Any updates on the kids sleepovers???

[Nancy]

I can't recall who was planning some, recently! I have 6 girls coming (I swear, my daughter is having the birthday that NEVER ends.:bounce:

Anyway, I know we had a discussion on this recently and was curious how much was necessary, planning-wise. I want enough to do to fill the time but not so much that they aren't creative and have fun, yk?

Here is what I have so far: arrive around 5, settle in, etc. Pizza and homemade lemonaide (they'll help squeeze lemons) shortly after all arrive, then ice cream cake whenever they want it. Activities planned for whenever, I'll let them choose timing and order: wrapping flip flops with cool yarn (kate is making one now and they are turning out gorgeous, we found some neat fuzzy yarn on sale), decorating pillowcases with fabric pens, hot tub at some point, a movie (I think we'll do What a Girl Wants) with popcorn at the end of the night, snuggled into sleeping bags to watch it/wind down. I'm pretty much a sleep Nazi and will not let them stay up all night, I'll ask for lights out by 11, hoping for sleep by midnight. They are sleeping en masse all over the living room, on blow up mattresses. I wonder what I can have available for the early risers to do quietly....is that a ridiculous thought?

Their take-home gifts are the flip flops and pillowcases, not planning anything else.

Morning is chocolate chip pancakes with sausage and OJ, the rest of the day is not at all planned, they can just play till their parents come. :coffee:

Is that enough or too much, do you think?

[lunita]

I wonder what I can have available for the early risers to do quietly....is that a ridiculous thought?

Is that enough or too much, do you think?

It sounds really good (and fun! can I come?) I think I'd want early risers out of the house -- can you send them to feed chickens or something? At one slumber party Amanda went to the mom sent the girls out to pick oranges for their morning oj, and then gave them a soccer ball to kick around outside until the others were awake

Tangent: Amanda is the girl who stays up the latest and then gets up with the earliest risers... when I found out about this at her first sleepover (and it has been that way at every one she has gone to since) I felt kind of .... validated? about all of the problems we've had getting her to sleep. So far, she has had a harder time falling to sleep than every single one of her friends and classmates...

[indigo]

I can't recall who was planning some, recently! I have 6 girls coming (I swear, my daughter is having the birthday that NEVER ends.:bounce:

Anyway, I know we had a discussion on this recently and was curious how much was necessary, planning-wise. I want enough to do to fill the time but not so much that they aren't creative and have fun, yk?

Here is what I have so far: arrive around 5, settle in, etc. Pizza and homemade lemonaide (they'll help squeeze lemons) shortly after all arrive, then ice cream cake whenever they want it. Activities planned for whenever, I'll let them choose timing and order: wrapping flip flops with cool yarn (kate is making one now and they are turning out gorgeous, we found some neat fuzzy yarn on sale), decorating pillowcases with fabric pens, hot tub at some point, a movie (I think we'll do What a Girl Wants) with popcorn at the end of the night, snuggled into sleeping bags to watch it/wind down. I'm pretty much a sleep Nazi and will not let them stay up all night, I'll ask for lights out by 11, hoping for sleep by midnight. They are sleeping en masse all over the living room, on blow up mattresses. I wonder what I can have available for the early risers to do quietly....is that a ridiculous thought?

Their take-home gifts are the flip flops and pillowcases, not planning anything else.

Morning is chocolate chip pancakes with sausage and OJ, the rest of the day is not at all planned, they can just play till their parents come. :coffee:

Is that enough or too much, do you think?

Sounds like more than enough in my opinion! In contrast, C had 2 friends for his sleepover party and I took them for pizza, had ice cream cake, and then left them to their own devices in the basement. That was it, and they had a blast.

So I definitely don't think that you have to worry that it's not enough to do. It also doesn't sound like too much. You still leave plenty of time for just hanging out.

they did NOT get to sleep at midnight, but that was ok, because they were quiet at that point and I couldn't hear them in the basement!

Have fun!

[Nancy]

Well, if I had YOUR basement, you can bet I wouldn't plan any activities!

[indigo]

Well, if I had YOUR basement, you can bet I wouldn't plan any activities!

Nancy, I'm so spoiled now that I think if I DIDN'T have the basement I wouldn't have sleepovers!! But I think what you're planning sounds really fun.

[retro]

Oh it was a BLAST!!

We had 9 nine-year olds show up.

We did the pillow cases and they were a HUGE hit! They played games and generally had fun downstairs in the game room. Then we did the pillow cases until it was time for singing and presents. We did that then pizza then cake. Then Jo opened her presents. They had a DDR and a air hockey tournament. Watched a movie, settled in and talked till about 2 am. :eyes:

The next morning we had sweet rolls and milk. The girls played downstairs until they left to go home. It was a lot of fun.