What are good X-mas decprations for parties for kids 12-16?

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Answer 1

From what I've noticed, as much as kids in that age range like to see themselves as adults, when it comes Christmastime, they like the typical stuff (trees, lights, snow) as much as preschoolers.

The cool thing about Christmas parties is that they come ready-decorated. Generally, decorations other than what you would find in a home in the month of December (tree, presents, lights, candles, Christmas villages, gingerbread house, etc.) are plenty. You may want to throw on a red or green tablecloth for a refreshment table and top it with a candle centerpiece and/or confetti and you're good to go.

If you're not in a home (a rec hall, classroom, school gym or cafeteria, etc.), recreating these effects is probably the easiest and most effective decorating. The familiarity of the tree and other typical decorations invoke a holiday/party spirit automatically.

You may want to take the typical Christmas look (trees and lights and stuff) and put a funky spin on it. One of my girlfriends has a hot pink tinsel tree, which she decorates with pink and green and white lights, and an assortment of bright green, pink, purple, and blue decorations.

I'm a big fan of Walmart, and they have a line of Christmas decorations that are along these lines. There are hot pink, purple, bright blue, red, and bright green ornaments and lights and tree toppers and everything.

There are several other lines of coordinated Christmas decorations, and they kind of add a different look for the typical Christmas decorations. They kind of bring the "look" somewhere between the preschool/gradeschool look (cheap ornaments, handmade ornaments made of paper or macaroni or anything under the sun) and the sophisticated adult look (the fancy Christmas trees that really have little personality but look really good).

Answer 2

The Christmas Decorations that they SIT and MAKE themselves for the party! (Seriously -- Crafting their own ornaments is great fun). Just make sure that they are plastic or something durable -- because they will definitely drop them to test breakability.

For the room -- it is up to you -- but a Christmas Tree with some funkier type of ornaments/decs (simpsons, anime characters, sports stars) is what they like, and just not much else -- other than paper tablecovers in Christmas Covers.

Answer 3

The old fashioned cutting strips out of construction paper, taping them into rings and then creating a chain with them. Cause the kids can help too!

Answer 4

Please use spell check in the future..seriously. good decs for 12-16 would be the old school popcorn and cranberries on a string, and construction paper crafts adding embellishments.