 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
|
 |
|
|
In this hints and tips page, you will find little bits of information that will help your party to be a success. It contains useful hints that I have
learnt while performing, and organising childrens parties. Remember the best parties are those that have been planned.
|
|
|
Booking a good entertainer will make your party special, and memorable for your guests. I hope you find my tips
useful.
|
|
Children's parties can be great fun, or absolute nightmares for parents, for a variety of reasons. However, there are a number of hints on what
to do and what not to do that I recommend you take into account when making plans.
|
|
| Planning: |
|
|
Do plan well ahead who you wish to invite, the type of party you want, and details of the food. It is most important not to invite more children
than you can easily cope with, or have room for - it spells disaster to have a packed house you cannot control, and it is just as important not to mix the age groups. Your two-year old may get on well at home with your six-year old, but at a party you
cannot mix the age groups two through seven without problems.
Confine the party to those within a year of two of the birthday child's age, and don't give in on the doorstep when two-year old William arrives with six-year old Emma, and looks as if
he wants to stay.
It's also quite unnecessary for mom to stay because six-year old Jane looks tearful on arrival. After all, they don't stay at playgroup or school, and the children survive. I often find that the child who arrives looking lost
and tearful turns out to be the one who needs most control after a short while.
|
|
|
Food: |
|
|
Food should be a simple affair without too much choice, frills or ceremony. Whatever we adults like to think, our children, on the whole, are
not sophisticated, nor do they have educated tastes in food. I have seen the most expensive foods ignored or wasted, while the crisps, Trix and coco puffs have been devoured.
Sandwiches, on the whole, are also a dismal failure, and there is a
great tendency for small children to be over supplied with fizzy drinks, often resulting in a nasty mess from one or both ends to be cleared up.
Far too many children's parties are spoilt by going on for too long. Experience has shown that two
hours is the ideal needed for a really good party for children in the four to ten-year old range.
|
|
|
| Party Themes: |
|
Dress-up parties are fun for the older children, but not so with the younger group. Many of the costumes worn at these parties are home-made,
and in a lot of cases impractical and sometimes dangerous. There are always those who cannot see, cannot eat, cannot sit, and cannot stand, together with those who have sharp sticks, bows and arrows, knives, and plastic bags over their heads. Again, why
not try the professionals if you want costumes?
In recent times there has been a tendency to have video parties at home, or visits to hamburger place for children's parties. In my opinion neither is a great idea, as the first is like watching
television all afternoon, and the second is tiresome for parents. Getting umpteen children to a place usually situated in the centre of town is not easy, especially if there are parking problems. Then finding that the children do not eat the goodies
provided is not much fun.
|
|
|
|
Why not avoid these problems and hire a professional entertainer !! |
|
|
Finally |
|
|
|
If you want a good party, plan it, keep it simple, keep it short.
Restrict numbers and age ranges, and remember :- |
|
|
|
You can't beat live entertainment.
|
|
|
 |
|
|
HOME |
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
HOME |
|
|
|
|