I love dollar stores!
Last week, my daughter threw her very first slumber party and we knew we’d want lots of fun decorations and activities to make it special. Since I didn’t want to spend a huge amount of money, we headed to the dollar store to pick up our supplies.
The first part of the party would be dinner, so we grabbed items for that first. A tablecloth, plates, cups and utensils. Then I picked up cute little purple containers for the kids’ pizza toppings. (The containers come with tops that clip securely on, so they’ll be awesome for lunchboxes later on!)
I also grabbed some silver plastic serving trays. LOVE these! They look just like heavy silver trays – you’d never know they were just a dollar!
The next part of the sleepover would be the craft time, so we headed to the arts and crafts aisles. We bought lots of fun goodies like markers and paper, beads and necklace kits and my favorite – flip flops.
The girls wanted to make fancy flip flops with their friends, so $1 flip flops were perfect! We bought each girl a pair to decorate and take home.
After the downstairs food and crafts, we planned for the kids to get ready for bed and then do one last craft during movie night. Just in case any of the girls forgot their own, we picked up some extra toothbrushes (6 for $1), toothpaste and washcloths (4 for $1).
For the last craft of the night, we bought pillowcases and nail polishes. The girls would paint their nails and/or use fabric markers to decorate a pillowcase while they watched a movie. (The cheapest I could find pillowcases online was $8 each, so we almost scrapped this craft. I was SO excited to find pillowcases at the dollar store. Woot!)
The girls had an amazing time at the sleepover and all of the moms commented later on about how high I’d set the bar with all of the activities. 🙂
Thanks to the dollar store, all of the supplies cost me $30. That’s it!
Next time you’re organizing the pantry, cleaning out the closets or planning an event, remember your local dollar store!
It’s amazing that you pulled that off for just $30. I love shopping at Dollar Tree. I’m glad your first sleepover party was such a huge success!
Wow, you did great! I’ll keep Dollar Tree in mind when my daughter gets of age to have a slumber party of her own. 🙂
Those flip flops are super cute!
That looks like an awesome sleepover.
How fun! I love all the crafts you decided to do & I’m impressed with the selection they had!
Not only are these inexpensive, but they make for easier clean up.
What a fun party!! Love Dollar Tree.
What a great idea! I really love Dollar Tree too.
I love Dollar Tree as well definitely can save some money.
The Dollar Tree definitely has great deals! Their slumber party looked like a blast!
I love using the Dollar Tree for this kind of stuff — I’m planning on using them for Valentine Gifts (school class parties).
I love the idea of a nail party for the girls. You could get a lot for that at the dollar store.
How nice. I like that I can buy disposable items for only $1. Why pay more for something, like plastic cups, that will be gone in a jiffy?
That’s awesome that you were able to put all of that together for only $30! Hope they had a great time!
Only $30?! What a great deal! You found a ton of great items and I love the idea to decorate pillowcases. $1 vs $8 each is a HUGE price difference!
Those are great finds at the Dollar Tree!
I love the Dollar tree. You can always find great things there.
I visit Dollar Tree more often than I care to admit. Always deals to be found!
You snagged some cute items at great prices! I lvoe Dollar Tree!!! Looks like they all had fun!!
I was so surprised last time I was in there at how much I really could use. My boyfriend totally deserted me in there and got his own cart and started shopping for HIM. lol
The Dollar Tree is one of my favorite stores!