my sisters recently turned 14.. we were trying to decide on a bithday party idea when i thought of this..sinces its a co ed party i thought this would would be fun... we could have eating contests.. and tug awars.. i need more challenges to play.. and any other ideas that anyone can come up with.. thanks so much
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No no no no no!  For my birthday last year, we had a giant scavenger hunt.  You invite around 15 kids and have 5 parents be "designated drivers."  You put the kids in groups of 3 and give each group $45 and a list of items they need to go get.  Send them to the mall to get pictures, send them to McDonalds to get chicken, Burger King for fries, Subway for napkins, etc.  Trust me, it is A LOT of fun...they'll get really competitive so they can have the bragging rights!
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marie took the words outta my mouth.  First thing that came to mind is bowling.  It's a great way to get a group of people to have fun.  My ex, his friends and their girlfriends would all meet up at a bowling alley and have lots of fun for the night.  Sometimes we would pick one of our houses to hang out at and have movie night.  We would all pitch in for food (mostly seafood cause we all loved it) and gather around the t/v and chow down.  Or we would hang out and play monopoly, cards or dominos.  But as far as going out, we all had fun bowling the most.
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You can play Mummie rap.What you do is get a couple roll's of toilet paper.And you team up in partners and all start raping your partner all at the same time.If the paper rips you have to start over.The first team to get done first wins. Plus after all the extra paper on the floor is fun to put all over people's heads!\n\nThen take turns around the circle. Each person tells of something they have never done (example: I have never broken a bone or I have never traveled out of the country). Anyone who has done this must give the speaker one of their toothpicks or pennies. After going around the circle several times, the person with the most tokens wins. \n\nYou can play a game called Beauty Queens. You let your guest put on make-up without a mirror. The most dreadful looking one wins.\n\n\nHeres an idea for the girls who have a lot of friends. Come up with a crazy name for your group, then when you have one come up with a nickname for everyone in your group. When you have completed that write who you have a crush on, what hes like or any other creative thing you can come up with that pertains to friendship, family, boys, religion, etc. \n\nyou can play salon it go like this someone blind folds you and does you nails, hair and make up\n\nYou can separate your girls into teams and give each team a BIG roll of aluminum foil and a roll of scotch tape. Have a contest of who can make the best outfit. That's lots of laughs.\n\nA fun game for ur party is to sing in ur funneist voice and have a contest of whos the funniest! Also I want to know so more games for my party. One more good game is to have a party bag hunt, give clues to people and they tri to find it. U might want to use walky talkies.\n\nI think you should try this: Piggly-Wiggly: Everyone lays out their sleeping bags. Choose someone to be "it." They must leave the room. Everyone else hides inside the sleeping bags (not their own). When they are ready, "it" comes back in. She sits on one of the sleeping bags and says, "Piggly-Wiggly" the person inside says "oink, oink." 'It' must guess who is inside the bag. If they are right, the person in the bag is it.\n\nI have a great game...........You have to have atleast 6 peoples at your party but you have to plat this at night......You take little peacea of paper an you write N for normal on four little peices of paper then you write M for Murderer on one piece of paper then you write D for detective on another piece.....so you make every body take a piece on paper without looking and you can't tell anybody what you are only the detective can...then the detective leaves the room and turns off the light then the person who is the murderer has to touch tree peoples on the shoulder (each personne who gets touches has to scream!) when the detective hears three screams he comes in and has to guess who is the murderer!...its realy fun!\n\nThis one is so fun! It's like laser tag cept at home. First get some BIG (covering shorts) old white tshirts and give everybody one. Now give everyone a water gun loaded with water and food coloring. The 2 teams each have one or two colors and they are wearing a bandana to show you what team they are on. Anyway you start and you shoot the other team's shirts. At the end everybody takes off their shirts and has to count the squrits of other colors. The team that squirted the most wins!!! FUN!\n\n\nHIGH HEEL RACE\nTwo pairs of high heel shoes. Have everyone divided into two teams. The object of the race is to set up an obstacle course which the person has to walk around (no running!) On "GO!" the first players on each team put on their high heel shoes and walk the obstacle course. They return and the next person in line puts on the high heels and walks the course. This continues and the first team to return first wins!\n\n\nThis is real funny when u've done it.do u have make up? The first person to go to sleep ,u take th
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Sounds like fun. You sound like someone who really tries to think outside the box. Good luck and I hope she enjoys it.
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Parties are my favorite! If you have a x-mas party, you should play white elephant. everyone brings one gift, but not anything fancy, something weird that no one could expect. Then sit in a circle and everyone has a present in their hands (not their own) and decides if they want to open it or choose some one elses. if they choose the one that is in their hands and open it and can't give it up unless some one else wants it. Same if they choose some one elses present. couple rules: they cant have their own present, and one present can only be passed around 2 times! it is really fun. I think you should have an x-mas party, then you can have hot cocoa, watch x-mas movies, go sledding, bake cookies, etc. but if you have a new years party, you can stay up all nite and have an awesome sleep over! have a great party!
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why not just make some Christmas cards that would be nice or even Indian dream catchers there fun to make,look in to yahoo or messenger for those dream catchers in crafts.or make them a special poem,Popsicle stick you could make some things like to put there pencils in or any thing else you could make with that.or go to a dollars store.do little fingers pup-its,write them each a joke on nice paper at the dollars store and surround it with a little bow red or green.or give them one of your specials pictures and make  little bow around them.or ask them if they want to exchange gifts with all of you in the party,ill explain every one brings somethings they don't want any more but it has to be something nice,not broken only nice thing that they don't want anymore,then they rap-pit up and bring the gift to the party,oh yes don't forget to put names in a box and every body picks a name before Christmas and then they could go home and check what they don't want to have anymore,but they shall not tell anybody about it will be a surprise for them,we made that a couples of time and you should of see what nice present we had we were all happy and laughter together it was fun..........oh yes.
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This was what we did at my school for the faculty and staff members:\nFirst, we were asked to tell if we wanted to participate. The ones who did had their names written down on slips of paper and someone in charge came around with a basket  full of the names for us to pick our giftee. We were also given a list in the form of a little poem that told what kind of gift to give each day. \nFor 4 days before the party, we gave something sweet, something funny, something paper, and something red and green. Usually people left the gifts in the mailboxes in the workroom, but some would inconspicuously leave them on a doorknob or our desks, or in the little mailbox outside our rooms. We spent just a few dollars on each of these. Then on the party day, we met in the library, where a tree was set up. All the wrapped gifts, which were slightly "bigger" gifts, were placed under the tree. Someone then passed out all the gifts and the secret santa's name was either on the tag or inside the gift. It was so much fun! Especially trying to keep the person from finding out who their Santa was. \nMy Santa had a great idea and left me a short questionaire about my likes or sizes or whatever (what's your favorite restaurant? do you collect anything? favorite candy?) I'm going to do that this year......
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I think chose a theme and make it a theme party! I LOVE theme parties and it always makes the mood more fun / silly and sparks conversations and puts everyone at ease. I also ALWAYS make people dress up according to the theme, just cos I love dressing up :) theme options: Nautical (sailors etc), Circus, cowboys / cowgirls, dress up as something that starts with the first letter of your name (eg if your name is susan dress up as something starting with S) enjoy!!
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Heh! im turning 15 next sunday and i dont want u to make me feel like not throwing a party. Do you understand that???????\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJust kidding. i think its upto each person to decide whether to celebrate his/her b'day. im not gonna hve a party on sunday instead im donating that cash 4 charity.
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A challenging game for a group of kids is very simple and involves nothing more complicated than a cereal box:\n\nAll parties see if they can pick up the whole box from, the floor in their teeth.  Then, as the game progresses, you tear off an inch or two from the top of the box, making it shorter each time, and the last person who can still pick it up off the flor in their teeth without touching the floor with anything other than their feet is the winner!\n\nAlso fun to try:  \n\nEating a small bar of chocolate with a fork.  \n\nFill a glass bowl with flour and pat it down.  Upend it like a sandcastle and put a chocolate coin on the top - each child (or person!) cuts away a slice of flour and the first person to make the lot collapse has to retrieve the coin in their teeth.  Floury fun!\n\nPinadas - always good if you've space for small children swinging large sticks!\n\nPutting a chewy sweet in your mouth and seeing how long you can last without chewing it.\n\nHula hoops can provide endless entertainment - put one on the end of your tongue and try to carry on as normal.  Or keep one in your mouth without crunching it until it melts - bet you can't!
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Do you have a Party Store or anything like it in your area?  If so, the best thing to do is just go ther are run wild - it's pretty cheap, and there's a lot of good stuff.\n\nOff the top of my head, if you and your friends are artistic, you could always cover the walls with large sheets of paper and bring lots of art supplies - that way you can have fun doodling on the walls and your friend can leave you birthday messages.\n\n(Happy birthday by the way!  I'm 16 - it's fun.)
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ok, i learned a new game at the last b-day party i went to, its called "suck and blow", it sounds dirty, but it really isnt. you take a card (i suggest kind of bending it, youll see why)and sit everybody in one big circle (we stood around a pool table) and you have to suck on it to get it to stick to your mouth, then you pass it to the person next to you (using your mouth!) and it goes around the circle until someone drops it, and whoever dropped it has to kiss the person they were trying to pass it to. if it happens to be someone of the same sex, then cheek kisses will work just as well :] its way harder than it sounds, especially when you cant stop laughing :]]
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It depends on how much you want to pay for the prizes. One idea is gift certificates to fast food places or an icecream place. It might even be fun to give away some kind of juvenile stuff like a big chocolate bunny. I think everyone likes candy. You could even put the prizes in little baskets and throw in some candy.
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Bowling is fun for her age.  Many of the places that host birthday parties cost less than you might spend on a party at home.  What does your daughter WANT?  10-11 year olds love the idea of slumber parties. It is whether YOU are up to the challenge. If you do a slumber party, I recommend inviting no more than 12 and hoping 1/2 show up.  6-7 girls are manageable.  More than that; the FUN starts to get overplayed by possible conflicts. Talk to you daughter.  Make sure she only invites girls who listen to rules.  Once the idea or theme of the party is decided and, how many and who is invited then the rest is much easier. Discuss it all with her.
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I had a party for my daughter. First, I made a video from her photos from birth and rented a big screen TV.\nI invited people who had been important to her, like her teachers, dance teacher, Brownie leader, friends of hers and of mine who had known her over the years.\nI had another video made at the party, interviewing her firends about her.\nEveryone signed a huge card.\nWe had pop, juice, finger foods, and a huge cake.  We watched the video of my daughter, ate and visited, opened gifts, and had cake. Then we watched a reguar video I'd rented for her friends and the older people had a visit.\nIt was excellent.
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sounds like fun! how about a "theme" - anything you like with music and clothes to match - i've had fun at 70's night; western evening and saints and sinners ...   if you like taping stuff you could try a complilation of music clips asking your guests to "name that tune" for prizes or a compilation of video clips if you have the ability to do this asking everyone to guess the movie it came from or the next piece of dialogue....  or totally revert to childhood and play things like pass the parcel, spin the bottle with adult prizes...they don't have to be expensive if you don't have lots of money..it sounds silly, but it can be fun! good luck with it...hope you and your friends have a great time.
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You are brave indeed!\n\nI'm the mother of four teenagers and former teenagers and have had three others live with me and have had lots of them just kind of hanging around, eating me out of house and home.\n\nWhat I would offer you is the knowledge that teenagers love being together.  What they do while they are together is usually second to the experience of just being able to spend time together.\n\nThings that the very varied group here have enjoyed are:\n\nmusic--this is key!  I'd suggest playing a variety and giving the music-makers among them a chance to play for the others.  A dance is a nearly universally enjoyed experience and they can dance in the outback, dressed in shorts and tee shirts as well as they can in prom gowns and tuxes.  If you slap a theme on the thing, they'usually like to talk about what they'll wear for weeks--you'll get a lot of mileage out of that.  I guess I wouldn't suggest the theme my daughter's Homecoming Committee had for their dance--Survivor--since you'll be living it all of the time, but something like a luau theme or a club theme will give the girls something to primp for.\n\nContests are good, too.  One son was in a group in high school that went on long scavenger hunts.  You might have them find things native to the area you'll be in which will help them to learn about the place they are living.  Or you could make it a treasure hunt, with clues to follow and something good to find.  \nRelay races, the kinds of games they like playing when at home (frisbees seem to be used a lot around here), even board game night can be successful.  I think I'd try to come up with some tournaments, too, where people play something and progress or are eliminated, but can still root for others.  I seem to have Frisbees on the brain today, but Frisbee golf might work for this or even a card game that isn't too complicated.  I think I'd try to organize some things as team efforts and some as individual efforts.  And it's really important to include kids whose talents aren't in the area of physical might.  Checkers, chess, a talent show;  there are plenty of activities that tap different abilities.\n\nYou didn't say if you would have access to equipment to show DVD's, but if you do, Movie Night would be good, or maybe the chance for kids to check somethings out of a movie library.  Oh!  And don't forget reading material, crossword puzzles (another contest/race perhaps?), Sudoku puzzles...\n\nYes, I am really getting enthusiastic here!  Can I come along?\n\n(You could also form a committe drawn from the kids or their parents to help come up with ideas.  They know what they like to do, right?  And don't forget--teenagers eat A LOT, especially kids who are working hard.)