This party is based on the popular Fablehaven series. For children ages 8-12. Invintations: To make the invintations, tea stain some paper and print the words, Wanted Fablehaven caretaker. Add some different features you can think of such for a job listing such as Gnommish is a bonus and must have a strong stomach. Print the note in a calligraphy font and insert it in a parchment envelope. Seal it with a waxed seal. Hand deliver to the parents of your guests.  Decorations: Decorate the door to look like a solid oak door. String wind chimes and strings of lights with small fairy figures attached around the yard. Decorate the inside with various other small trinkets that would seem plausible at a magical zoo. Costumes: Make bags from brown vinyl and fill it with magic dust (epsom salt.) Instruct the children that this will burn the evil members of the Rising Star that wants all preserves to fall. Give each child a journal to record everything they see and are taught. Give them several small plastic bottles and corks to make potion flasks. Purchase two ultraviolet ink pens for each child and call them fairy wicks. They will use these to mark secret hiding places. Dress yourself up as Grandpa and Grandma Sorenson Lena David Warren or some other character from the books. The Party: As the children arrive hand them their gear and send them to the Potion Lab to mix their own potions to help them on the party. The ingredients should be labeled like mythical objects and the liquid should be several bottles of food coloring tinted sprite or moutain dew. Supply each child with a booklet of made up potions preferebly with some potions from the books such as the extreme energy potion the double strength potion the courage potion or several others. After the children have mixed their helpful potions instuct each child to place the bottles in their satchel and follow you to the table. Give each child a glass of Dragon Spit (Tinted Sprite with pop rocks thrown in.) Tell them that this will instill them with the Sight which will allow them to see magic creatures. Tell them each that they will start their own preserve and have them fill out a Zoo Licensing Form. Hand them a laminated card with their picture and profile and tell them that they are licensed. Have them fill out several forms for various zoo adoptions(also found on the net) and give them a stuffed benie baby or figurine that is the creature they wish to adopt examples would be dragons trolls giants naiaids fairys and other creatures. Rig a phone to ring and tell them that the Evening Star has located the Ancient Artifacts of the Preserve and have them go to the Upside Down Castle. Have a realitive dress up as a ghost and allow the kids to cast spells on them and throw salt until you diside that the ghost is dead. Have them fight several monsters(realtives dressed up as creatures) and finally give them a chest filled with artifacts. (gold coins medallions and other jewels. Give them each an artifact and instruct them to place it on their preserve. Package the figurines and animals in wooden or painted cardboard crates and allow them to pry open the boxes to recieve their adopted animals. Send them home with smiles on their faces. "