Tea Party Diva - Life & Craft

Pancake Tuesday and Pancake Week

Have a Pancake Tea Party for Pancake Tuesday, also
known as Shrove Tuesday.IN 2007, it falls on Tuesday, February 20th.

Pancake Tuesday is the day before Lent. Lent is the 40 days of fasting before Easter Sunday. Traditionally, people used up all their special foods such as butter before Lent, and making pancakes was a good way to do it. Pancake Tuesday falls in February each year, and is sometimes celebrated for a week before, as Pancake Week.

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Pancake Party Ideas and ActivitiesCooking and Preparation

• Are you having a theme?
• Indoors or Outdoors?
• Teaset or crazy mix and match plates, cups and teapot?
• Plastic, crockery or throw away?
• Lay plain paper over the whole table, holding it down with table clips
• Use prepared pancake mix to keep it simple
• Make the pancakes small flapjack or pikelet size for ease of eating. It also allows you to have variety
• Make a few individual ones, and a few for the centre of the table
• Have a cooking party if you like - best for a small group
• Make it a Pyjamas and Pancakes party if you like.

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Turtle Shaped Pancakes

• Make a small turtle pancake for each child - just add extra batter in the pan, to the circle - for a head, four feet and a tail
• What other simple shapes can you make based on a circle? Crab? Spider?

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Activities
Enlist the help of someone else to handle activities as you will be busy with cooking. While they wait, guests can decorate the placemats or tablecloth with your theme

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Time to Eat - Tea Party Food

• Give each child a small squeeze bottle of maple syrup, and a tiny bowl of mixed sprinkles and candy to decorate the pancake
• They can make squiggles, write their name or make a funny face
• Have shaped cutters on the table so children can cut shapes from their pancakes e.g. Gingerbread Man (Pancake Man), Hearts, Holiday Shapes, Cars, Animals etc.
• Serve with icecream. Also have some other foods like small sandwiches, cakes, fruit, carrot sticks etc.
• If too young for tea, fill a teapot with apple juice or pink lemonade.
  

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  Pancake Tea Party Activities
  • Do a variation on The Gingerbread Man with a Runaway Pancake
    story and theme
  • Read Pancake Stories and tea party poems
  • Children can retell and act out the pancake stories
  • Use puppets to put on a puppet play of pancake story favourites or their own creations
  • Children can make masks using a circle and a ruler for the story characters to act it

Kids Tea Party Themes