Hey Guys!

Anybody ever done a slumber party before? I've got one coming up in October, and mom wants me to show towards the beginning, around 5pm, and hang out for an hour. I've already thought of the idea of bringing my pillow and sleeping bag to pretend like I was staying the night, but I'm still in the initial prepartion stages on what else to do for this...

Any thoughts?

You are a brave soul. 8O
What ages and boy's or girls? Is it indoors or will there be room to do things out doors, small building or large building? Using a paper bag and doing the invisible ball works good for teenagers and if you have the lighted thumb tips pulling lights [juggling lights] when it's getting dark looks cool, 9-13 boy if there's room rocket balloons and they can see who's will go the most distance. :wink:

Offer to do their hair and makeup???????????

This is only my 3rd party.....yikes!

5 9 year old girls, so I hope it's easier to keep them entertained with the lower number. Moms says there will be some outdoor activity, and I just got some rocket balloons so that's a great idea on a contest.

Invisible ball in paper bag? How does that one go?

Hair and makeup....hehehe....

Say, wait a minute....

Maybe that's not such a bad idea after all! :)

If you do any face painting, Butterflies, rainbows are big.

Paperbag- get a small brown lunch size bag. if you hold it at the top on one side and snap you fingers while holding the bag it sounds like some thing hit it. What make this work is, your eye contact and follow through with body movements, but practice throwing an invisible ball then catching it in the bag, you can pass an invisible ball to each girl and have them toss it, Play it up big -like "Oh you threw that one to far go get it and wait for her to get. It not hard but you need to practice to get your timing down.

Do you do any magic? I usually do. I've got a change bag and a silk cylinder. I use the cylinder for give aways [party favors] bracelets, candy. etc. If you provide party favor besure to include this in the cost of your party. A thumb tip is great for all kinds of simple magic.

You can also make balloon hats.
Out side rocket balloon, a version of musical chairs or hot potato with a water balloon.
There all kind of games with small balloons if there is room, do different types of relays like must pass balloon down the line keeping it under your chin and you can not use your hands,
run and bust a balloon, tag next in line ect. Sorry so long, but hopes this helps :D

Great ideas, guys! Thanz Bunches!

I'm going to try all of those things.

I love reading the ideas here because it gets those creative juices flowing!

:)

BTW, the Rocket balloons are great, and I almost even made one myself with a standard 260! My only problem would be, if I gave this to a child, how would he blow it up on his own without a pump?

Hey Bips, How about playing spin the clown instead of spin the bottle? I have an old issue of caliope mag tha t talks about doing a slumber party. If you will drop me your info in a PM, I'll send you a photocopy.
Scruffy

Okey Dokey! (wink wink)

Done....and done!

It went out in todays mail. Ironically the woman who wrote the article is a clown in the Arlington area.
Maggie the Clown is her name I believe.

I KNOW MAGGIE!

She's the one that I met at the Mooseburger camp when they came to Arlington, and she introduced me to Happi Tymes clown alley here in Arlington. I know she's done alot of PR work, and she's been makin' children's cheeks pointy for many years.

We meet first monday of every month, so I'll have to tell her about it in our October meeting.

Thanz Bunches!

I'm curious how did the slumber party go?

Oh, it hasn't happened yet...the party is scheduled for Friday, October 8th at 7pm. With the way things are going around my area, it will be dark or getting there, so I'm going to use some things associated with the dark.

I'm going to incorporate some of the things suggested in the cool copy of caliope magazine that Scruffy was nice enough to send to me, and a few other things:

1) Some glow in the dark sticks I'm trying to decide if they should be worn as necklaces, or maybe inserted into the 260 balloons to make really neat toys at night. I dunno about that yet.

I might try one fo the rocket balloons with it to see if it would take flight! :)

2) I got this great alligator sleeping bag which I'm going to use as I come in, playing like I'm ALL READY to spend the night with everyone, as an intro gag!

I got an email from mom yesterday, and the partys been canceled...(sniff)

Too bad, because I was so looking forward to it. I used some ideas that Scruffy was nice enough to send to me along with several games ideas of my own, and had a nice little 1 hour party planed.

Oh well....how do the French say it? Say Lave....:)

Sorry about your show. Hey but your one step ahead for the next one.