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This year I wanted to channel my creativity to the location and type of party versus all the detailed set up and, let me just say, I loved this party! Of all of the birthday parties that I have thrown, this mall party has to be one of the most low stress, fun, simple and affordable party of them all! Many of the girls that came to my girl’s party said that they wanted their next party to be at the mall so I think that’s what we call success!
The venue is free and the fun is built in and very inexpensive. You will love having a mall party as a parent and your child will LOVE it just as much, or more, than you!
Read on to see what all we did, how much we paid for the whole she’bang, where I bought some of the details, or how I made some of what you see here!
Buy these cute credit card invites from DigiDoodling on Etsy to edit and print at home for only $5.35!
The invites were cute as is, BUT I really wanted them to be even more realistic so I bought these self- laminating sheets made for credit card sized cards! I had my daughter sign the backs of the cards before sealing them and they were so easy to use! I trimmed the edges down to eliminate too much overhang and they were really stinkin’ cute! You can find them on Amazon here.
I have to throw in the shirt detail. I always find a cheap and easy way to make my kids a custom birthday shirt. I grabbed a glitter flecked Cat and Jack shirt from Target on sale for 5 dollars and a rhinestone iron-on number from Hobby Lobby for 2 bucks and some change and bingo! So easy, so cheap and she really thought it was special! I thought the glitter was good for a girly-girl type of party like this one, too.
We started things off with the good ole’ carousel! For 15 dollars, 8 kids could take a ride AND I earned a free ride at a later date because the 8 riders filled up one punch card to get a free ride next time!
We hit up Claire’s and I took advantage of the buy 3, get 3 free deal. For 34 dollars, I got 7 packs (added one extra) of jewelry that the girls helped pick out and every girl got one bracelet, one choker necklace and one ring of their choice! We were left with jewelry to spare!
For barely over 20 bucks, each girl picked out a jar at Candy Craze and filled them to the top! The price included the jars plus candy.
I gave the girls a choice between Candy Craze and the Spider Jump! Three of these little ladies wanted to jump so for 21 dollars, we had 3 jumpers.
The play center at the mall is free, of course, so yay! Even though this picture doesn’t end the post, it’s how we ended the party and the parents came and picked up their children from there. I set up our table right next to the play place to make it easy.
These little sequin coin purses are available on Amazon as well as the half pound bag of chocolate coins that I put in each purse. I tried to make them like real purses with “money” and Lip Smackers. Even though some girls had candy jars and all of the guests got jewelry from Claire’s, I still wanted them all to take home a little something extra and that’s where these guys came in. I bought a 7 pack for $7.39! Find them here.
These perfect little plates are awesome for a mall party, slumber party, spa party, etc. I bought them from Mighty Dollar, my favorite dollar store! I always get my throw away tablecloths from dollar stores as well.
One of my favorite ideas that I do for cupcake toppers is using pictures of people or, in this case, logos! I simple screenshot the images and then printed them like regular photos at my local Walgreens and cut them out at home! Tape them on toothpicks and, you done girl!!!
How cute are these receipt thank yous?! You can buy the template on Etsy from SIMONEmadeit for just $2.50 and edit and print them yourself at home! I like to take pictures of my party girl with each guest during gift time and mail the them as thank yous! This year they included these receipts. LOVE!
THIS ENTIRE PARTY and everything in it from plates, invites, food, activities, EVERYTHING was 153! You can’t even rent a party location for that and that is without any food, favors, activities, food, party goods, invites….just the rental, if you are lucky, will be 150!
Pin, share and enjoy and by all means, HAVE A MALL PARTY!