Activities for four year olds party at home

[Melcl1987]

My daughter is turning four in a couple if weeks and we (perhaps foolishly) decided to have a party at our house. We have approx 10 kids coming and have a few things planned - cake, pass the parcel and have lined up either a face painter or balloon modeller. However, slightly concerned it's not enough. Is there any other games or activities people can recommend for children of that age?

Musical statues is good.

But they will entertain themselves fine if needed.

We always have kids parties at home. I've never planned any kids of entertainment, they just want to run around and go in the bedrooms etc 😂 I usually set up a few mats eg a mat with the Peppa pig toys in the living room, magna tiles on a rug. A car mat thing with farm bits on it - just toys we already have. Obviously loads easier if the weather is nice in which case I set up something outside. A little table with tattoos and colouring maybe. But I generally find they want to be exactly where they shouldn't go and will do whatever they want!

I did the same thing last year with my 5 year old & stupidly doing it again this year. I found that I didn’t actually have time to do all of the activities I’d planned.

I think what you’re doing is probable enough.
Things we did/planned to do were bouncy castle, pass the parcel x2, food, cake, pinata, pin the tail on the unicorn, Easter egg hunt.
It was raining so we couldn’t do the bouncy castle, but we did pass parcel, pinata, food then let them play in the girls’ bedroom. It somehow filled up all the time!

Ooh and a crafts table