Tween Birthday Party Ideas
The birthday parties for tween girls and boys can be celebrated with some dedicated efforts by planning in advance. Tween birthday parties are a good way for bringing all the people you love under one roof and have a good time together. Given below is some information about the unique tween birthday party ideas which include birthday party places, birthday cards, cake ideas, gift ideas and much more.
Themes
Themes make the birthday parties more entertaining and help tweens to expand their social circle. An interesting birthday party theme will make the party a very memorable one. If your friends are Hollywood movie buffs, then you can arrange for the screening of a movie, which you all like. Watching a movie with your best friends is always a great fun-filled experience. Enlighten the atmosphere by wearing clothes like those worn by the actors and cheer every scene you like.
The sea water theme and the nature theme are also very popular themes. If you are going with the sea water theme, have the walls, where you are organizing the party, colored in blue and having artistic paintings of animals found in water like fish and sharks. You can collect various pebbles and stones found near the sea water and display them in a unique way. For the nature theme, you can either buy nature photos and put them on your walls or make them yourself.
Birthday Card
You can prepare attractive birthday cards either by hand or by using various drawing packages available on the computer. You can stick or draw cartoon faces and color them in suitable colors. The cover page can be decorated with a photograph of the birthday boy or girl surrounded by different design patterns. You can take some suggestions from the Internet for tween birthday card ideas.
The content which contains the birthday party invitations for the guests along with the venue and time, should be on the next page. The birthday invitations wording should be nice and casually written with many fun quotes. Dispatch the birthday cards for tween well-in-advance of the date of birthday celebration too in order to avoid confusion at the eleventh hour.
Venue
A great party place should be discussed and planned beforehand. A birthday party can be organized at their own home, at a hotel or at a picnic or vacation spot. Use flowers, paintings, balloons and other decorative materials to enlighten the atmosphere for celebrating the birthdays at home. Ensure that there is enough space for all the guests to sit comfortably and chill out. Play soft music or songs, which are liked by all and have a good provision for food either by giving an order to a caterer or by cooling delicious food items yourself at home.
Celebrating tween birthday parties at a hotel or a vacation spot is also a good idea. You can gather at your favorite holiday destination and play indoor as well as outdoor games. Take some fantastic photographs of the birthday tween boy or girl with their friends and relatives.
Cake
A birthday party celebration cannot be complete unless the tween boy or girl cuts a nice looking cake. Birthday cakes of different types, sizes and shapes are available in the market. Select the one which is a hot favorite among the kids, as this celebration is mainly for them. Tween birthday cake ideas for tween boys would be a Pineapple cake or a train shaped cake while those for tween girls would include a Cinderella cake.
The sports ball cakes and toy story cakes are especially very popular among the tweens and are the best tween birthday cake ideas. In the sports ball cakes, the balls can either be a basketball, a football or a baseball as per the wish of the birthday boy or girl. A toy story cakes consist of favorite characters from novels and story books. Place the cake on a table and cheer the birthday kid once he cuts it. Wish him 'Happy Birthday' and bless him for his bright future.
Food
Try to have those food items which are loved by all your invitees. Give preference to tween friendly food items such as cookies, chocolates, pizzas, burgers, biscuits, sandwiches and pastries. Tweens are also very fond of ice creams, craved fruits, and nice juices such as orange juice, grape juice or lemon juice. Strawberry lemonade and cheese burger are the best food ideas for kid's parties. Now, let us understand how you can prepare them.
For preparing strawberry lemonade, you will need a single cup of cold water, a one liter bottle of pink colored lemonade, a cup full of strawberries and some strawberries for decoration purpose. The first step in the preparation of the strawberry lemonade will be to mix the strawberries and water in a blender or a mixer and get a smooth paste out of the mixture. Remove unwanted small bits by the filtering technique. Add lemonade to the juice in a jug and stir it well. Slice some strawberries and add them on the top of the juice.
For preparing a fine cheese burger, the ingredients you will need are slices of bread, an onion, mustard, melted butter, tomato paste, cheese, minced beef and Worcestershire and tomato sauce. Start your preparation by cutting bread slices and applying melted butter over them. It is necessary to bake them in an oven for around fifteen minutes. Take a separate bowl and in it, have onions which are chopped properly, mustard, minced beef and Worcestershire and tomato sauce. Till this mixture becomes brown in color on both the sides, you are supposed to cook it in a fry pan. The tomato paste must be spread over the rounds of bread and then the burger mixture and grated cheese is to be placed on the top. Make sure that the cheese is melted by grilling the burger, before you serve it to your guests.
Gifts
Gifts are an integral part of all sorts of tween birthday parties. Gifts can consist of anything which the tween boy or girl can use on a daily basis such as crayons, water colors, a bicycle, a sketchbook, toys and also chocolates. Various electronic gadgets such as iPods, MP3 players and portable CD players can bring a smile on the face of the birthday boy/girl. If the guy is fond of sports, you can gift him with sport equipment such as tennis racket, a football, a basketball or a simple chess board. Clothes and story books are also one of the best tween birthday gift ideas. Love and affection associated with the birthday gift are far more important than the price and glitz of the gift.
Games
Games such as playing carom, snake and ladder, and hide and seek provided great entertainment. Arranging for running races, basketball and football matches will make the birthday party more exciting. Indoor games such as scrabble, singing contests, home making from bricks and outdoor games like jumping games, skating and tug of war will be loved by all the participants.
Favors
The best way to end a birthday party is by thanking all the invitees for making the party a success, by giving them a fabulous gift for which you would need to search for birthday party favor ideas. Gifting designer perfumes and soaps is a good way of thanking your guests. Embroidered bags, flowers and latest toys and games can also be good favor ideas. You can think of buying gifts which you know your guests loves and surprise him completely.
I hope you are satisfied with the above-mentioned ideas, which will definitely help you make the celebration memorable. You can also think of some more birthday party ideas to surprise your children and enjoy this occasion.
