When you\’re looking for a party idea for children, why not use the popular Hollywood scene as a theme? Kids love celebrities, and they like dressing up as their favorite celebrity even more. Even better this kind of event does not cost lots of money – it just takes creativeness.

First things first, create invitations that include an entry ticket. Get someone in your circle of relatives to act as a \’bouncer \’ at the party – no ticket; no entry!

Outside the house you can put up a signal for mothers and fathers cars that asserts, \’celebrity parking only\’. From that spot, run a red carpet into the house and have photographers swarming the door (again just have a few chums with good cameras). Alongside the volunteer camera folk you can hire a photographic booth so the kids can pose like their character and have a great take-home piece of mementos. For drinks – Shirley Temples of course!

Now if you're feeling a bit more extravagant, you might look at the parties some celebrities have thrown for their youngsters. Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise treated Suri to fresh cut flowers, a thousand butterflies and food catered by Wolfgang Puck. The price tag for this luxury treatment? An insignificant $100,000.

In contrast Trista and Ryan Sutter got off scott free! Momlogic provided 200 pounds of candy, snow cones, sliders and fries to the family for free.

For kids on a tight schedule, look to Britney Spear\’s truck party for her children. This party had mini-trucks that worked, covered in decals. To top this party off – the cake was shaped like a big yellow lorry.

Still not over the top enough for your celebrity look alike party? Then perhaps the Kardashian family can offer their concepts that include having a working train set, a carousel in the yard and a complete petting zoo!

Happily most kids are content to use their imaginations and stick with something smaller and much more friendly to the family budget. This is proven by the amount of times that boxes are more popular than the present inside. Find a massive box and let the birthday boy or girl create their celebrity mansion and use it for some of the activities of the day.