Get ready for some Tween Girl party greatness with these creative and Thrifty Birthday Party Ideas for Tween Girls!
Thrifty Birthday Party Ideas for Tween Girls
Planning a party?? You’ll LOVE these fun Thrifty Birthday Party Ideas for Tween Girls!
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I received the following question from frugal friend Kimberly. “Any ideas on a frugal birthday party for my 12 year old girl? I am desperate! My daughter’s birthday is in 2 weeks. Please help!”
Let’s help her out, and share some tips & ideas to save $$ when throwing a birthday party!
So… how do you save $$ when throwing a birthday party for Tween Girls?
What are your favorite frugal party snacks, treats, party favors, games, or decoration ideas??
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I am getting ready to throw my neice a birthday party, she will be turning 13. We are doing a make your own ice cream dessert party (I’ve bought small mason jars, and will have different kinds of ice cream, toppings, brownies, crushed cookies, whipped cream, etc…). The girls will start the party by making their own dessert, then they will go into the freezer and they can either have them as the last part of the party, or can take them home with them. I’ve also done cooking parties for my daughter and friends’ children, where everyone has made their own pizzas, decorated their own cookies, etc.
I also look for discounted paper products at Target, Dollar Tree and party stores, that can be used for many different themes. For example, red paper products from Christmas, can also be used for a Valentine’s party, or can be part of birthday party themes, like pirates. You can get them for 50-75% off if you watch for the sales :-).
I am a tween myself and for my 12th birthday i had a Paramore themed birthday party. Not all girls are giry. If your daughter is a rocker chic this is the best party for her. You can buy dollar store table cloths and cups, plates, etc. with youur daughter’s favorite band’s main colors. Some examples are: pink and black for Avril Lavigne and red, orange, black and yellow for Paramore. And make homemade posters and print pictures for Decoration and for the music you can purchase all the cd’s and play them all in the party and that can also be your daughter’s birthday present! For activities they can play pretend concert: Buy cheap inflatable microphones and guitars that they can keep and have each one of her friends take turns being bandmembers and for the drumset use tables and chairs and chopsticks as drum sticks. They can make collages with pictures you can print out and markers. And they can also make their very own music videos and put it on a disc for each one to take home. For party favors i made cupcakes with the band’s name and main colors on it and i put them on Wilton single cupcake boxes found at Michael’s or Party City. For the cake make it yourself! You can put the band’s symbol and name on the cake and even have your daughter help you! this was one of my best birthay parties ever and my friends and I had a blast. Hope ths helps! 🙂
Tween Girls love to be treated like “grown-up ladies”. 🙂
Have a spa party, give each girl a massage, (you can find recipes online to make your own scrubs, and soaks), then give each girl a facial and manicure or predicure. For favors give each girl a bottle of nail polish, some other little girly cosmedics. I got a bunch of lotions, body splash, some cute flower hairclips, and nail polish. Then I got a big bunch of cute little baskets (also from Dollar Tree :] ) and arranged the little stuff in it. Girls love it!
Dollar store balloons are the ONLY balloons I will buy. My girls just LOVE balloons & I like to make cupcakes & leave them undecorated. I get a couple kinds of frosting & then a variety of toppings (peelable twizzlers in the multicolor pack, M&M’s, sprinkles, even some edible letters or animals) for them to decorate their own cupcake. It’s ALWAYS a hit no matter the age (one year I even had a few parents asking to make their own).
You could do a hotel party. Get a room at a local hotel with a pool. Let the girls swim (and get super tired), feed them, take nail polish you probably already have on hand, and fix their hair while their nails dry. Most hotels have a breakfast of some kind, so that is one less expense. BEST part of all of that…. NO CLEAN UP!!!
I save colored comic paper from Sunday newspapers and that is what I use for wrap. Kids don’t care about cards…so I don’t use those. I use the dollar store for balloons. You could pick her up from school carrying birthday balloons (one per year)…that is super fun. You could create a sign in paper with butcher paper and have all of her friends make a personal message for her on it.
Use your neighbors for Scavenger hunts. Spa at home is a memorable and inexpensive way to celebrate. One idea I saw that was cute is the take away gift was a tiny live plant in a tiny plant box…They took a larger plant, cut it down and planted it.
The best birthday party I ever had was around 12 or 13. My parents borrowed a 2 room tent (like you camp out with) and I had my friends sleep over. They had given me a cassette player (showing my age) that had a microphone and we recorded ourselves singing to Whitney Houston all night. It was so much fun and probably cost very little. My friends still talk about it.
We did that once for my 11th birthday except without the karaoke and singing! It was so much fun! We also had glow stuff to use!
We just had a rock star party for my 9 yr old. Eight girls were occupied playing Wii most of the time. A friend let us borrow Just Dance and all the girls would dance even if they didn’t have a controller. When they arrived they could dress up with sequined scarves ( just cut up sequined fabric from Joanns) and gems stickers, necklaces and bracelets that they could keep after their photo session. We also had inflatable microphones that they could play with then take home. Food was pizza, etc. and we made a guitar shaped cake and microphone cupcakes (just cake baked in ice cream cones with licorice strings cords). We did have a small arts and crafts project but older girls mostly will occupy themselves. I did have the idea that they could make their own pizzas and tie-dye shirts but I’ll save that for a later birthday. Good luck!
You can get Subway pre-cut sandwiches & fixings & cut them. You can buy Little Caesar’s “Hot-N-Ready” pizzas which are 5 dollars each or you can have nachos as your food. Buy a bag of tortilla chips, a Crock-Pot” of melted cheese & another Crock-Pot with chili beans. I would buy solid colored table cloths which can be found at The Dollar Tree, solid colored napkins & utensils from Wal-Mart or The Dollar Tree as well. Than I would decorate each table with fun center pieces using a glass vase found at The Dollar Tree & real flowers at supermarkets or artificial flowers at The Dollar Tree as well & place them on a Scrapbook page(s) as a “place-mat” for your center pieces using the colors or designs of your theme. You can purchase balloons at The Dollar Tree. Liter of sodas are pretty cheap at any supermarkets & water bottles are great. I hope I helped 🙂
Here are a few money saving ideas I have used in many parties in my life time that I use now for my kids
1. Go to Chuck E Cheese (games are cheap the kids run around like crazy and if you just walk in it tends to be cheaper.)
2. Give each child a disposable camera as they walk in to take pictures. It is amazing the many different angles the kids capture events.
3. Definatly bake your own goodies and at the age of 12 the girls could do a lot of the work themselves. Have them make different elements of the cake. Make it like a “Cake Boss” feel and give each girl a task. The theme of the cake could be “Princess (daughter’s name)” and have one team make a small castle out of cereal treats, another team make the Princess and another team making the girly decorations to go around the cake. When it all come together they will be proud! (make sure to give them plenty of ideas and candies and tools to be creative.
4. Do some mani pedi’s and have them all be pampered and let each girl choose at random a color to paint the birthday girls nails. Keeps them all involved and the birthday girl the center of it all.
5. Another wat cute idea. Have your husband yourself and any brothers, dress up as servents. White shirt n tie, an apron and towel on arm and serve the girls. But really play the part and make the girls feel like they are the ones who get to rule! Maybe go thru it with your daughter before hand so she doesnt become abusive :P…
Good luck! And Have FUN!!
that seems so cool ill defenitly have to try it