Strawberry Shortcake Party Ideas

Strawberry Shortcake Party Ideas

Did you love Strawberry Shortcake when you were a child?  I did, especially her strawberry-scented red hair!  Those little dolls were the best to play with.  Today, Strawberry Shortcake and her friends are still favorite characters and a berry perfect way to inspire a party that is sure to be berry fun!  If your daughter loves her too, find great ideas below to pull your party together.

Strawberry Shortcake Invitations:

If you are interested in something fancy that can be hand-delivered to your guests, head to your local craft store and purchase simple straw hats that you decorate with fabric strawberries and pink and red ribbon.  Inside the hats, ask your guests to attend your Strawberry Shortcake Party for a Berry Great Girl!  Make sure to request that your guests wear their straw hats to your party.

Strawberry Shortcake Decorations:

For this party, it’s all about pink, red, and white for your color scheme.  Balloons, streamers, confetti, and tulle to make the room and party chairs fancy are all appropriate to make this party extra sweet

Make your balloons look like strawberries by blowing up red balloons and drawing black seeds all over each one.  Bunch these around the front door to the party or scatter around the party yard (with weights attached) to make a strawberry field.

On the front door, hang a banner that says “Welcome to Strawberryland!”

Don’t forget the strawberries.  Cut out large strawberries from red construction paper and decorate your front door with them, hang them with fishing line from the ceiling, place them on the backs of the party chairs, and have a strawberry path leading to your front door.

Play Strawberry Shortcake music.

For a table centerpiece, gather up your child’s Strawberry Shortcake dolls (or maybe you still have yours) and place them in the center of the table.

Strawberry Shortcake Game and Activities:

When the kids arrive to the party, have a face painter paint strawberries on their faces.

Hand out strawberry scratch-n-sniff stickers for the kids to wear during the party or place on one another.

Play Strawberry, Strawberry Shortcake.

Play Pin the Seed on the Strawberry.

Hold a Strawberry Scavenger Hunt.  Fill small bags with small strawberry favors, such as strawberry candies, strawberry stickers, lip balms, etc.  Give the kids a designated amount of time to search out all of the strawberries.  The goodies they find they can take home with them.

Hold a Strawberry Relay Race.  Divide the kids into two teams and provide each team with a bowl of strawberries.  The kids must carry the strawberries with a large spoon to the other side of the relay race and fill the empty bowl at the other end with the strawberries.  They can’t drop their strawberries, or they must begin again.  The first team done wins.

During your party, serve Strawberry Shortcake.  Provide recipe cards with a strawberry shortcake recipe and together have the guests make their own with biscuits, strawberries, and whipped cream.  They may want to add more toppings to their shortcakes so have a few other options available too.

Strawberry Shortcake Party Favors:

Using plastic sundae dishes, write the names of your guests on them with paint pens and then fill with strawberry goodies, either real strawberries or strawberry gummies or other strawberry candies.

Article Submitted by Lisa Kothari

Lisa Kothari is the Founder and President of Peppers and Pollywogs, a kids’ party planning company.  Visit our experts page to read more about Lisa Kothari and our party planning experts.