Kaitlyn's "Un slumber Party"

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       For Kaitlyn's 9th birthday party we had an "un slumber party", and it was soooo fun!!!  Since we don't do sleep overs in our family, and many of Kaitlyn's friends don't either, we thought this was a great alternative. It was wildly successful. Many parents were very happy to not have their daughters spend the whole night :)

We decorated with blankets and pillows everywhere, and we even covered the food table with a comforter and pillows.

    The food was breakfast food! We had mini cereal boxes, poptarts, fruit, etc. For the cake, I made cake batter and cooked it on a griddle like pancakes, and then stacked them all up and covered them with frosting too look like syrup on pancakes.

Here the kids are preparing for the party by making "nail polish" (marshmallows with tootsie rolls on top, then dipped in food coloring) Some of the "lids" fell off, but it was still fun to do.

 We also made slippers out of nutter butters. Not something I would do again. It took forever!  You take the nutter butters apart and use the peanut butter in the middle to shape into the top of the slipper. Then you dip them in melted chocolate and cover them with sprinkles.

Here's what they looked like half way through the process. 

And here's the finished product. Some of the guests knew what they were supposed to be, some didn't. Sure sign that they didn't really work. 

 For the activities the girls made tie pillows out of fleece, played nail polish spin the bottle, and sang Highschool Musical Karaoke on the wii.
      For some reason I didn't get any pictures of them making the pillows, but they had a lot of fun. A few weeks before the party we went to the fabric store where they were having a sale on fleece. We picked out many different patterns and colors of fleece and cut them into squares with strips cut around the edges. All the girls had to do was pick the fleece they wanted, tie it, and stuff it. Very fun. The girls had the most fun stuffing the pillows. They all seemed to try to stuff their pillows with as much batting as the could. Some of them ended up with these huge deformed rock hard pillows. It was hilarious.
      Here they are playing "nail polish spin the bottle".  The girls loved getting to put different colors on their nails. We deliberately picked the boldest colors at the store for this game. :)

 Here some of them are singing Karaoke with Zac Efron, while others are doing their nails.

    We ended the party with watching "Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure" a spin off Highschool Musical. And because all of Kaitlyn's friends love Highschool Musical, they were all really excited to watch it. (If you notice the subtitles on the TV, that's because one of Kaitlyn's friends uses hearing aids, so we needed to have subtitles)

    Here's a few more pictures of the fun: