My daughter is turning 14 in 2 weeks and I am open to any suggestions on some sort of party(which she says she doesnt want).I guess im just tired of the stay at home birthday party.Ideas on what to get her also would help.She is so hard to buy for..Something that wont cost me a huge fortune.
2006-10-03 13:40:13 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Family & Relationships ➔ Other - Family & Relationships
I have an addopted 14 year old that will be 15 in November. At that age they still need supervision so rather you do a party at home or someplace else I would still be near and available.
An October birthday party can be so much fun for teens of this age. Halloween can be a theme but not to over shadow the true event.
Use a pumpkin instead of a "punch bowl" Cut the top off and hollow it out as if you were making a Jack-o-lantern. Go ahead and prepare your punch: Fuzzy Navel (virgin style of course)
Gallon orange juice
Gallon peach nectar
1 cup grenadine
make as much as you need (yeild 20, 8 oz cups)
Mix and leave in jugs until time for the party........pour into the pumpkin, it adds a great flavor!
Also decorate with jack-o-lanterns or for a more afforable lighting use paper lunch bags filled with sand and place tea candles inside. Use the color orange everywhere. A cheap strobe light for effect can be bought for about $17 at Wal Mart.
Either go out with this theme or add something special from your daughters favorite things to make it HER party. Instead of Halloween music play her favorite music. Let HER be the DJ.
Last year I did a Hawaiian Luau theme and it went over very well for the 25 kids we had over! (boys and girls)
We have a pool so that was the basis for the thought but maybe not necessary. Being November it gets dark by 5:30 so we did it from 6:00 til midnight.
Tiki tourches every where, (with citronella for the mosquitoes). You may find them on sale this late in the season and get a good price. All the girls wore grass skirts (the expense was on their parents). We used blankets and towels instead of tables and chairs. (you can also add this to the invitations, to bring a colorful towel). Plastic laes from the "Dollar Tree" for $1 was used to decorate. Also found some cute plastic cups, plates and those crazy straws for drinks, all from the Dollar Tree.
The music was beach music of course. We did kereoke and a Limbo. The girls got into the theme, the boys loved the Limbo. We did a Tug-o-War across the pool. And we had a "lemon" eating contest!
Food was anything you could dip! For drinks I bought a case of those Mexican Jarritos because it was the only mango drink I could find, $10,58 a case.
This year she will be 15 and she is a big "Fear Factor" fan so that is our theme.
It being close to Halloween I was able to find some cool stuff like gummy eyeballs and bloody body parts in the candy section. For some of the other gross stuff we are using those jelly beans that have those awful flavors like ear wax. And tuna fish with ketchup, hot sauce with an oyster in a shot glass.
It will be in our back yard. At night again. The Tiki torches get yet another use. Food is all about being grossed out! Normal food but with silly made up names, Freddy Spaghetti ( regular spaghetti but with those plastic finger nails tossed in. Cake but with gummy worms inside. Drinks: Mix your own, colas, juices, fizzy tablets, pop rocks, spray topping, alkazeltser..........
Who knows what her sweet 16 will bring? But whatever makes her happy!
Good luck to you on finding something to make her 14th birthday memorable for her.
I have a 3rd birthday party to plan in November....any suggestions? Princess dress-up? Nemo Fantasy?
2006-10-03 16:00:34 · answer #1 · answered by Anna M 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Let's see....14 huh. She probably doesn't want a party, at least not with the family. My 14 year old neice really wants nothing to do with her family right now. She's totally into her friends. Give her cash (the universal gift certificate that's good everywhere, for anything, and never expires) and let her go out with her friends.
2006-10-03 13:48:46 · answer #2 · answered by Uncle Pennybags 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
She tells you she does not want the party, but she probally does. My daughter had her first dance and it worked really well, I sent out invitations to all her friends (the girls stayed) guys had to leave at midnight, I set up the family room with just chairs, purple & black balloons, a stereo with speakers throughout the room and a disco ball from the center. I stayed in another room, just checking on occassion.
2006-10-03 13:57:14 · answer #3 · answered by confusedpatricia 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
short notice, but see a play? Go to a nice garden and just walk and talk and sit. A Japanese hibachi restaurant where they do the crazy knife tricks. Mom and Dad vs. the kids at video games (with refreshments and prizes of course). When was the last time your really played video games and acted like a kid. Plus the kids will smoke you and that will be fun for them!
2016-03-27 03:56:55 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You should know what she likes, take her and a few friends bowling and order a pizza, Get her some jewelry not costly ones but something nice
2006-10-03 13:46:52 · answer #5 · answered by a1_friend64 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋