Twins having friends over for tea

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our twins are 4 and in reception, when did you start having friends over for tea & play? How did you do it? One twin has a friend one night? Or both twins have a friend each?

They are g/b twins and are in the same reception class at school if that makes any difference!

I don't have twins.
I have DD aged 5 and DS aged 3.
They are in different classes at the same school and they share many of their friends.
They have been having friends over to play for a year or two. In the beginning it was mainly DD's friends, now it is both of their friends.
I rarely invite their separate friends over at the same time. Friends usually come one at a time unless they too are siblings.
However, it really doesn't matter. Both my DCs play with whoever is in the house, whoever's friend they are.
I think you'll find that they both play together with whoever you invite.

We found it worked better if we had friends over in twos. If you just ask one then one twin always gets left out and sad.
Even now we still try to keep the numbers even for parties/outings.

My two are also B/G and in the same reception class. I' m leaning towards inviting a friend each as DS can be a bit disruptive at the best of times towards whatever DD is doing. Timing is a bit of an issue for us and can see that might be the deciding factor.

Not twins, but children in adjacent years. In the UK I found it 90% easier to invite 2 friends to play - that way they both have a friend, I didn't end up being the referee on whose turn was next to have a guest and I could get on with other stuff whilst they were busy.

Here in Australia it doesn't seem to work as easily. Luckily we have made friends with children with siblings of appropriate ages - phew!

I would let them both choose a friend on the same day. I expect it will evolve naturally as they get invited out and you find that one is invited and one isn't.

Ok so dts have a friend each coming on Tuesday!

6 children for tea could be interesting

Will let you know how it goes

4 x 4 year olds and 3 of them very well behaved. Dd (dt1) was a nightmare showing off and being silly to an extreme.

All in all it was successful