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.
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.
Experience Cards— Performance cards, dance challenge cards, freeze-and-pose cards, role cards for the backstage crew and set-list building cards.
Everything here arrives as print-ready PDFs with fill-in fields on the pages that need them, so you can add names, dates and details yourself before printing at home. Nothing is posted. It is written for a group of up to 16 guests, and the print-prep table walks you through which pages to print and how many copies.
Choose your ending
One kit. Two ways to end the night.
3 to 4 hours, no overnight
Party Path
Run the full Core Experience, follow the closing sequence, and have everyone ready for pickup. A complete themed party that ends at a sensible hour and leaves your house intact.
Core Experience plus overnight and morning
Sleepover Path
Everything in the Party Path, then keep going. Pajamas, movie and lounge time, snacks, bedtime, a slow morning, breakfast and pickup, all planned the same way the evening was.
Not sure yet? Choose on the night. Nothing you print or buy is wasted either way.
How it fits
Guided, Classic or Independent
Same night, three 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 kit
The 12 packs
Pack 1 · Start Here— Host Guide. Choose your ending, write in your start times, and get the night planned before you print a page.
Pack 2 · Night Plan— The full run of the evening, moment by moment, with a duration for each and the energy curve mapped out.
Pack 3 · Guided / Classic / Independent— The same night at three levels of host support, so it fits the group actually in your house.
Pack 4 · Food and Menu— What to serve and when, built so food supports the night instead of becoming another activity.
Pack 5 · Shopping and Setup— Master shopping list, four counts to take first, budget targets, and the order to stage everything in.
Pack 6 · Per-Child Materials— The individual items each guest needs, with quantities and how to hand them out.
Pack 7 · Signs and Displays— Print-ready signs that turn the room into the experience, one per moment of the night.
Pack 8 · Signature Experience— The centerpiece moment of the night, with everything it needs and the host script to run it.
Pack 9 · Sleepover Extension— The overnight continuation: pajamas, movie time, snacks, bedtime, morning and pickup.
Pack 10 · Keepsake— The small take-home that connects to the signature moment, so guests leave with something real.
Pack 11 · Invitations and Pre-Party— Invitations, caregiver RSVP and allergy card, what-to-bring list, and your pre-party planning guide.
Pack 12 · Photo Lounge— A photo corner you set up once and leave open all night, with signs, props and cutouts.
Before the night
What you will need
A printer, regular paper, scissors, and a short shopping list of inexpensive supplies. The host guide gives you quantities and a cheaper substitution for every item. Cardstock is worth it for the photo booth props and the cut-out cards if you have it, but plain paper works for everything. The games themselves need nothing but what is already in your house.
Delivery
Want this one next?
We build these one at a time, and we build the ones people actually want. Pre-order this kit for $27 and it moves straight to the top of the list. It lands in your inbox within a week of your order, and you'll have paid $10 less than everyone who waits for it.
Changed your mind before it's ready? 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 kit hosts the whole group for $37 and you can print it again next year.
Print it, run the night, and if it does not hold up we will refund you. No forms, no photos, just reply to your delivery 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 two 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 kit
As much or as little as you want. There is a lot in this kit and you are not expected to print all of it. The print-prep table walks through every page, what it is for, and how many copies you would want, 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 the photo booth props and the cut-out cards, because kids wave those around all night. That is a nice-to-have, not a requirement.
That is exactly who it is written for. The host guide walks the night in order, gives a duration for each part, and gives you the words to say. You are never asked to make something up on the spot.
Ages 8 through tween, in one kit. 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 host guide shows you where to add more support or more independence depending on the guest.
Yes. It is yours to print as many times as you want for your own family's parties. Please do not resell it, share the files, or use it to run parties as a business.
Not right now. We paused personalized experiences to focus on getting the kits right. The kit has fill-in fields on the pages that need them, so you can add names and details yourself.
Ready to print the night?
Your kit covers set-up, a full running order, host scripts, food ideas, and either a clean party ending or the whole next morning.