A Teenage Party- for a little girl
Aug 25 '00
This is a story about a young girl, who wanted to be a teenager. For her birthday, she was a teenager for the day...
I have a niece who told me she wanted to have a teenage birthday. So, helping her Mom, my sister and I (we are 17 and 19) did this for Nicole. She was to have a "Teenage" 9th birthday party.
First of all, the main idea of the party was to dress the girls as "teens" accordingly with makeup, clothing and a matching hair style.
Renee (the Mom) sent out invitations, and gave the us the number of girls. We told Renee to put on them that they should wear the "coolest" pants they have, we would take care of the shirts.
My sister and I often thrift shop for goodies, so we started looking for size XS shirts. We were lucky- we found 6 shirts one day. Two were Express mini double tank-tops (sheerish style), two were tiny sequined shirt type, and two were Abercrombie & Fitch cropped shirts. The total cost for the shirts was about $8, and they were all in excellent condition.
As for decorations, we made some huge plastic stars covered in glitter (like the ones from the Britney Spears video Lucky) and hung them up. I think we made about 5 of them. We also took white Christmas lights and strung them from the ceiling, sort of crisscrossing the room. In the corner, we propped up a table for the gifts. The final piece of decoration was a set of door beads that we bought at Target for $8.99.
That morning, my sister and I stopped at McDonald's for breakfast- we needed the fuel plus the couple minutes of solace before the party! We had packed up two caboodles full of makeup + hair supplies. After we got to their house, we put up the decorations right quick.
The kids started arriving around 2pm...and we played Nintendo until all were there. We had them pick a number from a hat to determine the order in which they picked their shirt (after birthday girl, Nicole). No problems there- which really surprised me!
Makeovers here we come. Again, we used the numbers for which two went first. The other girls stayed entertained by talking and Nintendo, plus they got to watch.
We did highlights on the girls by using a Kool-Aid paste. They had their choice of colors, and picked (all but 1 did) our suggestion because of their natural hair color. Get permission FIRST! The kool-aid does wash out, but still. It was summer, plus they only had a couple strands done.
To do this, make a paste of kool-aid and water. Use only enough water to make it well blended. Apply to hair, with a piece of foil and roll up. We left the colors on for about 45 minutes and they turned out well.
(We matched colors that would work- IE, brunettes had red or orange, blondes looked great with blue, purple or green)
After that we took pictures + video of the girls acting all goofy in their "teenage" outfits. They looked darling!
Next my sister played DJ for them. They thought it was the bomb. I was helping Renee get the lunch ready. Nicole had picked spaghetti casserole, which is a great kid food. We used normal plates/cups, saved the money that would have been spent on plastic ones for the shirts and decorations.
The girls all loved lunch, and the cake followed. Nicole's cake was a large white/vanilla sheet cake which had a cool Barbie on it. They all opened presents then, letting out and occasional "OOH" and "AHH".
Oh, no, the party was coming to an end...the goody bags were a hit.
They had in them a custom CD (made on my computer) of "Teen" Hits ranging from the Backstreet Boys to 'NSYNC and Britney Spears. They all loved that. It also contained a lip gloss, some candy and a sheet of PowerPuff Girl stickers. They also were allowed to keep their shirt, they had picked.
All in all, it was a great party with lots of fun!
Total Break Down of Cost:
1) Invitations- $7
2) Teen Shirts- $8ish
3) Decorations- $34
4) Kool-Aid- $3
5) Cake- $20 (I think)
6) Goody Bags- $17 (CD-Rs were a $1, along with lip gloss)
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