3 friends in garden for 10th birthday need inspiration !

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DD IS 10 during the Easter holidays and I am thinking of having three friends over one afternoon for a garden birthday celebration.
I am the kind of parent who would normally rather outsource the entertainment but given the circumstances this isn't an option so am looking for fun creative ideas to make this feel like a proper celebration, without being too exhausting!

My ideas so far -
Scavenger hunt
Painting pottery - my DD would absolutely love this but not sure if all of them would !
Piñata ( have they outgrown this ?)
Pizza delivery at the end

Anyone got any more ideas to add to the list please ? Or feedback on what kids of this age are in to - my DD is quite young for her age still so I don't want her friends to be over it if I plan things too young!

It's tricky as there's 10 and there's 10....as you say, some love crafts and some don't. What might be good is to offer a broad range....at this age, mine loved making their own drinks...and desserts. At about ten DD had a milkshake bar which was various icecream flavours, milk, milkshake flavourings (various) and a load of topping choices...sprinkles, sweets, nuts etc and we had some cocktail decorations....you know, monkeys on sticks and umbrellas.

We just used a cheap milkshake maker...we offered that as an activity not long after they arrived....then they watched a movie and had pizza at the end. You could do a scavenger hunt but make the gifts a bit grown up....things like hair accessories, nail decorations, little bracelets from Claires and sweets.

Do you have space for a bouncy castle? You can get disco ones that you can play music and lights through. The year 6s at school fairs always still seem keen to charge about on them.

Thanks both these are really good ideas - I was seriously lacking any inspiration, am blaming it on being so restricted for so long !

We have done in the past...

A bouncy castle - great idea as there's always something to do!
Chalks- can draw pictures on the path/patio
Planting- large tub of soil, children can plant and label some seeds to take home
Hire a hot tub! - they are surprisingly reasonable for a few days and so much fun

@OcelotPanda thank you I have found one of those locally that looks like it will be available on our dates.
Think they will absolutely love it.

Her best friend is already doing the hot tub idea!

May well do the milkshakes and hide some treats around the garden too.

Feel a lot more confident now!

She deserves a real treat after the last year . Her last birthday was in full lockdown and a zoom party was all we could manage.

Thanks again

Hope she has a great day!