WellieWishers Willa’s Garden Picnic

This post is spon­sored by Amer­i­can Girl, but as always, all ideas and opin­ions are my own!

Have you heard of Amer­i­can Girl’s newest brand of dolls, WellieWish­ers?! These sweet girls are the best of friends that have fun and excit­ing adven­tures right in the back­yard. They wear the cutest out­fits and each have the most adorable wellie gar­den boots match­ing their clothes and per­son­al­i­ties! The WellieWish­ers dolls are small­er than the tra­di­tion­al Amer­i­can Girls {14.5″ vs. 18″} and have their own coor­di­nat­ing clothes and acces­sories tai­lored for the younger girl.

If you’ve been fol­low­ing along on the blog, you know that my daugh­ter, Anabelle, is a huge Amer­i­can Girl fan! In addi­tion to her Amer­i­can Girl in Paris birth­day par­ty we threw last year, we have also put togeth­er sev­er­al oth­er themed play­dates, includ­ing Maryel­len’s Fab­u­lous 50’s Din­er and Lea Clark’s Brazil­ian Trop­i­cal Play­date. When we heard about the new WellieWish­ers line, Anabelle was super excit­ed and upon read­ing up on the five girls, decid­ed she real­ly want­ed Willa, the adven­tur­ous, ani­mal-lov­ing friend! I think her pre­cious lady­bug wellies were a big sell­ing point! And we had to take the play­date out­doors with a gar­den pic­nic theme!

Instead of bas­kets, we gave our pic­nic a more gar­den feel with the incor­po­ra­tion of wood­en crates and plates, gal­va­nized stands and tubs and a black and white ging­ham blan­ket {rec­og­niz­able as table­cloths from the Grace-inspired par­ty!}. I made lit­tle fab­ric ban­ners to accen­tu­ate the crates and to tie back to Willa’s boots, we added some adorable lady­bug pol­ka dot bal­loons from Hoopla Events! The mix between Willa’s col­or­ful clothes, with flo­ral and pol­ka dot accents gave me the lib­er­ty to mix lots of col­ors and pat­terns in the decor.

A pic­nic is not a pic­nic with­out food and bev­er­ages! We served mini flower tea sand­wich­es that we sim­ply punched out with flower cook­ie cut­ters, along with some fresh straw­ber­ries. The top of the tiered stand dis­played the WellieWish­ers Berry Sweet Snack Stand with good­ies for Willa! Pink lemon­ade was served in glass jars with col­or­ful pin­wheel paper straws. Minia­ture plates and flo­ral nap­kins that I found at Joann were just per­fect for the occasion!

I found these cute faux moss-cov­ered let­ters at Michael’s, to which I added some col­or­ful arti­fi­cial flow­ers. I picked “W” for WellieWish­ers and Willa, but you can real­ly uti­lize the let­ters in fun and cre­ative ways to per­son­al­ize your event!

And now to the good stuff: sweets and desserts! I made these fun gar­den cup­cakes with lit­tle insects and veg­gies in lit­tle sil­i­cone flower pots. You can find out more about how to make the fon­dant top­pers here! I also found cute lit­tle crit­ter clips at the Dol­lar Tree, which we used to hold col­or­ful bag­gies of jel­ly beans that could be eat­en at the par­ty or be tak­en home as favors. And final­ly, Anabelle and I made lit­tle lady­bug Rice Krispies treats togeth­er! We sep­a­rat­ed and dyed the marsh­mal­low and melt­ed but­ter mix­ture red and black. Then we spread them out onto a bak­ing sheet and used round cir­cle cut­ters to cut out the bod­ies and heads. And we uti­lized extra of the black to make the dots! Just make sure the marsh­mal­low is still warm to attach the dots or use a lit­tle melt­ed choco­late to glue them.

On a small wood­en crate, Anabelle set up the dar­ling WellieWish­ers Tea for Two Par­ty Set. The minia­ture plates, cups and uten­sils all have their own lit­tle des­ig­nat­ed spots on the place­mats. And it also comes with an adorable owl teapot!

Anabelle had so much fun play­ing and hav­ing a tea par­ty with Willa! The WellieWish­ers line is absolute­ly pre­cious and I love that their adven­tures are geared to help kids learn how to “stand in anoth­er per­son­’s wellies” to dis­cov­er the skills of empa­thy, kind­ness, and com­pas­sion that will help them be good friends!

Merci Beaucoup!

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