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  Powered by Mom Shares Fun Birthday Party Ideas for Teenage Girls That Were a Hit

Speaking from personal experience, I have found that planning a  birthday party for teen girls can be quite difficult. Teenage girls tend to be very picky and some of them may not even want to have a party. For many teenage girls, simply hanging out with their friends is what they prefer to do and that's exactly what we did for our daughter when she turned 13.

 Of course what my daughter wanted most for her first "teen" birthday was her own phone which she got and it's why she's got such a big smile on her face in this picture 🙂teenage girl birthday party ideas

Her "party" was more of an extended hang out session with a few party things thrown in. She just had a few friends over, girls she normally hangs out with the most. It's best not to plan the party to death and leave plenty of open spaces for the teen to do their own thing. Chances are good that is what they will do anyways. The following is a list of fun teenage girl birthday party ideas that were a hit with my daughter and her friends.

BBQ

A BBQ is always a fun option weather permitting and/or if you have a covered area to protect everyone from any potential rain. My daughter’s birthday was in late September so it was starting to get cold here but we had sunshine that day and no run yay. We did have a large covered area just in case it rained. I started my daughter's BBQ early in the evening, giving everyone plenty of time to eat to their heart's content. Once the darkness arrived, the BBQ gave way to a marshmallow roast over a fire, which was very popular with the teen girls. We just cooked the burgers for them, put out the food and drinks and left them alone, which is what they preferred of course.

teen birthday bbq 2

They enjoyed the fire during the bbq and later when it got dark outside, they enjoyed hanging outside even when it was dark as we hand lanterns strung across the canopy. Between the lights and the fire they could see well enough and it had a whole camp out feel to it. You can see the lanterns in the picture below and as you can also see they enjoyed themselves, hanging out, goofing off a bit and eating. They also had music blaring outside the whole time, they each took turns hooking up their iPod or phones to the bluetooth speaker to play their music.

teen birthday party bbq group

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Camping

If you have enough space, this is something that can be done on your own property. Or if you live in a colder region, you can let them set up camp in your living room. For my daughter's birthday they did not sleep outside, they slept inside.

Yep they even opened the presents outside, that's how much they enjoyed the bbq. Apparently they are never too old for gifts. 

teen birthday bbq presents

Black Light Activities

Other than the BBQ, this was the only event that I took time to plan. All you need are some highlighters, some white T-shirts, white paper and some black light bulbs. The girls had a ball decorating their shirts and used the white paper to make their own cards. They all thought it was such a fabulous idea, they each spent a lot of time drawing on the t-shirts and they all signed each other's t-shirts. With the white card stock they made notes to each other that could only be read in the black light.

black light activity. Picture with flash so you can see what is going on
black light activity. Picture with flash so you can see what is going on

The nice thing about the black light activity is that it's fairly inexpensive. You don't have to buy special pens just get a variety of highlighters (yellow is most vibrant but all colors work), thick and skinny ones, white t-shirts and a black light light bulb. I got all of those items on Amazon. We got the light bulb and a few black light flashlights. You don't necessarily have to buy t-shirts either as we asked the girls to bring a t-shirt they didn't mind drawing on, most of them did but we had a couple for those who didn't have a white t-shirt. Even if you have to buy black light pens they're cheap on Amazon. We did buy a few and the girls took them home with their t-shirts so that took care of a goody bag if you will 🙂

 

Cupcakes

It seems so far no matter what age they are kids and yes even teenage girls still love cupcakes. My daughter loves animals so we had these cute animal themed cupcakes which were also delicious. Saves the mess and fuss with cutting cake and each girl selected their own cupcake.

teen birthday cupcakes

I also bought some single cupcake boxes and since I ordered extra cupcakes (on purpose) each girl was able to take a cupcake home the next day.

 Yep we lit up a few cupcakes, they still liked blowing out some candles 🙂

Movies/Music

While this may seem boring to most, I have found that teenage girls will lose themselves for hours in assorted movies and music if you let them. For my daughter's party, I allowed her friends to sleep over, giving them the whole night to spend on their own listening to their favorite music and watching their favorite movies. This is when hubby and I got to relax even more as we gave them some movies choices, they had the bluetooth speaker (with the rule of once it was after 11 the music had to be on low) and settled in front of the big screen tv with their sleeping bags. They watch a couple of movies and all I know is I feel asleep in my own room before they did. 🙂

The next morning the girls were still chilling and hanging out

teen birthday next morning

Those were the fun teenage girl birthday party ideas that were a hit in our home. I hope you found them useful, I know these teens enjoyed them. Feel free to share your ideas below we love to read them!

By on February 4th, 2015

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I’m Michelle aka Powered by Mom. I’m married with one daughter, my hubby was my high school sweetheart, our two dogs Nyx and Cleo and our cat Oliver. As you can see we’re a family of animal lovers. We love to travel when we can, try different food and activities all over the world and enjoy being together. My passions are writing, travelling, creating new recipes, encouraging people to adopt not shop and just to enjoy life while we can.

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35 thoughts on “Fun Birthday Party Ideas for Teenage Girls”

  1. It gets harder and harder to come up with party ideas as our kids get older. Thanks for the ideas. My 10 year old is becoming harder to please and I need the ideas!

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  2. Thank you for you post. My daughter is a tweener and I am always unsure what to do for her birthday. These ideas are great. I will keep these in mind for her next birthday.

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  3. Definitely some great suggestions here! I've been in a boys world for the past 16 yrs.....learning about all the new girly stuff nowadays will be handy when I have to plan my girls birthdays when she gets older.

    Everything is still primary, and fairly easy as of now 🙂

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  4. What terrific Ideas you always come up with! You're right, most "teenagers" would prefer to hang out with their friends and do anything but stay in the house! This Birthday Party was a terrific idea! It really looked as if the girls all had a blast! Cupcakes are always a better go to than a cake when you have no idea what the girls will be doing from 1 minute to the next! You have to be such a patient person to have a slumber party for a bunch of Pre-teens to Teens! Girls, I know, can be sooooooooo loud and messy! Eventually they will grow out of the slumber party stage as well! My oldest daughter always had to have an ice cream cake for her birthday and we'd have a few of her friends come over (her relatives would also come over too!) However, no one ever spent the night (well, maybe 1 girl) I really enjoyed reading about your birthday party ideas as well as looking at all the great pictures! Thanks so much for sharing these with all of us! I truly do appreciate it! Thanks again, Michele 🙂

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  5. They all had a great time. You must have a lot of patience. A group of teenaged girls can be quite loud and silly. The way I see it, it's better to have them home where you can supervise.

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  6. This looks like fun. I love the idea with tee shirts and black lights. I'm sure the BBQ was great. Thank you for sharing

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  7. Wow the ideas are simply awesome. i have a teenage daughter and she would love these fun super cute ideas. she would love the black light activity idea as its nice and very creative.

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  8. My teenage granddaughters doesn't want the traditional family birthdays anymore. Like your daughter, they only want a fun day with their friends! Hanging out, going shopping at the mall, going out to eat, going to the show or going bowling or to the "fun" centers w/video games etc. Our one granddaughter & her friends went to the American Girl Doll Store downtown & made a day of it! They LOVED it!! Of course, they still want the gifts from us 🙂

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  9. I love these ideas. I've always done dinner for my kids for their birthdays. They could pick anything they want to eat and have a few friends over. I really like the black light.

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  10. She does look very happy about her new phone. I love the entire party and it would be neat for any teen. Great ideas and thanks for sharing the pictures too!

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  11. This post couldn't of come at a perfect time. My daughter will be 13 next month and Idk what to get her or what kinda party to throw. Thank You!

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    • you are so welcome Laura, and happy birthday to your daughter. Let me know what you all do and what the girls actually liked 🙂

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  12. What a super looking party! All the nice friends, the actitivies, and the BBQ! And the lanterns! How lucky the birthday girl is. I wish I could have had nice parties like that when I was a teen!

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  13. It ooks like they had fun. My niece is 11 & thinks she's a teen already! The phone was at the top of her Christmas list & yes, her parents caved in a year before they said they would.

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