This time is all about partying the milestone of teen birthday: a Sweet Sixteen! Sixteen is a remarkable approaching to age celebration that recognizes a person’s development and accomplishments while moving towards young adulthood.
Though — sixteen includes a lot of duties including the ACT or SATs and a driver’s license, so your adolescent deserves a fun celebration meantime. Party in style with these sweet sixteen party plans before it is time to get serious about the significant responsibilities of life.
Tips for Planning a Sweet Sixteen Birthday Party
Follow these suggestions on decor, games, food, and themes to plan the perfect sixteen birthday celebration:
1. Choose a Theme
The theme is usually the hardest part of throwing a sweet sixteen birthday celebration so turn to outlets of inspiration and go with the birthday girls favorites. Ask her for ideas, or look online for inspiration at places like Pinterest. Also, remember your budget.
2. Pick out Fun Sweet Sixteen Games
Several choices are available for sixteen birthday party games such as limbo, karaoke, scavenger hunt, and dance party.
3. Pick Stylish Party Décor
It would look amazing if you keep your party decorations theme-related, Vintage decorations options include dining table decoration, and birthday balloons, banners, streamers.
4. Choose the Sweet Sixteen Party Menu
Your teen may be picky, which makes it tough to choose the sixteen party menus. From mini-snacks to a pizza party to a dessert spread, there are lots of fun ideas.
5. Do Not forget to Enjoy
Once the party begins, it’s time to have fun for yourself!
Sweet Sixteen Themes
When it is about sweet sixteen theme concepts, it is important to pick a theme that suits your teen perfectly. Remember some of the favorites of your teen. By way of instance, their favorite hobbies, favorite color, or perhaps even their destination. Although the choices are endless, these are a couple of standout sweet 16 party themes.
1. A Night In Paris
For this particular celebration, what could be more exceptional than a night in a Paris- themed party? Say welcome, or more happily, “Bonjour” for this ideally sweet sixteen.
Trés chic! Paris is a romantic place to bring that sense back to your birthday party with a few Parisian décors. Consider Eiffel Tower, birthday banner, hanging lights, and a cafe scene. You need to pick a color statement for the celebration that the décor links collectively.
Attract your guests with an evening in Paris themed birthday invite that has Paris and delightful sweet sixteen all over it. This sweet sixteen theme is going to have of your guests excited about attending your birthday party.
2. Beach/Pool 16th Birthday Party
Nothing states a sweet sixteen parties like pulling your bathing suit out and grabbing some rays with your sweethearts. Let your friends know about a sweet sixteen they cannot miss is going to be underway with a few adorable pool party invitations.
The invites excite all your guests and will set the mood for the celebration. Detailed with a beach ball and sand these invites will act to a memorable moment. With this warm motif, there are endless choices for celebration décor from beach towels to fire — this party is guaranteed to bring the sand, sun, and fun!
Design beach towels from the sand or by the pool and blow off a few summers floating that also double as simple birthday party decorations. A sweet sixteen pool party is an excellent way to include the shore even in the event you cannot go.
3. Tiffany Blue Themed
The all-time popular Tiffany & Co. jewelry seller makes a terrific party motif. Honored with a white ribbon, the famous Tiffany blue box is a universal symbol of style and elegance. Consider a Tiffany blue box birthday cake, streamers, light blue balloons, and the birthday girls very own logo.
Whether you are getting a readymade cake or creating your own, a square blue Tiffany box is simple to make. Frost with light blue and put over a large white bow beneath the cake for a Tiffany party feel.
Simple party decorations include balloons and streamers, you can undoubtedly locate them in the fantastic Tiffany blue hue, and it is as easy as putting them around the party place. It is all about the details in regards to party planning.
4. Black And White Ball
What’s not to love about White and Black decor? A sleek black and white themed birthday cake has sweet sixteen written all over it.
Even better, make a dessert table or station to set up somewhere at the celebration. Aside from the gorgeous birthday cake, you may also fill clear jars with white and black colored candies.
Other Yummy theme treats are the chocolate fountains. Insert two fountains, one with dark chocolate and another with white chocolate to bring the black and white to life.
Consider white and black balloons and streamers. If you are serving dinner at the party, then you could also add black and white table cloths to the tables. If black and white are not sufficient for your birthday girl you may also add in style to the celebration décor. Think polka dots or stripes.
5. Outdoor Movie Party
An outdoor film party could make the ultimate sixteen themes for a film obsessed teenager. Adding all string lights and their favorite movie posters, get a traditional soda dispenser and a popcorn machine and let all their favorite flicks.
This relaxing celebration theme is guaranteed to be adored by the birthday girl and friends alike. You might need to include rounds of film bingo or film trivia.
6. Halloween Themed Party
Depending on the time of year, if your teenager loves to dress up, it may be a terrific idea to host a Halloween party. Ask guests to arrive dressed up in their favorite costume and decorate the place in the spookiest decoration you may find.
Feature games such as bobbing for apples or the mummy wrap. Host a dance-off to Thriller Mash or the Monster. In the end, play your teenager’s favorite horror film as the night wraps up.
7. Highlighter/ Blacklight Party
Highlighter Parties are fun themes that allow your adolescent to express themselves with the vivid colors they could find. Buy loads of glow sticks and glow in the dark paint well beforehand and invite guests to wear white or black clothes they do not mind getting messy.
Set up a room which you can block most of the light out and put up a DJ booth. The blacklight party is is one dance party nobody will forget!
8. Slumber Sweet Sixteen
There is no age bar to enjoy a traditional slumber party. Invite your teenager’s best friends and set up a night filled with fun and comfort. Produce a movie lineup of their favorites, purchase all their favorite candy treats and guilty pleasure food, and transform your living room into a blanket and pillow settings in which everyone would love to spend the night.
Other tasks might include board games, nail painting, DIY facials, and much more.
9. Sugary Sweet Sixteen
If your adolescent has a sweet tooth, think to make their 16th birthday celebration about the sweetest things in life. Think about incorporating things like candy bag fill up stations, cookie bars, and matches of candy land.
This sort of celebration is simple to decorate, with tons of colors pairing with the sweet tooth motif.
10. Mocktail 16th Birthday Party
Making mocktails is a fun and innovative way to give a boost to a sweet sixteen birthday celebration. Help your child make some fake tropical drink mixes beforehand to serve in the party and instruct the teenagers how to make some mocktails.
Use real glasses and add drink umbrellas and they will have fun mixing juices, add the ice, shake things up, add garnishes. Or add some sparkling sodas or club soda water.
If your birthday child loves everything culinary related you could include a cooking or baking class.
11. Jocks And Cheerleader Sweet Sixteen Party
This timeless party idea is a fun theme for any teenager. Request your guests to appear dressed as either a jock or cheerleader. Include loads of old school party decor with higher school references such as pom-poms, letterman jackets, and sports gear.
Make punch bowls and decorate the cake to look like the cake from Sixteen Candles.
12. Sweet Sixteen BBQ
BBQ’s make for fun and easy birthday party theme and a fun, filled with decent food and friends. A BBQ celebration makes for a sweet sixteen for an easy-going adolescent if their birthday is in the summer months.
Sweet Sixteen Party Games
When planning any celebration, do not forget to set other fun games to keep your party guests. Here are a few games to include in the party:
Scavenger Hunt
Depending on the place selected for your sweet sixteen birthday party a scavenger hunt activity can be lots of fun. If the celebration is set in the downtown area, equip everyone with a camera and a list, and let them record everything they check off the list. A prize will be won by the group with the most items and a picture to prove the pleasure.
Limbo
Have the partygoers line up and play some music while they each try to slide beneath the stick. After the party attendees have completed the first round, you bring the limbo stick down at each time and notice who can make it under without falling.
Karaoke
Everybody enjoys a great sing along. Designate a place of the celebration and set the karaoke machine up. Have contents and prizes to take this party game to the next level and bring out some friendly competition. This fun party game is guaranteed to have of your guests screaming for performance and is fantastic for nearly any theme.
Dance Off
A great way to find the guests including the birthday girl to make fun of them and have a blast all! Plus, what would be a birthday party without a dance? Make off the game fascinating a designate three judges for the dance off.
Sweet Sixteen Decoration Ideas
Make these sweet sixteen celebrations unforgettable with creative and fun decorations that go along with your sweet sixteen themes. Always make sure you cover the basics such as banners, balloons, streamers, and signage.
You may add personalized touches such as photographs of the birthday girl, along with any other themed decorations that will grace up the party area and make it feel impeccable.
Balloons
Without balloons, a birthday party is incomplete. It includes single stringed balloons, designed splattered balloons and balloon arches; your teen’s party will look the part with lots of these party supplies.
A simple method to create balloon arches is with a roll of tape and a balloon decorating strip. Balloon Arch is a superb way to turn your party into a fun zone.
Streamers
Streamers are another terrific birthday party decoration idea for a sweet sixteen. This party decor is ideal for doors at the party venue.
Hang them with tape for a remarkable effect when walking into the party. You can find streamers in any color and any pattern making it easy to match your party selected party theme.
Happy Birthday Banner
Greet your guests with a hanging banner whenever they enter the party. You can also make your own birthday banner and customize your canvas printing to read happy birthday and also function as a keepsake for your birthday girl.
Table Décor
Tables are a terrific way to show off all of your themed decors. Pick out tablecloths linked to your sixteen themes and add matching centerpieces or table runners. You can do this to your own food or dessert tables, for the gift table, or any other area you believe you could use in the display.
Sweet Sixteen Food Suggestions
Foods that are to grab and eat are your very best option since sweet sixteen parties are full of joy and all about the dance floor. After supplying some savory bites to fill up guests, your focus should be the sweet sixteen cakes that will become one of the highlights of the celebration.
Sweet Sixteen Cakes
It is time to blow out the candles and make a wish. This is not only any ole’ birthday cake but is a sweet sixteen birthday cake that must be delicious, trendy and matching with the party’s theme. Your birthday cake’s size will depend a lot on the number of guests. The more people who are invited to the party, the more cakes you’re going to need.
Sweet Cupcakes
Cupcakes are a simple and excellent way to blow out the candles without addressing the hassle. The cupcakes may be shown in the fun designs and
layouts. There are many choices for cupcakes stands like using a classic chandelier to display the little cakes.
Sweet Sixteen Candy Bar
An adorable candy bar is excellent suggestions for sixteen table décor. The tasty candy bars can enhance the party decor, and something guests will love. Another option is to choose colorful candies to store them in clear candy jars and attach another birthday banner which reads “Candy Bar.”
Finger Food
Teens are picky eaters, and it can be tough to determine what should be included on the sixteen party menu. Do your best to select at food that will appeal to guests and matches with your party theme.
With all of these sweet sixteen birthday themes, party ideas, games, décor and more, we expect you’re motivated and on your way to planning a sweet sixteen birthday party.
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