Ideas for an Ice Cream themed birthday party - 9 year old girl

[bas71873]

Considering doing an ice cream themed birthday party for my daughter when she turns nine on July 1. I have some game ideas (pin the cherry on the sundae and guess the flavor), but I'd like to have a craft idea and am drawing a blank. Any suggestions. I saw one idea on line for decorating a plastic ice cream sundae glass, but what would you decorate that with? Paint? Stickers?

So, anyone have any brilliant ideas to toss my way for relatively quick & easy craft to keep about 11 little girls entertained for a bit.

Thanks!

 

[poohfriend77]

Considering doing an ice cream themed birthday party for my daughter when she turns nine on July 1. I have some game ideas (pin the cherry on the sundae and guess the flavor), but I'd like to have a craft idea and am drawing a blank. Any suggestions. I saw one idea on line for decorating a plastic ice cream sundae glass, but what would you decorate that with? Paint? Stickers?

So, anyone have any brilliant ideas to toss my way for relatively quick & easy craft to keep about 11 little girls entertained for a bit.

Thanks!

Oriental Trading has an ice cream cone bead kit and sand art kit. My DD9 loves those types of crafts. We did a similar cupcake bead kit for her birthday in January.

My DD also came home with an ice cream cone from a friend's party. They made a cone out of brown construction paper, then glued in a big pink pompom for ice cream, with a small red "cherry" pompom on top.

If you do the plastic sundae cup, I'd use paint pens.

Or make the activity could be making ice cream (Family Fun had a "recipe" for making it in a plastic bag)

Have fun!

 

[Glynis]

My son's class made "ice cream sodas" for a Mother's day gift a couple of years ago. Plastic soda glasses, filled partway with pastel colored bath salts. On top, for the foam, was one of those scrubbies in the same pastel shade. They applied a red pom pom with double sided tape to to the scrubbie and stuck a straw in it. So cute!!!

On another note, I did an "ice cream social for my twin daughter's 9th party. It was so much fun! We did do pin the cherry on the sundae, and had a contest to see who could eat one scoop of vanilla ice cream the fastest without using their hands (in a bowl). For goodie bags, I bought small canvas totes and a couple of days before I made a paste of flour and water and painted an ice cream cone with that on the front of the tote. When the girls got to the party, they took their totes into the yard, and used spray fabric paint to color their bags. Once the paint dried, they picked the flour paste off. It was a bit time consuming, but we had music playing and they had a good time.

Inside the goody bags, each girl got an ice cream scoop, a little bottle of sprinkles an ice cream cone cookie cutter, and some stickers. It turned out really cute.

We set up an ice cream bar with about 15 different kinds of ice cream, and every kind of topping you could imagine. They were allowed to make a sundae with everything they wanted on it. I think they had more fun making the sundaes than eating them. Not many of them finished their ice cream. We did have a cake, but no one wanted any, so we just used it for blowing out candles, and then it just sat there. Poor little unwanted cake!

This was a lot of fun, and I still have girls talking about it.

 

[bas71873]

Oriental Trading has an ice cream cone bead kit and sand art kit. My DD9 loves those types of crafts. We did a similar cupcake bead kit for her birthday in January.

My DD also came home with an ice cream cone from a friend's party. They made a cone out of brown construction paper, then glued in a big pink pompom for ice cream, with a small red "cherry" pompom on top.

If you do the plastic sundae cup, I'd use paint pens.

Or make the activity could be making ice cream (Family Fun had a "recipe" for making it in a plastic bag)

Have fun!

I've never heard of paint pens. I need to check these out!

My son's class made "ice cream sodas" for a Mother's day gift a couple of years ago. Plastic soda glasses, filled partway with pastel colored bath salts. On top, for the foam, was one of those scrubbies in the same pastel shade. They applied a red pom pom with double sided tape to to the scrubbie and stuck a straw in it. So cute!!!

On another note, I did an "ice cream social for my twin daughter's 9th party. It was so much fun! We did do pin the cherry on the sundae, and had a contest to see who could eat one scoop of vanilla ice cream the fastest without using their hands (in a bowl). For goodie bags, I bought small canvas totes and a couple of days before I made a paste of flour and water and painted an ice cream cone with that on the front of the tote. When the girls got to the party, they took their totes into the yard, and used spray fabric paint to color their bags. Once the paint dried, they picked the flour paste off. It was a bit time consuming, but we had music playing and they had a good time.

Inside the goody bags, each girl got an ice cream scoop, a little bottle of sprinkles an ice cream cone cookie cutter, and some stickers. It turned out really cute.

We set up an ice cream bar with about 15 different kinds of ice cream, and every kind of topping you could imagine. They were allowed to make a sundae with everything they wanted on it. I think they had more fun making the sundaes than eating them. Not many of them finished their ice cream. We did have a cake, but no one wanted any, so we just used it for blowing out candles, and then it just sat there. Poor little unwanted cake!

This was a lot of fun, and I still have girls talking about it.

OMG. I may steal your entire party idea. The bath salt sundae is a GREAT idea. I had also thought of tracking down white aprons and getting fabric markers, cupcake stencils if I could find them, as a craft too, but the bag is a good idea as well! THANKS!

 

[laughinplace199]

You could get plain white aprons and have the kids decorate them with fabric pens.

 

[maslex]

Here are a few websites with some really cute ideas. Check out the "balloons" on the first link. Soooo cute!!!

http://www.livinglocurto.com/2011/06/ice-cream-party-ideas/

http://www.eatdrinkchic.com/post.cf...n-sundaes-buffet-concept-for-wedding-or-party

http://onecharmingparty.com/2011/03/04/ice-cream-party-cake-ice-cream/

 

[bas71873]

You could get plain white aprons and have the kids decorate them with fabric pens.

LOL. I did think of that after I posted my question

Here are a few websites with some really cute ideas. Check out the "balloons" on the first link. Soooo cute!!!

http://www.livinglocurto.com/2011/06/ice-cream-party-ideas/

http://www.eatdrinkchic.com/post.cf...n-sundaes-buffet-concept-for-wedding-or-party

http://onecharmingparty.com/2011/03/04/ice-cream-party-cake-ice-cream/

You must have googled . I did see these and got a lot of my ideas here

 

[Bren's Mom]

Someone mentioned this bath ice cream sundae...not sure if anyone linked a pic but here it is! Would be so fun for a favor!!

http://pinterest.com/pin/261419953339668943/

Do you know anyone who makes pizelles? They're the italian waffle cookies. They're made on an iron similar to a waffle iron. And the pizzelles make great ice cream cups. They're VERY quick to make, so each girl could make her own 'dish'. Then they harden quickly, and the kids can put their ice cream sundaes in them. I'll be someone you know has the iron if you ask around.

http://www.tasteofhome.com/Recipes/How-To-Cook/How-to-Make-Ice-Cream-Bowls

You could make the batter ahead of time, or let the girls make it when they arrive.

 

[bas71873]

OK. I've really gotten obsessed with planning this party (and it's not until the end of June ) and after discussing with DH, we've altered things a bit and want some opinions if you don't mind. My DD's group of friends is an active group, so DH thinks a bunch of crafts (like the apron, etc.) might bore them, soooooo, we've decided to keep with the ice cream theme, but we are going to do a neighborhood scavenger hunt and their list of things to get will be all ice cream related (I fortunately live a GREAT neighborhood for this kind of thing). So I need thoughts on how long this party should be. We will be doing it on a Saturday afternoon with about a 4:00 or 4:30 start time (so the kids aren't running around in the heat of the day). My rough plan looks like this:


Arrival - have the girls decorate their take home goody bag (I'm just going to get white bags from the dollar store and have markers, stickers, etc) and also have them complete a word search which will contain all the names of the items they will eventually hunt for on the scavenger hunt


Scav Hunt - should I set a time limit on this for the girls? Is an hour too long? Maybe 45 minutes? My list will have about 15 items on it.


When they return from the scav hunt, pizza will be here


After pizza, play one more game....scooping cotton balls from a bowl into another bowl blindfolded and whoever gets the most in their bowl in 30 seconds wins


Then let DD open presents


Then open the "make your own ice cream sundae bar" and let the girls make their own sundaes and eat

Party's over.


So what time frame would you put on the invites for the party? 4:30 to 7:00or 7:30? Maybe even 8:00. These girls all hang out here anyway so having them here is no big deal. The majority of them all live in my neighborhood anyway and it will be light out since it's summer so I can kick them all outside with squirt guns or water balloons if I have too


Any critique's are welcome

 

[powellrj]

You could have the girls make homemade ice cream in a baggie. We did this a few years ago at bible school and had a great time!

http://crafts.kaboose.com/ice-cream-in-a-bag.html

 

[scrapquitler]

Instead of having a cake, make cupcakes. But instead of 'regular' cupcakes, make them in the flat bottomed ice cream cones (my Mom did this all the time when I was growing up)...just stand the icecream cones in the cupcake tins, then fill them. You have to carry them to the oven VERY carefully.

 

[Bren's Mom]

I would err on the side of making it longer rather than shorter if the kids are all being dropped off. They can always run around and play outside to kill more time but it's a pain when parents arrive and you're still in the middle of the party.

I'd do 4-7:30pm I think. Everyone will arrive 4-4:30pm, do their bags. Then 4:30-5:30 do the scavenger hunt. By the time you get through instructions, give them the info they need to do the hunt and then they find the 15 things I think that will easily fill an hour. Pizza at 5:30pm. Around 6ish or when the kids are finished eating the game. 6:15pm you're opening presents. 6:45ish you're doing the sundaes. And then they can have 'free time' until parents arrive. That gives you some built in extra time if anything takes longer, pizza is late, etc.

 

[bas71873]

I would err on the side of making it longer rather than shorter if the kids are all being dropped off. They can always run around and play outside to kill more time but it's a pain when parents arrive and you're still in the middle of the party.

I'd do 4-7:30pm I think. Everyone will arrive 4-4:30pm, do their bags. Then 4:30-5:30 do the scavenger hunt. By the time you get through instructions, give them the info they need to do the hunt and then they find the 15 things I think that will easily fill an hour. Pizza at 5:30pm. Around 6ish or when the kids are finished eating the game. 6:15pm you're opening presents. 6:45ish you're doing the sundaes. And then they can have 'free time' until parents arrive. That gives you some built in extra time if anything takes longer, pizza is late, etc.

That's kinda what I'm thinking too....and then all the parents can thank me for giving them a date night

 

[powellrj]

That's kinda what I'm thinking too....and then all the parents can thank me for giving them a date night

Are you planning to have a weekend party? If not, your time is hard for working parents. As for a date night, I don't think most parents would see a party at 4pm as date night, more of a how will we make the times work?!?!

 

[bas71873]

Are you planning to have a weekend party? If not, your time is hard for working parents. As for a date night, I don't think most parents would see a party at 4pm as date night, more of a how will we make the times work?!?!

Really? You couldn't go to dinner w/in that 3 1/2 hour time frame? I'd have plenty of time to get my kid to the party (remember, most of these kids will walk down to my house), get showered and changed and easily have an early, kid free dinner with DH on a Saturday night.