Anne of Green Gables Garden Party | Tales from Anne of Green Gables | Girl's Party Ideas

The preparations began way before the day of our garden party featuring all things from the beloved book by L.M. Montgomery, "Anne of Green Gables"
It is such a nice surprise to get something in your mailbox!
Together, my granddaughter and I made hand-made invitations.
Elizabeth sketched "Anne" and we colored her with watercolors and acrylic markers. Her carrot-colored braids were made from strands of cotton floss and inserted under her hat with a slit in the paper card and taped into place from the backside. A dried tiny flower bouquet was glued on for a finishing touch.
Always remember to include on your invitations
Date
Time
Place
and any important details in your invitations.
PARTY FAVORS:
Mini chalkboards
Straw Hats & Hair Ribbons
MENU:
Tiny Tea Sandwiches on homemade bread
*peanut butter & honey spread
*butter, ham & cucumber
Apples
Grapes
Strawberries
Cherry Almond Cookies
Macarons
Mini Cupcakes
Lemon Sour Cream Pudding
Strawberry Lemonade
Raspberry Cordial
Tea
FUN & GAMES:
**Charades
A glass jar was filled with slips of paper with characters or things for the girls to act out pertaining to the tales from the beloved books by L.M. Montgomery:
RAT
TEACHER
MATTHEW
ANNE
HORSE & BUGGY
BOOKS
MILKING THE COW
CANOE
SPRAINED ANKLE
GOING TO CHURCH
PICNICS
They chose a slip blindly and then acted it out for the girls to guess!
Laugher and fun for all!
**Strawberry Basket Toss Game
We made our "strawberry" bean bags from the inspiration here:
wildolive.blog...
The game rules went like this:
2 points for every berry that is tossed and lands in your basket with your name. 1 point goes to the player whose name is on the basket if you miss your own basket and toss it into her basket.
Player with the most points after 6 tosses per player wins.
Round of 2 tosses per player at a time and repeat it 3x.
Must stand behind the line and make your toss.
Winner declared after 6 players toss the berries 6x each.
Prize awarded by the hostess.
Laughter and fun for all!
**Hide & Seek (Marilla's brooch)
A real brooch was hidden in the garden and the girls played hide & seek to find it --inspired by the tale in chapter XIII of "Anne of Green Gables" by L.M. Montgomery.
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Anne's view on picnics...
"I look at my elbows every morning when I get up to see if any dimples are coming. Diana is having a new dress made with elbow sleeves. She is going to wear it to the picnic. Oh, I do hope it will be fine next Wednesday. I don’t feel that I could endure the disappointment if anything happened to prevent me from getting to the picnic. I suppose I’d live through it, but I’m certain it would be a lifelong sorrow. It wouldn’t matter if I got to a hundred picnics in after years; they wouldn’t make up for missing this one. They’re going to have boats on the Lake of Shining Waters-and ice cream, as I told you. I have never tasted ice cream. Diana tried to explain what it was like, but I guess ice cream is one of those things that are beyond imagination.”
“Anne, you have talked even on for ten minutes by the clock,” said Marilla. “Now, just for curiosity’s sake, see if you can hold your tongue for the same length of time.”
Anne held her tongue as desired. But for the rest of the week she talked picnic and thought picnic and dreamed picnic. On Saturday it rained and she worked herself up into such a frantic state lest it should keep on raining until and over Wednesday that Marilla made her sew an extra patchwork square by way of steadying her nerves.
On Sunday Anne confided to Marilla on the way home from church that she grew actually cold all over with excitement when the minister announced the picnic from the pulpit.
“Such a thrill as went up and down my back, Marilla! I don’t think I’d ever really believed until then that there was honestly going to be a picnic. I couldn’t help fearing I’d only imagined it. But when a minister says a thing in the pulpit you just have to believe it.”
“You set your heart too much on things, Anne,” said Marilla, with a sigh. “I’m afraid there’ll be a great many disappointments in store for you through life.”
Music Credits: Pixabay.com
Credits to: Charity Greene Photography
Party Planner: Marmee & Elizabeth
Location: Marmee's Garden on Greene Acres