Help! DD 5th party, heavy rain forecast and too many people to fit in our house!

[llynnnn]

It's dd's birthday party tomorrow afternoon and the weather forecast is abysmal!
Was planning a lovely garden party where the girls can run around and play etc

Have got pass parcel and musical statue type games planned, BUT what else can keep them amused? We don't have much indoor space for 16 girls (plus parents!) to run?
ANY ideas to keep them occupied are most welcome?

Thanks, I'm panicing.....!

How old is your DD? Could you do some kind of challenge? Like this sort of thing...
www.freshtracks.co.uk/2011/05/free-team-building-activity-egg-drop/

Craft table and get most of the parents to leave and come back. And take half an hour off the planned length.

Saw this work perfectly with a similar problem last weekend- and they only made the change with one hour's notice! Birthday girl went from floods of tears to beaming with delight.

Just seen the clue to your DDs age is in the title, sorry! I guess they might be able to do that with the help of an adult per team... Hmmmm.

Or a movie after the food and party games. Or get them to bring wet weather gear and take them for a splashing in puddles walk?

Push the furniture to the side and make use of all available rooms in your house with different things going on in each room. Eg balloons / music / dancing in the sitting room, craft table (eg making crowns with stickers, glitter pens etc) in the kitchen, biscuit or cake decorating at the other end of the table (v popular at the home parties I've been to), toys laid out in the playroom / bedroom (I find at this age they still like to just play and don't need organised activities all the time). Tell them to bring wellies and do a choc coin hunt in the garden if it stops raining at any point. Embrace the mess and don't worry about the clearing up till the party is over.

Let them move between the rooms as they wish, ie not all 16 doing the same thing at the same time.

How much furniture can you move upstairs?

Thank you for all the replies. Am definitely moving furniture and will ignore mess! Like the idea of having different activities across the rooms and trying to discourage the parents from staying

Thanks

How did it go, OP?