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Sleepovers / 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, Activities, Games and Food.

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  Sleepover / Slumber Party Invitations
Buy or make a fun sleepover birthday invitation - look for birthday invitations with sleeping bags, flashlights, pajamas, fuzzy slippers etc.  If you want to make your own look for fun clip art or coloring book pages to copy the images you want. 

Get creative and cut out pictures of you and your friends heads and paste them to the invitations.  Make it look like you are sleeping in the sleeping bag, wearing big fuzzy slippers, etc. 

SLEEPOVER PARTY INVITATIONS
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 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

On the sleepover invitation:

Date and Day:  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: 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 and Things to Do  (Mix and match)

Make fun matching t-shirts with iron on letters.  Make sure to wash and dry the t-shirts before guests arrive so the iron on's will stick.  Buy inexpensive shirts or have each girl bring one fromfun flip flop craft, activity and favor! home and just provide the letters.  It's fun to come up with crazy sayings and make matching t-shirts to remember the party.

Funky Flip Flops - Super fun and easy!  See our funky flip flop page for directions and more pictures!

Decorate pillowcases to remember the sleepover.  Use permanent markers (you can sleep on them that night) or fabric pens and have guests sign each others pillowcases.  You'll remember how much fun you had with your friends every time you go to sleep.

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.

Spa StuffDo hair makeovers, facials, peels, manicures and pedicures.  (See the games section for fun spa games.) Free list of homemade spa recipes

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 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.

Make-unders
Buy some make-up and put it out somewhere. 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
 Make pompom pets! Use colorful pompoms, googgly eyes, pipcleaners, felt, and foam to create cute little pets. Then, have a pet show!

Test Your Tastebuds
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 - 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 Birthday Spin Game - Place several colors of nail polish in the middle of a circle of girls.  Have the first girl 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.  Be sure and take pictures of your creations. 

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 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.

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. 

Mummy Wrap Game -  See which team can wrap their mummy in toilet paper first. Divide birthday party guests into teams of 2 or 3 and give them 2 rolls of toilet paper.  Let teams decide on who will be the mummy and then race to see who can wrap their mummy in toilet paper the quickest using all the paper. Stock up on paper and play this game a few times switching out mummy's.

Drama Bag Game - Fill shopping bags with 5 different items in each bag. A shoe, hat, party favor etc.  - but fill each bag with different things. Divide into teams and give each team one bag.  Go to different rooms and create a skit which includes all items in the bag.  After 15 minutes come back and perform.   Variation:  Create a song or commercial. 

Prize Auction Game -  On the invitation 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 game can be 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 without looking choose 2 candies.  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 - This game really gets you involved ... because you are the piece that moves around the board.  On a very large patio or driveway draw a large (VERY large!) gameboard with chalk.  Make every square at least 18".  Make it in the shape of a circle or oval (or a figure 8).  Write "start" at the first square and then on each square write a command or action.  Example:  Square 2 = move ahead 3 spaces, Square 3 - jump up and down until your next turn, Square 4 = sing the national anthem until your next turn, Square 5 = go back 2 spaces ... and so on until every square is filled.  Make 2 large oversize dice (paint them white or leave unpainted and draw black circles on the sides of the "dice" - 1 - 6 dots)  from boxes at least 12 x 12 - the bigger the better!  Roll the dice and then move yourself along the game board - when you land on a square do what the square says.  The winner is the one to reach the end space first by landing on it with an exact roll.   This sleepover game is also fun to play at night with flashlights.

Toilet Paper Share Game  – You’ll need a new roll of toilet paper for this sleepover game. Gather everyone in a circle and tell them you are going to pass around the sleepover game toilet paper roll and to take as much as they think they need for the game.  Pass the paper around without any further instructions and have them take sheets of paper off the roll.  After everyone has their sheets then tell them they have to share one thing about themselves for each square of paper they have.

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 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. 


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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
see food ideas for more choices ....


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:

Buy extra toothbrushes and keep them unopened in a drawer in case someone forgets.
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.

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