Hi....my daughter and I are planning a tea party for her nurses. Robyn (my daughter) is paralyzed from the neck down and has 4 nurses that take care of her 16 hours a day so we thought we would give them a Thank you party.  I am sure you can adept it for a birthday party.  We sent out invitations that were designed for Tea Party's.  Our menu is 2 different types of loose tea. One is a breakfast tea for mixing with milk and sugar the other is a fruit tea. We will have scones with lemon curd and clotted cream and several jams.  Then we will have several different kinds of finger sandwiches.  (cucumber dill, and then just plain cheese and mayo)  You need to make 6-8 sandwiches per guest as they are small. then we will have desserts. Usually I would make a couple different kinds of cookies with a cake and maybe pudding but my mom found this really cute Tea pot cake.  It looks just like a tea pot. So that is what I am going to make this time.  Our decorations will be pretty simple.  A white table cloth, with lace doilies for placemats. A vase with wildflowers in the middle. And then the goodies. Also we went to a second hand antique store and bought one tea cup with saucer for each guest and we are going to fill it full of pastel colored candies, wrap in tulle and tie off with pretty cloth ribbons to give as a present.  The tea cups with saucers ranged anywhere from $3.00 to $15.00.  I choose the least expensive ones and they look really nice.  We are also going to play a game called "Who knows Robyn best?".  We got most of our ideas from 2 different books.  Both are by Emilie Barns. One was for little girls and the other was for adults. because I also love to scrapbook I am going to be taking lots of pictures and have found lots of paper and stickers to help with that.  I hope you enjoy your tea party as much as we will ours.