The Making of a Twilight Birthday Party
April 27, 2009 by Christine Gooding
Filed under Parenting
It’s my only daughter’s birthday next month. My baby is turning 12. Because I am such a good mother (NOT!), I haven’t really prepared anything for her party which is due to occur in a couple of weeks’ time! So yesterday morning was spent purchasing things online.
I knew our daughter wanted something Twilight-y as she is currently obsessed with all things Twilight so it is no suprise that she’d have a Twilight themed birthday party.
So, how is the Twilight-themed birthday party going?
Format – as we have done the last couple of years, our daughter is having another sleepover with 4 of her friends. We’ll ask them to bring their sleeping bags and favorite pillow.
Invite – we are sending a Twilight invitation out to her friends. My good friend who happens to be a good graphic designer (woohoo!) is making the invites. My friend is superimposing our daughter’s photo on Bella’s face. I will blog about the invite as soon as I get it.
Set-Up – on the day of her sleepover, we are ‘housing’ the girls in our living room. We plan to black out the entire room with black sheets and hang fairy lights and turn off all the lights to create an illusion of a dark, eerie night. We will also be playing Twilight’s official soundtrack at the party, of course!
Food – We will be serving our daughter’s favorite food and that includes fried chicken, chips, lollies and pizza! LOL…our ’servers’ will be wearing fangs and black capes to complete the vampire ensemble. I was thinking perhaps we can drizzle catsup on the fried chicken and chips for the ‘blood’ effect?
Cake – I bought an edible Twilight cake topper off eBay that I plan to use on our homemade cake!
Activities – They girls will be watching the Twilight DVD of course! We plan to have a couple of games to keep them entertained. We are thinking of having a Twilight Trivia game. Not sure what the other game would be! Perhaps pass the parcel or ‘How well do you know the birthday girl?’
Prizes – I bought a Twilight tote bag off eBay for one of the prizes. Not sure yet what other prize we’d give away. Any suggestions?
Loot Bags – I bought the Twilight official merchandise off eBay like the Lamb and Lion Keyrings and doorknob thingies. I also plan to include the Twilight DVDs on each of the girls’ loot bags.
What about our daughter’s birthday presents you ask? That’s for me to reveal in the next few days! Watch this space 
Sounds cute, the only thing I wouldn’t have is the servers wearing “fangs and capes”- totally goes against the image of Twilight’s vamps…have fun!!
i wish you were my mom!! lol id love to have a twilight party. but unfortunatly im going to be 21 not 12 lol. great job with the ideas. another cute gift for the girls could be the twilight buttons those are a hot item for the younger girls to put on there clothes or book bags.
Hi Betsy — true re fangs and capes but don’t know how to make it more vampire-y!
you forgot the “H” in twiligHt on the sign on your door
HI Brianna — buttons are a good idea….off to check them out on eBay
HI Gypsy — yes, noted that but it’s too cute with the mis-spelling to correct my daughter! LOL
There is a Twilight Trivia game that you can purchase. I bought it a few weeks and I love it. It is really fun to play especially if you are a die hard Twilight fan! Good luck with everything!
We are doing a Twilight Birthday Sleepover Party for my daughter too and will be decorating in all black, red and white…and with items from the front of the books. We will also have pictures and posters of the cast around. One of the games we will be playing will be Pin the Kiss on Edward…the girls came up with that one and we thought it was cute…they are only 10 though.
I am throwing a twilight party next month for my daughters 10th birthday. I found some license to bite cards on ebay and also personalized candy wrappers. using thwhole black red and white is very elegent. Also red velvet cake with edible shimmer powder. I found some apple and chess peice molds formaking candies
Hi perhaps looking thru my twilight party pics might give you some ideas especially for prezzies….there is a couple of pics i still havent put on but we made earings as prizes there was lions, apples, and alices choker! that was really easy printed the crest onto printable fabric cut the shape and put it on an oval clip on earing found @ an opshop! and then added the ribbon!! EASY! Also while you have the fabric i asked my 12 yr old to pic her favourite twi-pic and i printed it onto the fabric then glued it onto a plain black singlet!! Valau her own personalised T!!! Email me if you have any q’s
Sorry forgot to add the links!!
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=76395&id=687348684&l=1c42488241
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=76605&id=687348684&l=3dc460b12c
PS Our party was meant for my friends and I my 12 yr old thinks i am mad!!!!
another good game is each guest could have a piece of cake the cake is blood and whoever eats their piece first loses the winner gets a prize
hey heres an idea get white chocolate and red food colouring melt the chocolate and add the colouring then get some marshmallows and fuge and you have your very own blood fondue
Ya no fangs on the servers. But good ideas! I am just haveing a Twilight cake because some of my friends do not like twilight.
Great party ideas! I have a few Twilight party pages if you are looking for more inspiration.
http://www.birthday-parties-for-kids.com/?p=144
http://hubpages.com/hub/How-To-Make-A-Twilight-Cake
Hope your daughter has an awesome Twilight party!
Twilight cell phone charms are the best favors…. I got some for my daughter’s party that I bought on Amazon that look light Bella’s bracelet from the books. Her friends were really happy!
My Daughter is crazy about Twilight as well and I just got an email today with Twilight themed birthday items at shop@e.birthdayexpress.com — VERY COOL!!!! However I only payed $30 for the Edward cardboard standup at a local mall.