Does Anyone Have Any Ideas For A Cool&Sweet 17 Birthday Party?

Question

I'm planning a 17th birthday party for my friend, and I have 100.00 spending limit! I want to plan a cheap but cool and hip party!! Does anyone have any ideas for games, snacks, themes, or decorations?

Answer 1

You can have a bbq with hamburgers and hot dogs.  You can then set up an ice cream bar with vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry ice cream and some toppings.  Sprinkles, whipped cream, a jar of cherries, and chocolate sauce.  You can go to the dollar store and get the tall sundae glasses or just use wine glasses from your house.

You can do each other hair and nails.  Manicures and pedicures.  Ask your friends to bring their nail polishes and files and order out some pizza, and you can even do the ice cream still or bake a cake or some cupcakes and have your friends over for a spa night.

You can camp out in your back yard.  Tell your friends to bring their sleeping bags, blankets, pillows, etc.  Get some music, flashlights, etc, and have a night out in the yard.  

You can also do a dinner party at your house.  If you and your friends know how to cook, invite them over and cook dinner from appetizers to dessert and have a sit down dinner.  Or ask your mom for help and cook with her and ask your friends over for a more formal sit down dinner.  Make up place cards and a menu, and set the table formally and have a dinner party for you and your friends.

Have a taco bar.  Make tacos with all the toppings for you and your friends, get a pinata, and rent some movies and hang out.

Have a girls night.  Eat pizza, ice cream, junk food, chips, etc, and hang out.  Rent some movies.  Tell your friends to bring their pillows and blankets, and pjs, and have a lounge night with your friends.  Doing what YOU want!

You can do an around the world dinner party.  Tacos from Mexico, pizza from Italy, and so on and and have your friends over for an around the world birthday dinner.

I hope some of these ideas help.  Happy Birthday!

Answer 2

hmm, 100 isnt a lot to play with, so the best thing to do is call apon your contacts. ask people who are coming along to bring a plate of food.

Have the party at a house with a very large backyard that can be used, set up a tressle for foods and go to a dollar store to buy streamers and balloons, bubbles and anything shiny!

I would suggest you make it a pyjama party. They are cheap and not too childish for a 17th. You could rent out a couple of movies, hire a fairy floss maker or chocolate fountain, have bubble blowers stewn across the room for people to use (as well as some cheap disposable cameras)

You could then get away with playing games like "truth or dare" "spin the bottle" "7 minutes in heaven" etc... maybe not the last two...depends how you want the party.

I hope this helps!

I'm sure if ou google it ther will be tones of ways to have a great party on a budget!

Answer 3

Yeah, sleepovers are always fun. Rent a movie and tell the guests it's a Potluck (so everybody brings a dish). Or a varation, tell each guest to bring a different cake! And that way there would be lots of birthday cakes, each one unique- I know, it's a crazy idea but you definitely won't run out of food. You don't need lots of decorations. You could have a scavenger hunt in the night outside, and buy toilet paper to make those mummies out of people- always funny. Just rent some movies, make popcorn, and have fun.