Home birthday party ideas for 11yo girl

I think those all sound fun, but since I'm a grandma, what do I know?

I was just going to add maybe something to eat that they can each customize for themselves, like making tacos, pizza, or ice cream sundaes at home.

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Girls that age seem to like those orbeez things; you can probably order a bag generic ones Amazon for the spa foot baths.

Do you have a Cricut? I watched an 11-year-old over winter break, and she was most excited about making things on my Cricut like cards for her friends.

She was also excited about face painting of all things. Almost like real Snap chat filters. The face paint set I have is from Amazon, and was about $15. She took a ton of selfies as a panda. Her little sister had me paint her face like a YouTuber who had a filter on her.

When I was that age, I loved making beads out of sculpey clay and weaving friendship bracelets. With coupons, a multi-pack of colors of clay would probably be about $5, and only another few dollars for embroidery floss.

We did a spa party for my 10 year old.

They made their own sugar scrubs with coconut oil, sugar and essential oils. They put them in mason jars to take home. I have a paraffin bath, so that was the hit of the party. Seriously, they did that forever. They did their nails and facials with a cheap clay mask I had. Everything cost me $30, including the pizza. That's my kind of party.

They had lots of fun. I soaked washcloths in warm lemon water and stocked the crock pot with them for their facials. I had never seen 10 year old girls so excited for anything than they were for hot lemon towels!

Around that age my friends and I loved making our own mini pizzas.

I love the spa party idea! If you think you need to kill more time, pick up some cheap makeup and let them do their faces first.

I was going to suggest minute to win games too. They are simple, inexpensive and fun.

I was going to suggest the spa party too.

You could also do cupcake or cookie decorating for not a lot of money with different colors of icing and sprinkles.

Another thing you could do for kids that age if you’re crafty would be a DIY photo booth with props. If they have their own phones they can take photos of each other, you can also use your phone or a tablet with a camera to get instant pics of all the kids together and individually. I did one for my DD’s last party thinking that maybe they would take a few pictures, but that they were probably a little young for it because none of them have phones yet. I was surprised that they had as much fun with it as they did. I would imagine kids that are a little older (and girls in particular) would really get into that if there were some fun props.

We did at home at that age.

For 3-4 girls I’d do board games, movies, pizza and sundaes.

If you want something different than pizza I’d do make your own sushi. You just need the right kind of rice (sticky), you need to dress the rice, cut some veggies for inside, some mayo,get the wraps and rollers and teach the kids how to assemble.

Curious what she ended up choosing to do swtpeasmom