Would 6-7 year old boys like a make a teddy party?

[MrsH73]

My DD is having a soft play party for her 7th birthday, and after food they get to make a Teddy Bear. (a bit like build a bear) I originally planned it with just inviting girls in mind, but there is about 3 boys in her class that she is good friends with, and i know she'd love them to be invited. Would 7 year old boys want to come to a make a bear party?

2 of mine would have 2 wouldn’t. None would like a football party. So like all kids there will always be some who like and some who don’t.

@MsTSwift oh no bet you didn't know whether to laugh or cry ! That Motherland episode is brilliant😀

Yep. Boys love that stuff. My nephews went aged 8 and 10 and made teddies with skate boards.

Mine would love it. He's been to a few sleep overs this year with the "cool" children in class and they all took teddys with them

Mine would.

My nearly 7 year old boy would.

My 8 year old DS would love it!

Mine would. 6-7yo is soppy over cuddly toys and 9 yo went to an 8th birthday at build a bear at that age and they were all really good. DS would accept that as an invitation, but tends to turn down sports like football or noisy events like discos/ rollerskating.

I'd say know your audience. There are members of their classes that I wouldn't rush to invite (actually, I'm beyond inviting them to anything now ), but by that stage, boys being good friends with girls is a promising sign.

My 10yo would still love it too

Thank you for all the replies. Think i'm going to ask the boys mom's first. Like some of you have said, it depends on the boy... 1 might like it but the others may think its uncool.

Please don’t let MsTSwift give you that impression of boys being all boys. Both my boys would have loved it and one still would (he’s 10). My older one did an all boy Build a Bear at 8 and still treasures the bear he made at it.

But I’m very strict on behaviour at kids’ parties - if their friends misbehave they go home. End of.

My 8 year old would have loved it. He had a craft party for his 6th and there were an even number or boys and girls and all the boys loved it. And were utterly well behaved.

Well that is my lived experience! I also was determined not to be sexist why would boys not enjoy the craft? I detest stereotypes and “boys will be boys” and am sorry my experience doesn’t tally with being right on. But it was a truly terrible party of no interest to the attendees (whose mothers also assured me their sons would enjoy it btw some were arty boys). Maybe if the boys in the minority it may have worked but in our case it was mostly boys with 2 girls. Never again

My 6 almost 7 year old wouldn't enjoy it but he is polite and well raised so would join in and then complain to me later. He would love the softplay part so would go for that.

Hmm..I can see both sides ! Mine would love it, and are polite and well raised but also immature and over excitable and I can see them possibly getting swept up in excited silliness in a crowded of equally silly excited 7 year old boys are per MrsTs party ! They wouldn't do it at a party like a soft play party though. I hate the boys will be boys thing but despite mine being quiet and quite anxious they are capable of supreme acts of idiocy and just wtf ness that their older sister never would have contemplated...

Why wouldn't they?

My Great Nephew would have loved the pamper party!

I'm a bit sad that we are still segregating boys and girls into different activities. I dare say some little girls wouldn't like stuffing bears.

If it was only build a bear then I would worry.
My ds would have loved it at that age. But he would have chosen and made the bear within about 15 minutes and would then think playing catch with it or chasing round the shop was more fun. The girls could have spent a couple of hours just on choosing the animal.
As you are only doing it as an extra activity I would say it will be fine and they'll love it.

I recall my children going to a Build a Bear up In Hamleys in London when he was about this age. He chose a panda and football kit clothes for it and got a certificate named after a footballer. Loved that Panda. Away in a box today but not get-ridable!

My DD has a build a bear party at that age and had 3 girls and 2 boys as guests. They all enjoyed it. The boys loved choosing their soft toy and accessories and they didn’t choose the dinosaur toys and football clothes like I expected them too either (Dd did though ).

Tswift tbh your experience sounds less to do with the actual activity and more to do with your lack of control and organisation.

You burnt the food, had crying and sick children being brought in etc etc. Sounds like the kids were left to their own devices. A party without structure will always end that way.

My boys love build a bear type things

My 6yo would love it, he loves teddies. He sleeps with about 10 in his bed!

I don't know why you need to specifically ask if 6-7 year old boys would like it? Why not ask 'would 6-7 year old children like a teddy stuffing party'
All children are different. It doesn't really matter whether they are a boy or girl, they will all have totally different hobbies.

The boys I know would love this. I think MrsTSwift is absolutely focusing on the wrong thing - the party wasn't a disaster because the boys didn't like the activity, but that's what she's choosing to blame it on.

In my defence my co host (dh) had to work dd was ill I was ill too we tried to cancel the party but the guests had all cancelled their childcare as it was after school so we had to press on. My parties are usually AWESOME. We had bear making kits additional t shirts for the bears to decorate with fabric pens pass the parcel Apple bobbing and a disco. The same party for dd1 (all girls) a year before universally agreed to be excellent.

I was triggered when I saw “boys” and “build a bear” in the same sentence