Ideas keep sleepovers light and lively

The lights rarely go out at a girls’ sleepover party, but just in case someone hits the switch, Chronicle Books has published “The Sleepover Journal,” which comes with a light pen to keep the fun going.

The diary-style book includes suggested activities, shopping lists and a guest book for friends to sign. To help keep the crowd happy and fully charged up, there are recipes for such sweet treats as fruit pizza with a cookie-dough crust, nachos and monster-size cookies.

The morning after a successful sleepover, however, can be a little dreary thanks to a lack of sleep and uncooperative hair. The book suggests the following ideas to end the party on a high note:

Pick out a funny video and eat breakfast in sleeping bags gathered around the television.

If the weather is nice, take breakfast outside for a picnic. Ideal foods include muffins or bagels, fruit, juice, milk, granola bars and hard-boiled eggs.

Ask parents to make pancakes or waffles in crazy shapes that are jazzed up with frozen blueberries, sliced bananas, nuts or even chocolate chips.