The setting and decorations recreate that magical world where cows can jump over the moon and your fitness program includes jumping over a candlestick. Colors should either be soft pastels from another era or primary colors for an updated look. Primary colors are red, blue and yellow for those of you who forgot.
Nursery rhyme pictures, coloring books, cutouts, game-boards, and even stuffed toys can all be put to good use when planning the setting. Nursery rhymes cover bucolic landscapes, seascapes, castles, shoe shaped houses, and gardens so let your imagination run wild. Bits of lattice work, plastic fencing, or some creative roping can become pasture, or ship, garden, or castle. Add draped fabrics to give settings an exotic or romantic look. Lots of bows, frill, lace on costumes and tables will add the special touches needed. Make oversized cutouts from those beloved refrigerator boxes to represent characters, castles, boats for three men, farm houses, crooked stiles, or that old shoe.
Read a nursery rhyme and then decide what type of prop you could make to represent it. This idea makes wonderful decorations as well as a starting point for a game. Two paper plates put together and painted become the infamous pie, add a couple blackbirds escaping from the top. Poster board and paper towel rolls could be fashioned into a candlestick with candle and flame, use creativity and small, styrofoam balls to produce Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum' s rattle. Imagination, simple, or on-hand materials can turn a "so-so party" into a "Wow, that was something party."
Activities and games can be simple like saying half a nursery rhyme and asking your guests to finish the other half or showing them one of the props you've created and expecting them to guess which nursery rhyme it is from. An example for the first game could be: the host says,"Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water" - your guest would answer, "Jack fell down and broke his crown and Jill came tumbling after." The second game is where you show them say, the candlestick, and they tell you that it is from Jack Be Nimble, Jack Be Quick.
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