How to Throw a Barbie Birthday Party

Do you have a little girl who loves Barbie? Many girls between the ages of 3 and 10 love the fashion doll and would have tons of fun at a Barbie birthday party! Planning a Barbie birthday party is easy to do and can be an affordable party idea for your little girl. In fact, the steps to plan the Barbie birthday party take less than a day!

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Dress die cuts
• Glue
• Barbie cake
• Barbie clothes and shoes
• Ribbon
• Dress-up clothes
• Doll brushes
• Gel pens and glitter glue
• Full-length mirror (optional)
• Barbie dolls
• Streamers
• Pink frosted cookies
• Notecards and envelopes
• Purse
• Barbie prizes and candy
• Sandwiches
• Balloons
• Children's makeup
• Glitter gel pens

Planning a Barbie Birthday Party

1. Make the invitations. Choose die cuts (available at scrapbooking or craft supply stores) that look like clothes Barbie would wear, such as a fancy dress or fun purse. Glue these on the front of blank notecards or card stock and decorate with glittery gel pens and glitter glue. Include party information inside. Remind party guests to bring dress-up clothes and their favorite Barbie doll (or two).

2. Decorate with pink, purple and silver. Use balloons, ribbon, streamers and actual Barbie dolls to decorate the entire party area. Consider placing one of your daughter’s Barbies in party attire on each guest’s chair.
   

Entertaining Your Barbie Party Guests

3. Allow all of the girls to dress up when they arrive. Pull out old dresses from your closet for dress-up time. Have an area set aside for a quick kid-friendly makeover, complete with lip gloss, simple makeup and a full-length mirror to admire the results.

4. After the girls get glamorous, have a space for Barbie’s makeover as well. Have brushes and ribbon on hand for a quick Barbie hair makeover.
   

5. Play Hot Potato Purse, which is traditional Hot Potato but using a purse instead of a potato. The winner of each round wears a special Barbie tiara for the next round. Hot Potato is played with music and an object. The children sit in a circle and pass the object while the music plays. The person who has the object when the music is stopped is the winner or loser. In Hot Potato Purse the person holding the purse gets to wear the tiara and is considered the winner of the round.

6. Play Dress Up Barbie. This is a race to see who can dress her Barbie the fastest. Give all players similar clothing, including pants, shirt and shoes.

7. Give party guests free play time to enjoy playing with the dolls they brought. Have plenty of ribbons and doll brushes on hand for the girls to play hairdresser.

8. Feed your hungry party guests! Enjoy a Barbie cake, tea-sized sandwiches and pink frosted cookies.

Tips & Warnings

• Making a Barbie cake can be a challenge. See Related eHow “How to Make a Barbie Cake.” To save planning time, you can buy a Barbie-themed cake at your local grocery store or bakery.
• Have extra dress-up clothes on hand because some girls may not be dressed up when they come to the party.
• When your party guests are playing with their Barbies, some may lose clothing, shoes and brushes. Plan time at the end of the party to sort through all of Barbie’s accessories to make sure each girl has the toys she brought at the end of the day.
• Boys may feel uncomfortable at this party.