Anyone done a chocolate making party for kids?

[Lindtnotlint]

Hello!

My soon to be 6 year old hates entertainers, and is a bit mixed on parties in general. I am trying to work out what I can do for 24ish kids that will be fun and have some wow factor but not involve:
-entertainer
-competitive games
-lots of free play stuff where kids form into little groups and some can be left out (including potentially the birthday kid)

One idea that seems to exist is a chocolate making party where some nice people bring moulds/liquid choc/marshmallows etc and spend about an hour helping kids make their own chocolates.

Any experience? Recommendations? Reactions? Alternatives?

As you may guess I am slightly stressed about it all - most popular ones we have been to have been very unstructured/carnival style but with tonnes of activities/bouncy castles/coconut shy/face paint type stuff and I am not sure we can pull that off with “enough” stuff to keep people occupied and thereby avoid the disaster of soft play last year where everyone played with each other and birthday child felt left out...

Thanks for any wisdom!

What about different crafts? One of my DDs went to a party where they used fabric pens to decorate an apron then they wear the apron to do another craft or make their own pizza then while it cooks they can decorate cookies or cupcakes.

That sounds so much fun. How do you find people to do this?

Depends e
Where you are but there is a bead lady locally who does bead parties. They are fab.

There’s a mobile craft thing run by franchises- called Creation Station. I’ve had them for 2 of my children, one in year 1 and one in year 2 - both enjoyed them a lot.

She didn’t enjoy her own party because there were 24 kids! Let her invite 6-8 children she genuinely plays with most and what sort of theme you have for your party will become secondary.

Bowling is good as you are in teams.