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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Hey guys, I am an actual tween and I am just gonna have a sleepover and hang out at the mall. Simple as that and a done deal.
I love these ideas. Girls this age are always looking for something new and fun to do!
Well…that is an interesting birthday party…
I had read years ago in a parenting mag that you should give your children a set amount of money (we chose $100.00) and that is their present and party. They can either keep the whole amount, or they can throw their party. Before we had been spending hundreds of dollars on party food for the adults that came. It teaches the children about money, and they have a better appreciation of what things cost. So the ones having sleep overs, they had to pay for all the food for dinner, snacks and breakfast. It is amazing what things don’t survive, like fancy decorations and matching everything. We did a lot of make your own pizza (dough from the bread machine, but they could by whomp biscuits) and decorate your own cupcake. this is food and an activity, so double duty. One girl did spa party, we always had piñata that we made ourselves and stuffed with a 8.00 bag of candy. The one child with a birthday in early November kept her Halloween candy. Also going to the after holiday clearance saves a lot on some of the supplies. It has been a valuable lesson and the kids learn and love it. The look forward to it every year. Some decide to use the money to buy themselves on big gift as they are getting older. The two summer birthday parties do camping trips for theirs, the two winter parties are usually at home with the sleep overs.
Also the gift bags that used to cost me $40.00, turned into l0ot from the piñata which also had some toys, or they were scrapped. The spa party usually included some take homes like the sleeping masks, but gift bags were not a big thing when you were using your own money. The dollar store or walmart had good things for gift bags, but my girls always invited the whole class when they were in elementary, so the piñata idea was born. Super easy…..Balloons (two taped together for the heart in February, disco ball, etc) flour and water paper mache and tissue paper outside. warning: too many layers make it very hard to break. Give yourself a week for proper layering and drying).
My daughter turned 13 on Halloween so the weekend before we had her party. We had a homemade bonfire and went around the circle having everyone add 30sec to a ghost story that I started. It was funny, scary and adventurous all together. Then we roasted hot dogs and marshmallows. We then tied balloons to each others ankles and they had to pop the others before theirs got pop (a few balloons had a dollar in it). About an hour left of the party we went down to the basement where it was decorated ($8 dollar tree) and played Thriller and other Halloween music off my you tube account (free) and had cake ($15). Her friends talked about it all year and now she wants to do the same thing this year…..We are happy to do it again since it was a very cheap and entertaining birthday party.
For October party’s you can put out pumpkins around the neon or hood then put notes on them telling them where the next pumpkin will be. The party will be cheap be tons of fun!!!!
Game Parties are high energy, cheap and always fun. Search the internet for game ideas. Decorate colorfully and cheaply with solid color plastic table clothes (hang them on walls, over windows, put them on the ceilings/floors – so much color) balloons are colorful and cheap. I often borrow our church fellowship room, it’s free and not in my house. Inexpensive snacks and a take home treat of a balloon that was used for decoration, a Dollar Store notebook and cute pen – a fun day! I always make some sort of photo back drop take a group photo and that becomes the thank you note.
my friend and i had a birthday party for my baby cousin who is turning 13 this year and we took her to laser town. She had so much fun we took all of her friends and it was sooo inexpensive
all you waant to do is make a reservation before hand. But after we went to laser tag we took some of her girlfriends to get their nails done and let them spend the night .. she had a lot of fun that day she say’s it all the time and she wants me to plain her another birthday party.
These are all such great ideas!! I have done a cooking birthday party where they decorated pizzas and cupcakes, had make your own sundae bar and decorated aprons that we bought cheap from Hobby Lobby or a craft store. We also had a Hawaiian Luau one year with a blow up pool, Tiki bars with bartenders (daddy and a friend) making strawberry smoothies, and we split the girls in two groups and gave them each a brown bag with ramdom items in them such as a wig, a doll, sunglasses, an unbrella, big shirt, roll of toilet paper… and they had 30 minutes to get together in their group and come up with a play to present and be judged on who’s play was the most creative, funniest ect.. We had a spa party with stations… a hairdresser friend doing hair, a friend doing make-up, a nail station, a make your own craft hair pretty station where they hot glue g*n flowers and stuff on clips and headbands ( the take home gift). All the girls wore a fancy dress to the party. A favorite 12 year old party was at the mall where I made a scavenger hunt. Since most girls have an ipod or phone or ipad, this was perfect and CHEAP!! I preprinted Scavenger Hunt directions such as “take a picture of yourself with a bald man, or try on matching pajamas and get a pic, or get a pic of your group riding on a merry go round, or find a napkin from Subway… (make the clues harder depending on the girls age)the girls split into groups of 3, and each had an adult with them. They did the items and we met back to have Dairy Queen Birthday cake that they held for us in the foodcourt and compare pics. What Fun!!!
I have the most fun party ever! as a 12 year old girl who has done this party, i can promise that this is so much fun!
camping party
you can do this with very low cost if you already have a tent.
set up your tent in the backyard.have all the girls put their stuff in it an d maybe bring out a mini tv or laptop so you can watch movies.make smores when it gets dark or play flashlight tag.
theres a fun game where you stick stickers on ppl and call them mosqueeto bites. try to stick them on each other without each other noticing. the person who has the least wins 🙂
i hope u have fun!!
You can take PVC and fabric to set up a makeshift tent in the living room. You can put air mattresses on the floor. We made s’mores at a campfire ad had a scavenger hunt and made lanterns out of old cans. The girls slept over and each girl got s’mores trail mix as their goody bag. Surprisingly if you invite some girls over for pizza, cake, and a movie the girls will make most of the fun themselves!