How to organize a children's birthday party

There's no need to spend a fortune on a child's birthday party. Planning a low-cost party is absolutely possible: the key is to simplify, take advantage of your home or free spaces (parks and public gardens), and focus on creative activities rather than expensive, showy items.

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Where to celebrate

If the weather permits, it's always best to celebrate outdoors. A garden, a terrace, but also a park, a playground, or a sports club. Children certainly have more fun outdoors than indoors, and there are more play options. Indoors, aside from your home, which you should equip for the party and therefore clear out as much space as possible, a good alternative could be a gym or a large library. Other options include a cozy bar or a movie theater, followed by a stop at a sandwich shop.

Invitations

Don't be too intrusive with invitations: the children should choose. And decide whether to focus, for example, only on their classmates or expand the group to include neighbors and a few relatives. Don't force friends' children: you could ruin the party. There's no limit on particularly lively children; they bring warmth and are guaranteed to have fun.

decorations

Use your imagination and recycle. Balloons are a classic, but you can also add masks and small DIY games. Have fun designing, with a touch of humor and lightheartedness, some greeting cards at the entrance and inside the party venue. Recycled glass bottles are ideal for making floral decorations.

Animator

An entertainer isn't a must. But if the children are very young, it can be helpful. In this case, choose a professional, negotiating the price. Then there are the relatives: a friendly uncle, a lively grandfather. There are you, the parents. And there are them, the children, excellent entertainers by nature.

Themed accessories

A respectable party always includes a theme and accessoriesYou can easily make the latter yourself, with imagination and without stress... in the kitchen!

To realize 30 rings with “precious” stones You will need these ingredients:

15 g butter
40g of marshmallows
60 g of puffed rice
Candies
Licorice laces

Method

Melt the butter with the marshmallows in a bain-marie. Remove from the heat, add the rice blown and mix well.

Place the dough between two sheets of parchment paper (it will be very sticky while warm) and roll it out with a rolling pin until it's about 2 cm thick. Now the kids can work with the dough: give them cookie cutters to cut out the bases for their rings.

Attach the licorice string to each shape to hold the ring on your finger. Attach the candies, which will serve as gemstones, and let your rings harden before wearing them.

Mini sandwiches with sandwich bread homemade stuffed with cooked ham and sliced cheese
Panini with basil, salami and cheese
Mini croissants with the Nutella
Slices of Team Building white, better if made with the mother pasta
Slices of Team Building red
Homemade piadina
Jam tart
Popcorn
Biscotti
fresh fruit
The birthday cake

Birthday Cake

Don't waste money buying a birthday cake: the best one will always be homemade. For example, with one of these recipes. If the party is in spring, the ideal cake is a fruit tart. Homemade, of course.

Toys

In detail we suggest you How to entertain children in a fun and enjoyable way:

16pm: Arrival of guests and free games with balloonsBlow up lots of balloons and leave them scattered on the floor.

4:30 PM: The hot potato. This game is prepared like this: take the newspaper e small prizes (Soap bubbles, candy, gadgets like pencils and erasers). Then begin wrapping the first sheet of newspaper, then the second, and so on, trying to form a ball, sealing everything with a bit of tape. Arrange the children in a circle, sitting down, and start the music. Explain to the children that the hot potato is hot and must be passed quickly, otherwise they'd be holding it constantly, waiting for the music to end. As soon as the music stops, whoever is holding the ball can unwrap the first sheet of newspaper... and so on. This game is suitable for all children: from 2 to 12 years old.

17 hours: pin the tail on the donkey: Draw the outline of a donkey on a piece of poster board. Use some wool thread to tie a pendant to resemble the donkey's tail. Take a piece of Velcro and glue one end to the donkey's tail drawing and the other end to the pendant. Now blindfold the children and ask them to attach the tail to the correct spot on the poster board.

17.30 hours: baby dance: no self-respecting party can be without a baby dance.

6:30 PM: Unwrapping of gifts
19 hours: Cake birthday

If you don't feel like organising games in such a detailed way you can set up small tables with watercolours or coloured pencils and plenty of paper, Play-Doh homemade and molds, small containers with materials of various types and shapes for making decantings or pasta necklaces.

Alternatively, you can tell your little ones a fairy tale and have them pretend to be fairies or pirates: give them a magic wand and pirate mask and start telling the adventures of the characters in your chosen tale. To save on masks and wands, a great solution is online: Mix Parties For example, you can find everything you need to organize an unforgettable party, from decorations to games, at very reasonable prices.

Avoid comparisons with other children's parties

Every children's party has its own story. You don't need to copy others', nor make comparisons. Find your own dimension, and give your children's party its own identity, without overdoing it with eccentric solutions. And remember that children are the first to understand, and they have no need to compare the parties they attend. For them, the important thing is to have fun and make others have fun.

How to organize a children's birthday party on a budget