For my daughters 6th birthday we had a spa party.  My sister owns the Paul Mitchell cosmetology school so I had unlimited resources. We had a party of 20 girls. I made the invitations which were very girly.  They were brown and pink toile trimmed in brown chenille ric-rac and a cloth pink flower.  I printed them on the computer in brown.  I mailed them in velum envelopes(I spent so much time on them I wanted them to show). I ordered inexpensive return address labels in pink and brown in the same font that also said "Happy 6th Birthday" with my daughter's name and our address. Since my daughter was in kindergarten and I did not know any of the parents, I also included a short letter explaining what we would be doing  and inviting them to stay if they wished but assuring them the girls would be well supervised.  I also included a card with the guest's name and a place for emergency names and numbers for them to give me when they dropped the girls off. When the girl's arrived they had a choice between having a manicure, facial, or having their hair done. We rotated stations so eventually they all had the three treatments. I bought fun nail decals and fancy hair pins and the girls were adorable. After their facials they got to take home their own sample facial products and the cloth headband they had worn.  In anticipation of idle time I had brought random craft materials and that was a lifesaver. At some point they all made it to the craft table.  I ordered a fancy round cake done in the colors of the napkins. We had clear plastic plates (that looked glass), plastic champagne glasses (they did not know what they actually were), pink forks and a white lace tablecloth.  The napkins and dessert plates were a pink spa theme(before the party the paper plates were put under the plastic plates so they would show through).  As they finished their food we just picked up the plastic plates and the clean paper plate was ready to go. I used the cake for the centerpiece on a tall glass cake plate. We served finger sandwiches, fruit and goldfish crackers from fancy glass dishes.  They drank pink lemonade with lemon slices. After the cake, we opened gifts. Since we were in a large classroom with a stage, I put her in a chair on the stage and had the girls sit on the floor. This worked wonderfully by eliminating the "I can't see" issue.  I had pink helium balloons on the stage with an inexpensive bracelet and each guests name attached.  This was a cheap adorable decoration! When she opened each gift, the guest would go on stage with her.  After the gift was opened I had her stand by her friend with the gift and took a picture. This picture served two purposes.  It was a visual record of who gave her what gift and we incorporated the photo into the thank you card. After the party everyone danced on the stage to a kids "pop music" CD we brought. The wall behind the stage was solid mirror and they would have danced for hours.  I had worked on picking up bargains for the goodie baskets for months.  It sounds like I spent a lot of money on the goodie baskets but I really did not.  Each girl had a heavy plastic basket that I had put their name on with fancy letter stickers, a pedicure/manicure set, bubble bath, bath sponge, gel eye mask, bath fizzies, lip gloss, lotion, bubblegum, bath pillow, clear polish, little silk drawstring bags filled with dinner mints.  You really can take something inexpensive and re-wrap it with cellophane and cute ribbon and make it look more expensive. I tied a note with cute ribbon onto the basket discussing how fun it was to do the things we had done at the party but the most important gift is being a good friend and that comes from the inside.  We all have different personalities and look different and it is fun to celebrate those things...but how you look is not what makes you who you are. It was so fun and the girls were wonderful and sweet.  We had a few girls that would never have had the opportunity to go somewhere like this and it was a joy to do something special for them! I have three older boys and waited a long time to do a girl party! ENJOY YOUR CHILDREN!!!!