Our Rock Star Party

For A Very Special Birthday Girl

Sometimes coming up with the perfect birthday party can be rather tricky and a mission. Themed or not themed? How many people? Where and when? Present ideas? Food? And let's not forget the party games and prizes.

Recently my daughter turned 10 and we organized a rock star party. Although there was a fair amount of work involved for the ideas we wanted, it was well worth it. The smiles and laughter proved that. We chose Rock Star Theme, had approximately 30 Guests and decided to have it at home. Rock Star Theme is fun, and easy for everyone to come up with a costume.

Our Party games:

Hula Hoop Shimmy

This is like musical chairs but with a Hula Hoop instead. Aim of the game is to make sure you pass the hoop onto the next player before the music stops. If it lands on you, then you are out. Everyone must start of standing in a big circle, holding hands. You can use body parts to help pass the hoop over but you must not let go of both your neighbours hands. This one is a little challenging so suggestion would be ages 8 and up.

Air Guitar Race

All Rock Stars should know how to Air Guitar! This is not a race against time or to be the first person over the time. It is giving the best show to your audience and show them how much you can rock that guitar. Have everyone stand in an area spread out, and then set a time limit. Turn on a song and away you go. Let the judges decide. We used some other family members to be the judges.

Taste the rainbow

Aim of the game is to move the lollies from one bowl to another using a straw. Lollies such as mini gob stoppers, MnMs, and skittles are perfect and not too heavy for the kids. We used teams of 2 with 50 Gobstoppers in each bowl. Moving it from one bowl to the other and then back for the winning team. While 50 seems a lot, it wasn’t considering it only takes a second to move the lolly into another bowl.

Limbo

Aim of the game is to get under the stick without touching it whilst bending backwards. No hands and no body parts apart from your feet can be touching the ground. How low can you go!

Hop and Pop

Aim of the game is to protect your balloon while trying to pop other people’s balloons. This is a good game to wear the kids out, or have some adult time. They can only use their hands and to keep too fair as in different height children, they have to hold their balloon at their chest with one arm as in a football. Our kids chose to play this game over and over. All you need is balloons.

Our Costumes

We didn’t go all out and buy any pre made costumes but instead decided to hunt through our cupboards and go op shopping. Since it was only going to be worn once, seemed silly to go all out and spend heaps of money. So instead it cost me about 20 dollars total for everyone’s costumes.

We had Rock Stars from all era's, Security, and Paparazzi.

Our Decorations

Decorations are very important for a themed party, especially a Rock Star Party. We had the usual, balloons, streamers, and signs but we also added records, silver balls (made up from foam balls spray painted silver) signs, a disco floor, and a Rock Star Dressing Room which had bracelets, hair spray, rings, and costumes for the kids to play with and wear.  Most of these I picked up from a second hand shop for very cheap, and it made such a difference to the look of the party.

We had a red carpet leading up to the front door entrance, to which our “Security Staff” had clipboards and checked if the guests were on the V.I.P List. It was adorable and the Guests loved it.

On the tables we built food stands made out of plastic champagne glasses and old records. Gluing them together so the held light things such as Fairy Bread.

Our Food and Yummies!

We set everything up on a table and used a bed netting to cover it. Not only did it look great, but also helped keep the flies away. We tried to keep things simple so it was easy to prepare and wouldn’t end up with too much left over food.

 

I also bought a large pack of Pop Tops for the children to drink and put them in ice buckets around the food table so they could help themselves.

Fairy Bread

Marshmallows dipped in white melted chocolate covered in sprinkles.

Gummy Bears served in little red plastic shot glasses

Chicken Wings

Biscuits and Dip

Mixed bowl of Lollies

Chips

Donuts

Cabana and Cheese

The Birthday Cake

And the Goodies bag given out at the end of the party.

Our Extras

I placed a Best Dressed Vote Jar on the table with a little notepad and pen and over the duration of the party everyone voted for the person they thought put in the most effort. Nice to be rewarded for going in costume rather than being slack.

We made V.I.P Necklaces to hand out to the guests as they walked through the door, all part of the day.

I bought a large piece of cardboard and hung it up with the title Autographs, so people could sign it and leave a message for the birthday girl.

I made up signs such as V.I.P Check in this way, Security, Disco Dance Floor, Rock Star Dressing

Rooms, Ladies and Men’s Rooms and This way to the Main Stage, just to add a bit of extra to the feel.

We made up prizes for each game with each bag containing lollies. We chose the lollies to be the same ones that were on the table though, so no child felt like they were missing out.

Tips

Try and have an extra party game aside in case they games don’t go for as long as you expect.

Allow for guests that won’t be able to attend, so it doesn’t matter if you end up inviting a few extras.

Try and involve the Adults in some things. Makes the party more fun for everyone and keeps them entertained. Things such as Judging, music changer and such are easy.

Start preparing for the party as early as you can. Keep a spare box somewhere and just add bits and pieces over time. That way the cost of the party won’t be so much in one hit, and you get more ideas as you go along.

But most of all Have Fun!