My Niece's Party - Help please!!

[AmyLouise86]

Having quite a large family, we often club together and help each other out but when my sister asked me to help out with her daughters 8th birthday I wasn't expecting to be totally loaded with the work.
I swear its harder to organise then the royal wedding was!!
All of my children are under three so i haven't had much experience planning party where there are loads of little kids running around my sisters house. (where of course i am chaperoning!)
Have any ideas of how to keep them amused for 5 hours??

Well, if you organised the RW, seriously, planning a 8yo's party must be a piece of cake?

5 hours????????

Er good luck with that.

Actually 8th birthday shouldn't be too bad.

Get popcorn, crisps, dim lights and put a DVD and give it a movies theme, that should take up 2 of the 5 hours.

Why so long and why are you doing it all?

A disco! Paint their nails. Put on temporary tattoos. Stick lots of pink balloons up. Got a wii dance game thingy?

Or a long 5 hr walk up a mountain.

5 hrs?????? That is silly. The parents of these kids must be rubbing their hands together. Have you got a local park you can waste an hour at?

She just asked you to help out not organise
so just ask her waht she needs help with
you can do nail painting and food prep maybe

The hike sounds like a good idea :)
Yeah i though films and stuff i was a bit worried they might pick films that are aimed at older audiences you know...
But yeah Thanks

why so long? 5 hours is madness IMHO....

You may want to try some Flowtees - they are paper balloon baskets that you tie to helium balloons and they float around your house like, well, mini hot air balloons really. There are some designs that the kids can colour in as well.

I know a friend had some at her party and the kids seemed to enjoy them, she bought about 10 helium balloons from her local party shop and the kids coloured in and made up the baskets, then got the balloons flying - all in all about an hour to an hour and a half. The kids can take the balloons and baskets home afterwards.

Children under 5 need supervision but 6 and upwards seem to like them and find it easy enough. There is a review of them in the products section as well Link - hope that helps.