party ideas for 8-12 advise

[bouncyball]

Hi, I have a business idea to provide party entertainment for 8-12yr olds. If you could buy a party pack to enable you to entertain a group of children in your own home for an hour guaranteed, would you buy it? All resources and instructions would be included. You would lead and they would follow. The cost would be around £5 per head. Thinking of using ebay to sell it. Would you look there?

Any advise appreciated.

Interesting idea. I don't use ebay, so wouldn't look there. But if someone recommended your party pack to me I might go there. It might be an idea to produce more than one variety of pack as many people will be influenced by recommendations from friends but will not want to do exactly the same parties as their friends.

I would have to consider that the pack would be very much higher quality than what I would otherwise produce for myself. (I suspect that entertaining a group of children in my home for a particular time guaranteed would take a pact with the devil rather than a party pack tbh...)

These are just a few thoughts off the top of my head, but they will serve to bump the thread. All the best for your business.

ta very much. The idea is that there would be different themes of the same idea so if a freinds party was successful you could order the same pack but a different theme!

Understand your thoughts about entertaining at home but was shocked by the cost of parties outside the home so thought about marketing the idea for parents who wished to spend less. The pack would also include extra materials that could be added to a gift pack too for the same price.

bouncyball, have you researched all "the opposition" - bowling parties, MacDonald's etc, leisure centre parties, are not all that expensive (and remove cooking/cleaning up/entertainment responsibility from parents. (Disclaimer - not to be construed as a personal recommendation for any of the above.) Park-based activities with a picnic afterwards are another potential low-cost competitor for your idea. You also need to consider the entertainers who go to homes - they relieve parents of the entertainment responsibility and when you spread the cost around a sufficiently large party it may not work out all that expensive per head.