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Birthday party for 2 year old - help!

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Skate · 27/09/2004 11:13

Anyone any ideas for celebrating a 2 year old's birthday? There would be kids his age and also ds1's age which is 3.5.

We are on a tight budget so thinking of just doing something at home but anyone got any really good ideas on how to make it special?

I know I could just do the balloons, party tea etc but just wondered if anyone had done anything more interesting.

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littlemissbossy · 27/09/2004 11:17

TBH at that age, they're a bit young for party games, so would stick to a party tea with a theme/favourite character. A good company for party food boxes, cups etc is Party Pieces HTH

Twiglett · 27/09/2004 11:17

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Skate · 27/09/2004 11:18

Thanks - I think you are probably right. Friends keep saying 'do pass the parcel' etc but I'm not sure my ds will 'get' that!!

SO maybe I'll just have them all round, decorate the house with balloons, do party tea and have party bags! Sorted.

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Morgan · 27/09/2004 11:19

Fancy dress party - some kind of theme and make everything around that - like biscuits cake etc trains, pirates whatever suits. we did aprty last week with train biscuits and cake and the trains sets out as my ds is train obsessed.

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Skate · 27/09/2004 11:20

Twiglett - I love the idea of the books. Is the Book Club on-line?

BTW - I'm so impressed with your posts - you talk so much sense and think we'd get on like a house on fire!!!

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welshmum · 27/09/2004 11:23

We bought a small soft ball each for the children then wrapped them and dotted them round the garden, they went out on a present hunt. Needs a bit of supervision to make sure they all get one but they loved it.
The books are such a good idea - I'll do that for dd's 3rd b'day - thanks Twiglett

Hulababy · 27/09/2004 11:28

I would also agree with keeping it simple. Play lots of music (action songs and nursery rhymes) for dancing too, have toys to play with (put any special ones out of harm's reach), lots of baloons for bouncing and throwing. If nice weather some outdoors stuff is good as are bubbles.

We also didn't open presents at the party. If they were toys I wasn't convinced DD would have wanted to share playing with them, and also didn't want to rsik anything getting lost/broken. I just put them to one side straight away.

The book idea, rather than party bags, is a great one

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Skate · 27/09/2004 11:47

There's some really good ideas there - thanks everyone!

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puddle · 27/09/2004 12:09

I'd keep it quite small and simple.
We had dd's birthday party at the weekend which was a great success. We did Pass the parcel and a 'dancing competition' - everyone got a prize in both (sweets in the parcel layers and jellybabies fo dancing). ALl the kids 'got' pass the parcel with some help from their parents! We put lots of toys out and kids played with them and balloons and went in the garden. We had birthday tea and some alcohol and nibbles for parents too. I think that parties at home are so rare now that IME people really enjoy them

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Skate · 27/09/2004 12:42

Puddle - I think you are right. I like the parties at home but nowadays it all seems to be hiring soft-play etc which is mega-expensive (and certainly not worth it for 2 yr olds IMO).

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nikkim · 27/09/2004 19:05

I cant bear those soft play parties as they just don't feel special and individual.

Last year dd 2nd borthday was at home and we just got out lots of toys and she had friends to play and family to visit and a little tea party. Was v cheap and lovely.

This year we hired a church hall which cost £30 and had about 25 children and some family and friends. I will admit to cheating as we hired an entertainer but we did everything else ourslelves and it was lovely, as everything was tailor made to my daughters wishes all the kids came dressed as a prince or princess and we got chance to chat to friends , watch the kids and there was plenty of space for kids to run around. Got ideas for food from Annabel Karmel party book which was fab and we also allowed the kids to decorate their own fairycakes which saved me a job and went down a storm.

For party bags I spent about 90p a head, split up big packs of play dough and glitter glue between the bags and added a pack of pencil crayons which cost 26p.

zippy539 · 27/09/2004 19:59

We're having a 'Q Pootle 5' party for DS's third b'day this weekend - because it's his favourite book. Mainly family dressed up as aliens - no games (cos he doesn't get them). I think less is more when they're this young - organised games are a bit beyond most of them. Is there any book/video that you could theme it around (cheaply) that would make it a bit different but allow them just to much around/play for most of it?

zippy539 · 27/09/2004 20:00

sorry - meant 'muck around' ...

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