Disney Princess Party Ideas

So here is the connection for this blog - Disney owns Lucasfilm and they also own (created) the Disney Princesses. Plus Leia is a princess too right?

Anyway, I was planning a birthday party for my little girl and she *loves* the Disney Princesses. So with some creativity and a few Pinterest searches, I came up with a lot of activities and I thought I'd share these with you. 

These are all very budget friendly - nothing you can't get at your local dollar store or Walmart...or even around your house!

Here they are, arranged by princess:

Rapunzel Race

This one was a lot of fun. It recreates the scene from Tangled where Rapunzel and Flynn Rider are being chased by the palace guards. You wrap up each princess in yellow streamers and give them a small saucepan (we used a couple from my daughter's toy kitchen). They run a short course and come back to the start. We ran two girls at a time. Even some of the older boys joined in on it!

Snow White's Wishing Well

This is a simple idea but a surprising hit with all the kids. Just decorate a plastic bucket and get some pennies. The girl stands a given distance and tosses each of the pennies to see how many she can get into the bucket. 

Make Your Own Enchanted Mirror (Belle)

Here is a crafting activity for Beauty and the Beast fans. Buy some hand mirrors from a dollar store and jeweled stickers from a hobby shop. The jeweled stickers can be a little pricey so we supplemented with small, regular flower stickers. Each girl decorates her mirror however she would like and gets to take it home with her. 

Anna's Snowball Practice

Remember when Anna and company met Marshmallow the snow monster? She threw a snowball and had pretty good aim, albeit ineffective. Well here is a game for the girls to practice. 

All you need are small, clear plastic cups and a soft ball. You could use a wiffle ball though I found a spongey baseball-style ball at the dollar store. Then you find a picture of the Frozen snow monster, shrink them down so you can fit nine to a page on landscape-oriented paper, print it out and cut them out. Now just tape one to the inside of each cup and you are set. 

To play the game, just stack up the cups into a pyramid shape and have the girl try to knock down as many as she can with the ball. 

It's also nice and compact for storage!

Ariel's Collection

This is one I haven't done myself but thought it was a good idea. You know how Ariel likes to collect things? Well it is the job of each girls to help Ariel with her collection.

Gather three to five of several types of objects. You need one type of object for each girl playing the game. One obvious type of object you can use is plastic forks for dinglehoppers. You could also use sea shells, spoons, hairbows, or other things that fairly small. Assign each girl one object, by giving each girl one of the that type. Now take all the remaining objects, mix them together and spread them out in a pile. The girls now have to hunt through the pile to find all of her objects. 

I used the word "object" quite a bit there...

Cinderella Shoe Race

Here is a Cinderella-themed activity that is easy to do. We all know that she had a hard time keeping her shoes on, right? When she was carrying breakfast up to Lady Tremaine and her step-sisters, she had to recover a shoe on the staircase. Then, of course, we have the famous loss of a glass slipper as she was running to her coach at midnight. All you need for this activity is several pairs of your wife's shoes (probably a good idea to check with her first though!). The game is have each girl put on this overly-large footwear and run a short course. If a girl loses a shoe, she has to stop and put it back on.

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Well that's it! I hope these ideas are helpful to you.