21 Unique Ideas For Your 21st Birthday Party To Have The Best Time | (2024)

It doesn’t get bigger than your 21^stbirthday! You have probably been planning this day for a long time, and a turning 21 opens a whole new world of possibilities.

Whether you are having your 21^stbirthday at home, at a bar (which you can now legally enter!) you will probably want to make it a night to remember. Your 21^stdeserves to be a big one!

On the other hand, if you are planning a 21^stfor a family member or a friend, you might be looking for some ideas on how to make the night extra special.

To help you make it a night that nobody will forget, we have rounded up the best 21^stbirthday party ideas to include in the celebrations!

Forget traditional vanilla or chocolate birthday cakes and go straight for the jelly shots!

The jelly shots are really easy to make.

You need a bottle of vodka, a whole lot of different colored jelly and some jello-shot glasses!

Use a cake tier to set up the jelly shot cake and let friends all take a jelly shot together to celebrate the new adult!

When it comes to things to do on your 21st birthday, go all out with a themed party!

Something about themed parties make people come out of their shells more, and that is exactly what you want when you are throwing a 21^stbirthday.

Choose a theme that allows for some very creative costumes, and even have a prize for best dressed to get people motivated to go all out!

Anyone who has turned 21 and has had a big party knows that the next day can be really rough.

For a special surprise, and a bit of a helping hand, you could pack them a day after kit to help with their tender head.

You can pack the kit with things found at the grocery store, such as some Advil, some cool drink, mouthwash, lip balm, towelettes, and whatever else you think they might need.

By the way: If you’re a guest, and don’t know what to bring, check out the best gifts for a 21 year old!

It isn’t a 21^stwithout big, shiny birthday balloons! You can have a big 21 display with the balloons, or spell out whatever you could want with letter balloons.

You can also buy a pre-selected balloon set specially put together for 21^stbirthdays, saving you some trouble!

If you love gold as much as me, these balloons are the best ones! And matching number ones here.

If you are all about creating memories, you should consider going away with friends for your birthday.

For those who can afford it, popular 21

You will need to try plan quite far in advance for this so everyone has the opportunity to save, but it really is worth it.

It allows you to have days of celebration and fun, creating memories with the people you enjoy having around the most!

Beer pong just brings so much fun to a party, and you definitely need to have one set up at your 21^st.

You can play as individuals or as teams and even have a mini beer pong championship.

To make it a little more glitz and glam, you can bedazzle the beer pong cups and glitter them up to be sparkly and just that much more fun.

Be more economical with your beer pong and make a punch to use. This way you won’t waste too much alcohol, and you won’t be drinking anything too strong.

Now that you are legal, why not go all out and spend the night at the casino as well!

Don’t go overboard and spend all your money, but plan to go for dinner at a restaurant at the casino, spend some time by the slots and the blackjack table, and head for a few drinks at the bar afterward.

You never know, your 21^stmight be your lucky night to win big, and you will be doing it legally!

Now that you can legally drink, you should take the opportunity to learn how to prepare a drink. There are some mixology classes to attend and are a great way to spend an afternoon with friends.

You can learn how to make all of your favorite co*cktails, as well as some bartending tricks that you can show off with at your next event.

Attending a bartending class is a good idea as it fits in with the theme of a 21^st, but it isn’t something that a lot of people do for their birthdays, so it is both fun and different!

Clubbing is a must for anyone who has turned 21. It is a way to just let go and have so much fun with your friends, dancing the night away.

However, remember that you might not be so practiced with drinking, and you should take it slow to ensure your night doesn’t end too early!

Most clubs will do a special shout out, and even give a bottle of champagne to the birthday girl or boy.

The perfect 21^stgift (depending on the recipient) is alcohol!

And to make it a little funny, full up a small trashcan with different bottles of alcohol and some beer or wine glasses, and add some ribbons and bows to dress it up a bit.

You can include some snacks and some Advil in the trashcan to help them with the inevitable headache they will have the day after their 21^stparty!

If it is a 21^stfor a guy, they might not want a Barbie cake. A beer pong cake is much better suited, and is so easy to make! You just need 20 cupcakes, 20 mini beer pong cups filled with jelly shots, and 20 little beer pong balls made from rolled fondant.

Place the cupcakes with the jelly shots on top in a beer pong formation and there you have a fun, but incredibly easy cake ready for the party

A #classier idea, but extremely fun nonetheless.

I personally LOVE high tea, it’s just so much fun to get dressed up and have an amazing afternoon of treats and drinks with your favorite gals.

If you want to go out and drink, do it (safely!) but if your idea of a fun 21st birthday is a nice dinner out with your friends, that’s amazing as well!

You only turn 21 once. Do whatever YOU want!

What are your favorite things to do at a 21st birthday party?!

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