I absolutely loved this idea for an inexpensive birthday party for teenage girls! It's so clever!
Grab your digital camera and pile all the guests into the car (or cars) to head to the local mall. Walk through each store and have the guest girls choose items that they WOULD buy for the birthday child if they could and take pictures with that guest and the birthday child with the item. Do that with each store snapping off photo after photo. (Talk with the store manager and let them in on the game so they know what's going on - most will be fine with it!)
Then, swing by the photo kiosk, print out the pictures and come back to create a fun scrapbook of the day. Enjoy some pizza and pop and voila - "This was the most fun party ever!" And all it cost you was some photo developing and food cost!
And you can do it even cheaper by signing up for a photo sharing website like THIS ONE so you can email the photos to the other guests too and create online photo albums.
Many thanks to Mary Hunt of Debt Proof Living for the great, frugal idea!