SLUMBER PARTY IDEAS

Slumber Party Tips (from a reader):

*Ask people to set up their sleeping bags as soon as they get to your house.
*Announce that no one can sleep on sofas or beds. It causes fighting sometimes.
*Stay outside until it gets dark and get as much fresh air as you can before you're crammed in a room with a bunch of other people for the whole night.
*Play outdoor games or organize a scavenger hunt around your neighborhood before dinner.  
*Rent a movie and make lots of popcorn beforehand. *Set up a "concession   stand" in the room where you're watching the movie and give every guest a plate to load up with popcorn, candy, and other treats.
*Avoid Truth or Dare, especially when some of the guests are very hyper.  Truth can make people embarrassed about the questions being asked, and Dare can get out of hand.
*If you have a younger sister or brother who might try to bug your guests or  wreck your party, ask your mom or dad if they can find something special for your siblings to do during your party. Maybe they can go on a camping trip with one of your parents, or to dinner and a movie. Your brother or sister might want to have a friend spend the night so they don't feel so left out. Just make sure that it's not a friend who would want to bug you and your guests, too!
*Set out a few board games so the ones who don't fall asleep right away can quietly keep themselves busy.
*Get something special for breakfast, like doughnuts.

Invitation Idea from a reader:
Graphics on front, Window sill over looking the moon and stars.
Inside~
Come to "name" slumber party
This special occasion in be: day and time
They may be picked up:
They will need:
RSVP:

Things You Will Need For the Party:
Food and snacks
*buy snacks such as: pretzels, chips, cheese curls, etc.

*get soda, maybe ice tea mix..lemonade...

GAMES

  1. Scavenger hunts
  2. Let's Make a Deal:
    You will need three boxes. Prizes of varying quality-really cool, ok and a booby prize. Each child has a chance to play so make sure you have enough "really cool" prizes to go around. Place one prize of each type under the boxes without anyone seeing. The contestant chooses a box and the prize is revealed. The contestant can then keep that prize or be given the choice to choose another. Offer incentives, like other prizes-candy, money etc. to see if they will keep the first chosen. They may keep either the first prize and incentives or choose the other box. This is their final choice.
  3. Mummy:
    Need rolls of toilet paper, one per person. You can form teams to see who is the fastest dressing their mummy (other person) or just let them have fun. This can be very messy with the dust from the toilet paper and the paper fight afterwards.
  4. Picky Marshmallow Relay:
    Need toothpicks, one per child and one marshmallow per team. The marshmallow is placed on the end of the first persons toothpick. They hold the toothpick in their mouth and try to pass it to the next person in line using only the toothpicks in their mouths.
  5. Clothes Pin 7-Ups:
    7 clothes pins per person. Clip clothes pins on the backs of all players and have them face each other in a circle (outside). At the mention of "GO" they each run around trying to get the clothes pins off each others backs. No grabbing and holding on to the other persons.
  6. Talent Show or Video the kids performing to music. Lip sync is fun or air guitar/sax etc.
  7. Nighttime Easter Egg Hunt:  Hide eggs and prizes outside.  Everyone brings a flashlight to the party.  Hide items like fingernail polish, body mists, not just candy.
  8. Piggly-Wiggly:  Everyone lays out their sleeping bags.   Choose someone to be "it."  They must leave the room.  Everyone else hides inside the sleeping bags (not their own).  When they are ready, "it" comes back in.  She sits on one of the sleeping bags and says, "Piggly-Wiggly"  the person inside says "oink, oink."  'It' must guess who is inside the bag.  If they are right, the person in the bag is it.
  9. Rock and Roll:  When your having a slumber party and going to a roller-skating rink is out of the question, make a skating rink in the garage. Have your parents back out their cars and take out other stuff in the way so you have room to skate. You can also have music and a snack bar!
  10. Sweet dreams- Use frosting to decorate a graham cracker so it looks like your sleeping bag with you in it!
  11. Hip hats- Decorate denim hats with jewels and sparkle puff paints and wear them around the next day.
  12. Puffy pillows- Decorate plain white pillowcases with puffy paint. Let them dry overnight.
  13. Popcorn Toppin'-Pop some plain popcorn. Give everybody a couple of dishes with popcorn in them. Have your guests put on all the toppings you want.
    *cinnamon and sugar
    *raisins
    *melted butter, pizza seasoning, and parmesan cheese to make a pizza kind o'popcorn.
  14. Curly-Cute- Make rag curls in your friends' hair. Take pieces of fabric and wrap hair around them. When you wake up you hair will be all curly.
  15. We Had A Ball- At the end of the slumber party, sit in a circle and sign beach balls with a waterproof marker. Write all about the good times you had together at the sleepover.
  16. Brush up- Have guests try all sorts of toothpaste and vote on which one they like best.
  17. Get out CD's and tapes, for people to listen too
  18. Pick out some movies
  19. Play some sleepover games such as: red rover,  piggly-wiggly,   rugrats(not the show),  poker ( with candy!),  and maybe some board games
  20. Buy tee-shirt paint and have your guests bring tee-shirts and paint them so you can wear them the next morning!
  21. Have a pajamas contest!  See who has the best pajamas!
  22. Pillow fights (a little rough, though)
  23. Make smores!!!!!!!!!!
  24. Serve whipped cream and fruit on waffles in the morning
  25. See if you can borrow a kareoke machine so you can sing along to music
  26. Do makeovers!
  27. Make rice krispie treats
  28. Make your own sundae!
  29. Popcorn fights, if you have a vacuum handy
  30. Think of unusual places to sleep: the attic, a tree house, a tent outside in your back yard
  31. Use sidewalk chalk so your friends can draw stuff

A special thanks to 'Everkewl' for supplying many of the ideas for this theme!

Please e-mail me with additional ideas
boardlr@coupeville.net
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