16th birthday celebration ideas for a boy?

[mrsmplus3]

my son will turn 16 this year and i want him to have a great time. it falls on a saturday which is a great coincidence.

does anyone have any ideas or could you share what you did with for your 16yr olds birthday?

dont want to spend too much money on it. maybe £100?

thanks in advance.

Lazer quest? paint balling?

yes and yes! he might be too old for the laser quest, hes done that a few times but maybe not. hes def never done the paintball thing. thats a good idea! ill look into it. thank you!

What sort of thing does he enjoy, what part of the country are you op?

near glasgow, scotland. he loves music like nirvana, drawing, xbox, starting to take an interest in cooking actually. he spends some saturdays going into glasgow during the day with his friends, looking around art and music shops and they go for a chinese or chippy. hes a good guy so not at the drinking etc stage which is good.
thanks

DS went to see Harlem Globetrotters with a couple of mates last year - went down well.

sounds great WWWY

i suppose the equivalent of that would be a concert? hes not into sports. will look into that too. thanks!

For my ds's 16th, he and 5 friends went paintballing, then dh and I joined them at the PB place (tables & chairs there but no kitchen) with hot and cold buffet which went down v well.

We,ve also done mountainboarding, as there's a great venue locally where you can do your own barbecue and it's not hugely spenny.

I paid for ds1 and two of his mates to see The Prodigy at Wembley. So concert sounds like a good idea.
Am giving ds2 £100 to take his mates out for pizza.

Was looking at this for my DS

www.govouchers.co.uk/go-extreme/go-skydive/indoor-skydive-for-one.html

Concert or show or festival of some kind sounds wonderful. And suitably grown up

My ds went with his friends to lazerquest a month or two back. No adults went with them, and I think they really enjoyed the whole independence of getting themselves there (2 trains and a tram) and 'doing it all' without adults. My ds's is in the Summer, so if it's not looking too wet then he'll be having a BBQ/party in the garden and people can camp out there if they don't want to go home.

all great ideas, thank you.

My DS turns 16 in a few weeks and he is booked in for his moped training on his birthday He is very excited, I am petrified!

I imagine he'll want to go out with his mates the following weekend for pizza or similar, they often bus into the city and spend the day mooching round the shops and eating.

what about Go Ape - there is one in Aberfeldy and went down a treat with my son.

not Aberfeldy, Aberfoyle near Stirling!

We booked for DS to do go-karting with a couple of his mates - they all loved it :)