanterns above the table

Decorate your door so it represents the rabbit hole, or the looking glass, where people have to go through to enter the party. Or use a play tunnel.

Hang up signs with ‘this way’, ‘that way’, ‘up’, ‘down’, etc. painted on them, like in Disney’s Tulgey wood.

Put some clocks in the room that are stopped at tea-time.

Decorate the walls with playing cards (normal size or really huge ones from cardboard), and the floor with a chessboard-like pattern. Scatter around some chess pieces.

Hang a branch to the ceiling with a Cheshire Cat (or just it’s grin) in it.

Use lawn flamingos

If you have a fireplace, put a large mirror on the mantelpiece. Or attach one to a door so people can actually go through the looking glass. If you don’t have a huge mirror, create one with aluminium foil

Make rabbit paw tracks and put them on the floor, leading in various paths through your house and/or garden

Put up a children’s swimming pool to represent the pool of tears

Make vulture heads and paste them on top of some umbrella’s. Hang the opened umbrella’s from the ceiling

Buy rose bushes at a garden store and decorate them with white and red roses

Stuff a big Alice-like doll into a small doll-house

Fill vases with white and red roses, and hide one or several brushes with red paint in them

{Alice // Mad Hatter} ~ Dancing in the Garden