It has been a while but my two teenagers still talk about their Birthday parties. These can be done fairly cheaply and the kids (even all their friends still talk about them).

We had a barbie sleep over party, the guest brought Barbie, we made a sleeping bag  (out of scrap fabric, if you have a handkerchief from the $1.00 store works well )for dolls, had a Barbie doll cake, and tea(lemonade). And Barbie had a place of honor at the cake table with their on chairs (they made them from popsicle sticks) And the items they made became part of their loot bag, which I had put some doll shoes (anything on clearance) She thought that was great.

Another party we had was a pirate theme,  went to a park where I set up a scavenger hunt (I hid the loot for party bags and the guests had to fill them).  Gave them a treasure map and a loot bag  and they had to find the treasure to fill their bag. Pinata was a parrot and pirate hats,and patches filled out the theme. That one was a big hit.

And did not cost me a bundle.

We also did a train theme (Thomas was big then) and ride a train around the zoo (but the zoo had free admission that day). Complete with engineers' hats, train whistles and of course a train cake.

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