Spa Themed Birthday Party

Host Bee on Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

Celebrate Your Daughter’s Birthday with a Spa Themed Soiree!

A spa themed birthday party is a wonderful choice for young girls and especially for tweens! It is also a terrific theme to turn a typical sleepover into something special – one that I used for my own daughter’s ninth birthday this past year! Here are some easy plans to turn your home into a luxury spa!

Spa Party Invitations

From Blue Whale Invitations – I just love this spa party invitation that’s die cut just like a spa mask! The mask is composed of 2 paper layers, hot pink on top and pink and white polka dotted on the bottom. It’s finished off with a satin ribbon “elastic band” and satin bows! (pictured top)
From Tiny Prints – this is a charming invitation that features the faces of three spa party girls on a watermelon colored background! (pictured right)
Print Your Own - this option is a cute card that you can buy blank and print at home! The card’s printing surface is a towel wrapped turban style on a “cucumbered” girl!
From Birthday in a Box – Spa Day personalized invitations, offered at a terrific price and combines both girls in sleeping bags and spa treatments! (pictured right)

Spa Party Decorations

Set the stage for your spa party with some zen-like instrumental music, just like the real thing! (Try Source to the Sea)
Next you’ll need to make your home take on the unique scent noticeable the minute that you enter a spa by using a reed diffuser or scented candle. (I’d recommend a reed diffuser, especially if younger girls will be at the party!
Dimmed lights and a tabletop fountain will complete the spa look!

Spa Party Paper Goods

From Plates and Napkins – Some very cute slumber party paper goods can be found at Plates and Napkins, including pink and green polka dotted items, as well as plates featuring beauty accessories and a cute bunch of girls having sleep over fun!
Not Paper Goods – I love having an excuse to add to my dish collection and sometimes it’s nice to have party dishes that can be used again and again! Two perfectly girly choices include: a set of four plates decorated with desserts and another set of four cupcake plates, cleverly packaged in a cupcake box!

Spa Party Supplies

When I had my daughter’s party, I enlisted the help of a “mobile spa” and so many of the supplies were provided, including eight white terry robes that were borrowed just for that night! Depending on how carried away you’d like to get, here are some resources for spa essentials!

Terry Robes
Pink Terry Slippers
Foam Spa Masks – these masks will add a touch of whimsy to your party! Crafted from foam and imprinted with a cucumber over each eye, these masks will have the girls laughing and make for a great photo op!

Headbands – to pull the girls’ hair back off their faces, I made their party favor do double duty! I ordered spa party favor packs that included, among other things, a pink stretchy headband. I took the head bands out of the package and had the girls use them at the party!

Spa Party Activities

You can incorporate as many or as few of these ideas as you’d like!

Plan to have lots of fresh towels and washcloths on hand, as well as nail polish remover and basins of warm water if you’re short on bathroom space! This is definitely the time to call for back up help, whether you appeal to your own friends or enlist a few teenaged girls!

Spa Party Menu

Your guests will feel like real grown ups if you serve a menu that’s similar to a true spa!

Fill a glass pitcher with ice water and garnish with lemons, limes or oranges
Tea sandwiches or wraps
Smoothies
Fresh fruit kabobs
Tiny cupcakes or petit fours

Spa Party Favors

This is one party where the supplies that you’ll need for the event, like robes and slippers, as well as what the girls create at the party, like bath salts or lip balm, will be terrific take aways!

I suggest purchasing a solid colored gift bag for each guest and encouraging them to collect their spa supplies and creations in their own bag! For some added personalization, consider adding to the bags:

A custom sticker, depicting a girl with a green facial mask in a sleeping bag, thanking guests for coming to the party!
A laminated bag tag that can be personalized for each guest!

These suggestions should be able to get you sailing smoothly through a night of pampering and dining! But, definitely plan to have movies, board games and video games on hand to fill any lulls in the action!