Money Saving 13th Garden Party

74jax

My daughter is 13 soon and so we're having a garden party her - fingers crossed for the weather.

She wanted a bouncy castle (even though we already have a 14ft trampoline in the garden..........) however on pricing this it was too expensive for only 3 hours use.

So.........

We'll have music outside, a gazebo with seating area, food, a drinks fountain (non alcoholic of course) and a chocolate fountain.

I'm trying to think of ideas that we can do to make it fun, I want to think of games suitable for a bunch of 13 years old. I thought about putting them into two teams and each person in that team having a game to play so they aren't doing loads of games each and can just 'talk' which what they all seem to do!

Any ideas for 13year old games? I thought about the quickest person to empty a toilet roll by mumifying a team mate. Maybe something with water balloons?

jellymid

If you get loads of balls of wool from a charity shop, you can make a great game. You have one loose end per party guest and then turn the garden into a giant spiders web, looping the wool around trees, chairs, the trampoline, up high and down low. Tie all the other ends to a box of treasure....so that the first one to untangle the string, wrapping it into a ball as they go, gets the first choice of treasure. Make them keep the box contents private so the stragglers don't give up. It takes ages to set up, so recruit some friends, but is very memorable. Tie one ball of wool to another to make it more complex. and the more colourful the better

jackieglasgow

What about those type of holiday entertainment games? Passing a balloon down a line between their knees, an orange from under their chin, spinning around a broom, scavenger hunt; those types of silly games which get everyone laughing? Maybe others will know some others which can be adapted for 13 year olds.

wornoutparents

Not sure about spelling, PINATA filled with goodies hung from a tree and they take turns blindfolded to hit it with a stick after being spun round to break it open.

karoke ? or stage her own X factor or britain got talent show;)

ellas9602

A few ideas from my DD's 13th.
They played 'chubby bunny' which involves stuffing as many marshmallows into your mouth as possible and trying to say chubby bunny. they had loads of fun with this.
They split into two teams and each team had a chair at the bottom of the garden they had to relay to the chair and bounce up and down on the ball0on til it burst.
They played dares..stuff like painting your toe nails blindfold. blind makeovers.eating gross things.
Ours was actaully a sleepover and we also had a beauty area. with DIY (i.e make your own) face masks, cucumber hair masks. We also had diy pizza and just dance on the playstation. oh another thing was a fashion show where each team had created an outfit out of newspaper and I was the judge, they liked this too!
Good luck x