My daughter’s birthday is coming up and I’m trying to plan a princess themed tea party for her. What would be some good snacks to have? I’m not sure how many people there will be, probably 1-2 dozen.
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Depending on religious restrictions, allergies, or special diets, choose whatever sounds good from the following: Savory: Make a peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with three pieces of bread (so three layer). Cut off the crusts and cut in quarters or lengths for a kid-friendly canapé. Little bread with ranch dressing and a cucumber slice. Open face mini deli chicken, turkey, roast beef, cheese and/or ham sandwiches with mayo, mustard and/or lettuce on cut bread, crackers, crostini, French baguette slices or small breads from the deli section. Tiny tuna sandwiches. Hummus and sliced tomatoes in quartered pita bread. Or hummus in little cups + pita chips. Cut celery filled with cream cheese or peanut butter (raisins optional). Little cups of cashews. Roll-ups with cream cheese, meat &/or cheese and lettuce. Make with tomato, whole wheat, and spinach wraps or flour tortillas for added color.
Sweet: Donut holes. Cut up breakfast/coffee cake or other breakfast pastries. Scones are traditional and available in many grocery bakeries. Chocolate or yogurt covered pretzels or almonds. Sliced or balled fruit. Mini cupcakes. Mini oreos. Reese’s peanut butter cups, or little cups of M&Ms. Use plastic shot glasses, mini bathroom paper cups, regular or mini paper cupcake cups or whatever you have on hand. Petit fours. Small cookies. Mini waffles (from frozen food section) with whipped cream and a strawberry on top.
If you want to do hot food, pigs in a blanket or mini sausages or cut-up hot dogs with ketchup on toothpicks, maybe mini quiches.
To drink: Iced and hot fruity herbal or decaf tea, with honey and lemon available. Also seltzer and lemonade, and any combination of the above. My granddaughters love Celestial Seasonings peppermint tea. Maybe milk on hand too. Pour lightly; if the kids don’t like it, you haven’t wasted much. Maybe apple juice too.
Whatever you do, have lots of napkins and regular and paper towels on hand!
Are the kids naturally chatty? Maybe have ice breaker games, like having everyone say their favorite food, song, band, TV show or character, activity, name, or do kid Mad Libs with adults filling in the words kids come up with and reading the story at the end. Or kids guessing games, mysteries to solve, or trivia. Have the kids go around the table with the first person stating their first name. Every subsequent person has to say the names of everyone before them until the first person has to say everyone’s name at the table. Then start with a different person and do it with first and middle names. If someone doesn’t have a middle name, they can make one up. If they are up for the challenge, do it with first, middle and last names.
Maybe have kids change tables or seats after a while so they socialize with other people. You could even give a little talk/fun facts about tea, England, or whatever. If your guests are old enough to read, give each girl a paper under their plate or seat with a number and a fun fact about tea and have them read them aloud in numerical order. Shy ones can ask someone else to read theirs.
Good luck and have fun! 
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Macaroons, mini donuts, cookies, pastries. Also have little champagne glasses for their juice. I made a cute drink for my daughters spa party, it had pink lemonade, sprite & sherbet ice cream in it, huge hit!  
Little PB n j Sammie’s allergy? White chocolate covered pretzels with sparkles rainbow sherbet punch white n regular chocolate covered strawberries with glitter green apples carmel
Cookies. Sandwiches pretty tea cups. What every she likes to drink.