Kids in high school will enjoy a themed bithday party.
Themed birthday parties are fun for kids of all ages, whether it's a pretty princess party for little girls or a nostalgic 1970s party for adults. Teens can get in on the fun, too. If your high school-aged child has a birthday coming up, there's almost no limit to the possible birthday party themes to choose from. Does this Spark an idea?
Color Confidential
Spread cookies with blue icing for a Blue Birthday Bash.
Throw a color-themed party. Use the birthday teen's favorite color or the color of a birthstone or favorite sports team. For example, plan a Blue Birthday Bash. Visit a party store for blue decorations, balloons, streamers and party hats. Invite guests to dress in all blue and bring birthday gifts wrapped in blue paper. Play high school-appropriate movies like Deep Blue or Into the Blue. Serve blue punch and blue foods. Set out cooked chicken, beef and all the fixings for everyone to build their own blue tortilla, made from the flour of blue corn. Serve blue nacho chips with blue corn salsa. For dessert, serve a big blueberry cobbler, or sugar cookies or cake spread with blue icing.
Summer Fun
Invite teens to a Hawaiian Birthday Luau pool party.
Throw a pool party, and kick it up a notch by making it a Hawaiian Birthday Luau. Play island music and put up tiki decor, plastic palm trees and pineapples. Give the kids leis to wear and have activities for them like volleyball, hula hooping, limbo, coconut decorating and a water balloon toss. Serve authentic luau foods such as barbecued steak, barbecued shrimp, vegetable stir-fry and pork fried rice. And everyone is familiar with Kalua pig, a seasoned pig cooked in a leaf-lined pit. If you can't pull that off, make a cake that looks like a roasting pig, or serve a big pineapple upside-down birthday cake with pineapple sherbet. For drinks, serve mango juice or pineapple punch.
Winter Wonder
Schedule a snowboarding lesson as part of a Birthday Snow Fest.
When it's cold outside, arrange a Birthday Snow Fest for the kids. Teens love being active; take advantage of this with a scenic sleigh ride followed by group snowboarding lessons or even a full-blown snowball war with rules of engagement, a referee, battlegrounds, team colors and prizes for the winning team. Afterward, finish up the fun drinking hot cider and hot chocolate by a blazing bonfire over which everyone can roast hot dogs, and eat a s'mores-flavored birthday cake.
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