Egyptian Dessert Party

Here’s some advice and tips for holding an Egyptian Desert Party that your guests will surely love.

Decorations

For decoration you could try covering the furniture and floors in sheets, using earth tones like yellow and brown. Scatter dried leaves about the floor and cover cushions in brown fabric for rocks.

Making an Oasis in the corner of the room is a perfect way to display the presents for the day. Cut out a large piece of blue craft paper for water, and decorate the wall with a picture of a palm tree using cardboard and paint.

Food

For food try serving cake, biscuits and lollies in a Survival Kit, along with a canteen of cordial.

You can easily make a cake that is shaped like a pyramid by baking 3 cakes using different sized square tins. Use yellow icing to decorate the cake and you can even make a spare cake that is cut into small blocks, using jelly babies or gummy bears to decorate the plate as workers, dragging blocks to build the pyramid.

You could also have the food table set out like a small desert. Cover it with a yellow tablecloth or paper and decorate it with edible treats like pretzel sticks and chocolate muffins scattered like twigs and rocks.

And what desert would be complete without the sand-which-is there!

Games & Activities

Wrap the Mummy:
Have the guests team up in pairs with one person standing still while the other wraps them with a roll of toilet paper. See who can wrap their Mummy in the fastest time!

Send invites that are written in Egyptian Code, using hieroglyphs that the guests have to decipher. You can give the invites an ancient look by soaking paper in tea-water and tearing the edges.

For inspiration try using the following films and themes:

Aladdin
The Mummy
Indiana Jones
Lawrence of Arabia
Egypt
Sahara