Terrific Tween Birthday Party Ideas!

Tweens are defined as young adults between the ages of 8-12 years old. This is a fun age, but also an interesting one. Tweens do not want to be seen as children anymore. Their focus has gone from toys, toys, and more toys, to fashion and current events. They want to be style setters, they want to be cool, they want to be a little more grown up then even you might be comfortable with. This needs to be taken into consideration when throwing a tween birthday party.

When you throw a tween birthday party you want to make sure that the tween gets his or her input into the party ideas. They are learning to express their individuality and your idea of a Barney Party might work for a younger child, but a ten year old will not enjoy the theme music to Barney at her tween birthday party. So what party ideas do tweens like, while still being acceptable ideas that the parents can embrace. Here are three parties your tween can be proud of.

ROCK STAR PARTY

If your child loves to rock out then this is the tween birthday party you need to have! There is actually a great party pack available at Oriental Trading Company complete with pink pirate girl invites, cups, plates, balloons, and napkins. Nothing is more rock star these days then this lovely skull and cross-bone pattern and it is affordable.

If you want to make your own invitation's you definitely can. Make it a fun activity by creating a rock star invite by cutting out pictures of rock stars from Rolling Stone and decoupaging them on the front of a blank invite, then just fill in the info on the front.

Once the invites are in the mail it is time to start planning the party. I would recommend having your tween heavily involved in this one. What is great fun at a rock star party is Karaoke! Start looking into where you can rent a karaoke machine at.

Another pre-party plan you need to have in place is the music. You will want to make a mixed CD or two for the party. What would be a lot of fun would be to give these CD's out as party favors.