I've booked a "bouncy castle and soft play" party for ds's 3rd birthday at our local leisure centre. Couldn't have it at home because our house is tiny and it's winter so can't really use the garden.
This is the first birthday party I've had to arrange, I thought that doing it at the leisure centre would mean all I had to do was turn up but it's a bit more complicated than that! It's £7.50 per child with food included for a minimum of 12 children which is a whole lot of money for us to find. I now need to sort out a cake, decorations, balloons, table decorations and party bags on a shoestring.
At the last party ds went to his party bag contained a couple of plastic toys which literally fell apart within minutes. I'd love to do something a bit more classy for party bags - maybe one nice gift and a piece of cake.
If anyone has any ideas of how to do this cheaply and make the kids happy I'd love to hear them. Where's a good place to buy decorations? And can you think of anything I could bring in case the bouncy castle and soft play aren't popular with all the children?
Please help me!