12 Year Old Birthday Ideas?

susan patton

April 26, 20130 found this helpful

I had a carnival party for my granddaughter. We were able to rent the all purpose room at our fire hall for 30.00. We set up several booths (tables with red tablecloths) that were manned by aunts, uncles, friends, etc.

One booth had a popcorn popper and bags of popcorn (get red and white bags at the dollar store).

There was a hot dog "stand" (if you don't have a hot dog cooker you can fill a thermos jug with boiling water and drop the hotdogs into it or put a little water into your crockpot and steam them).

A cotton candy "stand" (get cotton candy at the dollar store).

An ice cream cone stand (I bought drumsticks), a lemonade stand (bottled water with lemonade Mio).

A pretzel stand (I bought the big hard pretzels and had a bowl of mustard, a bowl of melted chocolate. A bowl of thin icing, a bowl of nacho cheese for dipping}.

A snowcone stand you can get a rival snowcone maker for under 20.00 and the syrups are very inexpensive, we just put them in solo cups with plastic spoons} instead of a cake we had a cupcake tower with homemade cupcakes and lot's of sprinkles!

We had a ton of balloons and a boom box playing. On one big table we had poster board guitars cut out and bowls filled with markers, stickers, stick on jewels, etc. They all made paper guitars and had an air guitar band and sang karaoke and danced.

Both boy and girls loved walking up to the tables and ordering their food. They had a ball.
The goody bag had 1.00 sunglasses, glow bracelets, rings and necklaces. crazy neckerchiefs and tattoos.

I bought darn near everything at the dollar store and the kids still talk about this party 2 years later!