Fabulous Favors and Gifts from Fairy Finery

One of the goals we have here at The Gala Goose is to find quality favors and gifts for your children and their party guests. Beautiful, unique things you can feel good about giving your children. We feel that our new party goods from Fairy Finery fit that bill to a tee! Fairy Finery makes their costumes, accessories and gifts right here in the United States and is clear about their commitment to safety testing. I am excited to pass these gems on to our customers!

The adorable "Fairy and Me" tea set makes a special party favor. A sweet gift from the fairies! The tea pot can be worn on a necklace or bracelet, but who can't imagine their little fairy spending an afternoon simply playing tea party in the garden.

The Pirate Booty Bag, complete with cloth map, silver or gold studded eye-patch (this is no ordinary pirate eye-patch!) and working 10x telescope will definitely wow your little pirates. A sure winner with parents too, we haven't seen anything quite like this!

And finally, sweet posy wands for the flower fairies. We love these wands because they are not at all like the others! Just a lovely flower face when you want a break from the rest of the princess wands!

Astronaut Party

Emma and Oliver celebrated their birthdays this year with a fantastic Astronaut Training Party. Check out the incredible rocket cake complete with edible astronauts! We decked out the training center with our stars tableware and decor and each birthday guest received a NASA cap and mission training card before setting out to complete their training.

Mission 1: Moonwalk
● Print out on cardstock, and laminate, copies of a moon image.
● Place the moons (as many moons as there are guests, minus one) in a circle on the floor. Use double-sided tape on the backs of the moons to prevent slipping.
● Play "space-themed" music (the kids loved "The Imperial March" from Star Wars as well as the Star Wars theme song, and "Also Sprach Zarathustra" from 2001 Space Odyssey) while the children walk from moon-to-moon around the circle.
● When the music ends, everyone needs to land on the moon, if you are left floating in space, the game is over for you...off to mission 2!

Mission 2: Rocket Launch
Endless possibilities here. Give each child his or her own bungee blast rocket. See how high or how far you can launch the rocket. Set up a field of asteroids to blast, or aim for your favorite planet. To be honest, this was the simplest of ideas and the one the kids could have spent all day doing. Fair warning...the adults were as entertained with this one as the kids were. You may want to have extra rockets on hand!

Mission 3: Saturn's Ring Toss
Grab a ring toss game, cover the post with tinfoil, spray-paint a styrofoam ball gold and place on top of the post, fill clear tubing with glitter, connect the tubing ends to form a ring and you have Saturn's ring toss!

Location tip: Celebrating a birthday in Portland and need a location to host the party? Visit the Missisippi Ballroom in North Portland for a no-hassle space large enough for most kids' parties.

Welcome

Welcome to the Gala Goose Blog! We have created this blog as a space to collect some of our favorite party ideas, activities, hints, tips and party goods. We hope that you will find something to inspire your next birthday party and that when you have great ideas of your own to share, you will do so here!

We hope you enjoy your party!