Kids love to dance. Whether you choose ballet, hip-hop or a combination of styles, you can plan a dancing birthday party that will last in their memories. Make a dance-themed birthday party with simple ideas for refreshments, activities and party favors that your party guests are sure to enjoy. Does this Spark an idea?
Refreshments
Serve party foods like you would find at a traditional dance. Have a punch bowl with fruity punch inside of it, and provide finger food snacks like pretzels or popcorn. Include your dancing theme by decorating your cake with black-licorice records or piped icing musical notes. Use record album covers for party platters and CD cases for coasters. This way, you're incorporating your theme into your food presentation as well.
Activities
Hire a dance instructor to come and teach your party guests a few moves. You can probably get a teacher from a local studio to charge you an hourly fee. For an inexpensive option, ask if one of the studio's older students would be willing to come in; a teenager with a history of dance lessons can instruct your little ones, and you can pay what you would normally pay a babysitter. Ask the instructor to tailor the moves to children and make the lesson upbeat and easy for all guests. You can even ask the owner of the dance studio to give you a set of discount coupons to pass out to your guests, in case they want to enroll in regular classes. For a fun craft idea, let little girls at a ballet party make tutus of their own. Give each girl a length of satin ribbon; this will be the belt of the tutu, so it should be long enough to tie around her waist. Then cut strips out of tulle fabric in fun colors, and let the girls knot the strips around the ribbon. When they have filled the midsection of the ribbon with tulle, they can tie it on for a quick and easy tutu to wear home from the party. If your party includes boys and girls, maybe they can make dancing hats or colorful bandannas using fabric paints instead.
Party Favors
Make a dance CD for each party guest. You can purchase a CD compilation at the store or make one on your computer using a CD burner. Include music of all varieties for a collection of dancing hits. Make sure to include the tracks from the dance lesson so they can practice the moves they learned at the party after they get home. Include dancing accessories in your party favor kits. If your party is ballet-themed, you might give each guest a tiara or a sheer scarf. If your party leans toward the hip hop or jazz variety, you could give each guest a colorful bandanna or a pair of kid-friendly sunglasses.
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