If, like me, you have an 8 year old girl who loves High School Musical, then you might find this post interesting. Otherwise, I give you permission (in fact I encourage you) to move on!
So this is where I've been: planning a 'fabulous' High School Musical party!
What does a High School Musical party involve?
Well, you need a gaggle of giddy girls to begin with. Throw in some games, quizzes, crafts and a little basketball and you're there!
We started by making cheerleaders pom poms from tissue paper: (I posted a tutorial to flickr, if you'd like to have a go). I prepared the night before by layering the tissue into piles of four and pre-cutting the ribbon. Some of the girls could do this unaided and some needed a little help, especially with the cutting, so you might need a couple of adult helpers. Oh, and a lot of scissors!
We had a 'who said/sang this' quiz. I trawled the internet looking for High School Musical quotes which I wrote on a piece of paper with the answer. At the party they took it in turns to read out the lines and shout out the answers. These are the ones we used:
Who said: “That girl needs to take up knitting… or some sport where she can only injure herself!”
Answer: Chad
Who said: “Yes ma’am... I mean Sharpay”?
Answer: Kelsi
Who said: “In my other schools, I was Freaky Math Girl”?
Answer: Gabriella
Who said: “This school is more than just young men in baggy shorts, flinging balls for touchdowns!”?
Answer: Ms. Darbus
Who said: “Evaporate, tall person!”
Answer: Sharpay
Who shouted: “Everybody Quiet!”
Answer: Sharpay
Who said: “Oh My God! Isn’t Troy Bolton, just like the hottie superbomb?”
Answer: Taylor
Who said: “That girl’s got more moves than an octopus in a wrestling match”
Answer: Taylor
Who sang: “Iced tea imported form England, Lifeguards imported from Spain, Towels imported from Turkey, turkey imported from Maine”
Answer: Sharpay
Who said: “I know everyone thinks that I’m Sharpay’s poodle…”
Answer: Ryan
Who sang: “Kickin’ and a scratchin’, grinding out my best, anything it takes to climb the ladder of success”
Answer: Sharpay and Ryan
Who sang: “There’s not a star in heaven that we can’t reach”
Answer: Troy and Gabriella
Who sang: “Why am I feeling so wrong? My head’s in the game but my heart’s in the song”
Answer: Troy
Who said: “Someday I hope to make the perfect crème brulee”
Answer: Zeke
Who said: “Hip hop is my passion! I love to pop and lock and jam and break!”
Answer: Martha Cox
Who sang: “The party’s on, now everybody make some noise, come on scream and shout”
Answer: Ryan
Who sang: “I thought you were my fairy tale, my dream when I’m not sleeping”
Answer: Gabriella
Who said: “Did we really fly all this way just to play more basketball?”
Answer: Mrs Bolton (Troy’s Mum)
Who said: “Toodles!”
Answer: Sharpay (and Troy)
Who said: “When I was singing with you, I felt just like a girl”
Answer: Gabriella
We also had a quiz to see which character from the film each girl was most like. They each had a pencil and piece of paper and had to write down the most appropriate answer. Then if they had mostly As, Bs, Cs, Ds or Es we could work out which they were! I lifted the quiz from the Disney site, so I'd better not reproduce it here!
We made pennants:
To make these you need a piece of thin foam measuring 6" by 12", put
a little double-sided sticky tape along the top and fold over a 7"
length of wooden dowel. Tie a piece of ribbon to each end of the
dowelling to hang it by and then decorate with pre-cut foam letters,
flowers and stars. I prepared all the pennants beforehand so all they
had to do was decorate. The girls really enjoyed this, so I'd advise you to prepare two for each guest!
My favourite part of the party was the creme brulee taste test! Because in the film Zeke wants to make the perfect cremem bruleee, we bought individual pots and most of the girls tried some. And they mostly liked it too!
The girls favourite part was a treasure hunt. In the film Ms. Darbus confiscates the students mobile phones, so we had a treasure hunt to find them. The clues were pretty lame ('where Kelsi likes to practice' (the piano), 'Chad can 'jump in' here' (the trampoline)). At the end of the hunt we had a basket filled with lipstick mobiles which went in their party bags.
So there you go! Add a little karaoke, a basketball in the hoop contest and some good old musical statues and you have a fun-filled, exhausting two and a half hours! Make sure you have nothing strenuous planned for the next day because you'll be shattered!
