A request from Kristin…..Â
J’Neil has been asked to the Homecoming Dance. She is excited. She has her lovely dress and today we ordered the shoes and bought the necklace & tiara…. She is going to look fabulous.Â
However, since she’s pretty young (14), we’ve asked that the kids go as a “group” rather than it be a “date”. The problem is, most of their friends who have not been asked (or have not asked anyone) are feeling a little silly going with the “couples”.
We need some ideas of things the group can do before the prom that would be fun, and entice more of the kids to join them. And perhaps ideas of ways to make all the kids comfortable going to the prom.
The kids are all about 15. What fun things can the group do?
–ALSO–
I need Halloween Party ideas.
The kids are also wanting to have a Halloween Party, and I need ideas for 15 – 17 year olds. What fun activities with a Halloween theme will keep a group that age interested and engaged? The whole group, if they all came, would be about 6 girls and about 10 boys.
Things this group has done in the past, and had a great time with, are scavenger hunts and murder mysteries.
Any suggestions would be appreciated!
Halloween Party:
My kids at that age had a great time building and acting in a spook alley that was set up for the neighborhood trick or treaters.
I bought Pizza, soda and goodies for the building, performing and clean up time.
It was such a sucess they did it for about 5 years.
Sometimes their creativity is amazing.
Jean, I thought of your kids when we were trying to come up with Halloween ideas. I remember they had a great time with that.
Our Trick or Treaters have dwindled a great deal over the past few years, and most have parents accompanying them (who stay on the sidewalk while the kids come to the door). I don’t think we’d get much participating. 🙂
Any prom ideas? We’re running out of time on that one.
Prom ideas…. There’s always bowling, miniature golf, batting cages… but I really like your idea of a scavenger hunt. Even for a prom. I wish I had better ideas- that’s the area where I lack- and my mom fills that gap 🙂
Halloween- I still remember doing a fun halloween party at your house, Kristin, where we were blindfolded and we felt all the brains, eyeballs, etc (spaghetti, peeled grapes)… that was really fun. And I loved your mystery dinners.
on the Group Date Idea:
Some of the things my kids did were:
Got together early and had dinner.. Usually at my house..We created a formal restraunt look and menu….. Then brothers, brother in laws ect. mom and Dad were the waiters and entertainment. Then a stretch limo pulled up and all kids piled in for their arrival at the dance. After the dance they: went bowling, or back to one of the homes for breakfast, or playing games ect.
Don’t forget Tori’s famous formal dinner at MacDonalds….they went in ahead and set the tables with linen table clothes, crystal , china and floral arrangements… Then the big mac’s were delivered to their table by afriend in a tux… They laughed about that one for a year.
Then there was the dinner on the hiway…not a good idea IMO…
JD set tables and chairs up on the roof and had a roof top dinner…
Ben hauled my dinning set out to the grass and had an under the stars dinner..
JD built a bridge over the swimming pool, hauled my dining set out and lit the yard with twinkle lights.
I see the young marrieds now all over and they still say how fun those dates were.
Halloween: Actuallly we got a lot of fun participation because the parents went in the spook alley with the kids…
The only years we had a lot of kids was the spook alley years……word spreads
note: if you set the restraunt up on the lawn …make sure you remember to turn your sprinklers off…. Ours came on in the middle of dinner.. You have never seen girls in formals move so fast.. Or Ben either as he ran for the sprinkler off switch.
If I remember correctly Erica and her gang played flag football or volleyball before the prom. I think they had a water balloon fight one year. Scavenger hunts are always fun. For the Halloween party, Erica and friends have a pumpkin carving contest every year with different categories.
The Cornwall family is always good for fun ideas. 🙂 Tori’s formal dinner at McDonals and the one on the island in the road are both ones that have stuck with me. I always thought she must have so much fun! Sounds like Ben & JD had a good time too.
OK… I just got off the phone with Chauntelle.. She is helping her son Jonathan and his friends with their homecomming plans…here is what they are doing.
They are having a Luau in their yard…
Lei’s and entertainment.. Hula dancing and will be served Island food. They are cooking their meat in the ground and having a lot of fresh fruit ect. Sounded like fun so I thought I would share..
I say making caramel apples would be fun for a Halloween party! By the way, I know I’m painfully late in answering your question about Twilight. I typed out an answer way back when you asked, but I sent it to the wrong place accidentally! I just barely realized my mistake! Sorry! I’m really enjoying the Twilight books! It is especially fun to be able to picture everything so clearly in my mind. I’m now also really glad we had the one really creepy drive at night by Cresent Lake, so I can imagine how it would feel to be there in the dark. 🙂 Very different feeling than daytime there.
How exciting for J’Neil! I don’t have a whole lot of ideas, but I do think a scavenger hunt is a fun idea, I remember doing that few times, even more fun with a Halloween theme.
Bobbing for apples is also much more fun than it sounds, everyone gets soaked–good times.
How about a Progressive Dinner before the dance and try and go to some of the kids’ houses they want to include that aren’t part of a couple.
I don’t know, I have crappy ideas!
Post pics of the event, for sure.
These are fun ideas. 🙂 Thanks for sharing them!
The pumpkin carving contest is always a HUGE hit.
For prom we actually went camping, but that probably wouldn’t be a good idea for 14/15 year olds. One year we did a food fight which was surprisingly really really fun.