what is the best 14 year old birthday party that isn't extremely costly?
355994
Time.  One-on-one.  Take him/her to a movie, the zoo, their favorite restuarant.  Tell them that they can talk just this day about anything.  Be there. Listen.
486515
Well you could alway have a house b-day party invite friends, have food, and play games.\n\n\n"HAPPY BIRTHDAY"
909146
happy birthday for starters hope you have a great one !!! ;-)\n how about yous all go ice skating? its great fun especially when there's a group of u's.\n\nmaybe bowling? or go for a theme picture, that's great fun where you all get dressed up in old fashioned clothes and get a pic taken differently a great way to remember ur birthday.i had one done when i lived in Australia last year ;)
50561
you can go to a restaurant with a good environment\n( please don't go to a restaurant that sing happy b day, unless you like that kind of attention\nor you could invite your friend and boyfriend to your house , prep some snack, play some game, watch dvd , or just hang out with a good music, about games i don't mean to play like board game or twister, but here some fun game that you can play with \nget a name card and put it in your lips and passed it to your other friend try not to drop the card the one that drop it have to get punishment, like a drink or eat something gross like fear factor heheh\nor you can  pair up people and do the orange dancing they should not touched each other but have to balance the orange on their head, if the orange slip they have to balance with all their life , the first couple who drop the orange get the punishment\nthe other one i know this sound realy juvenile but a game of dancing chair was always give a good cheer pair up with the hamster dance song( kinda like the chiken dance song but more groovie heheh) i know i sound childish\n\nor go to the beach go swimming and eat something\n\nwell no matter what you are doing , have fun and be responsible\ncos you are a grown up now \nand happy 21 birthday
994210
At home!  Call some of her friends and ask them to help you plan a surprise bday party for her.  Ask them what is her favorite "whatever"  (sometimes friends often know more than the parents on what their child really likes.)  is, and get the party favors and the matching cake.  If ya have a camper or a tent set it up outside (with walkie-talkies) and load all the party stuff in there.  Make smores and order pizza and have it delivered to them in the backyard (with your supervision).  It makes them feel alittle more grown up and scared at the same time.  You won't get much sleep that night,  but your daughter and her friends will have a blast.  Oh, make sure you get permission from her friends parents to stay the night outside.  Have a happy and safe birthday!!!
298454
if either yourself, or one of your family, belongs to a church, that could be a nice wide open area. Most churches have an area for social gatherings. If you explain your situation, I'm sure something could be arranged for no, or a small fee. certainly less than chucky cheese type prices. then all you need is a couple packs of 99cent kool-aid for drinks, and ask all your family that's comes to bring a covered dish for food purposes. I hope this helps, me, my wife, and my mother all had a good ten min discussion on this question hoping to help a 7 yr old have a great birthday!!
626859
Well I'm going to make this easy for you, I just had my 11 birthday to. So I had a sleep over and watched movies and etc. But you could go skating, go to a couple movies, go to some very fun place, or etc. For food you could make some and take it some where, buy it and take it, buy it at the place, or any other ways you can think of, or have everyone bring something. Buy some nice decorations, and some stuff like that. I hope this is helping. Buy or make her a nice cake, and some real good friends to come. I hope I have helped you.
921502
It depends on how old you're going to be. If you're going to be 14 your friends would love to get picked up in a limou and get driven to a bowling alley. Hey, wait. Even if you're turning 40 your friends will love to get picked up ina limou and driven to a bowling alley!!!! Somethings never change!!\nHappy Birthday
919090
My idea for you is to have a nightclub themed party. You can name your nightclub "birthday" or "17". Send out invitation as if they were to visit the exclusive V.I.P room of this new club, but make sure people know it's for your birthday party. Decorate by exchanging your normal lights for blacklights, colored light bulbs, and soft lighting. Have each room or section of your house as a different section of the club. The techno room, the video games room, the hip-hop room, the hang-out room. \n\nSince I'm assuming you aren't going to drink, make some mocktails. A good site for recipes is http://www.healthunit.on.ca/mocktails/recipes.html. Pick about 5-10 of your favorites and make a menu to sit at your "bar". Have someone mixing drinks (an older sibling, a friend). Serve the drinks in cocktail glasses, tumblers and martini glasses. \n\nThe best place to get invitations are these sites http://www.birthdayinvitation.org/ http://www.classiccommunication.com/\nhttp://www.cardsshoppe.com/\nOR you can do your own invitation online at evite.com and e-mail it to everyone. That's what I would recommend. \n\nI think you sould serve pizza or something easy and fast. You can even go out a buy a bunch of frozen foods at your local warehouse store and cook them all up before the party. Don't pay for delivery, go out and buy frozen pizzas, or for even more fun, get all cheese frozen pizzas and have people garnish their own slices. Have peperoni, diced chicken, sausage, peppers, tomatoes, bacon ,and other things that you like on pizza. Make sure you have a cake, and have it iced bright white so it stands out under the lights. \n\nThe last thing you need is yourself. Don't let the party planning stress you out too much and just have a good time. It's all about you so make it really personalized. And have fun! You deserve it.
438122
Get a mini keg, those are fun, or do a scrapbook of the birthday party, keep all the labels of the bottles. I say do a birthday keg instead of a birthday cake. Or you could try lining up bottles in the shape of the numbers or you could make a cake that looks like a bottle of alcohol, wine liquer, beer, whatever. \n p.s. anyone that doesnt drink would think that it is not so fun after a while. but if you drink then the more the better!
1003779
http://kenoshamagic.com/\n\nThey are really  nice people, and I know they do kid's birthday parties - so how expensive could that be?
96329
Try Sweet Celebrations.  http://www.sweetc.com/\n\nThey have a lot of baking & candy stuff, including fancy wrappers.
690265
Happy Birthday... Have a party
1131565
Free activities:  take them to the library, they have all sorts of free programs for kids.  They can also borrow books, fairly new released dvds, and cds.  Park, school playground.  Water balloon toss.  Pool, or sprinkler would be cool.  Make their own snack, like trail mix.  Pizza bagels.  Usually AMC or Regal Cinemas offer free movie for kids and parents at 10 am once a week.  Check out their website for more info.  Bike riding, play follow the leader on bikes.  Volunteer you and the child's time at local retirement homes, etc. to set a good example.  Free local museums, zoo.  Crafts:  make a summer scrapbook together, Make pinuatas. You'll need newpaper, balloon for shape, and plaster of paris, paints.  Blow balloon up. Make a paste of plaster of paris, tear newspaper into strips, and adhere, let dry overnight. Leave a opening to fill with candy, and to pop balloon.  When dry, paint. When dry, decorate and add candy!  Grab a branch and have fun! Make placemats out of construction paper, and laminate.  You can cut pics out of magazines, or add beads/sequins, pics of family and friends.  Make colored sand.  Use salt or granulated sugar, baby food jar/ or other small jar.  Colored chalk.  On newspaper or paper bag, dump salt/sugar on table take a colored chalk stick and glide over sugar until desired colored is achieved. Place in jar, do the next color.  Until jar is full.  Cute.  Also, check out stores like Home Depot, Lowes, or A.C. Moore(craft store) they offer free make it and take it classes for kids.  Barnes and Nobles also should have free programs available also.  Have fun! I hope this helped you.
805239
buy a few cases of Coke, about 4 large pizzas, and have some games or music around the house. I personally recommend Jimmy Buffett for a party atmosphere.
171759
umm you could throw a barmitzva, or have a guilt free party where you just act like kids and drink koolade!\n\nthats real fun!\n\n-tmac
968646
I once used my kids age as a theme for the party "12" I hid numbers in balloons 1-100 some would have stupid slang jokes in them...the one with the number "12" was the lucky balloon. The winner recieved a dollar store purchased fm radio...dollar store is a great place to find little pre teen gadgets for low prices...cd players blah blah\n\nU also had to come to the party wearing "12" of the same object-hats, buttons, etc the most creative one a prize...this kills a lot of time...the voting-catwalk runway show lol...it's really funny what kids do when put on the spot!\n\n12 chiars for musical chairs "of course we played hip hop or LP" to make them feel a bit  more grown up and not  so childish about the game.\n\nlast but not least "12" eating hotdog contest...if u could eat 12 u won the ultimate prize...once agian, a kill some time game!  "I can't remember what the gift was...but it was cheap and most of the kids wish they would have won it. \n\nWell good luck-hope I helped a little bit.