How To Celebrate A Birthday In An Unusual And Inexpensive Way: Ideas For Adults And Children

2024 Author: Bailey Albertson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 12:53

How to celebrate a birthday in an unusual and inexpensive way: ideas that will not empty your wallet

It was good in our childhood - mom will bake a cake, friends will gather and birthday, consider it a success. With modern children, especially teenagers, this does not work. Give them entertainment. And adults are bored just to eat surrounded by friends and relatives, especially since many of the festive dishes 20-30 years ago have already become commonplace today. Do you agree? But there are ways to celebrate birthdays in an unusual and inexpensive way, and I'm ready to share them.

Content

• 1 Ideas for celebrating a birthday: original and inexpensive

  • 1.1 Children's birthday
  • 1.2 Teen's birthday

  • 1.3 Adult options

    1.3.1 Video: master class on making a sushi roll cake

Birthday party ideas: original and inexpensive

It is better to think over the scenario of the future holiday in advance in order to be able to prepare and save money.

Children's birthday

Until the child is 3-4 years old, it makes no sense to arrange parties with a large number of guests. Strangers and animators in costumes can scare the baby, so it's better to limit yourself to close relatives. Toddlers will be delighted with gifts of toys and a birthday cake with candles to blow out.

Small children are often afraid of strangers, especially in clown costumes

For older children, offer to find a gift on their own:

1. Buy some inexpensive but pleasant surprises in addition to the main one.
2. Place them around the house in places the child can reach without assistance. The first gift should be near the baby's bed so that the child can see it immediately upon waking up. The rest can be taped to the bottom of a chair in the kitchen, placed in the bottom compartment of the parent's bedroom closet, and so on, depending on the number of rooms in your home.
3. Attach a picture to each gift with a hint where to look for the next one - you can even draw it by hand.

4. Leave the main gift for last.

   

   Children like to receive many, albeit trivial, gifts more than just one big and useful one.

Up to ten years old, birthday people will definitely like the detective game

Mom arranged a similar quest for me, when they did not even know such words. After 32 years, I don't remember the gifts, but the feeling of a holiday remains. On the 7th birthday, the son repeated the idea, and he was also delighted. Since Senya already knew how to read, we made the task a little more complicated - instead of images, sheets with riddles were attached to intermediate gifts. The son guessed the next cache from them and went there.

The choice of venue depends on the interests of the birthday person:

• nature lovers will like a walk to the zoo, preferably a contact one;

  

  Contact zoos provide an opportunity not only to see animals, but to feed or pet them

• fans of science can be invited to attend thematic master classes;

  

  Chemistry show delights children

• museums, exhibitions and master classes in cooking, modeling or soap making are suitable for creative people;

  

  Many cafes and restaurants hold culinary workshops for children

• sports children will find it interesting in the playrooms of shopping centers or rope parks.

  

  The safety of visitors in rope amusement parks is strictly monitored, so many parents agree to celebrate children's birthdays there.

Parents usually know what their children dream about, and there is no need to clarify. This will keep the intrigue before arriving at the place of celebration. Please note that invited guests should not be bored either. You probably won't be able to arrange a tea party on the road, so take some sandwiches with you.

Last year, my son and his friends were in the Moscow Experimentarium. For a relatively low cost - 5 thousand rubles for three - the boys became scientists for several hours and participated in experiments with employees of the scientific and entertainment center. I'm sure many cities have something similar.

If there is a dolphinarium nearby, you can take the children there. Give the birthday person the opportunity to swim with dolphins, and guests will be happy to watch the show with the participation of marine mammals.

There is always an instructor not far from the child and the dolphin in the pool, ready to help if the child becomes scared

You can combine entertainment and delicious food in children's cafes that offer animation services.

Birthday teenager

In adolescence (12-17 years) people no longer consider themselves children, so the ideas of family celebrations can be perceived with hostility. The best solution would be to allow you to spend your birthday with friends, but under adult supervision.

Quest rooms based on popular games or films will interest teenagers. You can choose an option for any age so that the participants can do it exactly and the birthday is not overshadowed by failure. The advantage of this option can be considered that such institutions monitor safety measures in accordance with the requirements of GOST (1.0–92 and 1.2–09). It will also not be possible to bring alcohol there, which should reassure the parents of teenagers.

During the game quest, teenagers can try themselves in the role of Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson and other movie characters

The high-tech game Laser Tag is a more modern form of paintball or airsoft. They are allowed to enter the gaming arena from the age of six, but this option is more suitable for teenagers to celebrate their birthday. You can run through the labyrinth with weapons as a team or every man for himself. There are no painful sensations when "hit", which makes the Laser tag less traumatic than when shooting shells with paint (paintball) or balls (airsoft).

The essence of the game Laser tag is to defeat the enemy players by registering the beam of the automatic blaster with the opponent's special sensors fixed on the player's clothing or on a special vest

After active games that may be of interest to teenagers of both sexes, you can continue the holiday in a cafe or at the birthday person's house.

For those who prefer to spend time calmly, animators with master classes for the holiday are suitable. For example, guests can paint pictures that they can take home. Such parties are just becoming fashionable and are called "Painty parties". The animator talks about painting techniques during the creation of the painting.

Paintings during a paint party are drawn using the same blanks, but participants can make changes to their liking

If a lot of guests are expected, then you can offer them instead of a gift to chip in for entertainment. This will save donors from the agony of choice, and you from the need to put somewhere not always necessary things that they brought to the birthday boy.

Girls may be interested in a mannequin with hair to create hairstyles. On Chinese sites, such a product costs up to 1.5 thousand rubles, and can last for several years. Teenage girls can do hairstyles for a doll in turn, having arranged a competition for the best image, or work together.

It is easier for dolls to do hairstyles, since they are not capricious, like live models.

Adult options

The problem of any holidays in the XXI century is the presence of the Internet in the gadgets of the audience. For a birthday to be remembered for a long time, you need to involve guests in the celebration with all your might.

For companies of Japanese food lovers, invite them to roll rice rolls with fillings together. The benefits of this idea are obvious:

• the hostess does not have to cook food for hours before the arrival of guests;
• homemade rolls are tastier and cheaper than purchased ones;

• it is easier to control the quality of food even before cooking.

  

  Homemade rolls may not be as beautiful as in a restaurant, but this will not affect the taste

Each of those present can roll their own roll, showing imagination in the choice of ingredients. Before eating, you can beautifully arrange the rolls for snapshots.

Video: master class on making a sushi roll cake

One day trip to another city. For example, from St. Petersburg in 4 hours you can get to Pskov, walk along the historic streets, dine in a cafe and return home in the evening. There are more than a thousand cities in Russia, 10-15 of them are located near you. Why not visit them on your birthday instead of the usual get-togethers in karaoke bars.

The most important thing in short-term trips is comfortable clothes and at least one loved one nearby

Lazy birthday. This way to spend the day of birth is suitable for couch potatoes. On the eve of the holiday, warn your loved ones that you are going to spend tomorrow without communicating with anyone, so as not to worry. If there are children, ask grandfather and grandmother to take them to your place for a day. The other half can stay at home if you support your plans for the day.

Important Tips for Lazy Celebration:

• prepare food so as not to waste time on your birthday;
• try to wake up before noon, otherwise instead of rest you will get tiredness and apathy;
• turn off your phone and do not go to social networks;

• spend the day watching movies that you never have time for.

  

  The modern rhythm of life in big cities can tire a person, so the desire not to rush anywhere and enjoy every minute at least once a year is quite understandable

In 16 days I will be 37 years old, so I am considering the appropriate options to spend March 29 profitably. I am inclined to a lazy birthday, but for this I have to rent a hotel room - it is unrealistic to stay at home alone.

As you can see, it is not necessary to spend a lot of money to have a great birthday. There are many ways to have fun on this night with a small holiday budget.