Drop off party - Reception age

[Treezan82]

I'm having a 5th birthday party for dd in 3 weeks in the garden. She wants to invite 10 friends. I would rather parents drop them off at 1pm and pick them up at 3pm so that I don't have an extra 10+ people in the garden to sort out.

Would you drop off and leave a Reception age child at a party like this or would you want to stay with them?

I was thinking of putting both options on the invitation but hope most would opt not to stay.

There will be 2 adults to 12 kids (including our 2) and I am a teacher FWIW.

Thanks!

I’d stay only because I want to keep an eye on my child, check she doesn’t get carried away and forget to go to toilet or silk etc.
I would hate to be solely in charge of other peoples 5yr olds- sounds hellish.

At that age most parents will want to stay , sometimes it’s useful for working parents to stay at parties so that they get to know other parents if they don’t normally do the drop off / pick up from school .

I wouldn’t leave a reception age child personally.

No one in reception or Year 1 have dropped off here at any party I've been to / hosted

Holding a year 1 party in a few weeks.
My invites explicitly said drop off time and pick up.

I've got enough to deal with a group of children to feed and entertain without making tea and coffee and it's much too early for wine 🤷‍♀️