I must admit, since my visit to Germany in August this year and my subsequent stay in Rapunzel’s Tower in Clarens, I am a little obsessed with castles. To be more specific, with the towers of old castles.
I love the textures of the different bricks and building materials, the weathered look, the moss and other strange stuff that grows on these walls.
It reminds me of all the stories I read as a child, not only of war and poverty, but also of romance; beautiful princesses, handsome princes, fairy godmothers and wicked stepmothers, and always, but always, happy endings.
Even in today’s modern world, kids still love these stories. I think in a way we need stories with happy endings even if we just use it for party themes; we all have to take a break from normal living and what better way than to have a party on your birthday.
I have been trying to come up with a theme for a Rapunzel party for the last two weeks… take a look at the date of my last post… I think sometimes one of the most difficult things for a parent is to come up with an appropriate theme for their kid’s birthday party…
They grow up sooo fast; one day they like Winnie the Pooh, the next they like Spider Woman or Spider Man; what a vast difference… from a cuddly little bear to this alien eight-legged “thing” that can climb walls and do impossibly human tricks…
and then we as parents are bombarded with stories about how bad it is for your kid to believe in fairy tales… and I must admit… these old stories are rife with crime… but maybe we should take this with a touch of salt… did the victims in these stories not always survive? Snow White awakes after the handsome prince give her a kiss…. jeez, did they not all awake after a kiss???
When we have children and raise them to our values should we not also include a little “make-believe” in our teachings? Our responsibility lies in teaching them about the real world – to make them aware of crime and to always be on the look-out for things that can hurt them, but we should never, ever take away the “magic” element in life…
There is so much good in life, we just have to look past the bad things that happen and if it not touches our lives, teach our children to be thankful.
So hopefully, in my next post I will tell you how to organise a Rapunzel party… does any of today’s girls have these “elle” long hair… just think how much pain this girl must have suffered when the enchantress climbed up her long golden tresses – I wonder what she ate every day – sandwiches? hmm, do you know how you can turn simple sandwiches into good party food by using cookie cutters???
Last word… parties are about fun and imagination… who cares if it is true???
Have fun planning your kid’s theme party.
Oh yes… click on the image to open in a new window, right click and save to your pc so your kids can start colouring their Rapunzel Tower adventure.
hey Elsie,
remember it, we have also been in Austria and have visited a few castles too
as Hohen-Salzburg, Schönbrunn/Vienna, Halbturn und Eisenstadt im Burgenland,
sorry for it, but think had just to put/do a few adds for my homecontry too !!!!
KH
No problem if you advertise your country here. If you follow the link in the post, you will see that it lead to another post with a link to the Shönbrunn Castle in Vienna, it is a lovely inspiration for a princess party theme.