13 Yr Old Girl Birthday Ideas

I'm rewatching the Gilmore girls. In today's episode, at a 13 year olds party, they did make overs. Buy some cheap make up and let the girls at it. Sleep over party....

Well, she is turning into a TEEN full fledged...she has already been a tween for four years.

I would ask her what she wants to do with a few friends...go to dinner and a movie...maybe a day at an amusement park....big sleepover, with lots of junk food and movies and makeovers...everyone go for pre-spring break pedicures and out for ice cream or froyo...

There are a lot of ideas...my ten year old tween is into video game parties with one friend staying over while the others go home...and my eight year old is still in to the pizza party or miniature golf party thing...

Good luck...

What does she want to do? That would be my first step... Ask her.

Let her know the budget constraints and go from there.

Spa day with mani/pedi's
Sleepover, make your own pizzas, desserts, craft.
Depending on the interests..... Bowling, scavenger hunt,

Enjoy!

Have you asked HER? Honestly once kids are at this age I take my cues from them and plan something that celebrates THEIR wants, interests and desires. Within a preset budget of course.

Your 13 year old almost certainly has some ideas of her own. She is of the age now where she does the choosing and planning, within your time/space/budget limits. Ask her what she wants and have a discussion.

I have a possible gift idea. When my oldest turned 13, I wanted to give her something personal. I bought some pretty notecards and decorated a box to put them in. On the box I wrote "13 of the Reasons Sweetpea is Amazing". On each card I listed a reason ( For example, #13 Great Friend) and had a photo of her for that year of her life. Happy celebrating!

I would ask what she wants to do. Also, she is no longer a "tween" but a "teen".

I agree with everyone on the teen vs. tween vocab and asking your daughter what she wants. For both my girls, 13 was a big blow out party. We do "milestone" birthdays, and this bday qualified.

Daughter 1-we joined forces with a good friend who was celebrating his birthday close to the same time. With both a boy and a girl celebrating, yes it was a coed party. We had snack foods, giant cookie cake, sodas, decorated the carport with lights and had music and dancing. Parents supervised, and with such low cost we were able to let the kids invite a lot of their friends. It was a lot of fun. I also let my daughter invite a small group to spend the night afterward.

Daughter 2-also a coed party, mainly because she just gets along socially with boys as well as she does with girls. Same lines as daughter 1's party, simple foods and decorations, let the kids decide on entertainment fun. For this party, we did an outside fire pit with smore's and there was more video game type playing inside. This group wasn't into the dance party scene. Again, after the boys left, most of the girls slept over.

Take a lot of pictures! Have fun!

thirteen is a teen, not a tween.
what does she want to do?
khairete
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Have a sleep over, go for a manicure or do them in your house, dinner at a pizza place, a cupcake decorating party are all pretty affordable and fun.

BTW...Your daughter is finishing her tween years and will officially be a teen!

Movie and a sleepover with friends
Rock climbing gym (staff will belay them and help them)
Ice skating (our rink has a rock n roll ice skating session for teens every Friday night)
Indoor water park
The theater and dinner
Bowling
Trampoline park
I guess I would give her a list of ideas but I'd ask her what she wants to do.

Please, don't refer to her as a "tween". She's not turning into one. She has BEEN one for a few years already... she's about to officially be a "TEEN". I promise she'll be insulted if you call her a tween. So maybe for her birthday, don't do that.
As for what to do.. ask her. Mine was happy to invite a few close friends over for a sleep over. It doesn't have to be a "milestone" birthday blowout. Unless you've built it up to her that it somehow should be... For us, it isn't. And it wasn't. It was her birthday. What she wanted is what we did, and she has never been a huge blowout birthday type. A cake, friends, pizza, sleepover... pool party for them. (summer birthday).

How about getting some of her friends together and take them to lunch and a movie?
Or you could take them to get manicures and pedicures.
You could have them over to your house for movies, pizza, ice cream sundaes & they could do each other's makeup.
Or you could "style" their hair w/a curling iron.
Give them a "swag" bag to take home w/a lip gloss, nail polish & a cheap silver bangle. Take pictures
in front of a pretty backdrop you make complete w/tulle hanging glitter stars or whatever you think is fun.
A roller skate party?

A bowling party is easy and economical.

Have you asked her? My daughter will be turning 13 in June and we have been talking about her party plans for months now. Originally she wanted to rent a room at our favorite resort about an hour from here. She was okay with me cooking taco's and donuts for breakfast. Now she wants a big party with a DJ (my husband does it so it's free for us), but it's a completely different concept now. So talk to her.

She has had friends invite one or two other friends to dinner and a movie too.

I am CONSIDERING a weekend trip to NYC for my daughter for her 13th birthday. She is a dancer and she has been dying to go there for forever, so that would be her gift. She already has a laptop, a cell phone, all of the dance stuff she wants, etc. She doesn't want or need a lot of money for clothes/shopping. The other thing I'm looking at is a really nice piece of jewelry. She has some stuff already, but something that is very specific to her...like a birthstone ring with diamonds or something. 13 is a big deal in my eyes though.

My daughter turned 13 last April. She loves Epic Air (an indoor trampoline park). They have teen nights on Fri/Sat nights. I paid $22 per person for the night and it includes a DJ, slice of pizza and a drink. She took 6-7 friends and it was a very fun, economical party.

Well, I'd say they could do something special. If they go to YW they could have an activity evening where they accomplish a YW goal. They could go to the temple and do work or something that is spiritual. They could do something with genealogy, like make a family tree with photos in the branches. They could go skating, skiing if there is good snow, what about ice skating? Do you have a rink in one of the towns nearby?

I think this age is hard to plan for. I would really ask the girls what they'd like to do. You have such a megalopolis there where you have numerous smaller town around plus Provo to the south and SLC to the north. I think you could do pretty much anything they wanted to do.

I think I'm going to make Lion House Sweet and Sour Meatballs for dinner now that I'm thinking about Utah.