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Down the Rabbit Hole

Decor and Ambience

"Have I gone mad?  

I'm afraid so, but let me tell you something, the best people usually are."

Take your guest on a magically insane journey 'down the rabbit' hole and through the pages of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Chapter 1

Down the Rabbit Hole

Alice is bored by the book her older sister reads to her.  Out of nowhere, a White Rabbit runs past her, fretting that he will be late.  He pulls a watch out of his waistcoat pocket and runs across the field and down a hole.  Alice impulsively follows the Rabbit and tumbles down the deep hole. 

Immerse them in the storyline from the very start.   

After landing, she approaches a long corridor lined by doors.  The doors are all locked, so Alice tests them with a key that she finds on the table.  She discovers a small door behind a curtain.  The door is much too small for Alice to squeeze through.  She finds a bottle marked "Drink Me" and she shrinks.  She can now fit through the door, but she has left the key on the table high above her.  She scolds herself then catches the sight of a small cake with the words "Eat Me".  Alice eats the cake, but becomes disappointed when nothing happens.

I took my clock and added a chain I got at the Halloween store. 
A table just inside the entrance...
Add tags to small bottles that say 'drink me'.  You can print your own tags or you can buy them on Etsy.
Decanters filled with your favorite beverage.  I found mine at a flea market.
Sprinkle little keys around the table. Etsy has many different ones available, very inexpensive.
Sweet treats with tags that say 'Eat Me'  Print them from your computer or buy them on Etsy.

Chapter 4:

Rabbit Sends a Bill

The White Rabbit approaches Alice, looking for his gloves and fan. Alice searches dutifully but cannot find them. He mistakes Alice for his housemaid, Mary Ann, and commands her to go to his house and fetch his things. 

Inside of the house, she finds the gloves and fan, as well as a little bottle labeled “DRINK ME”. Curious to find out what the contents of the bottle will do, Alice drinks the liquid. Before she can finish, she begins growing rapidly and can barely fit in the room.

The Rabbit calls out for his servant, Pat, and the two begin to plot a way to deal with Alice when she swats them away again. The Rabbit and Pat recruit another servant, a lizard named Bill, to climb down the chimney, but Alice launches him into the air with her foot

Print out the page, frame in a dollar store frame and place on table

They begin hurling pebbles through the window at her face. The pebbles transform into cakes, and reasoning that the cakes might cause her to become smaller, Alice eats one and shrinks. She leaves the house and encounters a mob of animals ready to rush her.

Chapter 5:

Advice from a Caterpiller

Alice flees and heads into a wood where she thinks about how she might return to her normal size and find the garden. She then sets off, wondering what she might eat or drink to return to her original height.

She comes across a giant mushroom and climbs to the top, discovering a blue caterpillar smoking a hookah with an air of indifference.

These mushrooms are made with cardboard, newspaper, paper mache, and paint!
These flower lights are incredibly easy to make.  
Go to the receiving department of your local department store.  Ask if they have any large sheets of cardboard.  The store I worked for had them come in on their merchandise trucks to separate boxes.

Chapter 7:

A Mad Tea Party

Alice approaches a large table set under the tree outside the March Hare’s house and comes across the Mad Hatter and the March Hare taking tea.

The Mad Hatter enters the conversation, opining that Alice’s hair “wants cutting.” Alice admonishes his rudeness, but he ignores her scolding and responds with a riddle: “Why is a raven like a writing desk?” Alice attempts to answer the riddle, which begins a big argument about semantics. 

After their argument, the tea party sits in silence until the Mad Hatter asks the March Hare the time. When he discovers that the March Hare’s watch, which measures the day of the month, is broken, the Mad Hatter becomes angry.

Alice gives up on the riddle and becomes angry with the Mad Hatter when she discovers that he doesn’t know the answer either. She tells him he should not waste time asking riddles that have no answers. The Mad Hatter calmly explains that Time is a “him,” not an “it.”

 

He goes on to recount how Time has been upset ever since the Queen of Hearts said the Mad Hatter was “murdering time” while he performed a song badly. Since then, Time has stayed fixed at six o’clock, which means that they exist in perpetual tea-time.

Chapter 8

The Queen's Croquet Ground

Alice enters the garden and meets three gardeners in the shape of playing cards.

The gardeners Two, Five, and Seven bicker with each other as they paint the white roses on the rose trees red. Upon noticing Alice, the gardeners explain that they have planted white rose trees by mistake and must paint them red before the Queen of Hearts finds out.

Alice goes off with the Queen to play croquet.  She has a difficult time adjusting to the curious version of croquet played by the Queen. The croquet ground is ridged, the croquet balls are live hedgehogs, and the mallets are live flamingos. The various playing cards stand on all fours to form the arches that the balls are hit through. 

Alice attempts to slip away from the croquet match, but catches sight of the Cheshire Cat’s grinThe Cheshire Cat asks her how she is getting on, and Alice begins to complain about the Queen’s unusual behavior.

Chapter 11

Who Stole the Queen's Tarts?

Alice arrives in the courtroom and finds the King and Queen of Hearts on their thrones, surrounded by a large crowd of animals and the whole deck of cards. 

The White Rabbit, serving the court as a herald, reads the accusation that the Knave of Hearts has stolen the Queen’s tarts

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