It is with the deepest pride and greatest pleasure, that we share some of our favorite Beauty and the Beast inspired party ideas! With the new live action movie coming out (watch the trailer here) we just had to share our ideas for this party theme. Fit this party theme with any age group and with any amount of guests right here in Fort Collins, Loveland, and Windsor Colorado. Be our guest as we talk about some of our favorite Beauty and the Beast inspired party ideas.
Invite Your Guests
Colored ribbon creates texture and helps to spruce up the invitations for a Beauty and the Beast inspired party. Invitations like these are easy to recreate or easily bought here. 
Invitations set the tone for any party and there are great ways to make invitations special. An invitation in a square or rectangle are classic shapes but invitations in the shape of a rose, ballgown or handheld mirror can really standout. Watch the classic movie at a Beauty and the Beast inspired party and send out invitations in the shape of a movie ticket. Show off the theme of the party with invitations and get your guests excited for the Beauty and the Beast inspired party.
Beauty and the Beast Inspired Decorations
Charm the shoes right off your guests with magical decorations. Yellow, gold, white with splashes of blue would make a great color scheme for a Beauty and the Beast inspired party. Gold balloons with blue ribbons make for great decorations. Tie the party theme into the party with table decorations. The foundation for tables should be white table clothes. Yellow tulle or plastic table cloths found at the local party store can be draped around the edges of a table. Mimic Belle’s fancy ballgown with this look. White Christmas lights underneath tulle table cloths create a magical and playful look. Candles or tea lights add a dramatic flair and a magical light all around a party. There is something special about a candlelit dinner or event.
Red Rose Decorations
Red roses have to be used at a Beauty and the Beast inspired party. It is up to you if you want to use silk or fresh flowers. Fresh flowers smell wonderful but can be very expensive and will only last a day or so. Silk flowers are not as realistic but will last all day and will still look great if little hands try to grab them. Red roses as centerpieces would be beautiful. Bonus points if you can find a glass topper to set on top of them to create an enchanted rose.
Scatter rose petals on tables and on the floor to add to the look. A clever DIY topper, takes a clear soda bottle with the top cut off and glued to a plate with a red rose in the middle. A clear plastic cup with a rose in the middle is another smaller way to display a red rose at this party. This craft could be used as decorations, a place setting or as a party favor. Find directions here.
A styrofoam ball covered in silk flowers topped with a crown is another easy DIY decoration for a Beauty and the Beast inspired party. Roses hung from ribbon and then attached to the ceiling is another way to incorporate roses in the decoration at this party.
Book Decor
Belle loves to read and is absolutely thrilled when the Beast shows her his enormous library in the castle. Decorate your Beauty and the Beast inspired party with books! Buy old books from a thrift store or with books your already own. There are many uses for books at this party, they can be stacked, or standing. Books create height and add dimension to any table. Candelabras like Lumière, standing clocks like Cogsworth would be characters that could be added as decorations too. Tea pots, tea cups and feather dusters would be fun to use as well. Any character or symbol from the movie would be something that your guests could easily recognize.
Another decoration idea would be to have large mirrors and handheld mirrors placed or hung around the party. The enchanted mirror plays a big role in the Beast’s life, it would only be natural to have mirrors at a Beauty and the Beast inspired party.
Beauty and the Beast Inspired Dinner and Treats
Have your guests join you for dinner or with fun snacks at your Beauty and the Beast inspired party. This movie is set in France and because of that, there is no better time than now to try out your French baking skills! Serve different French food like Baguettes, Chicken Cordon Bleu, Quiche and delicious pastries at your party. 
Find Beauty and the Beast inspired cookie cutters here to add fun shapes to all of the food that you can serve at your party. Decorate the food and treats that serve at the party with cute labels and tie a little bit of tulle secured with a ribbon to mimic the dancing spoons from the movie.
Lumière famously tells Belle to try “the grey stuff, it’s delicious” in that one song! Tell your guests the same thing at your Beauty and the Beast inspired party. Use this simple recipe found here. The Grey Stuff tastes great embellished with sprinkles, on top of gram crackers, brownies or with chocolate cookies. Two jumbo marshmallows stacked together with a wooden skewer holding them together and decorate with yellow frosting on the top to look like a lit candle. Create edible roses by having chocolate dipped strawberries on the top of wooden skewers with green leaves. Strawberries can also be cut into a rose shape for a fancy treat. For full instructions check out this blog called, Cooking with Manuela.
Beauty and the Beast Inspired Sweet Treats
Cookies, big pretzel sticks and rice crispy treats are simple treats that many children and adults enjoy. Have these snacks fit in with the Beauty and the Beast inspired party theme with decorative frosting. Yellow and white frosting would work well and adding sparkles or delicate flowers to help decorate these fun treats. Edible teacups are so cute and even Mrs. Potts would approve of them! 
Find complete decorations here. Fill the cups with small candies or with ice cream. Match the colors of the teacups to fit in with the party theme. Decorate caramel apples to look just like Belle’s beautiful yellow ball gown. Start by making a traditional caramel apple recipe, All Recipes has a great one. Stick a marshmallow in between the apple and the wooden stick. Cover in yellow frosting and decorate however you want! Add sparkles and a red rose for additional decorations.
Flour Arrangements has the cutest recipe and decorations on how to make a rose cake pop inside an ice cream cone planter. Cake pops are always a crowd pleaser no matter the age. Plus these are super easy to make and even better to eat! The roses are dipped in red candy coating so you can use whatever flavored cake pops you like best.
The detail is what really makes these cake pops extraordinary. Glitter and colored candy really help to make these rose cake pops a great addition to your Beauty and the Beast inspired party. Watch your guests be so excited to “pick” roses and then be able to eat them too!
Beauty and the Beast Inspired Crafts
Little kids love to be entertained and as a result, there is no better way to entertain than with crafts for a Beauty and the Beast inspired party! This red paper enchanted rose craft is a great hands on craft to have at your party. This craft takes about 30 minutes and is really simple to make. Find all of the supplies at your local craft store and the full instructions here. This craft can double as a craft as well as another party favor that guests can take home and remember all of the fun they had at your party! 
The Beast has thousands of large stain glass windows in his castle. Have your guests create their own at your party with these instructions. Hang these paper stain glass windows in the sunlight for extra fun! The different colors reflect neat patterns on the ground! For an easy DIY craft, make a Lumiere Tissue Tube Candelabrum. Kids will love creating one of the most memorable characters from the classic Disney movie. This craft is inexpensive and easy kids of all ages will be able to do it! Find all of the supplies for this craft in your own home and at the local craft store!
Beauty and the Beast Inspired Footprint Art
This next activity requires a little more artistic ability than the other crafts but the end result is totally worth it! This is a footprint craft decorated to look like ether Belle or the Beast. Take washable colored paint to paint on the bottom of your guests foot and then stamp to a piece of paper. Paint details around the footprint to create the look of Belle or the Beast. Find instructions here.
Have you ever heard of painting roses with celery stalks? It may seem odd but most of all it is another fun craft that is so easy to do! Find celery at your favorite place to buy produce and just cut off the the top part. Only the bottom of the celery stalk is used so feel free to snack on the rest or use as a part of the refreshments at the party. Dip the stalk in red paint and stamp on paper. Add glitter for a little bit of magic or draw some green leaves to complete the look. Let dry and then have your guests take home their own artwork from a Beauty and the Beast inspired party!
Another fun activity is to have Beauty and the Beast coloring pages! These coloring pages are free to download and there are plenty of sheets to choose from. Crayons, colored pencils, glitter and water colors would all be fun ways to color these coloring sheets! Why not have a dance party with some of the great songs from the movie? The soundtrack is available on iTunes. Play musical chairs with the soundtrack from the movie too! A game like musical chairs never goes out of style.
Beauty and the Beast Inspired Games
There are great games that guests can play while at a Beauty and the Beast inspired party. Play traditional party games or new ones! Pin the bow on Belle’s dress is a twist on the classic party game, pin the tail on the donkey. A more creative game to play is Build a Book stack. Divide guests into teams for this relay game. Place a large box of books on the opposite side of the room from the starting line. One at a time, guests run to the “Beast’s Library” to pick up one book and race back to their team to start the book stack. Whichever team with the tallest book stack in the allotted amount of time wins!
Belle’s Ballgown Game
Have guests try and create Belle’s beautiful ballgown with yellow crepe paper. One player gets to be Belle and her team has to create a ballgown for her within a certain amount of time. Have a judge pick the winner. After each guests has a chance to play, have a small waltzing lesson. This youtube video provides great instruction for a waltz step. Play the famous song, Beauty and the Beast and have the little princesses dance the day away!
With all the great ideas for this party theme, it would be hard to not have a blast at this party! Don’t let you inner beast show and stick to these great Beauty and the Beast inspired party ideas. Find your favorite treats, play that beautiful soundtrack and let your guests enjoy this party. Experience the magic and be our guest!!