iCarly Birthday Party Ideas and Supplies

During a recent snow day my girls set out on having an iCarly marathon day where all they did was watch the iCarly episodes they had recorded. The tech-savvy iCarly crew are always up to something and have creative solutions for the wackiest problems. Plus, they are just fun, which makes them perfect for a tween birthday party theme!

Here are some ideas to make your iCarly birthday party the best ever!

• Transform any standard cake into a cool iCarly cake using an iCarly Mouse Cake Topper and bright blue, pink, purple, green and orange frosting.
• Serve zany snacks such as spaghetti tacos, smoothies and a big bowl of mixed snacks (come up with your own crazy mix).
• Record your voice saying “Random Dance” and play it randomly throughout the party.
• Have a Karaoke machine set up with the tweens favorite songs and give out prizes for the best versions.
• Set up a table with clay and/or recycled items for the guests to create their own sculptures, Spencer-style.
• Create a webcast or take photos with the iCarly Message Camera – your guests’ photos will appear on one of twelve iCarly set backgrounds.
• Favors can include anything wacky like iCarly notebooks, silly putty, funky mismatched socks (I like LittleMissMatched where nothing matches, but anything goes!) or inexpensive funky jewelry.

Finish off your party planning with some great iCarly party supplies! Click on the images below for ordering information.

Twilight New Moon Halloween or Birthday Party Theme

Something tells me that there will be a lot of Twilight and New Moon themed Halloween parties this fall.  After all, Bella and Edward would make the perfect party guests! And I am also starting to hear of Twilight pre-movie viewing parties being planned too!

Tickets for The Twilight Saga, New Moon are now on sale – even though the movie does not open until November 20. I was questioning the hype until I over heard one of my co-workers hooting and hollering as she bought movie tickets in advance at Fandango.com. She got 4 tickets for the first show at 12:01 a.m. on opening night and they are already planning a Twilight themed party for before the show.

What do you need for a Twilight party? As always, you can make it as simple or as elaborate as you want.

Let’s start with a New Moon inspired party invitation:

Vampire Moon Personalized Invitation

Then pick up The Twilight Saga New Moon Deluxe Party Pack:

The Twilight Saga: New Moon Deluxe Party Pack for 8
Includes 8 dinner plates, dessert plates, 22 oz. lenticular cups, forks, knives, spoons, 16 lunch napkins, 16 beverage napkins, solid-color tablecover, foil star centerpiece, 18 balloons (3 colors), curling ribbon (3 colors), crepe paper rolls (3 colors), and star confetti to match your party theme. This is an officially licensed Twilight party kit.

And now for the party:

• A traditional red velvet cake mix with white frosting and a drizzle of red raspberry sauce is an easy starter for cupcakes or a cake.
• Red candy in bowls make a fun treat and nice decoration
• Make Bella’s birthday cake using Linette’s recipe at Kids Fun Reviewed
• Twilight Novel Novice had a Twilight party and wrote a really great post on all the details (lots of pictures)
• Play the Twilight Scene It? Game
• Play a Twilight Trivia game or place Twilight quotes in bowls for guest to guess the character
• Hostess with the Mostess has printable Twilight labels and ideas for your drinks and decorations.

Zebra Striped Cake

My daughter had her zebra stripes themed birthday party this past weekend. It was truly a hit! My friend Jess made the cake and not only did the cake look amazing it tasted phenomenal too!

There were 4 layers of white cake (made from scratch!) and it was covered in from scratch buttercream frosting. The zebra stripes and pink ribbon were made from fondant. The cake was inspired by the zebra striped invitation I had created.

My sister-in-law had bought my daughter a really cute zebra striped gymnast from Gifts in Steel that she found at her local gym’s pro shop. The zebra gymnast made a great addition to the cake display.

We had the party at the gymnastics center she trains at. The party was tons of fun with plenty of active games, rockwall climbing, trampoline, and dancing. A lot of her friends picked up on the zebra theme and gave her some really cute gifts including a zebra bag with her initial on it from Justice Girls Clothing, zebra bookmarks, zebra earrings and more.

Zebra Themed Tween Party

My daughter is turning 11 this month so I have been planning her party. She has decided she really wants a zebra striped theme. Oh, and with a touch of pink, too.  A friend of mine is going to make her a zebra striped cake and I will post the pictures here when the party is done, but here’s what I’m thinking so far. (update – see the pictures of the zebra striped cake)

I created the invitation – feel free to print it out for your own party. It is a black and white zebra stripe with plenty of pink accents.

We are having her party at a local gymnastics school since many of the girls are gymnasts and all they want to do is flip, jump on trampolines and dance around any how. The girls will do open gym (supervised, unstructured time in the gym) for about 1.5 hours then we will have the party room.

I am getting solid hot pink table covers, black and white dessert plates, hot pink silverware, and using a zebra pinata as the centerpiece.

In addition to her zebra cake, I think we are going to dip some Oreo cookies in white chocolate, dip some strawberries in white chocolate and add some zebra striped drizzles, and put out a few more bowls of muchies for the girls.

After doing cake, we will go back out into the gym and play “Pass the Present”. Basically you wrap a small gift in many layers of paper. Sit the party guests in a circle and start some music. The girls pass the present from person to person until the music stops. The person holding the gift when the music stops gets to take a layer of wrapping off. This continues until one person is left opening the final layer. I like to make the gift something to share so that everyone gets something.

For party favors I am thinking doing little pink take-out style containers with of some sort with nail polish, a zebra tissue pack, some hairbands, lip gloss, and little packs of mints. (click on images for purchase information)