Sweet Sixteen Party Ideas?

Question

My birthday is on May 16, so It's a golden birthday too. I was thinking about having a party in May or June. I want to have a party thats fun and comfortable, nothing up tight with dresses or anything. I don't have $1000 to spend on a party like some people and I was wondering if you could help me out with any ideas for a party.

Answer 1

GET CRUNK!

hahaha

have fun

Answer 2

Since its  your GOLDEN birthday, why dont you have a themed "Gold-Finger/Gold-Party."

Get all your party plates, napkins, forks, etc, in the color gold(really cheap at party stores after news years!).

Serve foods that are "golden" (chicken curry, Twinkies, Golden crushed potatoes(recipe below), and for desert---Golden Pineapple Cheesecake!--recipe also below!)

Or if you dont want to cook, visit the "golden arches"--McDonald's--and order from the dollar menu where you gold goes further!

You can get cheap "gold bling" from the dollar store as party favors!

Decorate with gold streamers and sunflowers!

Then you and your friends can all watch James Bond "GoldFinger" or Austin Powers "Gold Member!"

Happy Birthday!

Answer 3

marty graw!!! lmao

sorry i cant spell =p

Answer 4

I tend to find that any gathering with your good friends and some good music and good food is the best kind of party. Themed parties always work well, too. Definitely see about renting out a hall and having a big, casual dance party. People can come in jeans, you can set up chairs and tables and have food, and people can just mingle and have a good time.

Happy Birthday, by the way. Your birthday is the day after mine!

Answer 5

This site is entirely devoted to this birthday.

http://www.teenpartyideas.com/html/sweet...

Other sites you might want to look at are:

http://www.evite.com/app/party/ideas.do

http://www.party411.com/index.html

Answer 6

My granddaughter's 16th birthday (now 21) had a Price Is Right theme...her favorte game show.

Was great.

Her dad made a hugh "wheel"..(I think they still have the 'wheel' stored somewhere)....Plinko...used a ladder behind that one...dice game...and several other games.

Lots of prizes to bid on.

Whatever you have.......Have a Happy & Safe party....(and supervised....don't get carried away.....a friendly family & friends party)

Answer 7

i know what you mean and here are some fun, comfortable and not so expensive ideas:

Pie Supper - Invitations are circles of tan card stock cut into pie-shaped wedges. With dark brown paint, make a fluted edge on each "crust". With scissors, make slits to let "steam" escape. Write time and place on reverse side of wedge. Pin each wedge to small paper plate. Of course the menu is pie, and have a spy, so that the one eating the most wins a prize.

Pancake Parade - Great after a slumber party. Get up, you sleepyheads; this is a morning party. If you perfer, make it late a late evening affair. Whatever the hour, the party's in the kitchen. For invitations, send miniature skillets, with a tag attached stating details.(Or use round coasters to resemble pancakes, and write details on them. Borrow extra griddles so that the pancake flipper can keep up with the demand. Have several types of pancakes: banana, pecan, buckwheat & etc. Different types of syrup: maple, strawberry, raspberry & etc. Whipped cream for topping. Hot cocoa.

Magazine Party - Here's a party with it's own entertainment. Guests come dressed as title of a favorite magazine; a prize for best one. For invitations, just paste front cover of a magazine onto piece of white paper; with marker write details on reverse side.(or cut each of 8 magazine covers (of same size) into 8 squares. Onto each piece of white paper, paste a square from each magazine.) Pin magazine covers to tablecloth. For refreshments, reproducing a tempting dish shown in a magazine color photograph. For games: Unscramble Mixed-Up magazine titles. Identify Trademarks - Cut 25 trademarks from magazines, paste on cardboard, then number 1 to 25. Give a sheet of paper & pencil to each quest. Ask guests to number paper 1-25. Show trademarks, one by one; let them jot down manufacturer beside correct number. Prize goes to highest score.

You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine - This is an idea for an after-movie snack. The gang splits up, and each person goes to the movie he'd like to see most. About 11 P.M. everyone meets at your place for: Soup & Blockbusters (Sandwiches).

On-the-Go Party - This is a co-operative affair. Everyone brings a prearranged fee and meets downtown. Hostess has planned two or three events--roller skating, a ride on a bus the gang doesn't usually travel on, ping-pong or darts in somebody's basement, Pop and Pizza at Pizza Piazazz, (Choose events to suit your locality.) Nobody knows plan of events except host or hostess.

Doughnut-Dunking Time - This party idea was borrowed and adapted from New Orleans. First serve "poor boy" sandwiches with coffee or hot cocoa. Then bring in a bowl of doughnuts--packaged ones, reheat in oven or automatic deep-fat-frying kettle. Have wooden bowls of granulated sugar--one for each guest or two. Everyone dunks his hot doughnuts in the sugar, a la The morning Coffee House in New Orleans French Market. And, of course, replenish the coffee or hot cocoa.

Victorian Formal Dance at Home - Have guests come dressed in Victorian Clothing. The music is the most important item in your budget. Skimp on everything but that. Let the invitations be worded formally, but not necessarily printed. Decorations can be the same as those listed in the Sweet Sixteen Party except use a Victorian Design wallpaper to make fans. Let younger brothers & sisters open the door and attend your cloakroom. You and Mother greet the guests. When the guests arrive welcome them with soft background music and a full punch bowl to be available throughout the evening. Have a buffet supper at midnight, perhaps. Remember that gentleman serve ladies. Little extras: good ventilation, good lighting, a dressing room for girls complete with powder puffs, and one for fellows with a mirror to straighten their ties. Plan on a Paul Jones very early in the evening plus novelty dances. Father's responsibility is to dance with the ladies that haven't been asked, or to suggest that a nearby gentleman do so.

"This is Your Life" Party - A party for a special friend of long standing, who is moving away or going to college. Make a recording, "This Is Your Life," complete with voices of friends, school-teachers, and so forth. Let the school song be the musical background.

House-to-House Party - A progressive party where a food course is consumed at each house visited.

Misfit Party - Dress: Wear combinations of clothing ordinarily not worn, as bathing suit with furs. Give prize to the most original outfit.

Platter Dance - Blast from the past! Hang up a few dozen records (visit an antique store or make from back poster board)--on walls of your party room. Serve: cola drinks, platter cookies. Frost round cookies with chocolate frosting, with circle of white in the center. With cake decorator, print name of "record" on each. Play 50s music for dancing.

combine these ideas and enjoy!!!

Answer 8

A fun summer party.

Sweet Sixteens are always exciting.

My parents rented out a hall. My father is an insane chef and he baked zitis of all kinds, chicken parm, eggplant, a few salads, etc. Some of the other adults made other little dishes.

A big cake (half chocolate, half vanilla).

My parents hung pink and white streamers all over the place and blew up tons and tons of balloons and tossed them on the stage.

In the invitation, it said "Surprise, shhhh!" Then my parents asked them to bring some great dance music.

Deff inexpensive, your parents will love it. I know mine did. =D

Happy Birthday, darling !

Answer 9

Do you live by a beach or have a community pool? A luau theme would be sweet!!! Have a bbq and or pizza and fun pool games like beach ball and stuff. Put a tent or rent a small room in your community and have the music there!!!! You're ready to party!!

other themes could be:

las vegas/casino

hollywood/movies

fiesta

Answer 10

Go laser tagging!!!

Or If you live near the beach you can have a bonfire.