For your party, create invitations that look like scripts, movie tickets, backstage passes or music sheets to put across the theme of the event.

If you can get your hands on a length of red carpet, why not allow your guests to step into your home like a star?

Decorate your party area with items that reflect a theme – pompoms, sweatbands, mini-basketballs and Wildcats pennants...

If you have older children or friends who can help out, give your guests a theatrical makeover. After their makeover set up a photoshoot. This will give the kids a truly special experience and you can give the children their snap(s) in their party bag. To keep with a musical theme, why not let the children enjoy singing the soundtrack on karaoke.

If your budget and space allows, why not offer a dance lesson as an activity? Friends or family with older teenagers with a passion for dance may be able to offer their services. Party games can include Name that Tune, Freeze Dance, Limbo, musical chairs and treasure hunt.

If you can, transform your dining area into a cafeteria complete with lunch trays and a buffet table laid out with school-time favourites such as pizza and cheese.

Create a cake decorated with musical notes in black, a large red and white pennant saying Happy Birthday or pom-poms. Cake toppers are always helpful if you don’t feel confident when it comes to those finishing touches.