Kids birthday party

[MollieParks]

Hi

I am having a small party for my daughter at home in a couple of months (hopefully), I just know that there will be a couple of parents who will bring siblings along without asking and expect them to stay at the party and participate, receive a party bag etc.

Is there a polite way of saying that we can’t accommodate siblings without offending??

Every scenario I run through in my head sounds rude!!

TIA 😊

What age? Old enough to be dropped off.. give a pick up time.
Younger... ask for children to only be accompanied by one person due to space issues.

If you're expecting the parents to stay then there will be some who may have to bring another child with them.
If you're happy for the invited children to be dropped off it's mighty cheeky if they tried to leave another child too...
I'd put on the invite
Due to the current situation we are keeping numbers to under 10. ( or whatever).
We're really sorry if this causes any inconvenience but hope that X ( invited child's name) can come join us.

Just say unfortunately due to limited space siblings cannot be accommodated. Parents are welcome to drop off as there will be plenty of adults to help supervise (and make sure there is).

I'd just say something like "As we have to keep numbers down, I'm afraid we can't accommodate siblings".

It's not rude at all.

I’ve done the whole pls don’t bring siblings as we don’t have space thing and it still bloody happened! Our last birthday party was at home and there is exactly room for 10 children round the table for tea…except I was landed with 12, the extra 2 being little siblings three yrs younger who then also expected party bags. Quite annoying! And it wasn’t the case of the parents being single parents. The other parent stayed at home!

Thank you all!!

My daughter will be 9 so definitely old enough for the other kids to be dropped off. I hadn’t actually thought about including on the invitation that we’ll be keeping numbers down and that there will be plenty of other adults to help, great suggestions, thank you!

I just had visions of parents turning up with siblings and leaving them here but hopefully if I make it clear in the invite that shouldn’t happen.

Thanks very much 🙂