Festive table setting for children: ideas and tips

The serving of a children's table for a birthday or any other event has its own characteristics, rules and even trends. For example, in recent years, candy bars and themed tables have become fashionable. Let's see how to arrange a magical and bright holiday at home with your own hands: how to treat little guests, how to decorate a festive table and / or candy bar, and also how to manage everything and fit into the budget.

10 tips for mom

So, to organize and arrange a children's holiday table, you need:

1. Choose a theme or style.

Children have a great imagination, which is why the thematic children's holiday is doomed to success - your baby and his friends will be happy to plunge into the magical world, for example, of a favorite cartoon. And it will be easier for you to invent colors, decorations, a child’s outfit and festive attributes.

• It is better to choose the theme of the holiday together with the hero of the occasion, and if you are confident in his preferences, then the thematic birthday can be made a wonderful surprise.

There are a lot of topics for children's holidays, here are three groups of the most popular topics:

1. Themes cartoons, movies and books. For example, it can be the classic “Alice in Wonderland” or “Cinderella”, or it can be modern and very popular “Cold Heart”, “My Little Pony”, “Harry Potter”, “Smeshariki”, “Minions”, etc. Examples of such design parties, see the following collection of photos (scroll).

2. Topics of interesting professions, fields of activity. It can be: scientists, ballerinas, pilots, astronauts, firefighters, farmers, detectives, etc. You can also find your child’s hobby - whether he likes drawing, singing, dancing, reading, interested in animals, history, geography, etc., All hobbies can be beaten in the decoration of the children's table.

3. Themes of different historical eras and cultures of the peoples of the world. It can be a design of a children's table, stylized on the theme of Indians, Vikings, medieval knights, pirates, etc.

On the other hand, it’s not very easy to match the chosen theme and oblige guests to dress up in certain outfits, so you can simply choose some interesting motif (hearts, stars, stripes, etc.), style and color palette.

2. Withstand colors

Regardless of whether you want to arrange a themed birthday or just beautifully arrange the table, you need to withstand a certain color range of 2-3 colors - this condition is almost the main secret of a successful table setting.Ideally, all elements - from napkins to tubes for drinks should match the selected shades.

3. Choose the right room and prepare the furniture.

• Children's holiday at home can be held in the children's room, living room or in the kitchen.

• If you want to put a candy bar, then a chest of drawers, a coffee table, a mobile serving table may be suitable as a table. You can arrange it in front of the window or in the corner, if there is not enough space.

• If room footage allows, you can divide guests into two companies and set two tables - one for parents and the other for little friends.

4. Hang the ceiling and wall decorations above the table

It is necessary to decorate not only the table itself, but also the space around it. Almost the entire decor can and should be done by hand:

• Garland with the inscription "Happy Birthday!" Or the name of the child;
• Paper decorations: colorful pompoms, flowers, figures, stars, hearts, etc .;
• Background at the table or candy bar made of paper or fabric, etc.

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5. Choose the right dish for sweets.

You will need to prepare:

• Plates and appliances;
• Shelves for sweets and fruit;

• Glasses Instead, you can use jars and bottles of suitable size, for example, from under the baby food. They, of course, should be decorated and pre-filled;

• Cake holder (cake stand);
• Vases for sweets;

• For the dessert bar you will need dishes and trays for refreshments.

Tip: for reasons of safety, economy and beauty, use disposable dishes - paper or hard plastic. It is necessary to try to find it in a certain color, but if you do not find it, take universal white sets.

6. Make an elegant tablecloth

There are no requirements for the festive tablecloth for the children's table, except for matching the chosen color scheme. Therefore, it is not necessary to buy high-quality finished products and waste time on neat sewing.

• Tablecloth for candy bar may have a small overhang or floor length. Such a banquet tablecloth easy to do with your own hands literally 1 evening of taffeta, organza, mesh or packaging film. For fixing and draping fabric, besides sewing, you can use a stapler, glue spider or just an adhesive tape as shown in the photo on the right.

• You can lay a disposable colored tablecloth or oilcloth on the festive children's table, which is now easy to find in regular stores;
• The most ordinary white tablecloth, which is in every home, is easy to creative modifications. You can simply lay on it an elegant runner of the desired color, a disposable color tablecloth or decorate it with a garland. In the next photo you can learn some ideas.

7. Make or buy decor for serving and refreshments

Decorations for the children's holiday table play a very large role, and you can also make them with your own hands from scrap and natural materials.

• Vases;
• Podtselniki;
• Napkins (paper, not textile);
• Ornaments for tubules, caps, spoons, etc .;
• Decoration for cake and desserts;
• Various desktop decor, including themed;
• Candle holders (it is possible only for a decor, it is necessary to light candles with care).

Here are some ideas you can take note of.

8. Create a menu and find suitable recipes.

Birthday for children is a feast of the belly, when the table is set with favorite sweets and not very useful goodies. Your task is not only to decorate dishes brightly, but also to serve them in a form convenient for children: in mini-formats, in cups, boxes, in the form of canapes, on skewers, on sticks and in tartlets. And most importantly, do not overdo it - kids do not need a lot of food during the fun.

Here is a list of dishes from which you can make a menu:

• Sweet (for the main table or candy bar): muffins, donuts, eclairs, pancakes, biscuits, macarons, gingerbread, cake pops (biscuit balls in icing on sticks), candy, marmalade, marshmallows, gingerbread, beautiful candy and, of course same cake. Sweets can replace / add fruits, berries and nuts in the form of canapes, sliced ​​or with yogurt in a cup. The photo below shows an example of decorating cupcakes and fruits for pirate evening students.

• Second: baked potatoes with stuffed inside, french fries, nuggets and macaroni and cheese are more likely to be eaten.
• Children's table can be served only with snacks: spring rolls, pies, small sandwiches, mini sandwiches and burgers, crackers, salads in tartlets.

9. Decorate the chairs

Chairs can also "participate" in the creation of the holiday. To do this, they can be decorated, draped, tied with a bow, tie a ball, hang ornaments, name tags or any thematic attributes on them.

10. Prepare memorable gifts or compliments for guests.

If you wish, in memory of the event, prepare mini-gifts or compliments for guests and place them on snack plates as shown in the photo below. It can be carrots with sweets, toys or attributes that are relevant to the subject. For example, tiaras for princesses, fairy wands for magic, eye patches for pirates, canopies, caps, etc., that is, what children can immediately apply and then take home.

And the last piece of advice is to start preparing for the holiday as early as possible, then you will have more time to make the decor yourself, search for and “rehearsal” recipes and other things. So, if you want to organize a holiday with a candy bar, then preparation should start as early as 6-2 months, depending on the size of the table. Well, that's all, we wish you pleasant creative troubles, creative ideas and their successful implementation!

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