For my daughter's 7th birthday last year she decided she wanted a Rock Star theme. It actually turned out pretty cool. From the invitation to the event it was a hit. I even had parents telling me they were using my daughters party as an inspiration for their own daughters upcoming party.
And aside from the actual rock star trashing of my house (No seriously, they even pulled down the decorations!) I thought the day went pretty well, so I thought I would share it with you.
Rock On!
And aside from the actual rock star trashing of my house (No seriously, they even pulled down the decorations!) I thought the day went pretty well, so I thought I would share it with you.
Rock On!
Preparation started with our invitations and so did the fun. In order to make our invitations we first needed to have a mini, er full fledged photo shoot. Let's just say, Tessa was all over this one!
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| She certainly wasn't camera shy! |
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| I raised a rocker! |
At one point, before I even knew what she was doing, she hopped up on the back of the couch and started posing like she was in some 1980's Madonna video. And no I am pretty sure she doesn't even know who Madonna is, however I either have a future model on my hands or I am in big trouble!
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| OK photo shoot over! LOL |
Once our photo shoot was complete, we uploaded the the pictures to my computer and I let Tessa pick her favorite pose (well I did steer her away from a few) and we created our invitation...
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| We used Publisher to create the invite |
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| This is a bad picture, but you get the idea. I printed each invitation on heavy card stock and inserted it into a clear vinyl sleeve and hung it on a lanyard. |
I have to admit I had a lot of help with this party. My best friend Dawn gave me a lot of the ideas to make the day a smash hit!
I want to share the cupcakes with you first though, because they were amazing! And quite yummy to I might add. Dawn's daughter Courtney helped with these and I think they turned out great! They were certainly a hit with both the kids and the parents. Everyone kept asking where we bought them. I beamed when I told them my best friend Dawn and her daughter made them. If she was a baker, she would have had twenty orders!
I want to share the cupcakes with you first though, because they were amazing! And quite yummy to I might add. Dawn's daughter Courtney helped with these and I think they turned out great! They were certainly a hit with both the kids and the parents. Everyone kept asking where we bought them. I beamed when I told them my best friend Dawn and her daughter made them. If she was a baker, she would have had twenty orders!
(One thing I should mention...when the trashing of the rock star party started, not part of the agenda either, this hot pink icing was hard to get out of the carpet!)
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| Cupcakes fit for a Rock Star! Dawn and Courtney made chocolate cupcakes with hot pink icing, lots of decorating sparkle and finished them off with zebra fondant and plastic guitars! |
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| I decorated shoe boxes with zebra paper and used those as my displays. We added a few stars and props like a microphone and trophy for the best air guitarist! |
Setting "the stage". Party City, Oriental Trading and Michaels were visited a lot by me and Dawn! This is one of those times, that if I had a lot of money, I could have really went crazy! But, that is not the case, so I did have to scale it back a bit.
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These are our "roadie" t-shirts that each girl was given Tessa and I went to Michaels and purchased white t-shirts for her to decorate  |
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| We purchased stencils and letters at Michaels |
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| Simply Spray was perfect and easy for Tessa to use |
We spent an afternoon making our "roadie" t-shirts. Tessa really enjoyed spraying the shirts and using the stencils. I am still reminded of that afternoon every time I look at my garage floor and all the sparkle!
Once we finished the shirts we started focusing on the decorations. We wanted it to resemble going back stage at a concert. The girls would come in with their "VIP passes" and get to go "back stage" to meet Tessa, aka the Rock Star!
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| We hung silver door way streamers in the entry way |
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| We hung the stage scene on the wall. We picked this up at Party City along with the silver door way streamers. |
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| Marabou boas (because every girl needs a marabou boa!), colored hair extensions, rock star dog tags, jeweled tattoos and gem body art, sunglasses that we added gems to of course, glow bracelets and rock star wrist bands. The goody bags were filled with candy and extras! |
Tessa waited patiently for her "fans" to arrive.
As they arrived they were escorted back stage to meet Tessa and have their pictures taken.
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| "Back stage" door |
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| Tessa greeting her fans |
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| Tessa and her fans back stage |
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| Individual pictures were taken of each girl and Tessa |
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| We did several group shots to as the crowd got bigger |
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| Hula Hoop Shimmy to 80's rock songs of course |
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| Boa Limbo |
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| And what rock star party is complete before you have an air guitar jam?! Or in this case, an "air filled" guitar jam! |
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| We had pizza delivered (Tessa's favorite Papa John's Pizza of course!) Popcorn, drinks and bowls of candy were laid out as well. |
Then once all of the gifts were open we did a few more group shots.
Then it was time for our rocker photo shoot. The girls really had a good time with this. They grabbed all of their rock star swag, got dressed up and we headed outside for our photo shoot.
Then of course it was time for cupcakes.
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| Rock Star photo shoot complete! |
The cupcakes were a smash hit! No really, they smashed it into my carpet. We did try eating these outside, but the girls took them inside as well, that hot pink icing looked great on my beige carpet.
Note to self, probably having the bowls of candy out throughout the party and then the cupcakes, I just may have given them too much sugar. I even found candy wrappers stuffed in my couch! Yikes!
We decided we might need to burn off a few of those sugar calories so we reverted back to a good old game of duck, duck, goose.
Once we ran some of that sugar out of our veins we broke out the rock star pull string pinata, but we let them beat on it instead since they still had plenty of energy.
And once we broke open the loot from the guitar we let Tessa trash is like a true rock star!
All in all, aside from the decorations literally being ripped down off of my walls, again, I blame this on the sugar, it was a pretty great party. The girls all had a great time and I think Tessa will remember that party for years to come. It really made her feel like a true rock star!
Note to self, probably having the bowls of candy out throughout the party and then the cupcakes, I just may have given them too much sugar. I even found candy wrappers stuffed in my couch! Yikes!
We decided we might need to burn off a few of those sugar calories so we reverted back to a good old game of duck, duck, goose.
Once we ran some of that sugar out of our veins we broke out the rock star pull string pinata, but we let them beat on it instead since they still had plenty of energy.
And once we broke open the loot from the guitar we let Tessa trash is like a true rock star!
All in all, aside from the decorations literally being ripped down off of my walls, again, I blame this on the sugar, it was a pretty great party. The girls all had a great time and I think Tessa will remember that party for years to come. It really made her feel like a true rock star!
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| My little rock star! |
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