How to celebrate your 15th birthday?

The fifteenth birthday is one of the last "children's" birthdays (just do not tell the hero of the occasion about this - he himself no longer considers himself a child). The specific features of this age in one way or another affect the conduct of the event - it is difficult to please the birthday person, but it is all the more important to achieve this. If there is a certain amount of imagination, any parent is quite capable of solving the problem.

For a teenager, there is no worse punishment than celebrating their 15th birthday with boring get-togethers at home with relatives. Now he is wayward as never before, so for an ideal holiday, the following points should be taken into account.

• A teenager wants to spend a holiday with friends, and that's okay. If you consider it necessary to celebrate this day in a large family circle, then at least give an alternative - the opportunity to separately celebrate with “friends”. Provide maximum freedom in terms of guests' choice, menu and other aspects.
• Teenagers have a huge craving for "junk" food, and on a holiday with the birthday boy about this it is better not to argue. For that matter, parents can dilute the fast food themselves with delicious and healthier salads.
• Some birthday people are completely lost when they are offered to choose a scenario for their own holiday on their own, and cannot offer anything worthwhile at all. In this situation, lend a helping hand, suggest an original scenario, for example, a thematic event at home.

Above, we have already touched on this topic a little, but we will be objective - at the age of 15, the child is very self-willed, and then there is also a mini-anniversary, I want something special and outstanding. Faced with the fact that he cannot even come up with a venue for the holiday, the hero of the occasion will come to the disappointing conclusion that there are only troubles from the holidays, and he will be completely upset.

Let's give some good ideas of where to go for a young company.

• Suburban locations. From many points of view, this option is optimal - it is equally suitable for boys and girls, it involves relatively low costs and a huge amount of entertainment in nature. Think for yourself: here you have a fire, active games, darts, fresh air, food from the fire, and songs with a guitar! The important thing is that a noisy company will not bother anyone, and the only obstacle may be unsatisfactory weather or the fact that the holiday did not fall on the outing season.

• Amusement park. It is difficult to find a teenager who doesn’t like attractions - he doesn’t want to go there with adults, but he would love to go with friends. Here there is a unique reason to gather everyone in one day and invite them to ride on parental money - both girls and boys will be delighted!

• Karaoke club. Let's say right away that this is not an option for every person - you need to have a certain artistry and self-confidence in order to go on stage and sing into a microphone. An important detail: everyone present must fit such a description, and not just the birthday person, otherwise the latter will have to entertain the guests alone.

• Laser tag. Do not think that only boys like to play "shooters" - if we are talking not about a computer game, but about a real competition, then girls will also take part with pleasure. If "more serious" paintball involves an open area and rather painful hits with balls of paint, then indoor laser tag is ideal in terms of safety even for children - "injuries" are inflicted here with a painless laser.

• Skating rink or rollerdrome. Many teenagers are not interested in just walking - they prefer to ride. To do this, again, is more interesting in the company of friends, but usually someone does not have time or money, and on his birthday all these problems for the birthday person disappear. Please note that this kind of entertainment will definitely not take too much time, and at the same skating rink you can get tired and freeze a little, so after the active part of the event, it is worthwhile to envisage gatherings with tea and cakes.

• Professional photo session. As a rule, this is a sensible option for a purely female company, because it is no secret that many ladies, even very young ones, are very fond of posing and generally presenting themselves as models. In the company of friends, you can make a lot of photos, which will later be associated with childhood and will help you get through the separation easier when someone leaves to go to another city in the near future.

• Bowling. It can be assumed that in childhood, none of the guests were personally acquainted with bowling, although everyone probably knows it as a rather aristocratic way of spending time. Accordingly, for adolescents, this is exactly the version of the holiday that allows them to feel almost completely adults, and they will be delighted. Since ball rolling is a kind of sport, you should choose comfortable clothes, but a full-fledged table for such establishments is not required - they are more focused on light snacks for quick recovery.

Teenagers know how to spend a huge amount of time in the company of friends, just talking on numerous topics of interest, but a birthday is not an ordinary day, and it must necessarily be diluted with some interesting program. The event will be much more memorable if you supplement it with funny and funny contests and games.

The beauty of having a birthday at home is that you have a ton of different equipment at hand, and in general, you certainly don't bother anyone. Taking advantage of these benefits, you can come up with the following entertainment.

• Wash the guests. Both solo participants and teams can participate in this wonderful fun. Each one is given a basin of water, in which apples float - 5-6 pieces will be enough. Participants will have to catch fruits, holding their hands behind their backs, that is, with their mouths, and they will do it for a while, whoever is faster, and even with perky music! If teams have been recruited to participate, the active team member is replaced after each pulled apple.
• Check your back. A curious competition with elements of wrestling assumes that there are two participants, each of whom has a plaque on their back with one completely random word. Each player approaches the enemy in such a way that at first he cannot see the opponent's back, and the task, accordingly, is to read the word “enemy” and shout it out, so that the loser does not see your word! In a large company, it is better to play this game according to the cup system, when the winners advance to the next round and ultimately choose the most important winner, but then each round needs new, never seen before, signs, and it is also worth providing for a fair draw.
• Fabulous resume. All teenagers think of themselves as adults and surely understand that soon each of them will have to get a job and write a resume, praising themselves as a professional - this is taught in modern high school. The seed looks boring, but the plot is much more fun: pre-selected participants are presented with the fact that they are applying for very colorful positions of characters in famous fairy tales. Such characters are suitable, for example, Karlson, Baba Yaga and Koschey the Immortal, Baron Munchausen and Old Man Hottabych.

If a separate room has been allocated for your evening, and you do not disturb the others present, you can deploy a whole competitive program for the 15th anniversary of your daughter or son, and some interesting contests can even be held right at the table.

Here are some ideas.

• Theater director. The essence of the idea is very simple: those present are divided into several groups of 2-4 people, after which the presenter announces one well-known phrase for all (or each his own) like “Our Tanya is crying loudly, dropped a ball into the river”. After that, each team must choose a genre of the future performance, such as a detective story or a drama, and after a short time, for example, a quarter of an hour, stage it for those present. There will be no winners - more precisely, all participants can be attributed to this category.
• Dance with a mop. The principle of this game is similar to "The sea worries once", but first you need to recruit an unpaired number of participants, ideally, so that representatives of different sexes are equally divided, except for one "extra" person. This "unfortunate" is handed a mop, and all the others are divided into pairs and begin to dance to the music, while the loner waltzes with the mop. When the presenter sees that many have already relaxed, the music suddenly turns off and it is necessary to change the partner as soon as possible - the “lucky owner” of the mop also gets this right. After that, everything is repeated until the next time the music is turned off. The players, not wanting to dance with a mop, quickly realize that any living person is suitable for the role of a partner, so that the most unexpected couples are formed.
• Explosive hugs. You need to participate in this game in pairs, and the organizer will have to prepare several already inflated balloons in equal quantities for each pair.The task of the participants is to face each other and, squeezing the ball with their bodies without the participation of hands, burst it. You can use your hands only in order to take the next ball and fix it between the participants; it is forbidden to hold several balls on the weight at once. The pair that completes the task faster wins.

You can find many ready-made birthday scenarios on the Internet, but let's be honest: all these endless poetic speeches on behalf of the host, to put it mildly, smell of mothballs and are unlikely to cause violent delight among young people. Instead, it is better to sketch the script yourself, starting from the fact that the holiday will be thematic - perhaps then endless poems and pretentious speeches will not sound, but what is happening will be much more reminiscent of a real modern holiday. It remains to figure out where to get the current topic.

One of the easiest ways is to ask what other holidays fall on the birthday of the birthday man. In recent years, a lot of strange and unknown holidays have been invented, like the same day of the smiley - these are the topics that should be developed indefinitely, not forgetting, however, that we are still celebrating the name day. For example, on the day of hugs, the above dances with a mop and explosive hugs just have to be, and the presenter at the right time only inserts the phrase that today is the day of hugs, which means that all games will be paired and very contact.

Astronautics Day in general allows imagination to accelerate to the limit: to imitate the starry sky with the help of foil stars, to create a “space” playlist for the evening, to come up with a special menu for astronauts (dishes can be ordinary, as long as they have the appropriate suitable names).

You can go an even simpler way and find out from the hero of the day what his hobbies are, what is important for him, what he is interested in. There are not so many chess players among modern youth, but just imagine: the guests are basically dressed only in black and white (it is desirable that the costumes be completely monochromatic), the whole decor is in the same range, there are real chess pieces on the tables. Toasts can also be thought of to match, for example, "I wish you, my king, to meet a real queen," or "let in your life, oh, queen, you can walk in any direction."

In the end, you can just make a holiday based on a popular movie or book - "Harry Potter", "The Lord of the Rings", "Star Wars" and similar greatest hits immediately come to mind. At a holiday dedicated to young wizards, it is quite possible to come up with a potion-making competition: dial pairs of participants in advance and only then tell them that their task is to mix two or more drinks from among the presented ones in order to drink later.