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8th birthday party/get together

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Lollipopslife17 · 30/09/2019 19:10

Hi all, I am having a party or a get together at hone for my sons 8th birthday at the weekend. I will like to have an entertainer but looks like I can't afford it. What can I do with the kids to make them enjoy themselves. It's only 5 kids + my 2 kids so I'm there would be a maximum of 10 kids in all. I am dreading it. Any ideas pls

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WorraLiberty · 30/09/2019 19:14

There's a few ideas here

WorraLiberty · 30/09/2019 19:14

The mummy wrap looks good Grin

ConstanzaAndSalieri · 30/09/2019 19:16

I would:

Decorate their own pizzas
Concoct their own crazy pancake toppings
Watch a movie with popcorn
Set a few challenges with Lego or something (but depends on space).
Take them to the park with a frisbee (not a football unless they’re all of a similar ability)

Do they all know each other?

Lollipopslife17 · 30/09/2019 19:20

@ConstanzaAndSalieri yes they are all in the same class

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Stompythedinosaur · 30/09/2019 20:09

We did a harry potter party for dd1's 8th, did various lessons (potions, charms etc) and played Quidditch. Then had tea, and had a surprise mystery for the dc to solve (using the things they learnt in their earlier lessons). It went really well.

The year before we had a sleepover with an indoor camping theme, which was simple and worked well.

Lollipopslife17 · 30/09/2019 20:14

@Stompythedinosaur good idea thanks. It is actually a harry potter themed party. I guess Amazon Alexa would have to step up her game on that day with the harry potter quiz etc

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alwayscauseastir · 30/09/2019 20:20

My daughter is 11 this time and still wants a pass the parcel and pin the tail on the donkey 😂

Stompythedinosaur · 30/09/2019 20:20

Harry Potter is a really good theme. If you want me to share any of what we did then give me a shout. The potions lesson was probably the best activity (there's loads of easy things to do with household ingredients).

Lollipopslife17 · 30/09/2019 22:32

@Stompythedinosaur plan kindly share your ideas with me. I need those ideas pls thanks

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OpposableThumbs2 · 30/09/2019 22:53

My DD has a Harry Potter themed 8th birthday. They made wands, had a feast and watched the first film. I decorated the house a fair amount.

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raspberryk · 30/09/2019 23:07

Just let them run wild

Stompythedinosaur · 01/10/2019 08:22

Ok, this is what we did. The party was for 10 dc (my 2 plus 8 guests).

We decorated by making signs painted on cardboard for the different rooms of the house - the front door had a Hogwarts sign, the living room was the charms classroom, the dining room was the great hall, the kid's bedroom was the Gryffindor dormitory, the spare room was the positions classroom. I also stuck a print out of moaning myrtle on the inside of the loo seat, wrote "the chamber of secrets has been opened" on a mirror in lipstick and got out any toys the dc had that were vaguely harry potter like (such as cuddly owls and dragons) and popped then around the place. We had made Quidditch hoops by taping hula hoops to some 2x2 wood which we stood up by hammering a garden stake into the ground and then taping the 2x2 wood to it (used gorilla tape which was very strong). We used the green opposite our house for this but you might have a garden? The final prep was hiding a bunch of plastic spiders and rats left over from a Halloween party in the garden, as well as a giant spider. Do and I also dressed up in wizards hats and black clothes and told everyone we were professor mcgonigal and professor snape.

The activities were:
Lesson 1 - charms. We gave out wands (i got a pavk of 11 wands from ali express for £10, these acted as party bags too). We started with teaching a sleeping charm, we demonstrated it on an adult (so the dc got the idea that they had to dramatically fall asleep) then let them practice in pairs. Then we split the group in half and I did wingardium leviosa using a wand with a small magnet glued on and a feather with a small magnet glued on. Dp did incendio as w happened to have a remote flint flasher that meant he could make an object flash when the spell was cast.

Second lesson was care of magical creatures. Sent the dc out into the garden to find the hidden creatures, and told them to beware of Aragon the spider. They predictably chased each other with the spider a bit.

Third lesson was potions. We had set up a camping table with lots of ingredients in small potion bottles bought from eBay and we had some plastic cauldron left over from Halloween. I got the potion ideas from this website.

Fourth lesson was Quidditch. We played 5 a side with 2 chasers (who tried to put the waffle through the hoops), 2 beaters (who used a bluster to tag the chasers and freeze them for 10 seconds) and a seeker (who would end the game by catching the tiny bouncy ball that me and dp threw to each other across the pitch). We swapped around so everyone got a go at being seeker.

After that we did "the great feast". It was mainly hotdogs and pizza, I'd made owl cupcakes and some golden snitch sweets by gluing wings to ferraro rocher.

After they had eaten I broke the news that the philosophers stone had been stolen, and the thief had only left a torn up message. The dc found all the bits and put them together to find a prophesy that the mirror of erised would show how the find the stone if they sprayed it with water. I had bluetacked the words from the mirror of erised around a mirror in the spare room and I had used rain-x to carefully paint words on the mirror that were invisible when dry but showed up when sprayed with water. The dc did that and were told to go to the charms classroom. Meanwhile dp had put on a mask and was pretending to be a cave troll. The dc had to cast the sleeping spell (do did dramatic acting) to get past him to rescue a big plastic gem.

After that the dc did some free play for a while while we cleared up, then we put on the harry potter film before bedtime.

We had one last activity where a couple of cloaks were delivered outside the bedroom door with a knock and a note saying they were invisibility cloaks to get the midnight feast the house elves had left in the kitchen. Dp and I patrolled as teachers and sent the students back to their dormitory if we saw them not in a cloak or they made too much noise, we had left a basket of snacks and drinks for them to sneak by and get.

And that as pretty much it! Sorry it is a bit long to write down.

Lollipopslife17 · 09/10/2019 08:53

@Stompythedinosaur phew thanks for all that.

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Lollipopslife17 · 09/10/2019 09:05

So I had the party last Saturday with only 4 kids and I bought everything harry potter but the kids had their own plans and just went running around playing around the house. They were not interested in any ideas I had planned 🙄 it was fine by me as I didn't really want to do anything anyway but was going to do what I had to make things perfect. We ended up not doing anything planned. I thought it was ok or to be honest, I felt I failed. But my son said he enjoyed himself (he is a diplomatic boy and does not like to upset people) and a parent sent me a msg saying how much her son enjoyed Himself (I guess they will say that). 🤷‍♀️🏽🙄

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