Balls, Balls, Balls

[yawningmonster]

Ds will be two in September. We are having a very low key do which is essentially a glorified playdate with his best mates. I thought it may be fun to do a theme as the kids are too young for games etc and my ds is crazy for balls (he is getting a basketball hoop for bday)
Ideas so far: Food: Soccerball cake, popcorn balls, cherry toms, grapes, mini meatballs...

A ball pit (clam shell with soft balls in)
Basketball set
Party bags with balloon, small ball, and a sporty sticker
(hired) mini soccer net and croquet or golf set

Puting up christmas balls and mirror balls as decoration

Any other ideas, want cheap and simple please...

please

you can get either at pizza hut or dominos a football pizza, it has meatballs, cherry tomatoes on it in the pattern of the black bits on a white football. i'm sure it would be dead easy to copy, and look very effective. and i think you can get a football pinata, but 2 might be a bit young?

just remembered my mum did a great cake for my nephew, flat oblong sponge, iced green with white lines, little plastic footballers from a cake decoration shop on it to make a 'pitch'.

Bubble machines make ball shapes.

if it really is a very low key do, you've got plenty of ideas!
I'd skip hiring anything at all, and indeed most of the decorating (they're two! they won't care!) and focus on the cake with the candles. And add more balloons (always popular and v cheap, no need for helium). Don't wory too hard about entertaining them - once they've eaten all the food and popped half the balloons they'll probably be ontent to run around screaming with little further input from you.

bear in mind that if you start to go all out for parties at this age, they may expect something equally (or more) impressive every year...