With this idea you are not limited to just one movie so plan out a lineup of each movie that features the Disney princesses you plan to represent at your party. It is a party, so don’t worry about them just watching movies all day. This will keep them entertained and keep them out of trouble while you tend to the rest of the details. Food takes prep and those little princesses can make it a little difficult to stay on schedule.

You can tailor the food to theme of the party as well to enhance the experience. See if there is any food mentioned in the movies and give them a taste of each food as each movie comes to an end. Of course, you are going to want to check with the parents of your guests to make sure that there are not any allergies or intolerances that you need to look out for. Do a Google search for Disney princess cupcakes and see what come up. With this, you can give each guest their own personalized cupcake representing their favorite princess. If you get multiple sets of Disney princess party supplies then you can even serve their food on plates that have the faces of their favorite princesses.

We suggest buying bunk beds for kids even if you only have one child so that you have the extra sleeping space ready to go when this sleep over happens. I promise you, it will happen so it is better to be two steps ahead. With sleeping arrangements out of the way, you can end the night by letting those little princesses snuggle up in blankets that have the Disney princesses on them. You may be surprised how cheaply and easily you can get fleece blankets with Disney prints on them. And now you have extra blankets for when the others are in the wash. Just make sure that the blankets fit bunk beds for kids.

Whatever you plan for your Disney princess party just having the sleepover will be enough fun for the kids!

Ariel Cake Pan
If you’re a skilled baker and decorator, you can make the official Ariel cake using the Wilton Ariel pan. The tricky part of the cake is icing the cake after it comes out of the pan. Be sure to use a piping bag, the correct colors and most importantly to take your time.

Little Mermaid Cake Toppers
For those of us who are not as skilled or as patient in the kitchen, there are lots of easier ways to create a spectacular Little Mermaid-themed birthday cake. Official Disney cake toppers are one way to decorate a cake simply and easily. Official Ariel candles are another way to make a pretty cake without fussing with frosting.

Little Mermaid Edible Image Cake Topper
A very simple and easy way to make a great Disney's Little Mermaid cake is by using an edible image cake topper. The edible image is an image of a scene in the Little Mermaid. You simply have to bake the cake, ice it when it's cooled and apply the edible image cake topper. This makes a terrific looking cake while taking very little time. Here are a few Ariel and Mermaid cake images to consider.

The Little Mermaid Edible Image Frosting Cake Topper Decoration    US $9.50 More Details

Little Mermaid Cupcakes
You can also serve cupcakes instead of a big cake. Bake cupcakes and top them with blue frosting to represent the ocean; then scatter Little Mermaid fish, starfish and seashell edible decorations on top. You can even bake them in Little Mermaid paper cupcake tins to really be extravagant.

Another simple and charming idea is to create “beach” cupcakes. Frost cupcakes with vanilla frosting, and then sprinkle them with candy “sand” from Candy Warehouse. Toss a mini beach towel on top, made of pink fondant rolled thin and cut into rectangles, and finish off by sticking a pink paper parasol into the cupcake.

You can also serve “design your own” deep-sea cupcakes to the little guests. Frost them with blue icing and sprinkle with a little glitter sugar. You can bring them to the table with enough candles lit to match the birthday girl’s age, and once she has blown them out, distribute the cupcakes among the guests. Bring little bowls of gummy fish, gummy octopi, star-shaped candies for starfish and green licorice whips for seaweed, and let the girls decorate their own cupcakes. This is an activity that almost all kids will love!

Finally, you can purchase pre-made cupcake toppers to create your Little Mermaid cupcakes. These range from figurines to cupcake rings and everything in between. We have listed a few options below, simply select your favorite and add to an iced cupcake! This option is almost too easy!

Disney Little Mermaid Ariel Cupcake Stand Cupcake Party Supplies    US $11.75 More Details

Hopefully those cake ideas help to create a perfect Little Mermaid cake for your special one!

For an easy Disney Princess and the Frog cake, bake a round cake and cover it with frosting tinted to match the party theme colors. Then top it with an official Princess and the Frog cake topper featuring the Princess holding her little frog prince.

Edible Image Cake Topper
Another very simple option is to purchase an edible cake topper that can be laid on top of a home-baked sheet or layer cake for a very professional look. This makes a scene from the movie without having to be a master cake decorater!

Princess The Frog Tiana Photo Image Edible Image Icing Cake Topper    US $9.98 More Details

Frog Prince Cake
You can also make a simple frog prince cake using a round cake pan and two cupcakes. Using a homemade recipe or mix cake, fill an 8” x 8” round pan and two muffin tins with batter. Bake as directed. When cool, place one cupcake on either side of the big cake to make the frog’s front legs. Frost everything with vanilla frosting tinted with green food coloring. You can sprinkle the cake with green crystal sugar for added effect if desired. Use a marshmallow, cut in half, to make the frog’s googly eyes, and use a squeeze tube of chocolate icing to make the pupils of his eyes, his nostrils and a big smile. To make his crown, cut a simple crown shape from shiny gold cardboard (you should be able to find it at a craft store, but you can also use the cardboard from a gold cake board). Press the crown against the cake icing to make it stick to the top of the frog’s head: the top of the crown will extend beyond the edge of the cake. If you are serving a bigger crowd, you can make a prince and a princess frog. For the princess, add eyelashes using the chocolate icing, and use pink or red squeeze-tube frosting for her lips and cheeks.

Princess and the Frog Cupcakes
Instead of a big cake, you can serve a platter of cute mini-frog cupcakes. Bake a batch of cupcakes and frost with green frosting (or purchase store-bought mint-frosted cupcakes). Place a mint fudge frog on top of each cupcake ($5.99 for 22 frogs on Amazon). This makes a super easy and fast cake for your party!

You can also decorate a batch of green or pink-frosted cupcakes with the frog-and-princess candies in the shapes of green frogs, gold crowns and pink hearts. Or serve “kissy cupcakes”: pink-frosted cupcakes with a pair of red candy lips on top.

Another options for your cupcakes is to either use cupcake rings or edible image toppers. We have listed a few items below that might be suitable for your party.

Disney Princess Frogjewel Glittertangled Rapunzel Cupcake Rings Candle    US $1.49 More Details

What Princess and the Frog cake will you make for your party? Something else entirely? Let us know in the comments below.

For a quick and easy fix, check out the pre-made, official Lego-themed party favor boxes from Amazon. Each box includes a Creator Airplane or a Creator 4x4 truck, plus a Lego Club membership and a LegoLand or LegoLand Discovery Center admission ticket. Or take a look at the LEGOVille favor boxes at Celebrate Express. Each box contains a LEGOVille blowout, LEGOVille stickers, toy fire engine, assorted color-dough and cookie cutter and a sheriff's badge.

Homemade Lego Party Favors
You can also create your own favor bags from scratch. Start by scouring the local dollar stores and party outlets for trinkets, toys and favor bags or boxes in the Lego theme colors of red, yellow, green and blue. If you plan on breaking the kids into teams for games and activities, this can also be a way to differentiate the teams: look for inexpensive t-shirts, armbands, bandanas, novelty sunglasses, wacky hats or other wearables in the four different colors, and hand each child something to wear in his or her team colors. At the end of the party, they can take it home with them.

Buy Lego-red gift bags and print out Lego logos on sticker paper to decorate them. Or find pictures of the birthday child’s favorite Lego figures on the official Lego website and print them out as stickers to decorate the bags. Fill the bags with Lego pieces and Lego-shaped candy. By purchasing a giant tub of 400+ Lego pieces and Lego-style candy building blocks, you can fill up lots of favor bags inexpensively. If you have a digital camera and color printer, you can take a photo of each of the kids during the party, print it on photo paper and pop it in the bag along with the treats.

You can also go for something really different and pick up a few Brick Construction t-shirts from ThinkGeek. On sale for just $5.99 each, these kids’ t-shirts come with a built-in baseplate so that you can snap Lego pieces directly onto the t-shirt to make a wearable Lego creation. Combine a take-home favor with a fun activity and set up a station where the kids can decorate their t-shirts before bringing them home.

If you hosted a Lego themed birthday party what did you give out as Lego Party favors? Let us know in the comments below.

If you enjoy coming up with more original decorating ideas, you can have fun playing with the “underwater” theme—without having to spend a fortune. You can achieve some truly stunning effects using inexpensive rolls of blue streamers to simulate the look of the sea. You can loop them across the walls and ceilings to create wavy patterns and hang fluttering lengths from the doorframes and windows. You can also make “seaweed” using green streamers and gluing small, irregular leaf-shapes cut from green paper or construction paper. Twine the seaweed over the furniture and let it trail over the floor. Add blue and green balloons to complete the effect. You can even decorate the children as they enter the door with a seaweed boa!

You can dress up the walls with simple fish-shapes cut from construction paper. Add pale blue circles to make underwater “bubbles” for added effect. You can turn this into an activity to do while waiting for all the guests to arrive. Have the girls decorate the fish on the walls with stick-on googly eyes, crayons, felts and stickers. As another decoration/activity, you may also want to pick up a Stand-up Ariel from Celebrate Express. Although this is a bit expensive, this stand-up figure is 48” tall and makes a great photo-opportunity at any party. The photos than make great thank-you cards or additions to your Little Mermaid thank you cards.

Complete the underwater scene by hanging colorful, three-dimensional tropical fish from the ceiling. You can also find inflatable ocean creature beach balls (crab, octopus and fish creatures) from your local dollar store. These can be hung from the ceiling or scattered over the “ocean floor” for the girls to kick around and play with.

You may also want to create an inexpensive treasure chest by covering a cardboard box in gold wrapping paper or glittery gold tissue. You can also use gold spray-paint. Cut the flaps off the top of the box, and replace them with a piece of cardboard cut to fit. You can attach the cardboard lid using silver duct tape “hinges.” Glue gold or black fabric to the inside of the box and fill it with favor bags, game prizes or other treasures. (You can also cover an ordinary beach cooler with gold paper to create a treasure chest.)

To give the room an underwater glow, lay sheets of green or blue tissue over light fixtures. (But be careful not to let the tissue touch the bulb surface!) Or purchase blue-light-bulbs instead!

If you're looking for just a few official Little Mermaid decorations for the party we recommend a Little Mermaid pinata or party banner. The pinata is great as it can also be a fun Little Mermaid party activity and decoration! A Little Mermaid party banner (as shown above) is great as it can be a great memento from a very fun and memorable day!

The decorations for a Little Mermaid party can be as simple as you want or much more complex. Hopefully the ideas above help to create a well decorated room for your fabulous party!

Table settings
Set the table with a blue tablecloth, napkins and tableware in plastic or paper. Then scatter green lilypad leaves cut from construction paper over the table, along with some green sparkly confetti. Now you have the perfect background for the treats. Alternatively, you can purchase Princess and the Frog tableware which can help your decorations and set the theme.

White lily minipizzas
These dainty mini-pizzas are a bit fiddly to make, but they’re delicious and look very pretty on the table. Roll out homemade or packaged pizza dough thinly, and cut into four-inch circles with a cookie cutter or using the bottom of a drinking glass. Spread each circle with green pesto. Now unwrap a white processed cheese slice and lay it on a cutting board. Use a sharp knife to scallop the edges to create a round, petaled flower shape. Lay a flower on each pizza. Bake until the cheese is melted and the crust is lightly browned.

Frogwiches
Beat a few drops of green food coloring into some cream cheese, and create layered sandwiches: white sandwich bread, a layer of cream cheese, another slice of bread, another cream cheese layer, and then the top slice of bread. Sprinkle a bit of dried dill over each sandwich, cut the crusts off with a sharp knife, and then cut each layered sandwich into quarters. Serve on a platter with celery sticks, green beans and green pepper sticks.

Lilypad snack mix
Using sharp scissors, cut the rolled rims off pink, purple or white paper cups. Then cut points all the way around the edge of the cups, starting at the rim and reaching halfway down the cup. Fold the points outward to make a flower design. Fill each “flower” with the snack mix of your choice: nuts and bolts, mixed nuts, trail mix, popcorn, etc. Place each flower on a lily pad cut from green construction paper.

Kissy cookies
Roll out homemade or store-bought butter cookie dough, and cut with a kiss-shaped cookie cutter. Sprinkle the cookies with red or pink crystal sugar before baking, or bake plain cookies and then cover with red or pink icing.

Cheesy crowns
Roll out homemade or store-bought biscuit dough or savory pastry dough. Cut into crown-shapes, sprinkle with cheddar cheese and bake.

Froggy jello
Dissolve two packages of lime Jello in 2 ½ cups of boiling water, pour mixture into a 9” x 9” pan, and refrigerate. When set, unmold jello and cut into cubes. Set a gummy frog on each cube, and serve on a platter.

Frog and princess sodas
Offer two kinds of soda in the pink and green theme. Serve pink cream soda with a scoop of fizzing green sherbert, or green apple soda with a scoop of strawberry sherbert. You can even serve the soda with a frozen Frog straw by using a silicone Frog and straw Ice Cube Mold!

Hopefully these ideas help to create a great lily-pad themed party food.

You could make large cut out fruit, flower, or dessert shapes out of poster board for seating placements, with each guest’s name on it. Stick the seating cut outs to the floor in whatever manner you choose, eliminating friction later on about who sits where, and avoiding the guests crowding too close to each other.

Amazon.com has two sets of Peel & Stick wall decals available. (as seen above). There are Strawberry Shortcake and friends, and one that has Strawberry Shortcake by herself. You can also purchase a set of cupcake party lights which can help to light up the party and decorate the room.

Balloons are always a popular decorating item. A grouping of purple balloons could look like a bunch of grapes, orange ones similar to oranges, slightly under-inflated red ones with black marker dots could look like strawberries, long yellow ones like bananas- you could make the floor into a fruit basket! You can also purchase a Strawberry Shortcake Mylar foil balloon which kids seem to really love!

A great way to decorate your party with very little work is by purchasing a Strawberry Shortcake party pack which includes everything for your party. The pack comes complete with table settings and cloth, plates, napkins, balloons and the works from Celebrate Express starting at $ 23.99 for a Basic party pack for 8, $39.99 for a Deluxe set for 8, or $76.99 for the Deluxe set for 8 that also includes 8 party favour box sets.

To get everyone in the Strawberryland mood, scent the air with fruit aroma from your favourite room spray, scented oils or candles before the party starts. If you hosted a Strawberry Shortcake Party how did you decorate? Let us know in the comments below.

Decorate the party room in Lego colors of red, yellow, green and blue. Hang colored streamers and balloons in Lego colors from the light fixtures and ceiling. Pick up a plastic or paper tablecloth in red or yellow, and napkins in contrasting green and blue from the dollar store or party supply store to dress up the party table. Print out giant letters in a Lego font (download the font here) on colored construction paper to make a “Happy Birthday” banner.

You can also download lots of cool Lego minifigure posters from the Lego website. Print them out in color and tape them up on the walls. You could also purchase a Lego themed poster (as shown below), these are great as you can pick your child's favorite Lego theme (Star Wars, City Ville, Ninjago, etc...)

Lego Star Wars Giant Poster Art Print X3204    US $13.61 More Details

If you have a laminator, you can also laminate them to create placemats that the kids can take home after the party. Alternatively, you can purchase Lego Activity placemats that decorate the room and keep the kids active.

Finally, a great way to decorate a room at a VERY low cost is using shoeboxes! If you can source some rectangular boxes, such as discarded shoeboxes, you can wrap them in colored paper or spray-paint them in Lego colors, then draw on the knobs to create outsized Lego bricks. Scatter the bricks all over the party room. These boxes can also be used during the “Tall towers” or “Toppling towers” Lego party activities.

If you hosted a Lego party how did you decorate the room? Let us know in the comments below.

If you are looking for a quick and easy approach to party favors, you can always order premade favor packages from Celebrate Express. They offer a fire truck party favor box that comes with a toy fire engine, firefighter badge sticker, colored dough, cookie cutter and mini rolling pin, crayons, coloring poster and a sticker sheet. Pile all the loot into the truck-shaped favor box (included) and you’re ready to go! If you prefer to fill the boxes with your own selected treats, you can purchase the fire-truck-shaped favor boxes.

You could also consider building a favor bag around the theme of Dalmatians, every firefighter’s best friend. Beanie Baby Dalmatians can be purchased for just $1.50 each at Amazon. Put a Dalmatian and a few candies in one of the red favor bags or fire truck favor boxes for a great and inexpensive party treat.

Other ideas for favor bags include fire truck temporary tattoos from Amazon, fire truck whistles from Amazon ($7 for 12), fire rescue extinguisher squirt toys and stickers and coloring books on the fire truck theme.

Ideas for homemade Fire Truck party favors include:

Laminated certificates for firefighting bravery
If you have a home printer and laminator, you can create a personalized certificate for each child on the computer, and include it in their gift bag. Use color clipart of Dalmatians, fire hats and fire trucks to add visual appeal.

Homemade chocolate Dalmatian pops
Use Dalmatian lollipop molds to make chocolate lollipops and wrap them in mylar with red ribbons. Try using white chocolate with dark chocolate dots to mimic the Dalmatian’s distinctive coloring.

Fire truck cookies
Use a fire truck cookie cutter ($4 at Amazon) to make fire truck cookies. Ice with red Royal icing, and use black and white accents for the truck details. Wrap cookies in plastic wrap or mylar and pop them in the favor bags. If you’d rather not fuss with too much cookie-decorating, a fire hat cookie might work better—just ice with red Royal icing and you’re done!

If you hosted a FIretruck Birthday party what did you give out as party favors? Let us know in the comments below!

For a simple, no-fuss party favor solution, order premade, official Little Mermaid Party Favor Purses from Celebrate Express ($4.99 each). Each set comes with a purse-shaped box filled with a sticker sheet, blowout, Little Mermaid flower hair clip, a Crab Squirter, pink hairbrush and a faux pearl necklace.

If you prefer to shop around for your own favors, you can order the unfilled Little Mermaid party purses at Celebrate Express ($3.99 for four), and load them up with your own homemade or dollar store items. Many dollar stores have lots of official Little Mermaid merchandise, such as stickers, temporary tattoos, jewelry, stationery, lip gloss and miniature figurines. If official merchandise is scarce, you can fill the purses with gummy fish, sour fish, stickers, coloring books, stamps, hair accessories and other trinkets that have fish, seashell or ocean themes.

Homemade Little Mermaid Party Favors
Or for an original favor idea, order colorful sets of mini sand buckets and spades and fill them with sweet ocean-themed treats. Start by filling the buckets with “sand”—white rock candy from Candy Warehouse. Then add chocolate river rocks (available in candy stores or on Amazon), and finish with gummy sea creatures and candy seashells. Finish off by sticking a couple of colorful tropical fish lollipops in the sand and wrap the bucket in clear mylar. Tie the spade to it with a bow.

For a more homemade approach, fill each bucket with home-baked cookies in the shapes of starfish, fish and seashells using Sea-shaped cookie cutters.
As a different idea, you could pick up novelty treasure chests at the dollar store and fill them with chocolate coins, beads, inexpensive toys and candy.

Finally, don't forget that depending on your Little Mermaid Party games and activities you may already have a good start to your party favors. This means you might only have to add a few candies, baked goods and a picture of each child at the party to go along with their craft item or small beanie-baby fish.