High School Musical Party

The High School Musical phenomenon has swept the country…check out what the GoodyBlog captures so perfectly about the hoopla!  With this sort of mania, your kids may definitely be looking for a High School Musical party, especially 8-years-old and into the tweens.  Looking for ideas? 

Here are some good resources to check out:

Dieney’s official site has some targeted ideas to pull a party together!

The Ledger ran an article recently discussing party ideas.

Birthday in a Box has all of the thematic stuff to throw your party.

Also, here are some more quick ideas to pull the party together:

High School Musical Party

Invitation: Send out your party details either in the shape of a theater ticket or as a VIP Pass into the party.  Make sure to use theatrical lingo and to request that the guests bring their tickets or VIP passes to the party to get into the main stage fun.  Host parents can provide plastic VIP pass holders to the guests for them to wear around their necks to keep it authentic.

Decorations:

Roll out a Red Carpet for your guests to arrive on at the party. Gold, silver, and black balloons lining the Red Carpet would also be a sparkly addition to the party entrance.

Hang musical posters around the party room and Wildcat penants

Put together a mock stage area where the kids can go to once they pass through the Red Carpet. Hang a large sheet or piece of fabric on the wall and run twinkle lights around it to make it sparkle.  Gold and silver stars hanging from the ceiling would also add additional sparkle.

On the stage, take a picture of each guest and ask for each guest to do a star performance.

Activities:

Set up an area where guests can get ready for their performance.  Have some helpers on hand to provide makeovers or help the kids choreograph dance routines.

The main activity of the party will be performing either as a whole group or as a competition of smaller groups.  If you want different groups to perform then break down the large group into teams of 3-4 kids to work together to perform a musical act. 

If you have the kids come to the party dressed as their favorite High School Musical character then they could act that character out or they can say who their favorite musical character is, and do a little performance from there.

Karaoke would be loads of fun.

If there are some kids who do not want to perform, perhaps they would like to help do makeovers, work the lights during the performance, or be an audience member.  Have several non-performing roles available for guests who may not be interested. 

Menu:

Serve popcorn, nachos, large pretzels, hot dogs, mini-pizzas with an array of toppings, candy bars, soda.  Just think of all of those great food items at your favorite concession and these should match the theme perfectly.

Favors:

Make sure to take lots of pictures with an instant film camera of all of the guests with the birthday kid VIP.  Frame these pictures during the party using inexpensive plastic frames for the guests to take home.  Make sure to capture the autographs on the pictures as well. 

Enjoy Musical Mania!

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