Teen Birthday Party Ideas: Guitar Hero & Horror!

Does your son or daughter want to have a teenage birthday party? Here are two fun planned parties for both genders.

Rock Star Birthday Theme

Teen Birthday Party Invitation:

What you will need:
Envelopes
Red and yellow construction paper
Scalloped scissors (used for scrap booking)
Glue stick
Internet and printer

Choose envelope you want to use so card can be cut to fit inside.
Fold yellow construction paper in half.
Cut three sided-edges with a scalloped scissors.
Print out a cherry red and white guitar off of the Internet. (Or your child's favorite looking guitar.)
Print as many guitars out you will need for each invitation.
Cut out guitar.
Glue onto yellow folded card.
Bold Type using font "OKrienHMK" or your choice of font: "PARTY LIKE A ROCK STAR!"
Inside of invitation:

Who: Rocker: Your child's name Birthday
What: Birthday Concert Where We Are the Rockers
When: Date of Party
Time of Party
Where: Address of Party
Dress up as your favorite rocker OR wear your favorite rock star clothes!

RSVP To Manager At: _______________________________

Print out on red construction paper.
Cut out inside information with scalloped scissors.
Glue onto inside of your card.

Birthday Party Decorating
To Make Stage Setting:
Put black sheets on walls of the room you will be using.
Hang white Christmas lights around edges of upper wall if you have them. Or multicolored. If that is too much work, just have lights dim. If you have any disco lights, lava lamps, iridescent lamps put them out.
Set folding chairs and kitchen chairs as you would for a concert in rows. Borrow chairs from neighbors or family if needed.
Karaoke machine and discs of rock songs.

Games:
Guitar Hero for game system, if you have.
Have each teenager take a turn to challenge each other!

Karaoke: Let the teens take turns singing or singing in groups of two or three if they are shy.

Try on wigs: If you have any or go to Goodwill or any used shop to buy. The kids will have fun laughing. Take photos just like the paparazzi!

Drinks: Sparkling wine, ice water, different types of sodas in fun liquor glasses. Or use plastic champagne glasses.

Snacks: Odd requests rock stars ask for:
M & M's with the brown M & M removed like Van Halen used to do. Or serve peanut butter cups like they prefer at this time.

Hannah Montana: "I like peach rings. I love gummy worms. They're my favorite. Anything sour and with the most sugar possible.

Miley Cyrus:
Favorite Snack: Cookie Dough. Tip: Buy cookie dough ice cream to serve with cake as raw eggs in cookie dough are not a good idea due to possible illness.
http://www.freewebs.com/mileycyrusfan94/aboutmileyhannah.htm

Chips and dip.

Salsa and Doritoes.

Vegetable tray- Cut up carrots, broccoli, green pepper, cauliflower, whole cherry tomatoes, celery and Ranch dip served with it.

Weiner Winks:
1 package hot dogs
1 package Crescent rolls
Unroll Crescent rolls. Cut hot dogs in half. Roll half of hot dog into one pre-cut Crescent roll triangle. Bake in oven as Crescent roll package directions state.

Have ketchup and mustard available.

Paper plates and napkins with stickers on such as guitars, the letters "Rock & Roll Rulez!", and music notes.

Dinner:
Cheese pizza
Pepperoni pizza
Sausage pizza

Make it as easy as possible for us parents! Plus, teens love pizza!

Guitar Cake:
Cake: Marble cake mix, chocolate or whatever is your child's favorite flavor. Follow box directions.

Cake pan available at website below for $12.95.

http://thepartyworks.com/product_info.php/products_id/7365

Or try:
Musical Notes Mini-Cupcakes
Cake mix as above but bake in mini cupcake tins.

Buttercream Icing
1 pound box (about 3-3/4 cups) powdered sugar
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 teaspoon vanilla
3 - 4 tablespoons milk

Preparation:
Combine all ingredients in mixing bowl and mix until combined. Add more milk if necessary for spreading consistency. Buy black icing (Cake Mate Brand has black icing) Wal-Mart carries this brand. Or find Cake Mate online:

http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0geu73_nMxHjFwA3AdXNyoA?p=cake+mate+icing&fr=b1ie7&ei=UTF-8

Tip: Do not try mixing food coloring to make black as I did. The mixture only turned a strange brownish color.

Bake enough mini cupcakes for your party. Line a large cookie sheet (or two) with aluminum foil. Take black marker and draw music bars on foil. Display cupcakes throughout lines on the large cookie sheet.

Butter Cream Icing
1 box confectioners' sugar
8 ounces cream cheese, softened
1/4 cup butter, softened
2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Beat until smooth and creamy.

Print out digital camera photo of each "rock star" so they have a keepsake to take home.

Possible sleep over: It is doubtful the kids will get any sleep just like true rock stars!

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Horror Flick Teen Birthday Party

Invitations:
What you will need:
Tin foil
Black & red construction paper
Red paint
Scissors
Glue stick

Cut out tin foil 2 x 3 inches.
Glue onto red card construction paper.
Take black construction paper and cut 1/2 inch thickness two 2 inch pieces and two 3 inch pieces.
Glue black construction paper around foil to form a window pane.
Make red paint look like blood dripping down from top of window.

Inside:
Spooktacular Birthday Party For _________________________
(Where) House of Horror ________________________________
(Time) Impending Doom Takes Place ______________________
Dress up as favorite horror character.
RSVP If You Dare! _____________________________________

House Decorations:
Use any spooky Halloween decorations you have minus the pumpkins. Buy movie posters from Spencer's gifts or online of favorite horror films. Buy cheep gray or black material at Wal-Mart or discount shop. Hang on walls of room you will be partying in. Cut with scissors jagged on the bottom of material different lengths to make a spooky dungeon look. *See photo.

For kitchen table: Buy cheap plastic tablecloth (Dollar Tree or discount store) and hot glue gun bugs or fake plastic body parts and eyeballs to tablecloth. (Oriental Trading Magazine has many items.)

Drinks: Blood - cherry soda.
Slime Punch for punch bowl: 1 to 2 bottles of lime soda
1 container of green sherbet

Pour soda into punch bowl. Scoop green sherbet into soda in single scoops.
Pour into clear plastic glass and put a gummy worm in each glass.

Snacks:
Lady fingers- hot dogs sliced in half with green olive sliced in half sitting on top for gangrene fingernail. Dip in bloody ketchup.
Eyeball olives.
Potato Chips & French Onion Dip -put red food coloring in for 'blood' effect.

Dinner:
Spaghetti & eyeballs -use your favorite recipe
Ghoulish Garlic Bread
Lettuce Salad - Use 2 bag mixes. Add raisins for 'bugs.'
Serve with a variety of dressings

Cake: Movie Ticket to Favorite Horror Flick - that will be shown later
Red Velvet Boxed Cake Mix
Follow directions.
Bake in 9 x 13 cake pan.

Cream Cheese Frosting:
1 box confectioners' sugar
8 ounces cream cheese, softened
1/4 cup butter, softened
2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Beat until smooth and creamy.

Take black Cake Mate icing and write on cake:
Admit One
$8.50
To: Name of movie that will be shown later.

Watch favorite horror flick
Make popcorn for guests.

Two teenage birthday parties to remember for a life time!