Party Planning for my 15th birthday! Ideas?!
Party Planning for my 15th birthday! Ideas?
Ok so I'm going to be turning 15, and I want to have a really cool party. I don't want it to be the normal movies, candy, type of deal. I'm not sure I was thinking photo shoot, or something creative like that. Please help me out my party is in a couple days!
Answers:
sock hop , disco , or 60's theme
depends on wat kind of stuff your in 2
Okay yay birthdays are so great!
1. Hotel sleepover - Invite the birthday girl's two or three closest friends to bunk down in sophisticated luxury at a beautiful hotel for the night - with your supervision of course! Enjoying room service breakfast in thick, fluffy robes is the icing on the cake. This is one of the best sweet sixteen ideas to make a teen feel like the grown-up she is becoming.
2. All-day pampering - Again, best for a small gathering. Invite a handful of your teen's closest friends over for a visit from a mobile salon and treat everyone to a day of pampering with manicures, facials and lunch. Prepare a 'high tea' with dainty cupcakes, exotic juices, crust-less sandwiches and little sweet tarts. Everyone gets to enjoy an atmosphere of style and sumptuousness.
Titanic Party:
A formal affair. For girls let let them dress together and make each other up.
Have servers and a Captain present for an elegant dinner. Find young musical entertainers to provide the background music.
After dinner an adult can man the black-jack and roulette tables.
Hire a Caricaturist to draw the guests (this will be their party favor).
Mall Fun:
Scavenger Hunt:
Prepare the night before by going to the mall to find or think of things for the hunt. i.e.: number of stairs, escalators, things in shop windows, lost receipt, etc. The day of the party give each team a list of the items and within a specified amount of time see who comes up with the correct answers/items.
Party Favor / Game: Give each person $5.00 and see how many items they can purchase in a limited amount of time.
Hit the pizza parlor (or other) afterwards.
Traditional Party:
Are the above just a bit much? How about a regular, stay at home, do it yourselfer. Here are a few games and activities.
Murder:
Prepare slips of paper, enough for each player. All will be blank except two. One will be marked "Murderer" and the other "Detective". Let the players pick no one can say who they are. To play, turn out the lights and have everyone mill around. The Murderer must "strike" one person and they should go down. This "Victim" cries out and the lights are turned back on. Everyone then freezes. The detective then must determine who the killer was by asking questions. Everyone MUST tell the truth except the Murderer, who may lie as much as they want.
Potato Chip Taste Test:
Use about 5 different brands of chips in numbered bowls. Give each person a pad of paper to record which they like the most or comments about them. After everyone is done let them pick which goes to each empty bag. Let them read their comments.
Spaghetti Drop:
Need-bowls of cooked spaghetti noodles, plastic gloves and coke or other bottles (set for each team, relay style game)
To play-Have the teams line up. The first player, on go, puts on the gloves, picks up 10 noodles, runs to the bottle and must drop each one in. When the get all of their noodles in the need to run back and turn the gloves over to the next in line. First team finished wins.
Scavenger Hunts:
Nature hunt-list of items that can be found outdoors.
Use Neighbors-Find items on list by knocking on doors.
OR
Unnatural Nature Hunt:
This one takes work on the part of the parent. They would need to make up things to find outside.
i.e.:
an orange on an oak/pine etc;
a daisy "growing" from...;
rocks wrapped in foil;
Pickles growing in the soil;
other "freaks of nature." Give each person or team a notepad to keep track of what they find. Do not give them a list of these unnatural items...let them try to find them. Make sure you tell them the designated area.
If you have the toy Bop-It, pass this around and see how far you can get.
Here is another game suggested by Nancy Carter
Summer Snowball Fight (outside activity!)
Materials: Plenty of panty hose, preferably white (local $ store is a great resource) I think one pair will make about 10 "snowballs". 25lbs+ flour
Directions: Put a cup or so of flour into the leg of hose. Tie off as close as possible to the top of the flour. Cut the hose above the knot. You now have your first "snow ball" Try it!! Continue by tying, filling, tying, cutting. It's a bit of prep work - but worth it! The "snowballs" last a long time!
Warning: Be prepared for a mess! White will be all over everything in your yard! Use a leaf-blower to dust off the kids. Get as much as you can cleaned up before it rains. The memory is worth the mess!
1. Mail Order shopping. Tell the kids they have $75.60 (or some odd amount) to purchase an outfit with. See who can come up with the most complete outfit, most unique, etc
2. Letter shopping. Cut out squares with a letter on it (26 - a thru z). Set them on a table with the girls around it. They each pick up a letter and must name an item that can be purchased at
1. a department store (if they name an item within 5-10 seconds they get to move on to another 'store,' if not they continue until they can think of an item starting with the letter)
other stores to 'shop' at:
drug store, grocery store, hardware store, etc.
This game can continue, as if taking a trip...after the shopping, they can continue with cities, rivers, and people.
wow that photoshoot idea sounds like it would be fun maybe you could do have make-overs and then do the photoshoot that sounds like it'll be really fun!
Like most girls in their early teens I have been dreaming about my Sweet 16 party for a while now. Well, I finally decided exactly what I'm going to do! My Sweet 16 falls on a Wednesday, so the Friday after I'm going to have some of my friends over (about 4-6) and we're going to do spa treatments (manicures, pedicures, facials). We're also going to eat Homemade Hamburgers and French Fries and have Salad out if they want to eat healthy. We'll watch some movies that I've liked throughout my life (Like Cinderella, Freaky Friday, ect.) and when there's not a movie playing we'll have some of my favorite music on (stuff I used to like when I was younger too). And we'll stay up late and have loads of fun. Then the next day (saturday) we'll sleep late since we'll probably be up till about 2AM the night before!!! Then when we've all woken up and gotten dressed we'll go shopping and get one really cool/not too expensive outfit. (My mom will have talked to their parents and told them to give the girls about $50 for a dress and jewelry.) Then we'll go back to my house and get ready. That night I'm going to have my Sweet 16 Birthday Dinner. (Birthday Dinners are a really big deal in my family!) The friends I invited the night before along with my family and some other special people in my life will be there (About 12 people will fit around the table). We'll have this at my church (In the conference room). We'll eat and Rolls, Salad, Seafood Fettuccini Alfredo, and Birthday cake with vanilla Ice cream (See decorations for details). Then we'll just chat till everyone decides to go home. Invitations- For the friends that are sleeping over I'll get some Teal cardstock at an office supply store. Then I'll type up something like... You're Invited to my Sweet 16! It will be on (date) at (time). Please check with your parents and e-mail me at (My e-mail here) or call me on my cell (Cell number here) to R.S.V.P and get some additional details! Then I'll list a few things I need them to bring for the Spa Treatments and what they need to bring to wear to the dinner. The fonts that would look good are (in Microsoft Word) CAC Champagne, Lucida Calligraphy, and Script MT Bold. I'll make the text Black For the other people I want to come to the dinner I'll get some Black cardstock and type up something like this...You are Cordially Invited to Miss (my Name here)'s Sweet 16 Birthday Dinner It will be held on (date) at (time) at (location). Please R.S.V.P. to (E-mail) by (2 weeks before party) Then at the bottom I'll get a really good picture of me and put it in black and white and photocopy it and find a good quote about growing up. (Try firehotquotes.com) I'll use the same font in White. Decorations- For the girls only part I'll get pink and teal streamers, twist them together. and hang them around the room. I'll also get balloons in those two colors plus clear ones and metallic silver ones and have those everywhere too. I'll make a banner that is Hot Pink and Metallic Silver that says (My name)'s Sweet Sixteen. I'll get a cheap plastic white tablecloth and put glitter on it and serve dinner and breakfast on transparent pink plastic plates. For the dinner part I'll do the same thing but the colors will be Metallic silver, White, Black, Red and Metallic Gold. I'll get a huge white tablecloth and some black fabric to use as a runner for the table. For the centerpiece I'll get either Red roses or Red carnations and put them in a clear glass vase. We'll serve dinner on clear plastic plates, cups, flatware, ect. that we'll get at a party supply store. My cake will be red velvet cake with white icing and black lettering. It will have part of the quote that was on the invitations.
Find as many disco balls and strobe lights as you can.
The Best Speakers and as many of them as you can have.(to keep the music at a reasonable level.)
As many people as you can find.
3 pieces for each person so 50 people you need like 20 pizzas and 16 boxes of soda. Chips and anything else you can think of is awesome too.
HOUSE PARTIES are awesome although they can be expensive sometimes.
(And the cops may break the party up but if you invite ur neighbors they are less likely to complain because they know about it ahead of time.) They make good chaporones too if your parents need supervision for it. This is more of a sweet 16 party but 15 is still a pretty big number right you do a 5th and a 10th y not a giant 15th bday party.
sleepover