Throwing a sweet 16 party! Any ideas?!
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I like your color scheme! You can get balloons in that color scheme and cluster them in the corners of the party area!. Then get streamers in the same color and hang them from the middle of the ceiling to the corners of the room!.
You can also get some round paper lanterns, the ones without the lights in them in white, to accent and contrast the colors and hang them in varying heights from the ceiling!. They will look really cool!
You can also get some clear, stringed, Christmas lights and hang them around the party area!. They will look really pretty like twinkle lights and add a nice festive look to the party!.
For food, I'm a BIG believer in having whatever YOUR favorites are!. This is YOUR birthday and it's YOUR party!. This is a time for you to have the food you love!. No one can decide that for you!. Don't ruin your own party by serving food you don't like because someone told you to serve different foods, or strangers here told you to serve foods!. This party is YOUR party! It's about YOU! Have the foods YOU love and that are YOUR favorites! If that means Chicken, do that, if it means pizzas, go for it, if it means tacos, do a taco bar!. If you're having it in a hall, do a mix of different foods that you like, whether it's Italian, etc!. Pick a meat, chicken, veggie, etc!. This is YOUR party and YOU have to be happy!
For centerpieces for the table, you can do Gerbera daisies on the tables in your color scheme which would look really pretty in white vases, but again, YOU have to like them! Me, I love those flowers, but if you don't, do NOT have them! You can do white vases and get BIG lollipops in the colors of your party theme and have them coming out of the vases!. Put some floral foam in the bottom of the vases and then stick the lollipops in them to hold them up!. You can even put flowers in between the candy if you like!. Again, this party is about YOU and what YOU like! You can also do clear vases and layer glass beads of yellow, orange, and pink in them and make big stripes of those colors in the vases and then either have nothing coming out of them or have the lollipops or flowers come out of them!.
For activities, it depends on if you're doing your party in a hall or at home, etc!. If you have a DJ, you can have him/her get the crowd going with lots of different interactive dances like YMCA, the Macarena, the limbo, the Hokey Pokey, everyone gets into them when they're in a party mood, You can have him play Simon Says with everyone on the dance floor, but have him call it, "the DJ says" and play it the same way, whoever gets it wrong is out of the game!.
If you want to give away more prizes, if you're NOT doing assigned seating, you can tape a piece of a paper UNDER the seat of ONE chair at each table that says, YOU WIN, and then sometime during the night tell everyone to look under their chairs and whoever has the paper that says YOU WIN, wins either the centerpiece or a prize, that's up to you what you want to give away!. You can let them take home the centerpiece!.
You can also do a door prize, but if you do that, whatever numbers you give out, you have to make sure you have a copy of that number so when you call it, it can be fair, this way you tear one end off and give it to the person entering and the other end is torn off and goes into a container and pulled out later!.
You can also go to orientaltrading!.com, they have SO much fun stuff for favors and decorations and even things that a DJ would charge you LOTS to bring, you can get there SO MUCH cheaper, even better than dollar stores and they sell them in bulk for SO cheap! You can get the same hats and glasses and inflatable musical instruments that DJs charge a LOT for!. They'll tell you they'll bring props and charge a LOT for them and you can get the EXACT same props for DIRT cheap there! You can also get GREAT decorations and things like Neon necklaces and things for your guests to wear during the party for when the lights go down, you can get prizes that are great but are MUCH less expensive than the dollar store!! Imagine that! And in bulk! I would definitely go and check it out and you may even find things for your centerpieces and things in your color scheme!
It's orientaltrading!.com and you can have them send you a print catalog if you want to go through it with your parents!. You can't go wrong with them!
I hope some of these ideas helped and that you have a great party and a very Happy Sweet Sixteen Birthday!!Www@FoodAQ@Com
You can also get some round paper lanterns, the ones without the lights in them in white, to accent and contrast the colors and hang them in varying heights from the ceiling!. They will look really cool!
You can also get some clear, stringed, Christmas lights and hang them around the party area!. They will look really pretty like twinkle lights and add a nice festive look to the party!.
For food, I'm a BIG believer in having whatever YOUR favorites are!. This is YOUR birthday and it's YOUR party!. This is a time for you to have the food you love!. No one can decide that for you!. Don't ruin your own party by serving food you don't like because someone told you to serve different foods, or strangers here told you to serve foods!. This party is YOUR party! It's about YOU! Have the foods YOU love and that are YOUR favorites! If that means Chicken, do that, if it means pizzas, go for it, if it means tacos, do a taco bar!. If you're having it in a hall, do a mix of different foods that you like, whether it's Italian, etc!. Pick a meat, chicken, veggie, etc!. This is YOUR party and YOU have to be happy!
For centerpieces for the table, you can do Gerbera daisies on the tables in your color scheme which would look really pretty in white vases, but again, YOU have to like them! Me, I love those flowers, but if you don't, do NOT have them! You can do white vases and get BIG lollipops in the colors of your party theme and have them coming out of the vases!. Put some floral foam in the bottom of the vases and then stick the lollipops in them to hold them up!. You can even put flowers in between the candy if you like!. Again, this party is about YOU and what YOU like! You can also do clear vases and layer glass beads of yellow, orange, and pink in them and make big stripes of those colors in the vases and then either have nothing coming out of them or have the lollipops or flowers come out of them!.
For activities, it depends on if you're doing your party in a hall or at home, etc!. If you have a DJ, you can have him/her get the crowd going with lots of different interactive dances like YMCA, the Macarena, the limbo, the Hokey Pokey, everyone gets into them when they're in a party mood, You can have him play Simon Says with everyone on the dance floor, but have him call it, "the DJ says" and play it the same way, whoever gets it wrong is out of the game!.
If you want to give away more prizes, if you're NOT doing assigned seating, you can tape a piece of a paper UNDER the seat of ONE chair at each table that says, YOU WIN, and then sometime during the night tell everyone to look under their chairs and whoever has the paper that says YOU WIN, wins either the centerpiece or a prize, that's up to you what you want to give away!. You can let them take home the centerpiece!.
You can also do a door prize, but if you do that, whatever numbers you give out, you have to make sure you have a copy of that number so when you call it, it can be fair, this way you tear one end off and give it to the person entering and the other end is torn off and goes into a container and pulled out later!.
You can also go to orientaltrading!.com, they have SO much fun stuff for favors and decorations and even things that a DJ would charge you LOTS to bring, you can get there SO MUCH cheaper, even better than dollar stores and they sell them in bulk for SO cheap! You can get the same hats and glasses and inflatable musical instruments that DJs charge a LOT for!. They'll tell you they'll bring props and charge a LOT for them and you can get the EXACT same props for DIRT cheap there! You can also get GREAT decorations and things like Neon necklaces and things for your guests to wear during the party for when the lights go down, you can get prizes that are great but are MUCH less expensive than the dollar store!! Imagine that! And in bulk! I would definitely go and check it out and you may even find things for your centerpieces and things in your color scheme!
It's orientaltrading!.com and you can have them send you a print catalog if you want to go through it with your parents!. You can't go wrong with them!
I hope some of these ideas helped and that you have a great party and a very Happy Sweet Sixteen Birthday!!Www@FoodAQ@Com