Plan a beautiful ballerina party that your guests will adore with our Ballerina Party Ideas! Read on for general party planning tips as well as great ballet party decorating ideas, food, game, and activity suggestions. It will be tu-tu much fun!
Planning & Invitations
It's important to select a location for your child's ballerina party early in the planning process. If you'd rather not have the party at home, contact a few dance schools in your area to see if any of them host birthday parties in their dance studios. Other possible party locations may include a nearby park, a local recreation center room, a community clubhouse, or your church's social hall. Or, try one of the other locations listed in our When & Where to Have the Party article.
What Do I Need for My Child's Ballet Party?
If you plan to use paper tableware and other ballerina party supplies, our Suggested Party Supply List may be helpful while you're shopping. Please note that you may not need everything on the list; it is intended only as a guide.
In addition to basic party supplies like plates, cups, napkins, and decorations, you may also consider purchasing, borrowing or renting the following items:
- Cookie Cutters in Star, Flower and/or Butterfly Shapes
- Dress-up Items Like Ballet Tutus, Tiaras and Wands for Your Guests to Wear
- A Bubble-Making Machine
- Disposable Cameras
Ballerina Party Invitations
Creative invitations build excitement and can increase attendance at your child's ballet party. If you have time to make your own, be sure to involve your child in choosing the design and filling in the details. Here are some ideas to get you started:
- Use pink cardstock folded in half, and decorate the cover with a ballerina sticker. Add your party details inside.
- Alternatively, you can ask the birthday girl to draw a picture of a ballerina. Photocopy her drawing onto colored paper and add the party details. Then roll up the invitation into a scroll, and tie it with a pink ribbon.
- Tie your invitation to the stem of an artificial flower with ribbon.
- Use creative wording such as: Twirl on Over for a Ballerina Party! It Will be Tu-tu Much Fun!
- If you're using card envelopes instead of making scrolls, seal the envelopes with ballet stickers.
- For a special touch, let us print personalized ballet party invitations for you! We’ll include your child’s name and all the party details with a background design that complements your ballet party theme. You can also take a look at the standard ballerina invitations we offer. These are quick to fill in and mail, which is perfect when you want to send your invitations quickly.
Ballerina Party Favors
Thank the guests for attending your child's ballerina party with fun party favors like tiaras, stickers, hair accessories, coloring books, fancy pens, and bubbles. For additional ideas, check out our large selection of individual ballerina party favors, favor bags, and favor boxes to create your own goody bags. Or, to simplify your planning, consider our complete favor sets which include a matching bag! If you want to add candy, we offer lots of sweet treats that kids love.
For a final, special touch, don't forget to check out our personalized ballet party favors like stickers, magnets and bag tags, which can be printed with a special message or your guests' names. Just choose a design, and we’ll do the rest! Whichever favors you choose, your guests are sure to feel like prima ballerinas!
Display your favors in style by decorating a small tree with clear twinkle lights and hanging the favor bags from the branches. Wait until near the end of the party to plug in the lights. This will prevent your guests from being distracted by the favor bags during party activities. Plus, it will add excitement when the children notice the lit tree!
Additional Party Planning Tips
To simplify the rest of the party planning process, check out our Party Planning 101 section for our party planning timeline, a printable RSVP sheet, birthday cake ideas, and other party planning basics. Or, just read the paragraphs below for decorating and food ideas, party activities, and more for your child’s ballerina party.
Decorating & Food Ideas
Ballerina Decorating Ideas to Set the Mood
Choose from our list of decorating ideas to create a ballet atmosphere for your party. Try just a few ideas, or go all out!
- Choose pink and white as the colors for decorations such as table covers, streamers, and balloons.
- Greet your guests with a large group of pink and white balloons outside your front door and a cascade of bubbles from a bubble machine.
- Ask your guests to wear dance leotards. When the girls arrive, give each a tutu and tiara to wear. This will make them all feel like ballerinas! Purchase the items, or make your own! To make a simple ballet tutu, just gather pink netting, and sew a strip of satin ribbon around the waist. Include enough extra ribbon on each end to create a tie in back.
- Use clear twinkle lights around the party space.
- Make large tissue paper flowers in shades of pink and white, and use them as your table centerpiece. See our easy Tissue Paper Flower Kit, or purchase your own supplies and use our instructions for making tissue flowers. Arrange groups of flowers on the tables and floors, hang them from the ceiling, or tie to their chairs.
- Hang tulle netting from the ceiling to create a canopy over the main party table. Attach some butterflies and flowers from a craft store, and drape the netting over the chairs around the table.
- Play well-known ballet music such as Swan Lake or The Nutcracker.
- Bring your full-length mirror into the party room, and lean it against the wall so the ballerinas can see themselves.
- Balloons always say “party” to children! Tie groups of helium balloons together and anchor them in place with balloon weights. For greater impact, combine pink and silver star-shaped balloons with colorful latex balloons. Tie a balloon to the back of each chair, and tie a group of five balloons to the birthday child’s chair.
- Consider a pull-string piñata if you would rather not have small children swinging a bat. We offer a selection of traditional and pull-string piñatas, but any traditional piñata can be converted to a pull-string using our easy instructions.
- Make a banner that says “Welcome to [your child’s name] Ballet Party!” and hang it near the party entrance. Check out our selection of dance banners, and then let us do the work for you!
- Consider using our Ballet Party Box, which comes filled with ballet-themed partyware, streamers, balloons, and more.
- See our ballet party decorations for more quick and easy decorating choices!
Ballerina Party Food
When it comes to food, partygoers are usually perfectly content to eat pizza or hotdogs, which is certainly much easier on the hosts! However, if you have the time and would like to serve some dainty treats, consider these ideas:
- Prepare jam sandwiches cut with a star cookie cutter.
- Serve cut fruit in clear plastic goblets.
- Offer pink lemonade served in tea cups.
- Serve magic wand cookies! Simply prepare star-shaped sugar cookies and slide a wooden popsicle stick under each cookie before baking. Bake as usual, and frost as desired. See our selection of cookie cutters.
- Offer a plate of mini muffins in several different flavors.
- Serve crispy rice cereal treats sprinkled with pink sugar.
- Add strawberry ice cream for a cool pink treat, or try our smoothie recipe.
- Create a Ballerina Birthday Cake by making a miniature tiered cake with a ballerina figure on top. Simply bake one 9” and one 6” round cake in your child's favorite flavor. Stack the smaller cake on the center of the larger one, and cover both layers with pink frosting. Add the ballerina figure as the cake topper. If you wish, add more decorations like colored sprinkles, or frosting piped into flower shapes.
- In addition to or in place of cake, make cupcakes for your guests. Frost them with pink icing, and add a small ballerina figure on top of each.
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