Birthday Party Ideas - Gardner, KS

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They have tons of great ideas for birthdays.

You may want to take a look at The Royal Party Room. They have great reviews and several options for girls! www.theroyalpartyroom.com

Dye your Duds seemed fun. I know th Colleg of hair Design on 106 and 69 highway offers a "salon day" far cheapr than any hair salon and just as fun. GOo dluck!
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Libby Lu at Oakpark mall is always fun or pump it up in Olathe is great but a little on the pricey side if you know of another child around the same bday they will let you slit parties. The YMCA has swimming parties, Micheals craft stores also offers parties but I dont know what the starting age is. Hope you get lots of great ideas.

You might try the Deanna Rose Farm in Overland Park. I've heard it's a great place for kids.

For little girls theres Pump It Up at 75th and I-35, Libby Lu at Oak Park Mall, Power Play in Shawnee, you may want to check the Mall of the Great Plains, I think they have an indoor amusement park for kids, Bump City in OP, and Wonderscope in Shawnee are my ideas.

Have you thought about doing a "Princess Party"? Invite some of the other moms or a few of your friends over to help. Then you give the girls "princess" makeovers. Do there hair in fun twisties and get the colored hairspray and glitter hairspray to add that extra touch. Then you can do there makeup in bright vibrant colors and use stickers for accents. Also you can paint their nails with a fast drying nail polish. Get together some of your old dress clothes or go to the goodwill and pick up a few dressy dresses for the girls to put on over their clothes. Then have them sit down and have a "royal" tea party. My mom and I did that for my sister's birthday one year. All her friends still talk about it. And it's been a few years since.

How about a tea party! If you have dress up clothes, enough for all the kids invited and of course the b-day girl, you can have outfits for them...shoes, gloves, hats, etc. Then then can have a make-up station (simple stuff) and then make a craft. You can take a picture of each girl and then make a frame to put it in. A friend used a polaroid camera to her her pix, but if you have a digital camera and a printing station, that works great too. You can make a frame from popsicle sticks. They come already colored at the craft stores and hot glue them together. Stores also sell cute little tea party girly stuff to glue on them...and a glue magnet on the back. This makes a grat craft and memory for them! Of course the party cake and tea out of tea cups and plates are an added bonus, but not necessary.

A friend of mine had a Western Party where she bought cowboy(girl) hats and bandanas. Then they had hotdogs and chips and cowpatties (bigh chocolate cookies) as well as cake and ice cream. She had hay bales to sit on around the table and she used a picnic print (red and white) table cloth from Wal*Mart and white paper plates inside of wicker plate holders for more authenticity! They played pin the badge on the sherrif. Craft was making paper snack vests using paper sacks from grocery store and cutting them out and making fringe. The kids just colored them in and put things they wanted on them.

My friend did these and has lots of other ideas if you want to here them. Ex: Dora the Explorer party, Princess party, Spongebob and Hello Kitty. I can give you specifics if you want to hear about them. Just shoot me an email.