Date & Time.... June 4th at 6 pm - June 5th at 10 am
Place.... Kezia's house
Bring.... Sleeping bag, pillow, pj's and favorite beanie
 

We invited 7 girls so there would be a total of 8.  2 of the girls came for only part of the night and weren't able to spend the night.  4 of the 8 girls are big beanie collectors, the other 4 had a few beanies, but familiar with a lot of them.  They ALL had lots of fun!
 

Here's what we did...
 

6-6:30....When the girls arrived, I had different colored heart and star stickers... the girls picked a sticker and I put one on their favorite beanies tush tag, one on them and one on a list by their name so no one's beanies would get mixed up.
 

6:30.... pizza, chips and soda
 

7:30.... games started
 

OF COURSE... in all these games we used my daughters beanies that didn't have tags on them... we didn't want to take a chance of ripping, or bending a tag.  Each time they won, they were giving a red construction paper heart... these were used for the party favors game.  We also played each of the games a few times, because the girls wanted to keep playing them.
 

pinata.... I gave them ziploc bags to collect the candy with and put a matching star or heart sticker on the bag to keep them separte.
beanie race.... divided into 2 teams and had relay races where they had to balance a beanie on their head.
pass the beanie.... anther relay game where you passed the beanie with your knees... you weren't allowed to touch it with your hands.
beanie toss.... gropus of 2 tossed the beanie, we kept getting them farther apart to make it harder.
guess the beanie.... they had to feel inside a box that I had covered with birthday wrapping paper, I left a hole in the top, and they reached in and tried to guess which beanie it was.  If they weren't real familiar with the beanies, they only had to guess the animal, but if they were beanie collectors, I made them guess the name and animal.  If they guessed right, they kept the beanie, if not they put it back in and went to the end of the line.  The one with the most hearts, went first and so on.  I had a couple new beanies, valentino and curley.  No one fought, believe it or not.  One girl who doesn't collect picked Valentino and another girl wanted him so bad for her collection, that they traded.... she took home the ostrich.  It was a lot of fun!
 

Then we took a break from games to open gifts.  After Kezia opened her gifts she handed out beanie sleeping bags that I had made to each of the girls, then we had ice cream birthday cake!
 

After cake 2 girls had to leave....
 

They played beanie pictionary they got in 2 groups of 3 with 2 beanie collectors on each team.  They had Kezia's bucket of beanies nearby to get ideas of which beanie to draw.  They had to guess the name and beanie.  We have a wall painted with chalkboard paint and that's where they drew them... it was fun to watch them.    I also printed out he find the 14 new beanies off the TY page for each girl
 

We made beanie necklaces I had letter beads and other beads and elastic thread and they put their name or beanie name on the necklace.  There were enough beads that each girl ended up making 2-3 necklaces each.
 

They watched some movies I rented for them.... and then I went to bed.  When I work up, they had their breakfast menus already for me.  If I ever did it again, I would make up in advance heart shaped menus and let them put their name on it and mark what they wanted.  I took their menus and on heart shaped pieces of paper, wrote their names and what each girl wanted and put it on their plate.  This made it much easier for doing their breakfast.   We had cinnamon rolls, french toast, eggs, toast, juice and milk.  I let the girls sleep until 9am... and ended up extending the party till 11am so they would have time to eat breakfast and pack up their stuff.
 

We had more games planned and didn't get time for them.  We were going to make up a new beanie and play which beanie is missing where you take a pile of beanies and each take turns taking one out and the others guess which one it was.... we'll save these for the NEXT BEANIE SLUMBER PARTY!  We're already making plans for maybe the end of summer.... this time we'll have each girl bring a new TY beanie and have a beanie exchange.
 

The party really didn't cost me much.  Each girl took home a new beanie, beanie sleeping bag, and beanie necklace.   I want to say a very special THANK YOU  to the people who own THE SMALL MALL in Tioga, Pennsylvania, a town near us.  They have kept the prices of their beanies to $5, even for Peace, Princess and Erin.   We just got Princess last week!!!!   And they called and have Erin for us now, so we need to go pick him up!!!!   They also still sell Valentino and Curly for $5, but limit you to 1 each time it comes to your name on the list.... they bent the rules a little and let me have an extra Valentino and Curly for the girls party favors.  It is so good to still see businesses out there selling TY beanies and keeping them affordable and remembering the children.  THANKS so much Linda...