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12 Yr old Sleepover party for Boys??

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BlackrockMum · 24/10/2018 11:29

Start with apology WWYD may not be best place for this but not sure where I should post, just looking for a few ideas, here is my problem my DS adores his older DS, anything she does is just perfect far as he's concerned, we are Birthday planning for him at moment, as it is in couple of days over midterm we decided to leave, party, till they all get back to school, as last year half the people he wanted to invite were missing was a toss up between 3 different activities all which he's done and liked and all been done by boys in class, in middle of discussion of pros and cons of each plan, his DS pipes up when I was 12, I had a sleep over party for 4 friends it was fab, and now this is what he wants to do. nothing will dissuade him , hes never had a sleepover party with his friends group and neither have they far as we know, when it was hers we did pizza , they did just dance on wii,( I borrowed two controls so they nearly could all go at once,) had nails done, made them sparkly mock tails (smoothies) in plastic martini glasses and they felt so grown up, slept on living room floor on mattresses, they were happy to sit around admiring their PJ's chatting, but she had had sleepovers for one friend at a time before so most girls had slept at our place before, my problem here is what do you do with bboys, his friends are an odd bod collection some sporty two including mine definatly not into sports, the only thing that seems to unite them is Fortnite

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BlackrockMum · 24/10/2018 12:42

any ideas?

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NewYoiker · 24/10/2018 12:43

Pizzas and gaming sounds like most 12 year old boys idea of heaven..

JupiterDrops · 24/10/2018 12:45

I need at least one full stop in that to make any sense of it 

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ZeroFuchsGiven · 24/10/2018 12:46

give them pizza, pop, sweets and fornite and let them get on with it.

bexcee · 24/10/2018 12:51

Pizza and dvds?

BlackrockMum · 24/10/2018 15:19

@Jupiterdrops sorry, I kept getting error message when I tried to edit the post , so I just gave up and posted along with typos.

Will definetly do pizza, sweets etc. I was worried patents wouldn't be too happy with a whole evening spent online, that is even if its possible for 4 of them to play simultaneously. I am no tech expert.

There is a bit of a row going on at school about Fortnite, teacher has banned all discussions of it. There will come a point where I expect I would have to say get offline, was worried I would have to plan more activities to do.

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Strugglingtodomybest · 24/10/2018 15:27

I think you're over thinking this. Do them a pizza each and let them do whatever they want to do (within reason obviously!).

We regularly have sleepovers here. Last Friday, I had 5 boys, aged 12 and 13, here. 3 were in one room, playing ps4, 2 were in another, all playing ps4 against the others. They tend to bring their own ps4's and TVs with them so they can all play together.

ZeroFuchsGiven · 24/10/2018 15:31

I often have a houseful of 12-13 year old boys, they really dont want for much just food and to be left alone to play fortnite, Same as Struggling they tend to bring their consoles with them.

In all honesty I leave them to it, literally, I have give up trying to tell them to sleep so as long as they are quiet I have no idea what time they eventually go to bed.

Pinkprincess1978 · 28/10/2018 08:01

My ds has had two sleep over party's. Film and PS4 and pizza and cake went down well. Plus playing football outside. It doesn't take much to entertain them.

blueskiesandforests · 28/10/2018 08:12

My 11 year old DS is going to an all boys sleepover party on Tuesday and another on Wednesday - one a delayed 11th birthday for a boy with a summer holiday birthday, and one a 13th birthday party. He went to another 11th birthday sleepover a few months ago.

The one he's already been to was just eating, playing X box Fortza motorsports driving games (age appropriate) and watching DVDs according to his account. They all seemed happy with that.

blueskiesandforests · 28/10/2018 08:15

I've never heard of the kids bringing consoles with them though! Round here I don't think kids have their own, it tends to be a family one in the living room. None of my kids' friends have TVs in their rooms according to the DC so wouldn't have individual consoles, though a lot have laptops.

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