16th Birthday party ideas??

Question

i am turning 16 soon and i haven't got a clue what to do. i was thinking of doing a themed party. my parents don't have a really big budget and i want to invite around 30-40 people (boys and girls) i also live in the UK.

please help :) !!

Answer 1

Hollywood:

You could have it be where people dress like movie stars or have it red carpet semi formal where the birthday girl steals the show in a red gown with gloves. They have really super cheap decorations at party cheap for this and you can get cheap hollywood scene setter background large plastic murals at fun4parties.com. Black, gold, Silver latex balloons and they also sell hollywood mylar balloon at partycheap. They sell a red carpet there. Check the length what you need.. We used it and it was fine, goes down with tape included (leaves a sticky tape mark, need a light adhesive remover to remove the sticky tape mark). Have the party at a time where you dont have to serve dinner just appetizers and if renting somewhere, sundays are cheapest. We just had our hollywood party and veggie tray did not go over well. Fruit tray went over really well. Taco dip and chips went over very, very well and had to be restocked twice. Also silver dollar sandwiches or rolls were perfect, hand sized. I saw the buns at the store and you can easily make these. For favors we bought the gold and black mardi gras beads at oriental trading, and also from there directors clapboard keychains, and star trophy that we personalized. We also bought a sweet 16 plastic candy mold and pink melting chips and made lollipops, just melt the chips, spoon into mold and freeze for 5 minuttes. The lollipop bags are 2.00 for 100 and come clear with ties. You use them for the favors andethe suckers. We made our own hollywood favor tags using the microsoft works business card maker section. use white cardstock that is very cheap for a few sheets at the craft store. Insert a movie clipart or save a hollywood image from google image to your picture folder and then insert. Buy marilyn monroe, humphrey bogart, audrey hepburn etc. posters. And next to the picture right Sarah's sweet 16 or whatever. We bought a marilyn stand up poster and paris hilton (someone the teens relate to) and that went over great for taking pictures, 23 bucks each at ebay new, and combined shipping if you buy more than 1. We bought black plastic tablecloths at the dollar store and gold overlays at efavormart that were so cheap. gotta have a DJ. Make sure to tell him/her to have a microphone. Shop around, you can find a cheap one, get a contract. You could buy black and foil gold different size stars to hang from the ceiling. The centerpieces on party cheap or even oriental trading are cute. Also on the table have balloon arrangements with a star balloon weight on partycheap, black, gold siliver and 1 mylar hollywood balloon. we bought black and gold napkins and plates at the dollar store.

We bought a photo op Hollywood arch called hooray for hollywood from shindigz. It really maded the party decorations.

Make sure to get a personalized hollywood banner at shindigz or wherever.

Movie party theme for hall or at home. Have a movie themed party. They sell decorations for this at oriental trading. com and you can also find some movie stuff on the hollywood sites I mentioned above. If at home watch a cool movie, have popcorn and all kids of candy and junk food. Make or buy pizza and have sundaes. Have a sleep over with the girls if you want. Have a dance in a hall with this theme. Have everhyone wear a movie star costume.

Luau, beach Hawaii: Orientaltrading has the coolest decorations and favors for this theme and the cutest tropical invitation in the bottle. Give your guests leis as they come in. Play Limbo, Hula hoop, and have a few grass skirts and everyone (including the guys) have to give hulaing a try. Again if you have room to do this at home or you can rent a small room. Tropical pinata. Twister. Hawaii site including games: www.alohafriendsluau.com. Cool invite: Flower lei and attach a printed invitation card.

Candy theme: Pink tablecloths, pink and white balloons. Make candy bouquets for the tables with short wide mouth vase from the dollar store. Fill 1/3 with peppermint disks. Buy colorful lollipops and put in the vase. Make another one t he same but use candy sticks instead like cherry, lime, etc. You can attach bows to each one with a favor card that says your initial, 16 or thanks for coming to my sweet 16 and then after the party give them out as favors. Get personalized M and Ms to put in small favor bags. Get personalized hershey bar wrappers and little personalized stickers that go on the bottom of hershey's kisses or even hard candy. Buy plate size styrofoam 3 inch thick rounds and wrap in clear cellophane for a big hard candy decorations. you could put a wood dowel in one to make it a sucker. Play twister. For favors those candy necklaces, bracelets ands ring pops and candy lipsticks. They sell inflatable lollipops at Windy City Novelities. Buy a sweet 16 plastic sucker mold. We got 1 for 2.50 on Ebay. We bought 3 bags of colored chocolate at the craft store and 1.50 each and made 27 lolliopops out of that. A bag of 100 lolly bags and ties is 1.99. It was so easy to make. Shindigz sells personalized clear candy jars. Also have cotton candy. Decorate with pink and white tissue balls. Also party cheap sells a sundae tissue decoration.

Sweet games: One game is you melt small pieces of chocolate into small bowls and then you blindfold people one at a time and have them taste and they have to guess what kind of candybar it is. Then have a candy prize for the winner, like a little candy gift basket.

Fill a jar with some type of small candies, maybe personalized M and Ms with a 16 on them or your initials. Have people guess how many and again have a prize for the winner.

Play bingo using Candy hearts as bingo chips.

Twister is a colorful game that goes with candy theme.

Fill a pinata full of popular candy. Sour stuff seems to be in.

You could do a Willie Wonka like contest. Buy these personalized candy bar wrappers and put a few golden tickets inside when you assemble them. Then, hand them out at the party for an activity and have some small door prize for the winners.

Neon/Glow in the dark This is a cool theme!

invites:

For the invites oriental trading has neon badges. They are neon nylon necklaces that have a clear plastic case. You need to make the cards on your computer using the business card maker on your computer or just use the MS Word. You might want to put a really big VIP in color and on the back at the top Nicole's Neon Bash in cool color and font and then the party info, who what when.

Oriental trading sells Neon gangster hats.

favors:

Oriental sells neon sunglasses.

Oriental also sells neon jelly bracelets

Glow in the dark bracelets and necklaces, lot of sites have these.

Neon Twist and Glow lollipops.

Neon nail polish u.s. toy company

Neon lazer candy (just like pixie sticks but in neon)

Neon slap bracelet at u.s. toy company

Decorations:

More neon themes go along with Glow in the dark.

windy city novelties has neon tablecloths, cups, napkins. Just type neon in their search bar.

Balloons:

Shindigz has black light sensitive neon latex balloons. Again put neon in their search bar.

Shindigz also sells a neon lights personalized banner.

Oriental trading sells a neon fringe banner

Oriental trading sells neon balloon weights for the balloons you buy.

Party cheap has neon party horns and garland.

Glow in the dark sites:

glow source

shop.glogames.com Lots of games here.

Light God

U.S. toy company sells neon body glitter.

Windy city novelties sell lumi balloons that are balloon with lights in them.

Large neon party pack (kinda expensive) at windy city novelties.

So to search for neon and glow items go to all the party sites ands put that in the search bar:

Shindigz

Party cheap

oriental trading.

U.S. toy Company.

Windy city novelties

Party Merchant

For any theme you choose check out scene setters. These are huge plastic murals ke your theme looks so real. We have used these and love them and so cheap. You buy backgrounds and can add things to them.

Have a Hills party like the MTV show. Decorate with Hollywood backgrounds from fun4parties.com. Tell the girls on the invite to wear Hills type dresses and guys preppy style: give the girls rockstar sunglasses like they wear on the hills from windycity novelities. Have a fashion show. Get stores to donate a few items, have your friends model.

80's prom theme: This would be so cool. Decorate like it is a high school prom from the 80s and everyone has to dress from that time.

Hippie, 60s, woodstock:

Well you can do a lot with both of these themes as far as decorations. The New York theme would be a semi-formal or formal and the woodstock/hippie would be informal costume.

I think the hippie one would be more fun:

Catch phrase

Sarah's Retro Peace and Freedom Quinceinara

Pinats.com sells in the groove tableware, invitations, CD, flower power pinata and john lennon glasses. (60s theme). They also sell 60s costumes, really cool wigs:

Party supplies: www.pinatas.com

Decoration:

groovy retro theme kit at shindigz.com.

Groovy flowers at stumps .com.

Groovy car and other large picture taking nprops at stumpsprom.com

costumes, wigs: www.pinatas.com

Peace sign beads, wall cut out decorations, and necklaces:

http://www.partycheap.com

costume: http://www.orientaltrading.com

favors: Oriental trading sells tie dye braclets, 60's magic cube (pscychodelic rubiks cubes). tie dyed gift bags, 60s bubbles, rainbow peace necklace.

This place has tie dye plates and cups etc with matching invites. They also have groovy buttons, temporary tattoos, and much more: www.tiedyes.com

Party merchant.com has the greatest items like Hippy pinata, hippy personlized banner, hippy yesterday party kit, groovy latex balloons, tie dyed infltble guitar, 1960s year decorations that dangle from the ceiling, etc:

Appetizers:

Taco Dip:

2 softened cream cheese.

1 16oz sour cream

1 packet taco seasoning.

Mix with mixer. Put in bottom of a cookie sheet. Top with shredded cheese, shredded lettuce, diced tomatoes and green onions. Use the cheese but you can altered the rest to your taste, maybe add black olives. Make 2 of these. Serve with tostitos scoops.

Fruit bowl,.

Whole pineppple into chunks. Slice strawberries. Add whole table grapes no seeds, add chunks of watermelon, and cut oranges in slices cut into triangles. This is best made the night before so that the juices run together.

Cheese tray with crackers:

Hot taco dip.

Take 1 can refried beans (for vegetarian not made with lard). Heat in microwave. Spread on dinnerr plate. Top with 4 cheese mexican shredded cheese. Serve with Doritos.

Answer 2

Look around your local area for halls e.c.t...

You could have a 'big bash themed party' there.

If you hire out a cheap hall for a few hours and one that has unlimited people (so you can invite a unlimited number of people) this should be a good idea.

Then you can bring your own things e.g. booze and food for better choice for you!

Hope this helped!!