Party ideas for 8 year old girl

[Pickles79543]

So, my daughter is having a few (just 4 actually!) friends round for her 8th birthday next weekend. I’ve sold it as a birthday ‘play date’ rather than a party. Does anyone have any interesting ideas of what I could organise for them? Something crafty perhaps? They’re here for 2.5 hours, and it’ll be over lunchtime. Thanks!!

My friend recently organised a party for similarly aged girls and she did Fimo pendants with them.

FIMO is a coloured clay that you bake in the oven and you can get lovely results.

If you've never tried it before, get some and have a practice go...so you learn the temps of your oven. Google has a lot of vids on it though.

A good project is the pendants....friend got them to fashion a shape for their pendant...circle or whatever they liked...then gently press these shapes with a fancy button or something so the pattern transferred...she had little gems too so they could press one or two into the clay.

Then put a hole in...make it a biggish one because FIMO contracts and shrinks a little in the oven.

Then she supplied leather strings for them.

Pizza making (and eating for lunch)

Treasure hunt (hide clues, prize at then end for them to share)

Acrylic paint pens and stuff for them to decorate (clear plastic pencil cases or flower pots or money boxes)

Get a tie-dye kit and plain white t-shirts (messy though so you'll want to do it outside I think).

We did a painting party at similar age - went to hobbycraft and bought cheap layout paper and some canvasses and then did splash painting in the garden with watered down poster paint (think Jackson Pollock). It was super messy but they had so much fun and the pictures were amazing! They practised on the paper first and then did one on the canvas.

Have also done decoupage from hobbycraft which was a little quieter and a bit less messy!

We made potions abs spells with plain bubble bath, glitter, food colouring, essential oils and so on. Had lots of little jars for them to decorate and tag with old fashioned luggage tags. We had a go at some calligraphy writing too.

Yay was a lot of fun Dd was massively into Harry otter so it was based on that.