To prepare for a pie party, get together as many pie plates as you can beg, borrow or buy. A couple of dozen will be needed at least.
Arrange tables along the wall of the room in which the guests are to be received, and place the pie plates upon these tables. Cover the tables with white paper terminating in paper lace to give the effect of quaint, old-fashioned shelves.
In each pan place a group of articles or pictures which will represent in anagram the filling of a pie. Punning and word stretching of all kinds are allowable, although each puzzle must be simple enough to be readily recognized when guessed.
Here is a rough suggestion to show the plan of the puzzles. The hostess may modify it to suit her own needs.
THE PIE SHELF.
A twig from a pine tree and an apple. Pineapple.
The letters of the word cheese on alphabet cards, jumbled together, with a slice of cake. Cheesecake.
A cigarette case in the form of a coffin (bury) and a scrap of straw. Strawberry.
A paperweight representing a ragged little dog and an entomological photograph of the common ant. Cur(r)ant.
A little oyster crab and an apple. Crabapple.