are always a party favorite for tween and teen girls. You can get pretty creative when thinking about themes for your childs slumber party. Our party experts have collected some great party ideas to get you started: Choose a spa theme and let the girls pamper and primp all night! Let the girls trade pedicures and gossip until the lights go out. Turn out the lights and let the glow sticks light up the night! If you have a creative child throw an art party. Let them choose a craft or two for the guests to complete during the party. They also make great favors. For the digitally savvy kids, let them with You can go old school and , just give it a modern twist and turn your movie watching space into a theater like environment. Shop Movie Theme Party Supplies Maybe focus on your childs favorite musician, pick a playlist and let them sing the night away. Shop Music Themed Party Supplies Food Ideas For Your Party Sleepover parties usually include traditional party food - pizza, chips and dip, veggies and dip, soda, and candy.

However, if you would like to serve some more creative treats, consider these ideas: Funny Face Bagels - Cut bagels in half and toast them, if desired. Spread cream cheese on the bagels and then provide the children jelly in a squeeze tube. Instruct the children to make funny faces on their bagels with the jelly! Relaxing Refreshments - Serve soda, strawberry milk, and juice with silly straws. Cute Cut-Outs - Use cookie cutters in the shape of daisies, stars, and butterflies to cut out peanut butter sandwiches, cheese, and deli meats. Popcorn Pizazz - Serve popcorn in traditional popcorn bags and let your guests add toppings of cinnamon, powdered cheese, salt & pepper, or chocolate sprinkles. You will most likely be serving breakfast to your guests as well. Here are a few ideas for early-morning treats: Smiley Face Pancakes - Make a batch of pancakes, and set them out along with canned whipped cream, chocolate chips, maraschino cherry halves, chocolate syrup, finely chopped nuts, blueberries, or any other sweet treat that can be used to make eyes, a nose, a mouth, hair, etc., on each pancake.

Let your guests decorate their pancakes the way they like. Waffle Bar - Set up a waffle bar with a selection of syrups and toppings such as cherries, whipped cream, strawberries, chocolate chips, and nuts. Let each child make his or her ultimate waffle. Fruit Pops - Slide sections of fruit, such as pineapple, banana, strawberries, and grapes onto a wooden skewer and serve. Includes paperware, invitations, personalized items, favors, and decorations for your party theme. This guide will tell you how to decorate for your party theme, what to do with balloons and streamers, how to decorate with food, how to set the table, and how to make your own party decorations. Use this guide to celebrate in style without breaking the bank! Download this guide to help budget your expenses. Check out our exclusive personalized items including invitations, bookmarks, stickers, and more! Browse our list of over 130 themed party guides to find tips for your child's next birthday!

Each guide includes ideas for invitations, decorations, food, favors, games and more.christmas tree with purple decorationsMinecraft makes an excellent theme for a birthday party. wall decor for school officeThe simple graphics make decorating easy, and there's a ton of ideas around the internet for games and party food.living room cheap curtainsIn fact, there's a little too much stuff out there and that can be overwhelming. christmas trees decorated with picksIt's hard to know where to start, so I've done the legwork for you! wall decor canvas paintings

I've weeded out some of the really great stuff and compiled it here in one handy place.christmas trees decorated with rosesTo start you off, these are the pick of the bunch when it comes to people who really got their Minecraft party groove on. These posts have loads and loads of great stuff, from printables to food and decorations:Catch My Party - This Pinterest board is a one-stop shop for Minecraft party ideasPaperblog - Creeper balloons, cookies, tees, desserts... this has it allI Choose Awesome - Planning tips, printables, a photo booth and moreThe Kitchen Magpie - Tips for throwing a simple Minecraft partyFoxt Designs - Over the top! Their Pinterest board is pretty awesome too. Don't go to the expense of buying invitations, there are plenty of places to download free printables that look great:Printabelle - Loads of other printables too, like water bottle labelsBirthday Buzzin Geek Mom Mashup Ben Comics - A cute Enderman, with matching thank-you note... my favourite!

PaperCraft - Design your own invites using background images like this grass oneMinecraft piñatas are super easy to make thanks to the blocky style of the game. This DIY idea using miniature boxes is really clever:Domestic Femme - Cool tutorial to make a GhastAre You Kidding Me - Another cool one, this time a CreeperNot crafty? Buy a readymade one from Etsy, like this Mini CreeperI can't believe how many awesome ideas for Minecraft-themed cakes there are now. When I made this one for my son in the early part of 2012, there were almost none! So you'll find no shortage of inspiration, but here are the ones that I think are either the best or easiest to make.This is the cake I made and it was super easy. It's made up of individual blocks to represent grass, sand, water, snow and TNT. You can find the instructions over on my other website Snagglebox.Next up is this incredible TNT cake made by the delightful Cupquake. If you haven't seen her YouTube channel yet, make sure you check it out.

She has really easy-to-follow tutorials for all kinds of goodies.Here's a handy Pinterest board of Minecraft cake ideas: Homemayde Cakes - This cake is insane! It even has creepers and chickens.Gourmet Gaming - This one looks like the actual Minecraft cake block (and the rest of her site is fantastic too). There's also an awesome tutorial video on making the Minecraft block cake, by Feast of Fiction:The basic player activities in Minecraft (exploring, digging, cooking, crafting, brewing, farming) lend themselves nicely to inventing party games, not to mention all the animals and blocks and characters too. Scavenger hunts, sandcastle competitions, making swords and pickaxes, petting zoo... you should be able to come up with stuff pretty easily.This family made a neat video of their party, with clever games like Creeper bowling. Or how about a game of 'pin the tail on the pig', as invented by Momma D and Da Boyz.As far as theming the look of the party, think green and you can't go wrong.

And remember the official motto of Minecraft parties - when in doubt, stick a Creeper head on it!The Party Animal - Printable party banner
My Sugar Coated Life - Creeper face template for decorating balloons or teesAmazon - Grass mats!The Party Animal - Printable cupcake toppersThe really neat thing about Minecraft is that there's food in the game already! Carrots, baked potatoes, cookies, melon, chicken, pumpkin pie... there's lots to play around with. Plus you pretty much just need to cut stuff into cubes to call it Minecraft themed. Parties 4 Ever - Loads of great ideas as well as some really impressive foodCandy Bar Cupcakes - Creeper cupcakes (with template)Coastal Sling Mommy - Creeper pizza!Say Not Sweet Anne - Marshmallow creepers (very cool)Cake Journal - Creeper cake popsAnd another awesome video from Cupquake, making Creeper and Steve cookies:Thanks to YouTube, there are a zillion Minecraft parody songs to delight your little party guests. Megan Townes created a handy playlist, and there's also one in this post by Frugal Family Times (which also has printables and game ideas).