Fashion - Makeover child parties are great for kids (mainly little girls) with a passion for fashion!
Below you'll find lots of great ideas for your fashion theme party.
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First check out our whole page full of free printable fashion makeover party invitations that we've created especially for fashion child parties:
Here's a really cute fashion party invitation idea: take a photo of the birthday child dressed up all dirty and with ugly clothes, hair all messed up, some makeup smeared unfashionably on the face, etc. This will be the BEFORE picture. Then, have them clean up and look great (stylish clothes, hair made really well, make-up, etc.) and take a picture. This will be the AFTER picture.
Take a piece of paper that, when folded in half, will fit into the envelope. On the front put the picture of your child all messy and underneath the picture write in big letters "BEFORE".
Then open the invitation and on the inner left side, glue (or print) the picture where your child is looking fabulous and below it write "AFTER!". Then on the right you still have room to write all the party information. Also, before the address, write your child's name and then "Beauty Parlor" and/or "Salon" (for example - "Tania's Beauty Parlor is located at..." or "The party will be taking place at Heather's Salon").
You can decorate this invitation with a collage of fashion magazine cutouts and write at the top "Fashion Weekly". On the envelope you can write something like "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun". A cute idea is to put some red lipstick on the birthday girl's lips and let her 'sign' each envelope with her lipstick lips. You can also give each invitation a small dash of perfume spray for that extra touch!
If the invitations will be hand-delivered you can get lots of cheap dress-up purses at the dollar store and put your invitations inside or tie each invitation to a nail polish bottle, lip gloss, and/or lovely smelling soaps. If you have the time to hand write your invitations, consider writing with a gel pen (when writing with a bright gel pen on dark paper - it comes out really beautiful). Consider sprinkling glitter in each invitation for that special touch!
Here are more fashion party wording ideas for your invitations:
If you're going for a more 'Barbie' child parties fashion theme - on the outside of each invitation, you can give each girl a Barbie name (Princess Barbie, Fairy Barbie, Malibu Barbie, etc) and the boys a Ken name (Prince Ken, Malibu Ken, etc.).
For a Bratz fashion party, on your invitations you can write something like "Join Cloe, Jade, Meygan and Yasmin for some trendy fun!! SUPER-COOL... GIRLS RULE!!"
Around the child parties area disperse any type of fashion items you may have - hats, feather boas, flashy sunglasses, high heel shoes, hip fashion dolls, dresses, jewelry, etc. It's also a nice touch to decorate with flowers, spread flower petals all over the table, in vases, etc. Consider scattering sequins and glitter on tables as well and hanging crystal tear drops (when light shines through creates lovely rainbows).
The colors you choose for fashion child parties depend on what style you want. For example, if you want more of an elegant look you would use black and any other color, let's say black, gold, pink and purple for a color scheme. If you want it to be more playful you could choose pink, purple, and light blue or light green, pink, orange and yellow. It's best to let your child decide.
Once you choose the colors for your fashionable child parties, you'll want to decorate with lots of balloons, streamers, glittery stars from curly ribbons, etc. Put all sorts of little fashion accessories inside balloons before filling them up (gems, earrings, bracelets, etc.), and later the kids can pop them and have surprises fall out. A disco ball will also shine up the party area!
Here are some fashion-themed decorations you can print and tape around your party area:
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If you're going for a Barbie 'All Dolled Up' party, put lots of Barbie posters and pictures on walls, doors, etc. Here's an entire page full of pictures of Barbie, posters, coloring pages, and all sorts of other imagery to help you create awesome homemade decorations and invitations. For a Bratz child parties twist here's a complete page with lots of Bratz pictures.
To make your party entrance glamorous, put up these dazzling metallic curtains in your doorway or around the party area. You can even put a fan behind these curtains and have them blow endless waves of metallic strands.
For more glamour, use plastic champagne glasses and hot glue rhinestones around each. For napkin rings use ring pops (put the napkins through each ring). Also check out these printable napkin holders to wrap and hold each napkin in place:
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For the napkin holders, cut around each one and fold in a circle around a napkin, then secure with tape when both ends meet. For more table decor, print out the following placecards that fit fashion child parties and put on each of your party tables:
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On each placecard page there are 4 placecards, print, cut each out, and fold each in half. On the placecards you can write each guest's name by adding "Model" or "Supermodel" before or after their name (for example: "Supermodel Nancy").
What's the highlight of fashion makeover child parties? A fashion show of course! You'll want to assign an area to be the walkway. You can use a long piece of fabric or carpet to be the walkway. A nice idea is to mark the runway edges with a not so high rope made of streamers and/or balloons.
To create the effect of a real fashion show you'll want to make curtains so that the kids can stand behind them and come out one by one. You can even just hang sheets from the ceiling on both sides of the long walkway. A fog machine can make the whole experience a lot more mysterious and dazzling. If you want it more playful you can use a bubble machine.
You can then have all kinds of spotlights shining where the fashion runway is (you can use hanging flashlights, Christmas lights, and purchase clip-on lights which you can clip on places to shine on whoever is walking on the runway). You’ll want to put lots of long mirrors everywhere so that the kids can always look at themselves and glamour-up!
Cut out lots of different fashion pictures from fashion magazines and put them everywhere (also nice to tape them to balloons). Hang up pictures of famous models and draw mustaches, glasses, and warts on their face. Write "Before" under the picture and then find other model pictures and leave them as they are, write "After" underneath them.
If you're having different child parties makeover stations you can put up different signs saying things like "Ashley's Beauty Parlor" or "Judy's Dazzling Hair Salon". You can put lots of pretty dress-up clothes (skirts, blouses, boas, tiaras, high-heeled shoes, ribbons, shawls, hats, gloves, costume jewelry, etc.) to create your own high fashion wardrobe in a room or area (put oversized price tags on each piece of clothing) that can be designated as the "fashion shop". Once kids start coming, give them some play money and tell them they can "shop around" for clothes.
If you're leaning more towards a spa theme child parties, set up the party area with all kinds of aroma therapy candles, little face towels, soft pillows, all kinds of lotions, toe separators, different colors of nail polish, lots of fragrant flowers, and all kinds of magazines to read.
Music will always hype up the energy at child parties! Create your own CD with music that fits the fashion theme. Songs that are great for the runway are Madonna's "Vogue", RuPaul's "Supermodel", Jimmy James' "Fashionista", the song "Lady Marmalade" from the Moulin Rouge movie, Cindie Lauper's "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun", and Diana Ross' "Baby Love".
If it's a small group of kids you can also take them to a real Beauty Salon or Spa to get their nails done, or 15 minute facials, etc.
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If you want the kids to go through a makeover, you can create stations either in different rooms or in different designated areas, as in a make-up station, hair salon, pedicure and manicure area, clothing section, etc. In the clothing section have a box full of fun clothing accessories the girls can wear like costume jewelry, feathery boas, hats, sunglasses, etc. If you have any thrift or Salvation Army stores in the area you'll find lots of costume accessories at very low prices.
Make sure to have lots of cotton swabs, pads, and tissues for applicators to minimize germ transfer, and small trash-cans nearby to simplify clean up. Add fun accessories as glitter, nail polish, lip gloss, eye shadow colors, etc.
You can ask some of your friends to help you. It's great if there are some teen sisters, babysitters, neighbors, etc. They'll have fun doing it and you can treat them with a small gift (remember to take 'before' and 'after' pictures!!).
To intensify the difference between the "before" and "after" pictures, as the girls arrive give each one an old yucky outfit. Once they're dressed, smear cookie crumbs on their face, black out a tooth, and mess up their hair - this can be quite hilarious!
Once each guest arrives you can give them a robe to wear, a quick facial with cucumber slices on their eyes, a little towel wrapped around their head, and there you've got another great "before" picture.
If you're having an ALL girl's party, you can invite the girls to come with their mothers. Then invite a make-up specialist who can teach everyone tips and tricks with makeup, how best to apply it, different and better brands, etc. Then everyone can give each other makeovers. This is a great way moms can also have fun together with their daughters at child parties!
Here are some printable fashion cone hats you can print and fold:
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All you have to do with the above printable fashion hats, is print them out, cut around the half circle, roll each of them up, staple, and staple on flexible string to both sides of the cone so that guests can secure the hats around their chin.
Here are some great costume accessories to keep up with fashion child parties:
Here is where you can give the kids a creative opportunity to be young designers. What you'll need is large pieces of butcher paper. You can tape the butcher paper on the wall or lay it on the floor if you have a smooth surface. Let the kids trace each other and give them each crayons, markers, paints, glue on gems, scrap fabric, etc. to decorate and make up their own unique fashions on their own body outline.
Gather as many old fashion magazines as you can (you might be able to find them at hair and beauty salons). Disperse all the magazines on a craft table with scissors and glue. Let the girls cut out their favorite fashion clothes from the magazines and make their own fashion collages by gluing them to a piece of bristol paper. After everyone has made their own fashion collage, you can start a discussion about each guest's likes in regards to fashion, design, color, etc.
A great activity for fashionable child parties is to let the girls make their own beaded jewelry. You'll find lots and lots of different bead shapes, sizes, colors and other materials at a nearby craft store. If you're inviting boys to the party, necklaces and bracelets made with wood or ceramic beads strung on leather are very popular with both boys and girls. You can also have the kids make jewelry out of candy by using licorice strings for thread and Fruit Loops, Life Savers, Gummy Savers, etc. for the jewels.
It's a great idea at such child parties to let the kids make lots of wearable items out of flowers. They can make headbands, bracelets, necklaces, etc. You can either gather or buy fresh flowers, or purchase silk/paper flowers at a craft store. Provide each kid with a piece of ribbon, about 3 ft long and demonstrate how to start. Lay the ribbon on a table, hold a flower by the stem and lay it flat on the ribbon. Then tightly wrap the ribbon around the stem and add another flower (make sure the stems are lying flat on the ribbon as you wind the ribbon around them). Keep this going until you have a wreath large enough to fit a wrist or head, and tie a knot with the extra ribbon. You can use different colors of flowers and a few colors of ribbons for a pretty effect.
This cool child parties activity makes a great party favor. Give each kid some pretty and colorful papers and let them decorate it with crayons, markers, glitter, etc. Once they're done have them fold the paper like an accordion. Fasten one end with tape or a staple for the fan handle. Then delicately spread the other end out for a beautiful fan!
The guests can make their own body glitter using aloe vera gel and glitter! At a craft store buy little plastic containers and give one to each guest. Then let them fill their container with aloe vera gel and pour small amounts of colorful glitter into the aloe vera. Then with a stick they mix the gel with the glitter and Voila! Body Glitter! After closing the lid they can decorate with stickers, markers, etc. and take home as a favor.
Check out the cool Fashion Makeover theme party cake ideas on coolest-birthday-cakes.com, the Web's largest gallery of homemade birthday cakes. You'll find thousands of cakes for child parties submitted by visitors like yourself with photos and how-to tips.
Tip: On bowls and such you can put fabric trimmings (even your bowls can be fashionable!!). And remember - you can make almost anything pink with just a little bit of red food coloring.
We've created these printable and foldable party favor bags and favor boxes for fashion child parties. They aren't colored in and so the kids can decorate and fold them themselves. You can also print them out on different-colored paper, possibly the color/s of your child's fashion theme party. We've created large child parties favor bags, medium favor bags, and favor-boxes for you to print out:
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For the child parties favorbox - print, color if needed (or print on colored paper) and cut out. Before you start gluing the favorbox, fold along the dotted lines and assemble so that all the sides connect. Only then add glue and secure the folded flaps.
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For the medium favor bags - print, color if needed (or print on colored paper) and cut out. Before you start gluing the favor bag, fold along the dotted lines and assemble so that all the sides connect. Only then add glue and secure the folded flaps.
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To create the large favor bags you'll need to print out TWO designs for one favor bag. First, cut along the lines and fold along the dotted lines. Then, connect the two so that the left side of one is glued to the right side of the other.
A nice child parties idea instead of favorbags, is to fill jewelry boxes or small velvet bags with all kinds of "girly" accessories, such as glitter nail polish, fashion stickers, lip-gloss, pink bubble gum, tiaras, dolls, rings, charm bracelets, necklaces, fingernail tattoos, shower loofahs, shower gels, plastic hair-brushes and/or combs, little face towels, shower caps, bath salts, lovely smelling candles, little notepads, body glitter, hand lotion, cute fashion key-chains, body spray, hair bows and clips, little mirrors, etc. (basically anything that is fashionable or has to do with getting a makeover!).
Here are some glamorous fashion party favors and favor packs especially for this child parties theme:
Another great idea for child parties favors (you'll need a digital camera and color printer) is to take "before" and "after" pictures of the girls, print each picture out as many times as there are guests, have them autograph their pictures, and put them inside small photo albums. You could probably get these albums pretty cheap from a nearby photo shop and have the girls decorate them beforehand. This is a really cool souvenir from the party.
As favors or after the fashion activities you can give out these printable certificates:
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Here's a whole page full of free printable fashion party thank-you cards:
Here's a whole page full of the coolest Fashion Makeover party games, such as:
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