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I am trying to throw a party for my 10 year old son. He wants a big due for all of his friends, but I just don't have the money. I can afford to spend about 200$ on the whole party...what can you suggest to make the day special, but inexpensive? ↓
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| Name: Gypsy | Date: Jul 16th, 2005 7:26 PM |
Plan Ahead For Your Childs Birthday Party
When Carefully planned a young child’s birthday party will be a happy experience for you and the other mothers, as well as the children. Here are some party-planning suggestions taken from my experiences with three to five year olds.
Schedule the party for late afternoon, perhaps from 3pm to 5 pm. This gives young children plenty of time for an after lunch nap, so that they arrive rested and not cranky.
Keep the party-time at two hours, as this is a reasonable amount of time for children under five. Indicate hour on you invitations, so mothers will know how to plan their afternoon the day of the party. Some mothers may want to stay with their children, others may wish to drop off and pick up their children. Send out correct easy to understand invitations two weeks ahead of you party so that everyone you wish to invite can plan to come.
Limit the party to one room, where the kids can play and have fun. Be confident in knowing that your breakables are not in the party-zone. This also helps the decorations to stand out and catch the eye of every guest. Child size tables and chairs in the party room can put everything at eye level for young children, and keep their attention. Encourage adult guests to sit on a cushion on the floor and participate completely, but also have a standard size seat on hand.
Music should not overpower a birthday party; a low volume for background music is a good way to wind down an event. Children love to star in every event, so have more songs than ’happy Birthday ’ planed. Birthday party songs that kids love to sing and act out include The Wheels on the Bus, The Farmer in the Dell, Nanny’s Shopping Cart, and The Name Game.
At a birthday party ice cream and cake are traditionally served, but you can also serve cookies or cupcakes. Breaking bread together is a fabulous way to celebrate even for three to five year olds, so you may want to serve an afternoon snack right before the sweets. Children love eating finger-food. Suggestions include mini sandwiches or pigs in a blanket, nachos and fruit kabobs. This way, the children do not arrive home just in time for Tea (dinner) but with a ruined appetite.
A birthday party should be fun for everyone, so plan at least one activity suitable for every party guest. Having extra paper-plates on hand with markers and streamers so that everyone can make a mask leads to hours of imaginative play. If you have an old or unused shoe box on hand, then ask each child to draw a cake or a decoration for a part of a pretend cake on a index card. Then glue the finished index cards on the shoe box and display the pretend cake on the gift table.
Party games are a wonderful way to keep children moving and smiling. If you plan to play games make sure no child is left out of playing. Simple, short games are best and the most fun for young children. Ideas include, Red-Light Green-Light, Duck Duck Goose, and London Bridge. If you are going to have a piñata make sure that you have 3 to 5 pieces of candy per child, or 2 toys per child.
It is becoming command place to send each partygoer’s home with a goody-bag. Party favors are a wonderful way to teach the guest of honor that it is a nice to give a gift as it is to receive a gift. Remember young children who have just had a lovely snack and party sweets do not need a treat bag full of candy, but two or three for later are wonderful reminders of a wonderful time had by all.
Within two weeks of your child’s birthday party it is good form to send out Thank You notes to everyone who attended, even if they did not bring a gift. Involve your child in writing the thank you notes. Children as young as three can understand the concept of gratefulness and have fun adding a thumb print or a finger-paint hand print to a thank you note.
Themes for birthday parties should be kept age appropriate and with clean up in mind. Keeping entertaining fun and simple will help you as the host or hostess have a great day too. ↑ |
| Name: jackie | Date: Jul 22nd, 2005 8:26 PM |
| ask him what he wants and go from there ↑ |
| Name: netta | Date: Sep 12th, 2005 3:20 AM |
| i also have a ten year old son we had a pool party at for his birthday at our home an had a cookout afterwards sleepovers are good ↑ |
| Name: lauren | Date: Sep 29th, 2005 8:28 PM |
| help me find a fun b-day idea ↑ |
| Name: Deb | Date: Oct 1st, 2005 2:55 AM |
We had a sleep over for our 10 year old. 6 boys and it was crazy. I took them to a park at night with dollar store flashlights and they played manhunt for a couple hours. Of course I knew the park was safe and fenced in and gave the boundaries. I scheduled it after one of his baseball games so they all met us at the ballpark. We cooked hot dogs and hamburgers on the grill and they had their own baseball game and played chase on the jungle gyms. You'd be surprised how much fun a group of boys could have in an open field. Then we rented a scarey movie after getting permission from the parents to watch something rated R. It also gave us a chance to "weed" out his friends, who was well behaved and who was obviously neglected.
The entire material thing really bothers me- I never had all the things my children have. My son opted to have every child bring in catfood or dogfood to the party instead of presents and I took all the kids to an animal shelter to hand it in. I truly don't think he'll remember all the presents he gets every year- but I think he will always remember that party and how good he felt.
What about pizza and cake at the house and then take them rollerblading in a dome? Thats usually about 5 bucks if they bring their own skates. Good luck! ↑ |
| Name: lys | Date: Nov 5th, 2005 12:17 AM |
| well u could always justask him if he would like a small prezzie and a big party or a small party and a big priezzie ↑ |
| Name: lee | Date: Nov 8th, 2005 1:59 PM |
| canyou suggest a name for a duck cookout . thanks ↑ |
| Name: nat | Date: Nov 10th, 2005 6:14 PM |
| Name: Emma | Date: Nov 11th, 2005 6:48 PM |
| Name: America | Date: Nov 13th, 2005 9:17 PM |
| Take him 2 a cheap but cool and fun store. Let him choose most of the stuff. Or just have a theme and let it all be about the theme. ↑ |
| Name: sandy | Date: Nov 14th, 2005 3:08 PM |
| My one emergency store: The Dollar store! For a few bucks you can pick out just about everything you need for the party. And as for the cake, just bake it yourself or have someone you know bake it. I hope my suggestion helped! ↑ |
| Name: Liz | Date: Nov 15th, 2005 10:22 AM |
| Well since he's turning 10 you should have the party at home, but make the party fun by having good games. Ask him what games he likes. then take those games and put a fun twist to them. for example... take something like hide and seek ,while the other kids hide who ever is it, takes a bunch of water balloons and who ever he finds he/she, gets to trow water balloon's at that person.See what I mean.Just take simple games He likes to play and put a fun twist to them. ↑ |
| Name: Kaylieh | Date: Nov 23rd, 2005 6:02 PM |
| I need help on party ideas for my 10th sleepover birthday party(girls only) In december ↑ |
| Name: Kelly | Date: Nov 26th, 2005 9:43 PM |
| I want an idia for a game at my sleepover,but there is only 1 person with me. ↑ |
| Name: Patty | Date: Dec 9th, 2005 9:26 PM |
| Name: lonely | Date: Dec 22nd, 2005 3:16 PM |
| hi, well why bother and plan a party by yourself? why dont you try something like burger king? they take care of everything, food, gifts, special gift for b'day child, entertainment, video, decoration, invitation cards, all you have to bring is the cake. I dont know if they do it in your country, but in mine they do, they charge 4$ per kid here for a mimum of 20 kids, 2 hours. so 20x4 is 80, and everything is taken care of, no cleaning up later, no worries. ↑ |
| Name: jessica | Date: Dec 31st, 2005 3:24 AM |
| have like lots of games people can play! ↑ |
| Name: KELSEY | Date: Jan 3rd, 2006 3:50 PM |
| DO UYOUHAVE ANY IDEAS FOR A MANHUNT PARTY? ↑ |
| Name: yuri | Date: Jan 5th, 2006 6:58 PM |
| A roller blading birthday for may 6 ↑ |
| Name: Joseph | Date: Jan 8th, 2006 10:29 AM |
| Hey, this is Joseph, I want to give my girlfriend a party on her 22nd birthday but I don’t really want to let her know, but some how when ever you try to hide stuff it comes out, ohh common, what will you tell her when you are writing invitations for people or going to a gift shop, I didn’t want her to suspect me of any thing, so decided to use internet and guess what I found all the party supplies on just a click at http://partysuppliesonline.com , people! You need to gift your partner properly it should be touching also and should have good value for money , I found this website http://gift-baskets-etc.com which really give food for though when you really want to gift someone, I succeeded to secretly invite all her friends and family through http://invitations-store.com it was a great sense of achievement to give my gal a surprise party without her knowing about it oops I forgot I personalize online banners for her from http://banner-store.com I really love her , i hope my xperiance could be of some help for a few of you. ↑ |
| Name: ashley | Date: Jan 13th, 2006 8:25 PM |
| Name: Christine | Date: Jan 15th, 2006 5:48 PM |
| Well being a kid myself and I was once 10 years old. But I know I am a girl but I think what I did for my 10th birthday was go bowling. We also had pizza there and went bowling and rock climbing. I had around 12 kids there in total. And I think it came to around $150 for the whole party. My parents said that was the best party they ever planned. Fun,Inexpensive and I loved it. ↑ |
| Name: jugges | Date: Jan 31st, 2006 1:30 AM |
| a sleepova party or bowling is gr8 fun!!!!!!!!! ↑ |
| Name: Eilidh | Date: Feb 1st, 2006 2:46 PM |
| Hi i have my 12th birthday coming up i have food,facels, fake nails u know some girles stuff but i need more ides so can u help me out ↑ |
| Name: kally | Date: Feb 3rd, 2006 4:28 PM |
| a spend the night a a hotel with a pool and everything and a dinner in you town ↑ |
| Name: kim | Date: Feb 7th, 2006 1:21 AM |
| i need some really fun pary games!!! ↑ |
| Name: Danielle | Date: Feb 25th, 2006 12:52 PM |
| I'm trying to throw a 10 yaer old sleep over and i need fun game can u help me? ↑ |
| Name: bell | Date: Mar 5th, 2006 5:52 AM |
| what them should i do for a 17 year old party??????????????????????????????????????????/ ↑ |
| Name: Marilyn | Date: Mar 27th, 2006 6:31 PM |
| Name: Eddie Brown | Date: Mar 28th, 2006 6:07 PM |
| No I don't have any money to give you i'm sorry ↑ |
| Name: Janna | Date: Mar 29th, 2006 9:23 PM |
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