[Closed] Kid's party ideas

Fill the hall with nerf guns & live chickens.

Add children.

we've tended to go a bit more 'exclusive' than 'invite the whole class' from about 6 onwards. I have a 7 y/o

- last year they did jewelry making - at home, spag bol afterwards
- Year before pottery painting, then next door for pizza express
- This year will be crafts (as yet unsure what that entails), then spag bol.

There are plenty of people that will come around to your house and entertain a few kids for a few hours

for the younger one.... I think we did a dance thing last year, where we hired a dance teacher to play music and dance with them. Thankfully it was a work day.

Social Services took a very dim view of my 'Introduction to Class A Drugs' party, that I hosted in a local farmers field. But, to be fair to me, the kids all thought it was great!

We hired a local gym club... they had all the fun stuff you could ever need.
And before any one says it, no injuries, but we did have to keep an permanent eye on the foam pit...

Generally people pay through the nose to run around soft play for a couple of hours then be fed shit food by grumpy people.

On a recent government funded survey, the top choice for the [b]KIDS [/b]at a kids party was to run around soft play for a few hours, then eat shit.
Odd that.. 😉

DrP

Taking my 6yr old and 5 mates he chooses to go ape,then to a well known burger chain on the way home...Fed up with enormous parties

We hired a local hall and two bouncy castles.

We hired Mike Hall, and two castles (Arundel and Edinburgh).

That's how I roll..

DrP

For my eldest's 6th we hired the local bowling club function room and got my dad to bring round his karoake/disco gear for a disco party. Unfortunately my dad forgot that he wasn't playing to a pub full of p*ssed up geordies on a Saturday night and it was so loud that all the parents complained. The kids loved it though.

On a recent government funded survey, the top choice for the KIDS at a kids party was to run around soft play for a few hours, then eat shit.

Not sure about that tbh. There are that many parties that going to soft play happens every 2-3 weeks. Hardly memorable.

Done the soft play/manky food thing a couple of times, bit underwhelming.

10yo's birthday the other weekend - hired a 5 a side pitch at the leisure centre round the corner for 2 hours, got shifted into an indoor hall because of the snow. Just me, eight 9/10 year olds plus two 6 year olds for the two hours, we just played football, first to 3 wins then swapping teams about to ensure everyone got to be in everyone's team. Bottles of water and orange segments on hand, it was brilliant fun.

When that was done, marched them round to our house where Mrs Tyred had a birthday feast waiting, then they all flopped down in the living room with popcorn and watched the Lego movie. Then it was hometime. Best - and cheapest - party ever. Parents all in touch the next day to thank us for the excellent night's sleep they'd just had!

Last year the 6yo had more or less the same sort of thing with his mates (only for an hour though) - not quite as successful as there were a few not that into the football for more than half an hour. After football, they all came round and congregated round a big pile of Lego, that went down well with all of them, they were noisy but not out of control. They just like hanging out with their mates outside of school.

You could expand on softplay and make it a 'Frozen' softplay party 🙁

I went to two in a row at the same softplay in January. Then a 'Frozen' themed party at the local village hall at the start of Feb. Now all my daughter goes on about is having a 'Frozen' party for her birthday. 👿

I'm losing the will to live. Let it go let it go aaaahhhh

how about dry-slope skiing? but remember to send an invoice to anyone that doesn't turn up....

We just hired a village hall and stuck a bouncy castle in it and took a loud stereo. We did the food. Worked out.much cheaper than soft play thing and all the kids thought it was great

You could expand on softplay and make it a 'Frozen' softplay party

**** off.

We hired the local church hall, booked a fantastic puppet guy and made a proper slap up scrummy tea for them all.

Mentally hard work, pretty much never spoke to anyone but everyone had a great time. You can put the effort in and it does pay off but it does take a bit of organising. Not sure if it was any cheaper mind.

And if you're in the North East, I would recommend the entertainer - kept 40 kids (it was a big hall so we invited mates kids round too!) in awe for 90 minutes then played some decent games with them. One grandmother/ex-teacher of one of the girls said it was like proper old-fashioned parties, which I took as a compliment.

Next year we did the local aquarium, so sort of slightly high-brow middle class version of the soft play, but instead of playing the the ball pool I ended up high fiving a seal - something to tick off the bucket list!

Best party last year was for a bunch of 4-5yr olds - outdoor ball games run by a couple of twenty-somethings. Part of a franchise type thing. Okay, you need the weather and a patch of grass but that's it. Loads of noise and running around followed by food. Have their card somewhere.

This year we're thinking of getting a mate round to run an arty/crafty session. He works with kids/schools and is awesome at getting them engaged and of course giving them something they can take away.

EDIT: another great party was when this zoo/animal person came round with a marquee and brought loads of little reptiles etc; spiders, snakes, lizards ... Very hands on and educational. ALL the kids were gripped for what must have been 90 minutes at least.

We were also thinking possibly crafts - my wife likes that kind of thing.

Alternatively - half a dozen giant 5ft wide beach balls would probably get them going.. I know it would me 🙂

My daughters 8th birthday is coming up. She is a climbing fanatic but her mum doesn't think a climbing party will be popular with her friends.

So this years party is a pony party. Not just any pony party, they get to paint bloody things hooves (Is that the name), braid its hair, and........paint it!!!!!!

I couldn't believe it when she showed me the brochure. Apparantly the ponies love it

Have you got one of those indoor skiing places anywhere near?

I was in one working when there was a kids party going on, sliding around on truck innertubes etc. looked ace

My lad turned 8 last week. I took him, 4 of his school friends and one of their dads (a riding mate) to the big town for fish and chips then Big Hero 6 at the cinema. I really enjoyed it, both the food and the film. So my suggestion is mind trick your child into wanting to do something you want to do.

Molgrips ours just turned 6 and we hired a "science" party with scientist and assistant. He kept the kids entertained for 90 minutes with kids friendly experiments and surprises, ending up with them making their own slime to take home.

He loved it, as did his friends parents, if you want the details I can get them for you.

Took my 8 yr old and couple of her friends to pizza express for a party, they get to decorate Chefs hats, make there own pizzas, they all got a starter a pizza and ice cream think it worked out about £10 per child

Done the bouncy castles in a rented hall thing. Try your local authority, they usually have a leisure team who do that kind of team. Took my youngest to his friends party, which was supposed to be den building in some woods, but the poor kid in charge hadn't got a clue...so being a Scout leader I [i]had[/i] to step in. Kids loved it. There's something about lashing up a tarp, adding camouflage & eating in a den.

Best party we ever did was at Stafford Castle. For £50 we had a brilliant themed banguet room & the services of a guide in a knights outfit. He led the kids on a mission to storm the castle remains & find a pot of gold coins. The birthday boy was then knighted before we all trooped back for the feast. We did the food but it was a great day.

Have done a party at a climbing wall also, that went down a treat.

We found a local authority run outdoors / foresty type centre where the kids learnt to make a big outdoor shelter from fallen logs / branches / etc, then had a picnic in it afterwards. One of the only parties we've done where more dads than mums came along - they loved it and this was in January! 😀

British bulldogs ftw.
Or,The RAF museum in hendon does parties(mainly boys tbh)that look a great laugh.
Anything like that near you?
Or British bulldogs with five foot wide beach balls.......?

You need a superhero - maybe someone to dress up as Captain America? 😉

Some awesome ideas noted for future reference. I think I might have to start organising parties for monkey jnr outside of birthday time 🙂

Various things we have sat through/put on:

Local leisure centre swim parties, "sports parties"

Tour of Derby County's IPro Stadium, followed by 5 a side at the sports complex opposite.

Indoor climbing wall

Roller skating (again a local leisure centre, provided all the stuff.

Science Party - some simple but visually clever colour changing/fizzing/banging experiments

Last year for a 6yo boy was a magician in the village hall - not expensive and very good.

This year for a 7 yo I'm taking 10 of them to Battle Zone, an outdoor laser quest in hastings.

[quote=molgrips ]We were also thinking possibly crafts - my wife likes that kind of thing.We had/attended a couple of pottery painting parties. Works great for smaller groups and they had animal figures etc. as well as cups and plates.

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Have you got one of those indoor skiing places anywhere near?

I was in one working when there was a kids party going on, sliding around on truck innertubes etc. looked ace

He does. There is one in Llandaff. I haven't been there, but I am tempted to take a look.

Molgrips, have you looked into Techniquest? I am pretty sure they do some good kids-based stuff.

Some great stuff here but much of it doesn't sound cheap!

She's inviting the whole class, not sure how many will come. And they're only 6 remember.

There is one in Llandaff.

It's a dry slope, no?

Techniquest - yeah not sure about that. It's actually quite hard to get anything out of it I reckon unless you are really prepared to think or talk about the science. And that's rather difficult with 20 over excited 6 year olds.