The lights come up, the room starts cheering, and it is entirely for them.
The loudest, most joyful night in the catalogue. Stage names and backstage passes, dance challenges, routines learned in sections, a set list the group builds, roles for every single child whether or not they want a microphone, and a final show performed to an audience of grown-ups who have been told exactly when to cheer. It runs on your own music, in your own front room, with the furniture pushed back.
Pre-order price, $10 off. Your link arrives within 7 days of ordering.
The moment they'll talk about
At the moment you choose, the house lights come up for the show.
At the signature moment the sealed Mystery Envelope is opened and the running order for the final show is revealed. Every performer gets an announced entrance, the group numbers and solo spots run in order, and the grown-up audience has been briefed in advance on exactly when to make noise.
The feeling at the heart of this one is being cheered for by your friends. That is the whole design brief, and everything else in the night exists to make sure every child gets that moment in the form they can actually enjoy.
Inside the experience
What the night includes
A themed welcome moment: A printable backstage pass to clip or tie on carrying their chosen stage name, a dressing-room spot with their name on it, and the tour poster revealed by the guest of honor.
The performance programme: A run of dance challenges, copy-the-move games, routine sections and rehearsal blocks building to the final show, with the host guide marking where to simplify for younger guests and where to add challenge for older ones.
Food and drink ideas: Backstage catering that is easy to eat standing up, a green-room refuel between rehearsal and show, and a signature drink named for the headliner.
Shared printables and decorations: Performance cards, dance challenge cards, freeze-and-pose cards, role cards for the backstage crew and set-list building cards.
Your party guide opens on any device, and you can print any page of it. The printable pieces are inside your guide, ready to download and print. It's written for a group of up to 16 guests, and the Everything you'll print list in Start here shows which pages to print and how many copies.
Included with every guide
The party, and the whole night after it.
3 to 4 hours
Party Experience
A complete themed party from the first guest through pickup. Run it on its own and everyone heads home at a sensible hour.
Included with every guide
Sleepover Addition
Pajamas, movie and lounge time, snacks, bedtime, a slow morning, breakfast and pickup, all planned the same way the evening was. Use it when guests are staying over.
Not every night needs the overnight. Use it when guests are staying and skip it when they're not.
How it fits
Guided, Classic or Independent
Same night, 3 levels of host support. You pick the one that fits the group in front of you, and you can switch between them at any point in the evening.
More support
Guided
You explain more, demonstrate more, check in more often, and stay hands-on throughout. Good for a younger group, a first sleepover, or guests who don't know each other yet.
Balanced support
Classic
You introduce what guests need to know, help where it's useful, then give them room to take part on their own. Start here if you're not sure.
More guest independence
Independent
You set the expectations, the hygiene and the safety boundaries clearly, then let guests run more of the night themselves while you stay available.
Different guests can need different levels on the same night, and you never announce which one you're using. Guests just experience the night.
Inside the party guide
What you get
Start here: A welcome to your night: the theme, what's included, how much work it is, and your first step. Your invitations are here too.
Shopping and food lists: A shopping list and food plan scaled to your group size, with budget ranges.
Per-child setup and printables: What each child needs, how many copies to print, and one assembly card so you never have to piece it together yourself.
Shared printables and decorations: Signs, decorations and the shared game pieces you hold back until the right moment.
Room setup: Where everything goes, zone by zone, plus a note on keeping food away from the activities.
Hosting the party: A step-by-step plan from the first guest through goodbye, with what to say and what to have ready at each moment.
Sleepover Addition: Included with every guide. The overnight that follows the party, for anyone staying over: a cozy wind-down, bedtime, quiet hours, breakfast and pickup.
Before the night
What you will need
A phone, tablet or computer to open your guide, a printer and regular paper for the printables, scissors, and a short shopping list of inexpensive supplies. Your guide scales the quantities to your group. Cardstock is worth it for the pieces kids wave around all night if you have it, but regular paper works for everything.
Delivery
When you get your private link
This guide is still being finished. Your private link arrives within 7 days, often sooner. We'll email you the moment it's ready.
Changed your mind before your link arrives? Reply to your confirmation email and we'll refund you in full, no questions.
The math
The math
A sleepover venue runs $30 to $50 per child. This party guide hosts the whole group for $37. Print any page of it, and the printables you download are yours to print again for your own family's parties.
Open it, run the night, and if it doesn't hold up, we'll refund you. No forms, no photos, just reply to your confirmation email.
Questions about Pop Star Dance Party
You use your own music, and we name no artists, songs, bands, labels or shows anywhere in the experience, partly because we will not use anyone else's names, and mostly because you know what your group actually loves this month and we would be guessing. What the plan gives you instead is the shape of the set list slot by slot: an opener everyone in the room already knows, something with a strong steady beat for teaching the routine, something slow for the middle, something deliberately silly, and a big closer with an obvious ending. You fill those slots from whatever you already have, and the plan includes guidance on checking lyrics for the age group before the night. Any speaker will do.
They're planned for from the very beginning rather than accommodated on the night, and it's the part of the design we're proudest of. No child is ever put on the spot, assigned a solo or asked to perform alone. There are no solos anywhere unless a child asks for one. Every performance slot has a group option where nobody's exposed, and alongside the performing roles there are 5 backstage jobs with genuine authority: the choreographer teaches a section to the whole group, the DJ controls the music, the lighting crew runs the room, the hype crew runs the audience, and the photographer makes the pictures everybody wants afterwards. These are introduced with the same weight as the performing roles, chosen rather than allocated, and written into the host script so an adult never accidentally frames them as second best. In practice most reluctant children take a crew role, stand at the edge of the group number by the third rehearsal, and are on stage by the show. Nothing in the evening requires that, and nobody comments if it doesn't happen.
Less than you would think. An ordinary front room with the sofa pushed back and the coffee table taken out gives you enough floor for the whole group in 2 rows, and the choreography is written for exactly that: formations that move sideways and change places rather than travelling across a hall. The plan includes a small-space version with the whole routine performed on the spot, and a wider version if you happen to have a garage, a garden or a hall. What matters more than square metres is clearing it properly: furniture to the walls, nothing breakable at arm's height, and grippy socks or bare feet rather than plain socks on a hard floor.
Yes, and there's a version written for exactly that. The loud block is scheduled early in the evening and given a firm finish time, so the noisy part is over before it becomes anybody else's problem. The quiet-flat version uses lower volume with the beat counted out loud by the host, choreography written flat rather than jumped, steps, arms, formation changes and poses instead of landings, and rugs down in the performance space. Several hosts run the rehearsal blocks on headphones with the music shared and only bring the speaker up for the show itself, which is about 8 minutes of actual noise.
Questions about the party guide
Your private link arrives by email within 7 days of your order, often sooner. You can get a full refund any time before then.
As much or as little as you want. You can print any page of your guide, and your invitations, signs and game pieces are inside the guide, ready to download and print. The Everything you'll print list in Start here shows every printable by step, so you can pick the pieces that fit your night and skip the rest. Print the essentials this year and come back for the extras next time.
No. Everything works on a regular home printer and regular paper. A few pieces hold up better on cardstock, especially cut-out cards and props, because kids wave those around all night. That's a nice-to-have, not a requirement.
That's exactly who it's written for. The guide walks the night in order, gives a duration for each part, and gives you the words to say. You're never asked to make something up on the spot.
Ages 8 through tween, in one guide. This age range is where the activities actually land: old enough to run parts of the night themselves, young enough to still love the whole thing. The guide shows you where to add more support or more independence depending on the guest.
Everything you download or print is yours to keep and use for your own family's parties, forever. Your private link expires 12 months after we send it, so download what you want to keep before then.
Yes. Print any page of your guide, and the printables you download, as many times as you want for your own family's parties. Please don't resell them, share them, or use them to run parties as a business.
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