6 year old boy party ideas in tameside

[olijackmum]

my son will be 6 in july and I am looking for some ideas for party rather than your indoor play areas, I was having it at Legoland in the trafford centre but I have been put off by a few bad things I have heard.

Anyone have any recommendations

when my ds1 was 6 we had a "theme park" party (he has Aspergers and was VERY specific about what he wanted)

we had it at home, about 25 kids came and our boys made posters and signs to go all over the house advertising the various activities

we had an "arcade room" in the lounge - whatever of the boys' stuff seemed to fit that scheme went in there - sweetie grabber, pinball machine, mini bowling alley, meccano ferris wheel, hotwheels tracks, Knex roller coaster

we had an art/craft room where we covered one of the walls as a grafitti wall and let them have loads of glue, glitter, pens, feathers, confetti etc

we had a "hot dog stand" outside - barbecue, sausages in rolls etc

we had the firepit going and they were toasting marshmallows

we had "candy-floss corner" in the garden making candy floss and facepainting

only a few proper "games"

bubble machine and music

it was fab

tahts ounds brilliant we dont have the room for anything on that scale though

My sons favourite party was Harry Potter themed. Had it outside.

Started with a treasure hunt - teams following ribbons with tasks on the way - painted a big picture of Cerberus and gave him a silver foil heart filled with tomato ketchup that had to be slayed with a toy sword, a bottle of potion that everyone had to drink from etc

Then went to Quidditch. Set up hoops as goals with tennis balls soft balls as bludgers (thrown by parents who stayed - basically French cricket rules) and let the children who wanted to do that have bats/ rackets to fend them off. Made the snitch by spray painting a ping-pong ball gold and attaching it to a mop handle on springy elastic so it had a suitably erratic flight and could be sent up high.They almost all wanted to be seekers but that was OK

The kids said it felt like they were really flying.

Find a field and pray it does not rain would be my advice.