Sweet 13 Party Ideas?

Question

I need help with coming up with ideas for my "Sweet 13" coming up! Same thing as a "Sweet 16" but I need help because I want my 13th b-day to be super special! Thank You So Much! :-)

Answer 1

Hollywood theme: Everyone dress up for a red carpet event. Rent a small hall or room. Have everyone wear white/black and you steal the show in red. Make it a dance. Buy a couple celebrity stand ups for pictures with your guests. Buy hollywood decorations at shindgiz, partycheap, hollywood megastore, etc. Have a DJ.

Bowling party with a group of friends.

Movie party at the Movies. Have a small group at an earlier cheaper matinee, you can ask for a group rate. Then to home and have pizzas or better yet make your own homemade pizzas with roll out pillsbury dough and then a sundae bar and your best girlfriends can stay the night.

Movie party 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. 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 if your have room.

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.

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. 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.

Hotel party. Rent a 2 rooms, 1 for boys and one for girls and have every swim and decorate one of the rooms a little bit as a theme you pick and of course parental supervision for this boy/girl party. You can dance in the room at night and bring a game system.

Neon theme. Bright colors, neon lights and glow in the dark items.  They sell lights that go in balloons and all kinds of neon and glow in the dark items at windy city novelitis, oriental trading and U.S. Toy Company.  

For any theme you choose check out scene setters: http://www.4funparties.com/PRODUCTS/Deco...

These are huge plastic murals that make your theme looks so real. We have used these and love them and so cheap. You buy backgrounds and can add things to them.

Party decorations:

shindigz, oriental trading, U.S. Toy Company, partycheap, and many, many more.

If you are looking for huge party theme kits like arches, go to stumps or stumps spirit.

Answer 2

Do you want a theme other than "Sweet 13"?  You could have a candy type theme or there are a ton of other ideas...check out these websites for help with decorations, themes, etc.  

www.shindigz.com (great site for party supplies and large set type pieces)

www.partycity.com

www.partyamerica.com

www.orientaltrading.com (good place for favors...they sell at lot of stuff in bulk)

www.mninternational.com (similar to Oriental Trading Company)

Also...check out this site: http://www.diva-girl-parties-and-stuff.c...

Good luck!