You want to invite some friends over for a sleepover party or slumber party, but you certainly don't want it to be just another lame party where Mom acts as the hostess. So, you want this to be the slumber party or sleepover party for all to remember! In the past, a sleepover party was known as a slumber party, but whatever the name, great memories are made and good times are shared from these "girls only" get-togethers.

To start the planning, you will need to decide how many and who you are going to invite. A good number to shoot for would be between four and six of your closest friends. Once you've completed your sleepover party guest list, we suggest you view all our unique sleepover birthday invitations and exclusive slumber party invitations to find just the right sleepover invitation for your party. Our large collection of slumber party invitations and sleepover party invitations includes many themes and can be personalized with any wording you want to add – even a photo to make photo sleepover invitations. Photo sleepover invitations cards have become one of our most popular type of sleepover party invitations.

Your personalized sleepover party invitations should include your name, date, time, location, RSVP, let your guests know what to bring, such as sleeping bag, pajamas, slippers, stuffed animal, toothbrush, comb and so on.

After you have ordered your sleepover party invitations, you will need start planning for the big party! Ask your Mom to help you get the snacks and stock up on finger foods like chips, veggies and dip, popcorn and anything else you think you and your pals will want. Make sure you have a bunch of great tunes ready to go, and you might want to rent a couple videos, even if watching movies isn't going to be the primary theme of the sleepover.

Decorations for Sleepover Party

It’s always a good idea to hang balloons and streamers on the mailbox and front door to welcome your guests to your sleepover party or slumber party. You can move furniture and breakables from the "sleeping area", and spread sleeping bags all over the sleepover party floor. Cut out paper stars, moons and planets from construction paper, and paint them with glow-in-the-dark paints or pens. Then, hang the cutouts from the party room ceiling to create an "outdoors-under-the-stars" feeling.

Light the room with flashlights instead of regular lights, and play lullaby songs in the background. You can hang pajamas and robes around the sleepover party room, and put signs on the doors that are "off limits". Cover the table with a sleepover party theme tablecloth, and add variety and excitement to the table with colorful balloons, confetti and streamers. Balloons and be hung in bunches near the table, or from the backs of the chairs.

Slumber Party or Sleepover Birthday Party Games

Piggly-Wiggly:  To get started have everyone lays out their sleeping bags. Then choose someone to be "it.", and that person must leave the room. After the person who is “it” leaves, everyone else hides inside a sleeping bag, but not their own. When all are ready, "it" comes back in and sits on one of the sleeping bags and says, "Piggly-Wiggly". The person inside can say only "oink, oink."  'It' must guess who is inside the bag, and if they are right, the person in the bag is it.

Robe Game: Pair up guests and have one player in each pair put on a robe. Have the pairs hold hands. The person wearing the robe must try to remove it and get it onto the second person, without letting go of each other’s hands.

Doughnut Delight: To start this game, tie pieces of a string through the hole of doughnuts, and suspend the doughnuts from a clothesline or other high spot. Be sure and place something on the floor below the doughnuts to catch crumbs. Line the sleepover party guests up in front of doughnuts with their hands behind their backs, and players race to eat doughnuts without using their hands. The first person to finish her doughnut wins the race.

Blindfold Race: This sleepover party game is best played outside. Split the guests into two teams, and blindfold one person on each team. The remaining team members must yell out directions to their blindfolded teammate as they attempt to walk an obstacle course made of soft items like pillows and blankets. Once the blindfolded person reaches the end, she races back and gives another teammate the blindfold. The first team to finish wins.

Clothes Pin 7-Ups: You will need seven clothes pins for each player. Start by clipping a clothes pin on the back of each player and have them face each other in a circle. On the word "GO" they each run around trying to get the clothes pins off each others backs. No grabbing and holding on to the other players is allowed.

Sleeping Bag Relay: You will need a large area for this sleepover party game. Set up chairs about 20 feet from the starting line and about 5 feet apart. Then divide your slumber birthday party guests into two teams. The first player from each team steps into a sleeping bag and zips it up. On command "Go!", the first players from each team jump to the chairs, around them and back to their teams. The players then get out of their sleeping bags and give them to the next racers in line. The team to successfully send all its members to the chair and back first is the winner.

Blind Touch: Gather several items that are interesting to touch, like a fuzzy slipper, a sponge, a toothbrush, a handful of fake slime and so on. Turn out the lights and pass the items around in the dark. Let the guests feel the items and guess what they are.

Picky Marshmallow Relay: Provide one toothpick and one marshmallow per team. A marshmallow is placed on the end of the first persons toothpick. They hold the toothpick in their mouth and try to pass it to the next person in line using only the toothpicks in their mouths.

Midnight Magic: Simple magic is always interesting and fun. Then the guests them come up one at a time and perform the tricks. Darkness gives the magic tricks more power!

Pillow Fight: First, ensure each guests brings her own pillar to the slumber birthday party. Then divide the group into two teams and have a pillow fight. Place the teams on the opposite sides of the room, and then they toss pillows at one another trying to hit the other team members. Anyone who is hit is out of the game. The last team standing wins!

Blindfolded Taste Test: Test sleepover birthday party or birthday slumber party guests for their tasting abilities. Blindfold one of the guests, and bring out a bowl full of items to eat. Be sure to cover the bowl with a napkin so the other guests can't see all of the food items. Take one food item out and let the blindfolded person taste that food. Keep feeding the different food items until the she correctly guesses the food. Then move on to the next sleepover party guest.

Slipper Scramble: Have everyone put a slipper in the middle of the room in a pile. When you say, "Go!" the players must scramble to find their slipper and put it on. For a bigger challenge, try the game again in the dark! Another variation is to place the slippers in a paper bag and pass it around the room. Players must identify their own slippers by touch.

What Did You Say?: Before the start of the sleepover birthday party, help the slumber birthday child write three or four stories containing two sentences each, like "The pudgy pig loved pickles. He ate pickle sandwiches every day.") Then, have the guests sit in a circle, and have the birthday child whisper one of the stories to the next person in the circle. That person whispers it to the next, and so on. The game continues until a helper writes down the story the last person whispers to her. The birthday child reads the original story out loud and then the whispered version. Repeat the game, letting everyone start her own story.

Let's Make a Deal: You will need three boxes and prizes of varying quality-really cool and a booby prize. Each guest has a chance to play so be sure you have enough "really cool" prizes to go around. Place one prize of each type under the boxes without anyone seeing. The guests / contestant chooses a box and the prize is revealed. Then the contestant can then keep that prize or elect to choose another. Offer incentives, like other prizes-candy, money etc. to see if they will keep the first chosen. They may keep either the first prize and incentives or choose the other box. This is their final choice.

Blanket Ball: If you do not play this slumber birthday party game outside, then you should remove all the breakables nearby! Lay out a blanket on the ground and have all the guests stand around the edge of the blanket and hold a piece of it. Then, toss a ball in the center of the blanket and have the players keep the ball bouncing by moving the blanket up and down.

Mummy: You will need one roll of toilet paper for each player. Assign teams and then see which team dresses their mummy (other person) the fastest, or you can just let them have fun. This tends to get messy with the dust from the toilet paper and the paper fight afterwards.

Scary Time: It is always a safe bet that telling ghost stories or watch a scary movie will entertain the slumber party guests.

Nighttime Easter Egg Hunt:  Hide the eggs and prizes outside. Hide items like fingernail polish, body mists, not just candy, and then everyone, using a flashlight, searches for the hidden prizes.

Slumber Party and Sleepover Birthday Party Food and Drinks

Sleepover Cake: Bake a cake measuring 13 x 9 x 2 inches, and then turn the cake upside down and frost it lightly. Cut five Twinkies in half, lengthwise, and spread them (cut-side down) in the center of the cake. Frost the upper part of the cake with pink frosting. Flatten five marshmallows, and place them just above the Twinkies for pillows. Take vanilla (or chocolate wafers) and create "faces" out of them, making smiles and curly hair with gel icing, create eyes by putting mini jawbreakers. Next, place the faces on the pillows. Make a "blanket" by frosting white over the Twinkies and the bottom part of the cake. Decorate the blankets by adding gel icing flowers.

Ants on a Log: Spread one side of pretzel rods with peanut butter, and top the rods with chocolate-covered raisins.

Cereal Buffet: Ideal for late-night snacks or early morning breakfast. Set bowls with different cereals in a long row, each with its own serving spoon. Have lots of milk at the end of the table, and let the guests move down the buffet line with their own bowls and scoop out whatever cereals they want.

S'mores: Heat marshmallows over a fire or gas flame, and then press them between two graham crackers with a piece of chocolate bar inside. Umn Good!!

Snack Bags: Provide individual snack bags for your sleepover birthday party guests. You can include popcorn, granola, nuts, raisins, butterscotch chips, pretzels, candy pieces, miniature marshmallows, Cheerios, to name just a few. Scoop all the ingredients into re-sealable plastic bags.

Party Kabobs: For this treat, you'll need miniature hotdogs, frozen chicken nuggets, cheese bites, refrigerated breadstick dough, pizza bites and other frozen snacks. Thaw the frozen food in the refrigerator overnight. Cut the breadstick dough into bite-size pieces. Put snacks and dough in bowls and invite the guests to alternate snacks and dough onto wooden skewers. Then, place the kabobs on an ungreased baking sheet, and bake at 425°F for about 10 minutes or until thoroughly heated.

Sleepover Pancakes: Make pancakes, and serve them with whipped cream and cherry.

Slumber Birthday Party Drink Ideas: Drink ideas for your birthday slumber party can include soft drinks, milk shakes, fruit juices, tea, to name just a few.