Five year old birthday celebration.

[hibijibi15]

Greetings, I'm new here and you'll probably see me a lot as I have so many doubts! My eldest sons fifth birthday is coming up in a month. We have had a tough year and I feel that celebrating his birthday is the least I could offer him. He has talked about his birthday for months and talked about his friends coming to his house.

However, after treatment for lung cancer and separating from their father just after, I am struggling to keep on top of just everything that needs doing when you have two young and particularly lively boys on your own.

Who has braved what and what has worked!? Thanks in advance for any opinions or advice xx

I'm sorry to hear about your illness , for my son's fifth birthday, he had a few friends round (was years ago now but I think around 5 friends?) and they decorated cakes (shop bought cupcakes, food colouring into icing sugar and water and sprinkles), made a pirate hat out of paper plates, did a treasure hunt in the garden that I set up whilst wearing the hats (get little prizes and make sure to make it clear at the start that you must only pick up one prize each, when you have found the prize sit down as otherwise the ones that finish early ruin it for the others), and ate their lunch and cupcakes that they decorated. a roughly 1hr party usually works well at this age and allowing 15/20 minutes for lunch, 15 mins for cupcakes, 15 mins for pirate hats and 15/20 mins for the treasure hunt you are at 1hr 10 mins xx

I wouldn’t have it in your home if you can help it - it’s just added stress/mess. A soft play party? If you do have it at home keep it small and try to keep them in one room, I remember having a party at home for ds one year at that age and they ran absolute riot through the house!
We did hire a magician which went down a treat!