Party planning

Will this work?

Small wants a party. I think I can hold it at his school, making it much more convenient for ppl who live up that way. I’ve built up a list from yellowmoon that includes foam mask kits (animals and bugs) so the first idea is that they can arrive and glue themselves a mask. Then he wants party games – pass the parcel is the one he mentioned, which I find bizarre as he doesn’t usually join in! Party invitation list is pretty long, but given this is only a couple of weeks away, maybe most ppl won’t come (perhaps I should put it back an extra week, but then it will be 10 days after his birthday!) Then I was thinking of a kind of treasure hunt, every child to find a star and then bring it back to get a prize. As long as it’s a nice day that should be good for a nice loud run around!

Then food – jam, ham, banana, cheese sandwiches, crisps, little sausages, lumps of cheese. Cakes, rice crispie things, biscuits and birthday cake. Does that cover it all?

I haven’t done this before. For Big we used soft play places and then the ballet, the theatre, and bowling. Small hasn’t really had a party before – family and friends gathering, but not a party as such. Does all this sound like it will work for a group of 3 and 4 year olds?


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8 responses to “Party planning”

  1. Sounds great to me, but then I’m not an expert either, I hate hosting children’s parties.

  2. Sounds like wonderful fun! TBH, though, I reckon all most 3/4 year old children want is the chance to play together and, if you’re the birthday boy/girl, being a bit of the centre of attention – a cake and singing etc. Don’t wear yourself out planning too much – I’m sure you’re well acquainted with ’empty hall syndrome’, where groups of small children manage to come up with the most wonderful, random games without any props at all and end up having the most fun *after* all the stuff provided by the adults has been put away 😉
    Have fun – it’s Flopsy’s 4th on the 26th and she’s chosen soft play for her party on Thursday…I’m really looking forward to it. We had a ‘proper’ party last year, but no games – just toys, food and party bags.

  3. You may be in trouble with small children if you try ot get away without party bags. yellow moon can help you out there too. And balloons. partypieces.co.uk do some useful stuff. Does he want any dancing about games? Musical bumps – works just as well without anyone being out in my experience.

  4. the yellow moon stuff incorporates party bag stuff, although I had removed the balloons, do I need to add them back in? 🙂 Musical bumps sounds like a plan.

  5. sounds great. i love those insect flyers to decorate.

  6. We didn’t do party bags – basically the treasure hunt was the party bag – we have a various things to find around the garden. None of the kids seemed to mind.
    Don’t overdo the sarnis, kids always seem to prefer other things. Crisps and cakes basically. We’d have olives as well, but then maybe our kids are odd. Little pizza slices go down well also, don’t need to be hot. Quite a few at ours were eating the green salad (well crispy lettuce) as well. oh and jelly of course 🙂 Tesco’s at least sell a reasonable veggie Jelly mix (if that is an issue), made by Greens.
    We had a few impromptu games at ours, when our plans fell through for SB’s last one. That and plenty of runing around and playing was fine.

  7. not related to this post, but woohoo to people power!
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/story/0,,-6646919,00.html

  8. Tech, that’s almost exactly what I said as I heard it on the radio while driving up the M1 🙂

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