Your kids' best and worst parties!

[Echobelly]

For a bit of a laugh, what are the best and worst parties you've thrown for your kids?

DD's best one was probably bath-bomb making when she was 8 or 9 - roaring success and lots of fun. We also had a good one for her 4th where we booked some people who did music with little kids, partly because one of them used to be in Sigue Sigue Sputnik - they were great and really marshalled a room of 30 overexcited kids!

Her 10th b'day sleepover was fun for her but a bit of a 'mare for me! Thank god not all the girls invited could come - 5 was more than enough. And one close friend suffers from a condition were even tiny amounts of gluten makes her very sick so I was exhausted from constantly washing my hands and making sure not a crumb of gluten got near her food - OTOH was glad I did it as it helped her recover from being a bit traumatised by a difficult school trip and , with a few late tearful calls home, she stayed all night.

Son is August b'day so parties are difficult - the worst was going bowling when they were 6 - I underestimated just how bad 6 year old boys are with turn taking! And we spent half the time trying to stop two of them playing tag around the bowling alley. A themed party shared with a classmate the year before with costumed entertainers worked rather better.

Both kids had Laser Tag parties which were great partly because no tidying up involved, thank God!

easiest was probably the sport center party, the staff did most of it we just set up the food

worst his 1st, a house party where no one showed up

we have done and all have been successful:
Cinema
Sports
Swimming
Disco
Xbox
Bowling
Pizza

@TastelessBracelets

We did a build a bear party with t-shirt decorating and the girls did the entire lot in about 10 minutes and then rampage. And DD had helped herself to the invite pad and I had no idea how many kids were going to turn up so had to buy so many bears on the off chance the entire world showed up.

And we had one soft play party when one child threw up all over my feet and their parent couldn't get there for ages which meant DH had to deal with all the kids and parents while I babysat the puker with bits of vomit stuck between my toes and the wetness seeped up my trousers towards my knees.

And there was the one were the parents hired an entertainer who looked like Ken Dodd and whose whole act was basically Jimmy Savile and Paul Daniels and this was only about 5 years ago. The jokes were bordering on racist/sexist and the kids were only 4. It was horrifying. No one was laughing.

not a party I threw but DS was invited to a party when he was 5 and the 'magician' grabbed and barated him in front of the other kids (for lining up on the boys team for game his own over reaction because he had mistake our son for a girl) and mocked us as parents because he looked 'gay' and 'girly' (dispite the fact he was wearing normal jeans, boots and a checky blue shirt like most other boys)

closest I have ever come to punching someone and I'm still furious when I think about it to this day... I mean who says that stuff to a CHILD