Tinkerbell Party on a Budget

Professionally made birthday cakes can be expensive. Luckily they're not essential in creating a Tinkerbell birthday cake. You can avoid the expensive of a top bakery cake by using a cake topper. 

Cake toppers look brilliant and add a professional touch to ANY cake. You can buy an iced cake or make any cake you like and then add a Tinkerbell cake topper as a finishing touch. So easy. They're cheap too (this one is only $5.50). 

If you want you can also buy some flower or butterfly cake decorations made of icing. But these cake decorations are optional. If you have a yummy iced cake that kids will love the Tinkerbell cake topper is often enough. 

Cookies are a birthday party essential. But the very expensive Tinkerbell cookies are not. 

You can save a lot of money by making your own fairy cookies from a fairy cookie cutter.

You can make the cookie dough from your child's favorite cookie recipe. Or you can buy some ready made cookie dough that only needs to be cut into shape and cooked. 

Fairy shaped cookie cutters can be hard to find. But I was able to find this cute one at Amazon. 

Cupcakes are another favorite party food for kids. But again you don't have to buy special Tinkerbell cupcakes which are expensive. You can use the same sort of idea as a cake topper to make Tinkerbell cupcakes - and keep within your planned spending budget. 

Cupcake rings can turn homemade cupcakes (or basic store bought ones) into fabulous Tinkerbell cupcakes. Like the cake toppers they look very professional. You just need to be creative with the icing to make them look their best. This means you might want to use of couple of different icing colors for the best effect. 

When it comes to Tinkerbell party favors it works out cheaper to buy them in a bulk amount. If you can get the party bags ready-made this is even better.

This Disney Fairies Party Favor Pack is the best I could find in the ready-made range. 

Each Pack has 8 filled party favor bag for 8 children. Inside kids will find a Tinkerbell activity sheet, jumbo sticker, whistle, kaleidoscope and a ring. This works out to about $1.20 for each child for 5 party favors. 

You can always add a special party favor to the bag if you would like to as well. 

Latex balloons aren't the best choice for very young children (under 3) because they're a choking risk. But they're the best choice for a Tinkerbell party for children 3 years and up when you want to keep within a budget. 

Why are these balloons a good idea if you want to save money? Because you can mix and match them with normal (and cheaper) latex balloons. Not every balloon at the party needs to be a Tinkerbell one. You can mix them up with plain, colored balloons for a great overall effect that still has the Tinkerbell theme. Just pick colors that match your Tinkerbell balloons.

A tablecloth, plates and cups are essentials for your party. Because the table is the biggest feature of your party it's best if it's in a Tinkerbell theme too. 

This Disney Fairies Party Pack is the cutest and the best value for money pack I could find. It has 16 paper plates, 16 paper cups, 32 luncheon napkins and 1 plastic table cover. They're officially licensed Disney products too. The price works out to about $1.80 per child.

If you will have more than 16 children at the party you can buy the items separately too - so you can just add on as you need to. 

These Tinkerbell Swirl Decorations are pretty and eye-catching. So they'll be a beautiful decorative feature in your party room. This means you can get by with just one set of these Swirl Decorations which is good for your party budget. But you won't lose any of the festive feel to your party room by spending less. 

If you want some extra party room decoration these Swirl Decorations look great with crepe paper streamers. These are cheap and really brighten up a party room. 

Finally if you want to add a finishing touch think about a Tinkerbell centerpiece for the table.

Centerpieces like this look lovely and aren't expensive. They add to the brightness and festivity of a party. Although they aren't really needed if you get a party pack with a decorative tablecloth. Unless you have another small table you need to decorate of course. 

Now this Tinkerbell Balloon Centerpiece was definitely my favorite. I thought it was the cutest and best looking of the ones available at Amazon.