Just can't decide!!!

[SheRa1980]

Please forgive my "mis-posting" as I doubt this is the right thread for this.

4 yr olds birthday party: Lovely private cinema near me that would hold most of his class on lovely leather sofas- A super hero themed - fancy dress cinema morning watching something like The Incredibles. Followed by a pinata and some games, food and cake.

Is it too ambitious to expect them to sit and enjoy that? And is this just a glorifies TV session.... :-/

aaaaah!!

Sounds too long for 4 year olds to be honest. I'd do a soft play, then snacks afterwards, an hour (ish).

Honestly? It all sounds a bit tryhard to me.

At four, I they will just want to barrel around with their mates and get high on party rings. Excellent idea for a teenagers party though.

Cheers guys. We did soft play last time - joint for 2 and 3 yr old. This yr, we'll do City farm for the younger turning 3 as weather will be better (i hope) but need a suitably interesting/active session for DS1!

Scrapping cinema!

Any ideas for alternatives to soft play in SW7 - SW17 area? Or a soft play that isn't Eddie Catz (Tooting), Gambados (Chelsea) or Gymboree (Wimlbledon)....?

:-(

What about a circus party? Hire a room, get them to dress up as clowns with face paints etc, then teach them tricks like juggling and balloon modelling. Either that or the zoo.

Love the zoo idea but this is for first week in march. The temperatures now scare me and who knows what it'll be like in 4 weeks!?

DS1 hates clowns :-)

Thank you though...

What about a spaceman party?

That sounds like fun! What's one o' them!?

When DD1 turned 7 we had a springtime make-your-own-pizza party that turned into a funeral for a dead baby bird . The little girls were genuinely saddened at the discovery of the lifeless body, all had ideas about the grave, how deep to dig, where to dig, what to wrap the deceased in, how to decorate the grave after the burial. They even gathered around and had a fairly formal service. It was priceless.

The individual pizzas were good too. If I were to do it again I would use real dough and not prebaked pizza bases so that they could all wear themselves out stirring and kneading. I would keep a batch of already made dough to hand so there wouldn't be much time to wait for rising (and to stave off disappointment/panic if it didn't rise), or maybe children would like to play a few party games while the dough rose?

*make sure you have some sure fire way of identifying which pizza belongs to which child and a large capacity oven or the loan of a neighbour's so nobody is left waiting for their pizza while others eat.

Decorate the room in a 'space' theme, eat 'space (dried) food (dried fruits etc) and play space games (pin the tail on the alien, musical martians, pass the asteroid). Very easy and you can do it yourself.