I am SO excited to share this party! Planning my daughter’s birthday party each year brings me so much joy! I have no idea where time goes, but she turned 7, and we celebrated with an Enchanted Garden Party complete with a gardening station where each girl created her own fairy garden.
Blakely loves gardening (she takes after my mom) and since her birthday is in the spring, she was SO excited to have her friends over for a gardening party!
This might be one of my favorite party themes. It was perfect for her age as the girls loved getting to create something they could take home, and they loved learning about gardening too!
I linked the previous years’ parties below if you are looking for more girl birthday party ideas.
- 1st Birthday –
- 2nd Birthday – Two-tti Fruity Party
- 3rd Birthday – Sprinkles Party
- 4th Birthday – FORE! Pink Golf-Themed Party
- 5th Birthday – Princess Tea Party & Cake Painting
Last year, being 2020 🤪, we just had a small celebration at home for her 6th birthday. While she just had 7 friends this year (I love the tip of letting kids invite the number of friends of the age they are turning), it was still SO exciting to be able to throw a birthday party again!
I absolutely loved creating a magical and enchanted garden theme in our dining room. I wanted the girls to feel like they were enjoying “lunch in the garden” with their friends.
Check out all the pictures and details below. I tried to answer all the party questions below, but leave a comment if you have any questions, and I’ll go my best to answer!
Garden Party Table
For Blakely’s enchanted garden party, we decided on a lavender and green theme. All the green and purple hues were so pretty, and I think the tablescape turned out so magical! It was so pretty to walk into this room!
First we made a simple table runner with a lavender gingham fabric trimmed in matching ricrac trim. On top we placed a roll-out green faux moss runner that I found during the Easter season.
To create our enchanted garden centerpiece, we added moss “fairy” houses, topiaries, lots of potted flowers and the beautiful lavender cake to match our theme from Copper Whisk Cakes. I absolutely LOVED the tiny fairy door on the cake. SO cute!
I had the topiaries on my back porch so I simply repurposed them for this party. I always recommend “shopping” your home for items you can reuse for tablescapes. We tucked in lots of charming floral touches and butterflies to tie it into the garden theme.
Purple Gingham Fabric (Hobby Lobby)
3D Butterflies (come in lots of colors, SO cute)
Moss Runner (At Home – similar one here)
Birthday Cake (Copper Whisk Cakes)
Moss “Fairy” Houses (Hobby Lobby)
Garden Party Place Settings
The place settings were my absolute favorite details. We reused the grass chargers that my Mom and I made for her 1st birthday party (made from the faux grass roll-outs at Home Depot).
On top of each grass charger was a simple lavender plate, a floral crown headband, a gingham napkin and a scalloped terra cotta pot. Tucked down in each pot we had utensils, flower seed packets, and a garden label marker that we used as “place cards”.
Grass Chargers (DIY)
Lavender Plates, Cups, Utensils (Party City)
Gingham Napkins (HomeGoods)
Garden Name Markers (Dollar Tree)
Scalloped Pots (Moore & Moore Garden, Nashville)
Floral Crown Headband
More Party Details
On the back of each chair, I added flowers, butterflies and purple ribbon to my small boxwood wreaths (from Ballard Designs). I use these every holiday season, and I loved repurposing them for this party!
Around the chandelier, we created a hanging floral design. I have a traditional-style chandelier hanging over the table so we used the arms of the chandelier to hold hanging greenery, flowers and butterflies.
There wasn’t much of a science to this as much as just hanging greenery first and then filling in with pops of color from flowers and butterflies. Then we tweaked and adjusted it until we were happy. I LOVED the magical garden feel that it gave to the party! It truly felt like you were sitting out in a pretty garden, despite the drizzly rain. The sun did pop out at the end of the party though!
The boxwood letter wreath is one we’ve had quite a while (originally from Grandinroad) and we embellished it with a couple of flowers and some purple gingham ribbon!
Entryway Garden Arch
One of my FAVORITE details was the garden arch that my Mom and I created to welcome the girls to the party!
We gathered up lots of greenery in various textures and sizes (mostly from Hobby Lobby but some from Michaels and JoAnns) and tucked them around my arched entryway. We added colorful balloons and lots of little butterflies throughout.
We also added in two moss butterflies that I repurposed from her 1st birthday. They’re about 8-9 years old so I sadly don’t have a source, but keep your eyes open in the spring at craft stores for similar decor!
Similar to the floral chandelier design, we just placed the flowers and balloons sporadically until we loved how it looked. Then we tucked in butterflies! Lots of butterflies!
Painting Fairy Houses
Before the girls enjoyed lunch and cake, they got to pick out a “fairy house” aka a wooden bird house from the craft store! After they ate, the houses were dry enough to set down in their gardens.
Planting Station
We had just enough drizzly rain on the day of the party that we decided to have our planting on the porch instead of out in the garden. The girls didn’t mind one bit, and they had so much fun planting their flowers!
Kids Gardening Gloves
Kids Shovels
Fairy Gardens
After planting on the porch, the girls added their fairy house to their gardens and began the fun part of decorating the garden!
I went to a few craft stores and the dollar store to get lots of fun rocks, gems, mini fairies, and more to decorate their gardens.
I also found these cute white fences for them too!
We sent each girl home with all their gardening tools, including these little misters so they could water their fairy garden flowers!
Even our newest addition, Ivy, enjoyed the birthday party for her big sis!
It was a magical day of friends and fun for our “little” girl. I can’t believe she’s 7, and I truly have no idea where time goes! Soon, we’ll be celebrating our Ivy’s 1st birthday (stay tuned, I’m so excited about the theme).
If you’re hosting your own fairy garden party, I hope you’ve found LOTS of garden party inspiration, and leave questions below, and I’ll do my best to answer them!
Check out more birthday party activities for children (25 of the BEST ideas for kids parties).
