Ideas for daughter’s 10th birthday?

[rootsandwings89]

We have a baby at home so can’t deal with a big sleepover, we said she can have 1 friend to stay so it’s not too chaotic but we’ll take her out with some friends during the day.

What do 10 year olds do? I was thinking trampoline park or bowling or cinema? Or is that boring or uncool?!

I don’t have a huge budget but she’s had a tough year with friendships so want her to feel she’s had a good time :)

Cinema or bowling sounds fine to me. Not sure about trampolining - depends if they all like it.

They will need some sort of food too, which can work out expensive. Depending on timing, maybe just a snack. I don’t know if ten-year-olds where you live still expect something to take home, but my DD's friends do. A nice notebook and pen would work, and maybe some sweets, rather than a load of plastic tat.

Any of those sound good. What would she like?

My daughter went bowling with her friends, others did a cinema trip and another did a craft-making afternoon followed by pizza.

We’ve done bowling, crazy golf, swimming, slime making and then just gone McDonald’s for food for my dds when they were turning 10/11

For DD1’s 10th, I booked tickets to Little Women play, which was showing near us, and took her and 3 friends to Pizza Express on one of their meal deals. We’ve recently had a spate of birthdays and, due to health issues, couldn’t manage sleepovers, so we’ve done ‘sleepunders’ - everyone comes in their pjs for pizza and a movie at ours (we bought a cheap projector and hung up a screen to feel fancy), eat allll the sweets, have little spa sesh with cheapy face masks and then get picked up at 9.30/10pm. Heartily recommend as nobody really enjoys the lack of sleep with a proper sleepover and all the kids really enjoyed this version.