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{ Decadent
Chocolate Cheesecake }
{ Thumbprint
Jewel Cookies }
{ Chocolate
Dessert Cups }
{Cranberry
Raspberry Punch } Serve the punch in plastic champagne glasses for a
high-class toast.
Drape a table with a colorful cloth, put up a large mirror and light it with
big white holiday lights. Decorate the table with perfume bottles, flowers and
makeup brushes.
Hang up covers and make up ads from fashion magazines. You could even cut out
some of the model's faces and replace with headshots of the birthday girl.
Create a catwalk using several pieces of white poster board, tape them
lengthwise to form a long strip. Then secure gold decorative trim to the edge
of catwalk. Lay the strip down the center of the room and set up folding chairs
on both sides for the audience. Then set up lamps or spotlights to light up the
runway.
Team the girls up in threes. Give each team a mirror, brushes and makeup from
the dollar-store and let them take turns being hair and makeup artists. One
girl can sit in a chair while the other two work on her hair, fingers, face and
toes.
Let the girls dress up with old party gowns or buy a few from second-hand
stores. You may want to custom fit the dresses by pinning up the backs or
cutting the hems. Look for big hats, shoes and long gloves, too.
Give each guest a large pastel colored paper gift bag to decorate with stickers
and markers so they can create their own designer shopping bag.
Give each girl a pair of sunglasses, along with beads, sequins and feathers to
glue to the edges.
Play fun dance music and have the girls move around, with arms and legs moving.
When the music stops they must freeze in their dance poses long enough for an
adult to take a group picture. If anyone moves, she's out, and the last player
left wins a prize. The pictures make fun memories of the party.
Gather scarves, scraps of fabric, old bed sheets and tulle. Let the guests
become fashions designers as they tie, pin, tape or even Velcro together their
own original designs. Then they can parade their creations down the runway. The
other guests can vote for different categories such as "Best Design",
"Funniest Design", "Most Likely to Never be Worn".
Take a fake diamond ring, pass a string though it and tie the ends to make a
large circle. The players stand around the circle holding the string. The
leader stands inside the circle while the others secretly pass the ring along
the string around the circle. If the leader spots the ring in someone's hands,
the player who has it steps into the center of the circle. Play until everyone
has had a chance to be in the center.
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Along with the star-studded sunglasses, fill up their shopping
bags with faux jewels, candy necklaces and a mini bottle of perfume.
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Wrap up empty shoeboxes with fancy paper to create a makeup box. Line the
inside with colored foil, then fill with samples of makeup, a small comb and a
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