Barbie Party Ideas For A Barbie Princess Birthday

Barbie party ideas are similar to princess party ideas but, of course, star every little girls favorite doll – Barbie.

Take inspiration from the many Barbie movies such as Barbie as Rapunzel or Barbie and the Diamond Castle, let the Birthday girl choose her favorite, or the huge range of other Barbie dolls available.

If you are going with one of the Barbie movies make sure your theme all ties in to just that movie. Don’t go adding mixed decorations such as Barbie as the Island Princess with Barbie pets.

Most Barbie movies, however, have a grand ball, so that is where we will base our Pink Heaven Barbie party ideas. This can be held at your home or in a dance hall.

So whether you are in the USA or UK there are many Barbie party themes that you can choose from - a theme for every Barbie movie!

Barbie parties can also be used for older children or even teens and adults. Just mix and match some of these ideas with more grown up

INVITATIONS

There are many different Barbie party invitations ideas that you can buy to match your chosen Barbie theme.

But if you want to make your own invitations start by cutting out an outline of a doll with a ball gown on. For the dolls head stick on a cut out picture of Barbies head (or even the birthday girls head). Then decorate the ball gown however you like.

Use pink material, crepe paper, foil, gems, confetti and glitter for a fabulous sparkling dress.

When the glue has all dried write the party details on the back of the invite:

“Dear Barbie Princess (guests name)

You are invited to Princess (birthday girls name)’s (age) Barbie Birthday celebrations. In honour of this event a grand ball will be held at (address of party) on (date and time of party).

Please come in your Barbie ball gowns with your Barbie dolls!”

Don’t forget to make mini invitations for the guest Barbie’s as well - a cute Barbie party idea

If you want to make some easy but professional looking invites then the Pink Heaven Party Angel recommends creating extraordinary free digital invitations in minutes at Smilebox.com! You can even add your own photos, video clips and music.

DECORATIONS

Pink and purple are the theme colors for Barbie party ideas. So keep decorations these colors for balloons, banners and other decorations.

Decorating for a grand ball is the same as decorating for a princess ball but here are some extra Barbie party decoration ideas:

Castles for Barbie and the Diamond Castle. You could even cut a huge pink castle out of some large card, paint pink then place around the entrance door frame.
Penelope the dragon for Barbie as Rapunzel
Swans for Barbie of Swan Lake
Tika the elephant or any of the other animals from Barbie as the Island Princess
Dancing shoes for Barbie and the 12 Dancing Princesses
You could also include some fairy or mermaid decorations for Barbie Fairytopia and Mermaidia.
Cover the table in a pink tablecloth and add plenty of ribbons hanging from the side of the table and put pink material over the chairs.
Also have any Barbies that you have out on display for the Pink Heaven Party Angels to play with and have some Barbie posters on the walls.

PARTY COSTUMES

No surprises here but the girls are going to all want to dress up as Barbie.

As there are many Barbie costumes that you can buy you don’t really want the girls all coming as one themed Barbie so let them choose whichever Barbie outfit that they’d like.

However, the birthday girl should go as the Barbie in your party theme, whether that is Odette from Swan Lake, Elina from Fairytopia, Barbie Alexa costume from the Diamond Castle or Thumbelina.

You can also use homemade Barbie ball gowns using a nice pink dress. Just add accessories such as a tiara or feather boa or even a Mariposa hair garland.

THE BIRTHDAY CAKE

The most popular Barbie birthday cake idea is a Barbie doll with a cake surround shaped as a skirt. Try and get the skirt to match that of your themed Barbie party idea.

Other Barbie birthday cake ideas include:

A pink castle cake
Doll shaped cake
Ballet Shoe Shaped Cake
Swan shaped cake
Mini pink cup cakes arranged on a cake stand
Crown shaped cake

FOOD AND DRINK

For an enchanted Barbie princess feast try some of these Barbie party ideas for food:

Barbie ball gown shaped cookies
Pink cupcakes
Heart shaped jam sandwiches
Chocolate lollipop wands
Barbie party punch (made from pink grapefruit juice)

ENTERTAINMENT

As well as dancing, eating and playing with Barbies there are also some other Barbie party ideas for games to keep the little princesses entertained:

Pass the Wand – Like Hot Potato but give the girls a small plastic want to pass round. Have a few wands then as the music stops on each child they get to keep the wand.
Barbie coloring – Print out some Barbie coloring pages or get Barbie coloring books and some crayons.
Barbie Crafts – Make wands, tiaras and jewelery. Also older children can make some clothes for Barbie from ready cut out pieces of material.
A Barbie or Castle Piñata – Buy in any party store.
Pin the Tiara on Barbie – Using a Barbie poster cut out a tiara shape from a piece of card and get the guests to pin the tiara on Barbie, whilst blindfolded. Nearest one gets a Barbie themed prize.
Barbie Dress Up – Get all the Pink Heaven Party Angels to bring loads of Barbie clothes along with their Barbies.
Maze Puzzle – Create a life size maze out of tall cardboard boxes (where Prince Stefan is at the end waiting) or get the Pink Heaven Party Angels to complete some puzzle mazes on paper.

FAVORS

In a small pink marabou covered bag you can include some birthday party favor ideas. What about some of these gifts and treats ready to put into a favor box:

Pink tiara and wand
Personalised chocolate
Bubble wands
Pink jewelery
Thumbelina play set
Pink Body Glitter
Pink Lip Gloss and makeup
Personalized Children's Books
Some Barbie accessories such as clothes, jewelery etc. for Barbie Dolls
A Barbie poster or coloring sheet
Barbie megaphone
Paper doll book
Barbie stickers
Barbie hair bands

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