When your child turns 13, you’ll want to throw a party to remember! For any child, turning 13 is a significant milestone, so coming up with creative 13th birthday party ideas is critical. Your soon-to-be-teenager will adore all of these celebration ideas, from coming up with the right theme to planning exciting activities.
13th Years Old Birthday Party Ideas
Kids on the brink of getting 13 are pretty difficult to host a party for, so the trick is to quietly propose a few birthday ideas, wait a few days, and then convince your teen that they have planned the Ultimate 13th Birthday Party.
It might sound obvious, but chat to your teen and find out what birthday party ideas they have, who they want to invite, how many and what type of party they want. Remember it isn’t YOUR party, so although your idea of caterpillar cake and home-made streamers may excite you, it may not be the “vibe” your teen is looking for.
Party Decorations
When it comes to decorations for your 13th birthday party ideas, the goal is to have a good time without being too old or young.
This is a difficult transition into teen life; make it simpler with decorating ideas that everyone will enjoy.
Black lights
Replace regular light bulbs with black lights or add a string of them around the party and add vibrant colors all over.
Glow sticks in balloons
Crack a glow stick and put them inside the balloons for a fun decoration to a blacklight party.
Selfie Station
Teens love selfies, but the background is everything. Background can be made out of so many things: a sequin tablecloth, or streamers, balloons, wrapping paper, you name it. Add in some props too!
Donut Bar
This can be like the donut walls at weddings, or donuts displayed out in a pyramid. Have a collection of everyone’s favorite types of donuts.
Photo Booth
Whatever theme or colors you decide from this list of 13th birthday party ideas, make a fun photo booth that also functions as some awesome decor will pull it all together every time!
Starbucks Bar
There are so many ways to get creative with this decor to bring to life your 13th birthday party ideas!
Replace the mermaid with your kid’s face, or replace Starbucks with your kids’ name. Make some of Starbucks’ tasty treats like cake pops and frappuccinos.
Build a Terrarium
This is the perfect activity for the party and party favors to take home. Plus, there’s always a terrarium cake to go with this idea!
Glitter balloons
What’s better than balloons? Glitter balloons. Either pour chunky glitter or confetti on the inside before blowing them up or spray the blown-up balloon with adhesive and sprinkle glitter on top.
Party Games & Activities
Finding appropriate party games for adolescents, or tweenagers, can be difficult, but we have some fantastic teenage birthday party games that even the “coolest” teenagers will appreciate.
There’s a narrow line between planning some fun games for your teenager’s birthday party and embarrassing them. The issue is that you won’t know where that line is drawn!
Truth, Truth, Lie
When your guests arrive, give them each a card to write down three facts about themselves. Two of the things must be true, and one of them must be a lie. When you’re ready to play the game, have each guest read out their facts, and everybody else must try to work out the lie. The person who guesses the most ‘lies’ correctly – wins!
This game works really well if there’s a good prize for winning, like a giant-sized chocolate bar, or cool make-up item. If there’s a prize to play for it’s surprising how serious people get about winning!
Guess the Tunes
Get a selection of CDs, or Spotify playlist together. Get your guests to try to guess each song, by only playing a few seconds of music. You could play the first few beats, or to make it even harder, record a small snippet from the middle of each song.
This is a great game to play in teams of 2-3 people. And like the game above you can really ramp it up by including a prize at the end. It’s also lots of fun to include spot prizes of chocolates or lollies to dish out during the game!
Wink Murder
Have all the guests close their eyes, and choose one guest to be the murderer by tapping them on the shoulder. All the other guests are detectives. When everyone opens their eyes, the murderer must start ‘killing’ off the detectives by winking at them one by one. If a guest is winked at, they need to die – very dramatically – so everyone knows they have been killed.
If a guest thinks they can solve the mystery (i.e. who the murderer is), they can shout out their name. If they are right, they win the game, but if they are wrong, they have to die. If the murderer manages to kill all the guests and get down to one last detective without being found out, the murderer wins.
Even though our great party games for teenagers are really great, your teenager may not want any sort of games at their party at all. They may instead choose to just ‘hang out’.
Party Invitations
Whether your teen likes a coed party or just a few of his close friends around for pizza, you’ll want to personalize and send out 13th birthday invitations to indicate that this hangout is in honor of a special occasion. Work with your child throughout the planning phase to ensure that everyone is satisfied with the outcome.
How to download
- Firstly, choose your favorite design, then right-click that preview image.
- Select “Save image as” and Locate where you want it to be saved in your device.
- You can leave it as it is, and open it later when the download is finished.
- Open the file with third party apps such as Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Paint, Corel Draw and so forth.
For beginner: it’s better for you to use Ms. Word, and it’s capable of doing that flawlessly and there are many features to help you, like inserting text, changing the font styles and so on.
Birthday Cakes
All small children enjoy surprises, and adding a surprise aspect to your cake is a great way to keep the party going. A concealed sweeties surprise cake is lot easier than you might think, and when the first piece is sliced, you’ll have a whole bunch of joyful party-goers oohing and ahhing.
If you’re short on time, don’t be embarrassed to use a ready-made cake mix. When it comes to baking quality, children are significantly less picky than adults. Regardless, this butterfly cake is a simple and efficient way to give your young one the cake of their dreams, whether you use store-bought or handmade cake.
