It took over a month for our second book party to actually happen. We got Covid a few days before we scheduled it the first time, and then our friend was traveling for much of the rest of the month. But we were incredibly excited when it finally came! This time we read Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis.

Supply List
1. Paper plates – the cheap kind you can put holes through
2. Ribbon (or something to put through the holes to tie the masks on)
4. Markers
5. Scissors
3. Brown, yellow, and orange paint
4. Party horns
5. Toilet paper rolls (3 per child, or you can cut two out of a paper towel roll)
6. Masking tape
7. White paper, torn into strips
8. Glue mixture – one part elmer’s glue and one part water
9. Paint brushes
10. Apples
11. Cinnamon
12. Nutmeg
13. Lemon juice
14. Sugar
15. Butter
16. Popcorn
17. Disney+ subscription for the movie
18. Sugar

The first project we did was to make Susan’s horn. Detailed instructions are found here. A few caveats about this project.

1) It is VERY adult hands on. This is not a craft you can set up and walk away while they work on it. I had to do most of the assembly of the horn and then let them decorate it. I also had a two year old who was totally uninterested in these, so it was a little challenging to keep him entertained and work on these horns.

2) It takes a lot of time to dry between stages, and not all the kids were super patient waiting for the drying periods. Just a heads up. Ana Lia was the only one to fully papier mache hers, which took a long time, but hers was the most durable after she finished.

3) As the kids played with them, the party horns fell out of the bottoms. If I did it again, I would use hot glue to attach the horn to the first toilet paper roll to ensure it stayed in place.

While the horns were drying, we made baked apples. Apples featured prominently in the beginning of the book as that was all the Pevensie children had to eat when they first returned to Narnia. To my surprise, there were no apples in the movie! Keep that in mind when deciding whether you want to do this activity. It worked well though. I gave the kids bowls of popcorn and bowls of baked apples for them to eat while they watched the movie.

You can find lots of recipes online if you want something more exact, but I put some cinnamon, nutmeg, sugar, and lemon juice on the sliced apples in no exact ratios. I stirred it well until it looked like all the apples were covered and then put them in a pan. I put small bits of butter all around the apple and baked for about an hour.

We also made masks. My original idea for this was that we would use paint and make Aslan masks. The kids preferred to draw with markers and make their own character masks. Jezie was Susan; Ana Lia was Lucy, and Eliam was Edmund. I cut out the eye holes for them, pierced holes in the sides and tied one piece of ribbon in each hole. Then they could tie and untie those pieces of ribbon to take the mask on and off.

The movie is two and half hours, so make sure you set aside enough time to watch it. The kids were up and down a little bit, more so than we watch The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, but they enjoyed getting their masks during the battle scenes and acting out the individual characters they had chosen.