Birthday - Japanese tea party

 For the invitation I used a teacup stamp+cutouts from a washi paper (Japanese handmade paper). Inside, a friend of mine wrote "Welcome" in Japanese. 
The text for the invitation I have found on the web (sorry but do not remember where) and it said:

"Wear your finest dress and your mothers pearls we are having a tea party just for the girls"

For the door, I stamped and then scanned the same teacup and let Ella color it. 

 As for a special activity, Ella & I made a swamp with origami cranes, boats and lotus flowers. For the grass we used the plastic dividers commonly used in sushi (bought in 100 yen shop) and Ella made a bird house for the baby cranes. The girls used chopstick to catch as many cranes, flowers or boats as they could.

For the tea cups we used ribbons in different colors/patters so that each girl would recognize their own teacup. The tea was actually juice but it was served from a real teapot.