Sleepover and Slumber
Parties
are always fun and with these sleepover ideas and games the
slumber party is sure to be a success! Fun ideas for
Sleepover Invitations, What to write on the sleepover
invitation, Sleepover Activities, Sleepover Games, Slumber
Party Menu, Sleepover Tips and what to do the morning after
the Sleepover. Fun ideas for b-day slumber parties or
anytime of the year.
Sleepover / Slumber Party Invitation Ideas
It's easy to send out great sleepover invitations to
all of your friends. You can either buy great
looking invitations with pictures of sleeping bags,
flashlights, pajamas, fuzzy slippers, etc. or make
them yourself. If you want to make your own - look
for fun clip art or coloring book pages to copy the
images you want onto colorful blank cards.
Get creative with
the sleepover invitation and cut out heads from
pictures of you and your friends and then paste them
to the invitations. Make it look like you are
sleeping in a sleeping bag, wearing big fuzzy
slippers or having a pillow fight.
Sleepover
Invitation idea:
Create little pillows by folding
squares of felt or craft foam in half to make pillow cases.
If you don’t sew, use a stapler, glue gun or fabric glue to
secure the side and bottom edge of the pillow case.
Stuff with a little cotton. Write the invitation on a
3x5 card and slip it into the pillow.
Text: WHAT HAS 12 LEGS, GIGGLES AND STAYS UP ALL
NIGHT? MY SLEEPOVER PARTY, AND YOU'RE INVITED!
When making the invitations for your party use the amount of
legs for your invited guests and change MY to the Birthday
girls name.
Thanks for the great idea Movin Girl
What to
Write On the Sleepover Invitation
Date and Day of the Sleepover: June 6, 2008 -
Friday night
What to bring:
Sleeping bag, pillow, bathing
suit, towel, anything special that they will need for the
party.
When the sleepover begins and ends: Example - 7:00 PM
- 10:00 AM
Place of the Sleepover: Make
sure to write in your address. Friends might know
where you live, but parents will want to have this
information. Hint: You might want to draw a map
on the back of the invitation.
Telephone number for RSVP: Make sure to write
in your telephone number. Parents will want this too.
If you will be serving dinner, pizza or snacks
(so your friends will know
whether to eat or wait until they get to the party to have
dinner). Example - We will be
having pizza!
Sleepover /
Slumber Party Activities
Make
fun matching t-shirts with iron on letters to remember the
sleepover
Buy inexpensive
t-shirts or tanks (you can also ask on the sleepover
invitation for each girl bring one from home) and provide
lots of fun iron on letters in different fonts for everyone
to use. It's fun to come up with crazy sayings and
make matching
t-shirts to remember the party. ** Make
sure to wash and dry the t-shirts before sleepover guests
arrive so the iron on's will stick.
Funky Flip Flops
Super fun and easy - perfect for sleepovers!
See our
funky flip flop page for
complete directions and more pictures!
Decorate
pillowcases to remember the sleepover
Use permanent
markers (you are able to sleep on them that night) or fabric
pens and have guests sign each others' pillowcases
during the slumber party.
Decorate and doodle to create a masterpiece. You'll remember
how much fun you had with your friends every time you go to
sleep.
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Make Tutu skirts!
Complete instructions for an easy
to make tutu.
Decorate cork bulletin boards
with foam cut-outs (available at Discount or Craft stores)
Decorate a jewelry box
with foam cut-outs,
stick on jewels or paint.
Decorate picture
frames with
paints, foam stickers, jewels, pieces of feather boas,
glitter, etc. Take pictures of you and your friends at
the sleepover and place them in the frames.
Spa Stuff
Hair makeovers,
facials, peels, manicures and pedicures. (See the
games section for fun spa games.)
Free list of homemade
spa recipes - includes a great chocolate facial mask!
Chocolate Spa Sleepover
- Make this the theme of your slumber party. Chocolate
everything! Send out brown and pink polka dot or
striped invitations and scent them with chocolate
perfume, light chocolate scented candles, paint each others
fingernails and toes pink with brown polka dots, serve hot
chocolate and smores, provide chocolate scented facials and
masks and chocolate lip gloss ..... yum!
Karaoke
- Let everyone at the
sleepover have a turn at
singing. Play American Idol and set up judges to vote
on the best performance.
Talent Show
- everyone performs
their best (or worst) talent. Have judges and award
small prizes.
Fashion show -
dress up and give away small prizes for best walk, best
pose, most attitude and best over all.
Slumber Scrap - Take digital pictures during the slumber party and make
scrapbook pages later in the evening. Provide everyone
with a small scrapbook, pretty paper, fun cut-outs and
scissors.
Dance, dance .... dance
- Then play freeze
dance. Have someone turn down the volume and everyone
must freeze and not laugh until the music starts again.
Whoever laughs has to turn down the volume next.
Talk about boys, parents, school, life .....
Makeovers - Give each other makeovers then take pictures. These
can also be funny makeovers and everyone must keep their
crazy look through the rest of the party.
Paint nails and toenails
- decorate with dots, stripes
and flowers
Facials -
Facials, Peels and Masks are fun and great for your skin.
Homemade Spa Recipes
Make-unders
Buy some make-up and put it out somewhere. At the slumber
party tell your friends
to sit in a circle around it and grab what they like. Then
draw numbers or roll a die and whoever is first gets to pick
a partner and give then a make-under (make it look as funny
as you can!)
Make Pom Pom pets
Use colorful
pompoms, googly eyes, pipe cleaners, felt, and foam to create
cute little pets. Then, have a pet show!
Test Your Taste buds
Have one person make something from ingredients in the
kitchen and then other person has to put on a blindfold and
eats the food. The person with the blindfold on then makes a
guess at what the food is or what ingredients are in it.
Pillow fight!!
- sent in by Alycia
Sleepover / Slumber Party Games
Truth or Dare Game
Truth or dare game - Sit in a circle and ask each other
truth questions. If the person you ask doesn't want to
answer the question then they must do the dare. We've
made a fun list of free clean (rated G) truth or dare game
questions for you to print out for the sleepover.
Free truth and
dare game questions.
Nail Polish
Spin Game
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Place several colors of nail polish
in the middle of a circle of girls. Have the first
girl at the sleepover spin a bottle of nail polish. Who ever the cap is
pointing to when it is done spinning must paint one of
her fingernails that color. Then that person spins the
next color of nail polish .... and so on. Paint your
toes too to make the game last longer.
Foil Make Over Game- The object is to create the
best outfit out of aluminum foil. Crazy game and lots
of fun. This can be played individually or if you have
a lot of girls separate into teams. Give each person /
team 1 or 2 rolls of aluminum foil. You can also use
rubber bands or pieces of string if you want. Create
the most fabulous outfit you can using the aluminum foil.
Tops, pants, skirts, shorts ... and don't forget the
sunglasses, jewelry, hats, flip-flops, tiaras booties, belts
...anything your imagination can dream up. Take pictures of your creations.
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Blind Make Over Game
The first person puts on a blindfold and does the makeup
of the second person. Then when they are done the second
person puts on the blindfold and does the makeup of the
third person. Draw numbers to determine the order. Really
funny - take pictures so you can keep the memories.
Song Maker Game
- Pick one person at the sleepover to go first for the game. Everyone
in the group decides on a title of a song and then the
person chosen first must make up a song to go with that
title. Example: Little bunnies on my pillow.
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Commercial Game
- Draw numbers to see who goes first. The first person
stands up and the number 2 person chooses an object from the
room. The first person then must make up a commercial
about the object and speak for 30 seconds about it.
Then #3 picks an object for #2's commercial and so on.
Drama In The Bag Game -
Fill shopping bags with 6 different items in
each bag. A shoe, hat, party favor etc. - each bag
should be filled with different items. Divide into teams and give
each team one bag. Go to seperate rooms to make
up a skit
which includes all items in the bag. After 15 minutes
come back and perform. Variation:
Create a TV commercial or song.
Prize Auction Game
On the invitation to the sleepover ask everyone to
bring an inexpensive item or a "white elephant" (something
in good shape they don't want anymore) wrapped or sealed in
a bag to the sleepover. Give the everyone
$100.00 in play money and start an auction for the unwrapped
gifts. Hold up the first sealed bag and ask who will give $1
for it... and so on. For fun you can add food and gag
gifts to the auction items. Keep the items sealed and
don't let anyone know what is inside until the high bidder
opens the item. At the end you can trade bags or buy
each other's presents with their left over auction money.
With any other left over auction money you can bid on
who gets to pick where they want to sleep, what game you
play next, first dibs on the biggest piece of cake or who
chooses the music to listen to.
M &
M Challenge Game
- This sleepover game is played with m&m's, skittles or
any small candy that comes in different colors. Place
candy in a bowl. Sit in a circle and ask the guests to
choose 2 candies - without looking. Show them to
everyone and then put them in your mouth ... if they are the
same color then you can chew them, if not you have to hold
them in your mouth until your next turn when you can try and
choose 2 more of the same color. You can't chew until
you get 2 of the same color.
Oversize Board Game
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This game really gets you involved ... because you are the
piece that moves around the board. On a large patio,
driveway or other cement area draw a VERY big board with
sidewalk chalk. Each square should be about 18". It
can be a circle, oval or figure 8. Inside each square,
beginning with the start square, write different things to
do if someone lands in that square. Some fun ideas are: Move
ahead 4 spaces, Jump back 3 spaces, Bark like a dog, Narrate
the game, twirl like a ballerina, etc. Use regular dice or
make your own from large boxes. A player rolls the dice,
then moves themselves (the girls are the playing pieces)
along the gameboard - when you land on a space then read
what it says and follow the instruction. This
sleepover game is also fun to play with flashlights at
night!
Sleepover Ball Game
– Buy a large inflatable beach
ball and in permanent marker write questions all over it.
Place everyone in a circle and throw the ball to someone.
The person who catches the ball must answer the
question that their right thumb is touching. After answering
the question they then throw the ball to another person.
Fun questions to write on the game
ball:
(The more questions on the ball the better!) What is the
scariest movie you’ve seen?
What is your favorite color?
What are three adjectives that describe you?
Who is your favorite
band/singer? Who is
your favorite movie star?
What is the nicest thing
anyone has ever said to you?
What do you say when you talk in your sleep?
What is your biggest phobia?
If you were invisible what would you do?
If you were an animal what
would you be? Who's
your secret crush?
What was your last dream
about? What is
one thing about you that no one here knows?
What do you want to do when
you grow up?
Think of
questions that you would want to be asked or things that you
would like to know about others.
Candy Hunt Sleepover Game
- Ask everyone to bring a
flashlight (or provide them for everyone) to the slumber
party. Before everyone arrives at the party ask a
parent or sibling to hide candy all over the yard.
When it gets dark have everyone take their flashlights
outside and hunt for the candy.
Pillow Fight Icebreaker - For an icebreaker I usually
just have everyone start in my room and start a pillow fight
whoever you hit they must tell you something about them.
Play Charades
Think of fun
things that go with your sleepover theme and write them down
on pieces of paper. Divide your friends into two
teams. The first team picks a player to act out a
word. The player chooses a word - but doesn't show
their teammates. The player then tries to act out the
word while her teammates try and guess what she is acting
out. If they guess the word the team gets 1 point.
Set a timer for 3 minutes - if the team can not guess the
word in 3 minutes then the other team gets one guess at what
the word is. If they are
right they get the point. Play to 10 points.
Dress up Game!!
To play:
1st give each group a skit and tell them to dress up like
there character.
2nd DON’T GIVE THE GIRLS REAL CLOTHES use aluminum foil,
Saran wrap, and toilet paper!!
Sent to us by Bailey Ft. Polk, LA
Party Games
,
Games for Girls
and Tween Games
for more sleepover / slumber party games
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Slumber
Party Menu
Pizza - take out or have more
fun making your own with fun toppings.
Chips and dip
Veggie tray with dip
Fruit tray with dip
Make Rice Krispie Treats, Brownies or Cookies at midnight
Fondue
Hot Chocolate
Sleepover Smores
Smoothies
see party food ideas
for more choices ....
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In the Morning after the Sleepover / Slumber Party
Make pancakes and top them with strawberries, chocolate
chips, sprinkles etc.
Have a chef challenge - give everyone a "mystery" ingredient
they must use in their breakfast dish.
Eat Breakfast parfaits - alternate layers of cereals and
yogurts in a tall glass or parfait
Eat left over pizza
Get up and watch cartoons
Now is the perfect time for makeovers
Sleep until time to go ...
Sleepover
Tips and Ideas
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Buy extra
toothbrushes and keep them unopened in a drawer in
case someone forgets to bring one to the sleepover. |
Don't invite too
many guests to sleepover at one time - too many
personalities increases drama! Up
to 5 is usually fine, more if they all know each
other and get along. |
| Serve healthy snacks along with
the junk for a balanced sleepover. |
Kids
party ideas,
Tween party ideas
and
Teen
party ideas- fun theme ideas for your
bday party sleepover
Truth or Dare Game - Free print outs
Mall Scavenger Hunts - 8 different hunts
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