Rockstar Birthday Party ideas

I am obsessed with craft blogs. I don’t think a day goes by where I’m not looking at some for ideas. Sadly, I never have time to post the actiities and crafts we do at our house on this blog. This time I wanted to give back and hopefully some of these ideas will be helpful to someone out there. I love HWTM and found several cool ideas for a rockstar party. The parties are gorgeous, but I think they are probably expensive since they get cookies from one place and cakes from another. So here is my take on a party where you can do it yourself… for under $75 the budget my husband gave me. We often make the birthday presents so I count the party as a present.
We started off the party with a rockstar photoshoot. I took a plain target black t shirt and appliqued a guitar on it. For the gloves I took black stockings and cutoff the legs. At the heel I cut a hole and I cut a large hole at the toes. I sewed the fabric into a ruffle and then sewed it on to the edge of the stockings. Let me know if you want a picture tutorial ( I need to make a pair for my younger daughter).

I then took the pictures and made them into 11×14 color posters at Staples. I made 6 and they were only $1.10 each. I also printed out 3 pages of pictures for the drink labels. All together I spent around $10 at Staples.
I’m notorious for using images I see on the internet through Google search because I never ever ever sell anything. It’s always just for my family. I’ve used some images in these posters. I’m hoping that since it was only for my printing that it is okay. Please let me know what you think about that? I’m starting to think if I’m feeling weird about it, it’s probably not a good idea.
I’m usually stictly an evite type of girl, but K’s teachers are super cool and will distribute invitations if you invite everyone or just all the girls or all the boys, etc. We invited all the girls. My father in law gave me these ID badge holders this summer for the girls to use so I just printed out the invitation to look like a backstage pass and then we tied rockstar ribbon on top ribbon was $2.00 at JoAnn’s after discount.

My favorite craft of the party was simple with a great wow factor. We made fake rockstar hair clips. I bought the little ones at JoAnn’s (maybe around $2.50 for 15). Then we had these two headband wigs from the dollar store for $1 each. I just cut a chunk of hair and I traced the clip onto some felt. I put the hair on the clip and I hot glued it all over so that it would stay and put the felt on top. It helps to have the clip open when you are doing this. It was fun and easy. I did 14 in 30 minutes. You can definitely take this to the next level if you wanted to givev the hair clips as gifts. First off put the felt on both sides of the clip and decorate the felt. Check out this great post from knit1slip1 for instructions on this. 

Here is a picture of the clip in action.

For the party we had lots of activities planned. The girls came and colored in rockstar magnets ($2.25 at Michael’s with a coupon – how do people live without those 40% off coupons?) Then they all picked out jewelry and put on make up. I gave them little pouches of q-tips (sewed up the edge of pink wrapping paper – you can see it in the bottom picture below) so that noone would share makeup brushes.

 Then I broke the girls into three groups and they went to different stations. One group got their nails painted, one group made heead bands and the final group shot a music video in the “recording studio”  and then we rotated after about 10/15 minutes.
I made 14 white headbands using this tutorial from Jezzeblog. I didn’t do the buttons though, I just added elastic (Check out Tatertots and Jello blog for some inspiration). I didn’t even tuck the ends over ijust sewed with white thread ontop.  I did it over 3 days so it wasn’t so bad and I had all the materials on hand so it was free, but I did by fabric pens at Michael’s for $7(with coupon). I was painting nails at the time so there are no pictures, but here is an after picture of me modeling it since my girls are sleeping. I used my cricut to cutout the names of all the girls on freezer paper and then I ironed them onto each headband. The girls painted that first and then decorated around it with fabric pens. If I did it all over we would just use the fabric pens, the names looked cute, but it was a lot of extra work for not much return. The art work varied greatly since there were 3 year olds and 7 year olds at the party.

The best part of the party was the rockstar videos. It took my husband and I HOURS!!!! to find appropriate songs that were still cool. Lots of people said kidzbop but some of their songs are still inappropriate. We are a little bit over the top in that way. We really only listen to Christian music my daughter definitely wouldn’t know who Justin Beeber was if it wasn’t for her kindergarten friends. We set up all the tutus, musical instruments, and accessories we had out for the girls along with inflatable guitars and microphones ($8.99 and $7.99 on amazon with free shipping yay!) . The girls loved it but my husband quickly learned that a 3 and a half minute song is way too long for a video, he would try and help them come up with ideas of things to do, but mostly they just ran around in circles. I hung up a black plastic table cloth ($1.50) and I made ruffles out of garbage bags as the ruffles on the outer edge. This was my go to decoration. I cut garbage bags in strips and then ran them through my sewing machine pushing up the whole time. They were cute and shiny. I also added some pink vinyl pictures and words from my cricut and we hung up christmas lights for the stage. We moved my younger daughters bed for room and added some ballons.

Then came the part for me trying to be a party planner and making things look nice. I got this pink zebra fabric at joAnn’s for $1.99 a yard and I bought 6 yards of it. It is what I used for my daughters applique, the table cloth, and everything I could think of. So here is the sweets table. The party was from 6:30-9PM so there wasn’t any real food just horrible junk food – parents were warned.
I will have close up pictures in a moment but I want to put links to all the wonderful tutorials I used so that you can use them too. I’m actually only making this monster post because I’m hoping it can help someone out there because it made my now 6 year old so happy and I wouldn’t have been able to do it without the amazing blog world!
PomPoms -Lindsey the lees  and  Hotdiggityklr
Cake stand – There wasn’t a tutorial but I used the picture of the orange and yellow cake stand from froufroufrilly
Cake Pops – The one and only bakerella
Chocolate guitar cupcake toppers – I used the tutorial from hostess blog and ikat bag
Guitar lollipops – Zakka Life (this woman is a genius) These are so cool and so easy – I am cheap though and didn’t want to waste the ink so I only printed out the part of the guitar with the strings and just cut the guitar shape out of sparkly scrapbook paper that I already had.
Here are cool rock star links that I found but didn’t necessarily use:
Rockstar cake
Rockstar ideas
Hannah Montana Party
Flower rings - Mygirls and I  made these and I thought about doing it instead of headbands, but it is mostly for adults to do… but so cute!
Amazing Party
An even more amazing party
You rock Valentine

Here are some more pictures. Again you can see my garbage bag ruffles, the picture of my daughter that I blew up and put in a picture frame, the table cloth and candy. I also made stands for the cake pops and ring pops. I just wrapped styrofoam from some mail we had gotten (I keep everything – much to my husband’s dismay) and made holes in it for the pops and I made slits in the one for the ring pops… I love the way the ring pops look!

I found these great drinks at walmart for $3 for 6. They are just grape and strawberry crush and the labels came off really easily with a little googone. I don’t usually shop at walmart, but we ended up getting those drinks, the plates, and the wrapping paper that I used for lots of odds and ends all for $18.00. I got the cool straws at the dollar store – I bought two packs, and I made the labels and had them printed out at staples. I made little name tags for the drinks which actually came in very handy!!!

I almost forgot about my most daring adventure. I made sugar cookies with royal icing. I found an amazing tutorial at Brown eyed baker and made guitar cookies. I used Betty Crocker sugar cookie mix, because well… I’m not really a great baker. I spent $2.25 on the mix and $12 on the food dye (but I only used a little bit.)

And finally here are some little extra odds and ends.

The top left picture is a little area I made for the girls to pose and take pictures. I usually use that frame to go around my kids art work so it was really easy just to put the fabric into it. Then I made the girls each a little bag with their initials for a goody bag. Inside was a little bag with all sorts of little rock star odds and ends. I spent about $25 on things for the girls to take home besides the guitars and microphones. And my favorite picture is in the middle on the left. We all watched the music videos together, and I can’t even explain the little girl squeals and laughs and jokes. It was truly a blessing.
Seriously how do you real bloggers do it with these long posts, or daily posts… well I’m thankful. I hope this helped. As for the run down of cost – I went over, but I get an allowance every week for activities with the girls and eating out and we saved it for a little bit to cover the extra. It cost $99.50 not including the food dye. And then I spent about $15 more on candy/refreshments and other odds and ends. So lets say all together it cost $115. I definitely could have cut corners, and next time I’m going to try to stay within budget. I’d love to hear if anyone has any other ideas.

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