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Help: 3rd birthday but more adult guests
Hi, I will be having 14 adults and 6 kids (1.5 to 12 yo) for a coming
birthday. What theme do you suggest? Am considering costume party but not sure if all adults will turn up as requested. Any suggestion welcome. Thanks! |
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Jean wrote in :
Hi, I will be having 14 adults and 6 kids (1.5 to 12 yo) for a coming birthday. What theme do you suggest? Am considering costume party but not sure if all adults will turn up as requested. Any suggestion welcome. Thanks! I wouldn't have thought that adults would want to wear custumes to a children's party. Something like "outrageous hats" might go down OK, though. -- Penny Gaines UK mum to three |
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Help: 3rd birthday but more adult guests
Hi, I will be having 14 adults and 6 kids (1.5 to 12 yo) for a coming
birthday. What theme do you suggest? Am considering costume party but not sure if all adults will turn up as requested. Any suggestion welcome. Thanks! Not sure what's available where you live, but we just had a 4yr birthday where there were about 15 adults and 8 kids ranging 3yrs to 8yrs. For food, we did deli stuff for the adults, and for the kids did mini bagel-dogs, mini pizza bagels, and mini white castle burgers (all available at our local wholesale club frozen.) Adults also chowed the kid food! After lunch & cake, we had a local group called "Scales and Tails" come with bugs and turtles and lizards and snakes. It seemed like every age group enjoyed it-- sort of a mini zoo-mobile. Cost was not bad-- $125 for a 45-minute demo. It's a lot less than I would have paid it I went to Chuck E Cheese or something like that. - Blanche |
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Scott Lindstrom wrote in message .. .
Jean wrote in : Hi, I will be having 14 adults and 6 kids (1.5 to 12 yo) for a coming birthday. What theme do you suggest? Am considering costume party but not sure if all adults will turn up as requested. Any suggestion welcome. Thanks! I'm thinking the whole party is too much for a 3-year-old. Or is it for the parents? My suggestion would be for 1-3 children of age 2-4, the closest friends of the child, for 1 or 1.5 hours, with cake and ice cream and maybe a game. Then ship everyone home while the 3-yo naps. When the 3-yo is asleep, invite the adults over for a party that has nothing to do with children. I'm not thinking of this as a "kid party" with a bunch of adults, but as just a party to celebrate the kid's birthday. Most kids are used to being at family get-togethers and the like where there are both kids and adults, so I don't se why what the OP is suggesting should be overwhelming. I didn't have those "kid parties" until my kids were 5 and 4. From 1 to 3, I simply had a big get-together of the people important to our family in order to celebrate the birthday. |
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Help: 3rd birthday but more adult guests
Scott Lindstrom wrote in :
I'm thinking the whole party is too much for a 3-year-old. Or is it for the parents? My suggestion would be for 1-3 children of age 2-4, the closest friends of the child, for 1 or 1.5 hours, with cake and ice cream and maybe a game. Then ship everyone home while the 3-yo naps. When the 3-yo is asleep, invite the adults over for a party that has nothing to do with children. It depends on whether the 3yo is used to this type of gathering. I assumed it was a party for families - perhaps their cousins and aunts and uncles. Admittedly, it is not something I would have done for a 3yo, but I did have similar parties for my 1yos. -- Penny Gaines UK mum to three |
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x-no-archive:yes Penny Gaines wrote:
Scott Lindstrom wrote in : I'm thinking the whole party is too much for a 3-year-old. Or is it for the parents? My suggestion would be for 1-3 children of age 2-4, the closest friends of the child, for 1 or 1.5 hours, with cake and ice cream and maybe a game. Then ship everyone home while the 3-yo naps. When the 3-yo is asleep, invite the adults over for a party that has nothing to do with children. It depends on whether the 3yo is used to this type of gathering. I assumed it was a party for families - perhaps their cousins and aunts and uncles. Admittedly, it is not something I would have done for a 3yo, but I did have similar parties for my 1yos. I'm pretty sure it was when one of my grandsons was 3 or 4 that dd#2 had a combination party for her dh when he graduated from law school and birthday party for him. It was a BIG party. It started in the afternoon and she had a moon bounce for the various children and there was play equipment, and water balloons and I was in charge of supervising the pool. Then they had pizza and cake and the birthday kid opened presents, and the kids part was more or less over and the moon bounce was taken down. More adults came - family, neighbors and work friends and they had a bbq and more adult amusements. Some children were still there that were relatives or children of the neighbors, and some of them went for a sleepover next door. So it was a party, and part of the party was a bday party. But other than the fact that there was some stuff for the kids to do, and a cake it wasn't a BIRTHDAY party - it was a party which happened around a birthday. It sounds as if the OP has a more focused bday party than that - more of a BIRTHDAY party and less a family reunion kind of party celebrating a birthday as part of it. grandma Rosalie |
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Help: 3rd birthday but more adult guests
Hi,
I have seen this done by my neighbor each year. Their child (just turned 4) picks a theme (this year it was Princess Aladden). The parents just come to bring their kids and socialize as parents. There are things for the kids to do outside--color, trampoline, swimming pool filled with water balloons, etc. They just had those large tubs with handles full of snacks, drinks, etc. Really, no theme was needed for the parents--they just enjoyed socializing. Warmly, Pam www.aiminghigher.com (Jean) wrote in message om... Hi, I will be having 14 adults and 6 kids (1.5 to 12 yo) for a coming birthday. What theme do you suggest? Am considering costume party but not sure if all adults will turn up as requested. Any suggestion welcome. Thanks! |
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