Thread: Witch's Tea Party

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I've been inspired by the witch's parties on the forum and decided to have a small (8-10 guests) witch's tea party this year. I've looked through all the witch party threads but can't find anything pertaining to a tea party. Can anyone offer any suggestions?
So far, I have planned:
food - definitely a kitty litter cake and witch finger cookies, assorted hors'doeuvres, and alcoholic punch, served in teacups of course ,

decor - lots of black, purple, and green, black lace, dead roses and I'm going to use my creepy doll collection and set up a small table for a dead doll's tea party, seasons of a witch (jars with seasonal items labeled Samhain, Beltane, etc, and I already have plenty of potion jars and bottles,

activities - actual tea leaf readings with either one master book of interpretations or small individual books they can take with them,

invitations - would like to use the Welsh witches tea party picture but that's all I got,

bathroom - witch pinup pictures, Halloween soaps, potion bottles and assorted witch clothing hanging over the shower rod, then I draw a blank.

favors - don't know yet, maybe "poisoned" apples.
So, all you veteran witches, err...ladies, of witch parties what works for this type of party and what doesn't work. TIA

I've never been to a witch tea party, but would love it! Is it women only? I think all of your ideas are really good! What's the witchy style? Like, sparkley, Folk artsy? Witch trial era?

I love all of your ideas, Tanna. I would just suggest having some cauldrons here and there. If you could find a real one and have it simmering on the stove with some 'brew' that would be wicked (no pun intended). And ya gotta have a black cat laying around somewhere! Rats and other rodents lurking around would be a good idea too. For the bathroom, well first let me just say I love the idea of witch clothes hanging around (it would be histerics if you could find some kinda Halloween bra & panties to hang over the shower curtain). On the counter in the bathroom, make some bottles of 'remedies'. Instead of wart remover, have instant wart lol. You could have a bottle of 'gray hair dye', rotten teethpaste, boil cream, black widow perfume, black lipstick. Gosh, the possibilities are endless! For favors, you could get those little plastic cauldron pails (like the pumpkin ones) and fill them with homemade candy or fudge. Tie some raffia around the handle for decoration and call it a day! Oh yeah...for appetizers, you could also make some tea sandWITCHES. Either cut them into witch shapes with a cookie cutter, or if you were going to use like say ham salad, you could add some food coloring and make it nasty looking. I've seen some cool recipes for witch treats. Let me know if you're interested in them and I'll post the links for ya

I did a witch theme a few years ago and had a 'witches' altar set up, complete with athame, candles, chalice, pendulum etc. and some tarot cards laid out, but I guess mine was more of the 'Wiccan' persuasion rather than the cackling witches of tradition. I have a cauldron that is a fog mister, so I used that and the kids were dressed up as;-girls;witches and boys;-devils/imps. I printed out some verses/poems with a spell theme and aged the paper with tea and ripped the edges and had a fairy trapped in a jar. I also had a cd of real wiccan chants going in the background.

Originally Posted by carmilla1970

I did a witch theme a few years ago and had a 'witches' altar set up, complete with athame, candles, chalice, pendulum etc. and some tarot cards laid out, but I guess mine was more of the 'Wiccan' persuasion rather than the cackling witches of tradition. I have a cauldron that is a fog mister, so I used that and the kids were dressed up as;-girls;witches and boys;-devils/imps. I printed out some verses/poems with a spell theme and aged the paper with tea and ripped the edges and had a fairy trapped in a jar. I also had a cd of real wiccan chants going in the background.

How did you do your faery in a jar? Do you have pics? I would love to see them.

The fairy in a jar was actually bought at Burley in the New Forest here in the Uk. Its a series called 'Freshly Caught Fairies', can't think who the manufacturer is. Its packed at the moment as I'm moving house this week, but If you had a little fairy ornament, you could just clean an empty jar and put it inside. The bought one, looks like it was made from Fimo or some other modelling clay and then some bits of grass and plant seeds stuck in the bottom.

I love all of your ideas so far! Will post again after I give it some thought.

Amazon has fairies for pretty cheap. You could always buy one and hunt for a jar or bird cage at one of the thrift stores.

Originally Posted by kallie

I've never been to a witch tea party, but would love it! Is it women only? I think all of your ideas are really good! What's the witchy style? Like, sparkley, Folk artsy? Witch trial era?

kallie, there are some great witch party threads posted on the forum by some fabulous ladies. Typically a witch party is for female guests only, dressed in witch attire.

My idea of a witch would be natural and woodsy but I guess I need to add a little glam for a tea party. Not too much glitter tho and not too cutesy. More like black lace, spider web doileys, purple vases with black roses and creepy cloth everywhere ...

Miss Mandy, a big *mwaah* to you! Exactly the type of ideas I wanted; I knew the bathroom needed something more and the twist on beauty and makeup labels is fantastic! "Gray hair dye" (die?) "instant wart" LMAO

I knew I needed some type of tea sandwiches and thought of using pumpernickel bread but never thought of using cookie cutter shapes - perfect.

Gawd, I love this sight!!

<note to self: need witchy bra & panties>

I planned on making some fairy skellys for the garden using the Dollar Tree skeleton garland so I like the idea of trapping one in a jar. lol I thought about a witch's altar but last year at our Voodoo party I guess I was a little too realistic, it actually freaked some people out. My friends are wimps so even though I think authenticity is cool, I have to keep things more on the fictional side. Cauldrons, frogs, black cats, spell book, etc...