Shameless posting for traffic (sorry!). DS's 3rd birthday party next Sunday (10th March). We've recently moved to a house with a (small) playroom and a fair sized garden, so I made the fucking stupid decision to have his party at home this year. I've booked a bouncy castle for the back garden, and had planned to set up Paint Your Own Biscuits on the patio, and the train set in the front room (so pretty much everything outdoors). I planned one game of pass the parcel to get them all sat down while we get the food boxes out of the fridge. All easy and aside from a giant mess at he end, relatively stress and fuss free, with the idea they'll all play with the garden toys.
It's going to rain. The bouncy castle comes with a rain cover, and we have foam play mats we can create a path from the house to it over the lawn, so that's not much of an issue, that can still feasibly be used. However I now have the issue of 21 kids plus parents being largely in the house rather than the kids being mainly outside. Aside from the lack of space, how the hell do I keep them entertained for indoors for a 2 hour party? I had also planned to feed them outside on picnic mats, so I'm going to have to try to clear away before they eat rather than after they've gone.
Is there any way this isn't going to be complete and utter hell?? Any survival tips or bright ideas to get us through this?