My daughter was turning 13 and I wanted to give her a unique birthday party. She loves to shop so I gave her a mall party. Her inviation was a gorgeous jewelry box I purchased for $1 that each girl received. On the top of the box was a special made card with pictures of shopping bags, shoes, clothes etc.and a hand made ribbon. It stated for each girl to join her for her birthday party. When the girls opened the box it included shredded tissue paper with plastic colored diamond rings. On top of the rings were the actual inviation to the party. Both cards were a smaller version of a business card made with a home computer. The day of the party the girls arrived at my daughter's favorite shopping mall. I had coupons at a really nice photo studio who offered each girl a free 8X10 picture w/no sitting fee and they were able to receive their pictures within an hour. Each girl received a picture of themselves and I was able to receive a picture of the entire group. After they took pictures, we had a mall scavenger hunt. They were broken into groups. They had a list of items to find. Each group had to take pictures of the items they found(some had their own camera cell phones;we also had visible disposable digital cameras as back up). Examples of items on the list of things they had to find were snow boats in a store, they had to try them on and take a picture;another example is that they had to receive a perfume sample from a sales person;they had to get permission to have a picture taken with the sales woman). The employees in the mall enjoyed being a part of the scavenger hunt. The group who found the most items and took the most pictures won the scavenger hunt. That group won a prize. The next activity was for the girls to shop. They each received a gift card(their parents were also nice enough to send money for the child to shop). After the girls shopped, we went to a nice chinese restaurant located in the mall. We had a late lunch, sang happy birthday, enjoyed birthday cake and presented my daughter with her birthday gifts. The girls really had a wonderful time and it was an inexpensive birthday party.