It is inevitable to avoid a slumber party because at some point or the other your kid might be dead-set on spending the night at their friends’. Slumber party means a lot of games, snacks, and activities to keep the kids occupied until they fall asleep. So if your kid wants to throw a cool slumber party then here is the game plan. Here are some fun things to do at a sleepover.
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30 fun things to do at a sleepover
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Get all the kids a little bit of homemade dough and they can roll pin it into their favorite shapes. They get to add toppings of their choice and its craft and dinner at the same time. To add a little twist, you can keep competition for the best-decorated pizza.
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If you want a summer camp vibe, then gather some blankets, sleeping bags and indoor tents to create an indoor camp. Now you don’t have to worry about the weather or the mosquitos.
It is very easy to make a paper plane but the true test is to see who has the skills to throw the paper plane through one of the targets. The one with the highest score wins.
The most cliche things that girls do in a sleepover is braiding each other’s hair and telling secrets. You can try to make different hairstyles. Try fishtails, waterfall braids, corset braids, and other hair creations.
9. Movie Night Bingo
If you plan on keeping the movies going for all night long, then you can keep a Bingo game going so that you can check off the boxes of the movie tropes as they happen. You can buy it online or make your own list of movies. One of the Fun Things to do at a Sleepover.
The kids are going to stay up late anyway so why not make it an opportunity to look up at the night sky and learn something wonderful. Set up a telescope and see if you can spot any constellations.
Leave your monopoly at home and get some challenging board games that you never played before. Figuring out new strategies and untangling the rules to a new game has its own fun.
Look into your closets for an old Karaoke machine and let loose. Pick out the top 40 Disney songs and get things started.
Kids are always curious and have fun imagining the future and finding out the likelihood of their predictions coming true. You could use a Magic 8 ball, Ouija board, cookie catcher or a good old game of MASH. Let’s get your future predicted just for the fun of it.
Go crazy with a pillow fight but first set up some ground rules. No hitting in the face kids!. Fight for the best pillows to grab.
The first player writes down a sentence to start a story and then passes it on to the next. Keep passing the paper until you create an amazing plot. The catch here is that the paper will be folded so that the next writer can only see the previous sentence. Unfold the paper at last so hear a silly story.
If you are having the sleepover in winter then get the kids to play outside and then offer them a cup of hot chocolate.
Get out your old nail paints and paint each other’s nails. You can also get Nail Stamper to create different patterns and designs on your nails.
If nail paint seems boring then go and paint your faces with cream because no picture is funnier than the one with the face covered with beauty cream.
Get a pack of cards and give one card to each player with a number on it except for ace and face card. Deal them. The one with the Ace card becomes the detective and the face card is the killer. The killer takes its victims by winking at other players while the detective tries to catch the killer before everyone is killed.
Get your torches or headlamps and go on a trail at night. Look if you can spot any owls or other nocturnal animals.
It is like Charades but with a twist. Everyone writes down the name of a celebrity and puts it in a bowl. In the first round, the players will give out clues for the others to guess the name of the celebrity. The second round gives you only one word before the team guesses. In the last round, there will be no words. The players will have to act like in Charades.
Get all the girls to get a pillowcase and leave them with a bunch of fabric markers. Let the creativity take over.
Dance faceoff! Sounds really competitive and fun. If you can’t balk at competitiveness then dance together to choreograph a group routine. Make of video of the kids and send them home with a copy. One of the challenging yet fun things to do at a sleepover.
If you want to make the pancakes at home then here is the recipe link.
31. Pull a prank on each other
There is so much said and done about pranks. Once you do it you get hooked. Pull some harmless pranks and have a good laugh about it.
So this was our list of Fun Things to do at a Sleepover. If you have something different on your mind then do let us know in the comment section below.
