Princess in Black Party

The Princess in Black series (PIB) is quite popular at my libraries so I decided to host a party in February. I took a deep dive into the books and a couple of parties other libraries had hosted to plan mine. 

Upon arrival guests were invited to find their Princess or Prince name by drawing a flower name out of a basket and then writing it on a name tag. I used the calling cards from Flower Power Bingo from Drag Drop Learning Games on Teachers Pay Teachers for the names. (I had previously purchased the game for another event.)

Then we immediately started crafting so the guests would be ready for all the games and activities. I had three different crafts: 

• Make Your Own Tiara: this idea was from the PIB Event Kit. The crown template was from First Palette. I provided jewel stickers from Dollar Tree to decorate the tiaras. 
• Make Your Own Wand: this idea as from Katherine's party post of the YSS Blog. I provided dowels, stickers, laser cut wooden shapes, and jewel stickers. I also had hot glue for assembling. 
• Make Your Own Glitter-Stone Ring: this idea was from the PIB Event Kit. I used leftover kits from my past Fancy Nancy Parties. The kits contain two buttons and a piece of pipe cleaner. Once that was assembled, the guests could add a jewel sticker to their rings. 

For the games we had the following:

• Monster Battle and Goat Rescuing: this idea was also from Katherine's party post of the YSS Blog. Six monsters and six goats were hidden around the room for the guests to battle and rescue. 
• Crepe Paper Races: This was my own idea. We used a theme of Princesses vs. Heroes and used pink crepe paper for the Princess team and black crepe paper for the Heroes team. The first team to wrap their designated person from head to toe in crepe paper was the winner. 
• Princess in Black Heroes Scavenger Hunt: Another idea that was my own. I used illustrations from the books and created a scavenger hunt that included all the characters as heroes. This was fifteen so many a few too many for a party that was about an hour. 

I had the following activities for the guests to take home:

• Coloring Page (My First Book Club)
• Make Your Own Monster (PIB Event Kit)
• Superhero Identity (PIB Event Kit)

For more ideas you can also download a party kit from the PIB website or a teacher's guide from the publisher's website.