Old style birthday party:)

Sarahsaver · 3 May 2005 at 11:12AM

My little boy is 4 this week, and we are having our traditional old style birthday party. One of his friends had a birthday last week and had a bouncy castle delivered to the school :rolleyes: IMHO that kind of display of wealth(or size of credit card...) is a bit distasteful.

Anyway I would urge others to go back to the old style party, which is a dying tradition we should maintain - and it saves you money.

I have spent £20 on his main present - toys from bargaincrazy.com
£10 on party food
£10 on other incidentals such as lollies, prizes for pass the parcel, party blowers.
The cake is being made for us as a pressie:)

The menu is:
Jam or cheese sandwiches
jaffa cakes
rock buns
olives
breadsticks
hoummous
smoked salmon (tesco value trimmings - ds loves 'that pink fish stuff:))
carrot sticks
lemonade
orange juice

Im a little nervous as hes started a new school with wealthy parents who do the extravagant stuff , hopefully they will be converted to old style parties;)

Lillibet_2 · 3 May 2005 at 11:23AM

Good luck Sarah, sounds like a fab party for 4 year olds to me & at the end of the day it is the kids that'll have a good time at your expense & their parents will enjoy their being off their hands for a couple of hours so you can't really lose, bouncy castle or not!!

Murtle · 3 May 2005 at 11:25AM

hmm sounds great!! I used to love my parties like this when I was little, now you just see over excited kids - too much going on, and frazzled parents!!

Additional ideas;

jelly and ice cream, my mum used to do these in oranges cut in half and emptied and then filled with jelly - cut into quarters once they had set so little ones can eat them with their hands and not make a mess everywhere!!

Sugar Snap peas is another veggie that can be popular

Sausage rolls
Cubed cheese (and pineapple if you really want!)

Good luck, and hope they enjoy it! It's for the children after all and as we all know kids are just as happy to play in a box as to play with the toy!!!

Queenie · 3 May 2005 at 11:29AM

Wow!!! I'm either older than you or your childhood parties were "posh-er" than ours LOL

I recall having:-

paste sarnies
cheese straws
cheese and pineapple chunks
sausage rolls
plain crisps/cheesey biscuit shapes

jam tarts (if posh, lemon curd tart too)
butterfly cakes (if well posh, glace icing with sprinkles)
trifle (or jelly and ice-cream)

orange or lemon squash

Birthday Cake!!!

Party/goodie bags never existed, but we would play heaps of games and win prizes

Pin the Tail, Pass the Parcel, Musical Chairs/bumps, Blind Man's Buff, Forfeits, Truth, Dare, Kiss or Promise, My Granny Flew to Paris. :rotfl:

Please may I come to your party ... it sounds WONDERful!!!!!!

Listen, if you are too worried about the "wealthier" parents ... tell them it's a Retro Party and all the rage

Have lots and lots of fun

Queenie · 3 May 2005 at 11:31AM

Murtle wrote:

jelly and ice cream, my mum used to do these in oranges cut in half and emptied and then filled with jelly - cut into quarters once they had set so little ones can eat them with their hands and not make a mess everywhere!!

oh yes!!!! And, you can make "sails" to put on the orange jelly wedges and stick them on with a cocktail stick for jelly boats

ancasta_2 · 3 May 2005 at 11:38AM

Personally i dont see the point of going to allllllllll the fancy expensive of posh kids birthday parties. there only kiddies!

i think i might have an old style birthday party for my birthday on the 18th of may. yay! im excited already!!

I went to plenty of old style parties when i was a younger and didnt think any less of them than the "posh ones" (they were held in a macdonalds)

Ticklemouse · 3 May 2005 at 11:45AM

It was DS1s 6th birthday on May 1st and we had an Old Style party - at home, no bouncy castle or entertainer, lots of sarnies, sausage rolls, some crisps/snacky biccies, HM buns and crispy cakes. Pressies were from ebay - fab quality roller blades/safety pads and Yu-Gi-Oh cards at a fraction of the shop price.

We played pass the parcel and pin the eye on the dalek (very 'now') but being boys, most of them decided to see if they could kick the football over the house

Biggest expense - wine for some of the adults I'd invited to stay (and paracetemol for the next day):beer: :party:

Sarahsaver · 3 May 2005 at 11:50AM

can't have pork or jelly bcos of one of his friends being a muslim. Also trying to avoid too much mess, but if the sun's shining we're going to be out in the garden, food on a big blanket, then no clearing up required - the chickens will do that for us;)
I think these are the sort of parents who stay with their kids. Through education and so on I have climbed up the class ladder so to speak, but yep it still exists. It will be great fun:)

Murtle · 3 May 2005 at 12:00PM

Just to let people know if they are in a similar situation, you can get vegetarian jelly, not sure what it has in it to make it set....(the same stuff as Jelly Tots I guess!)

And you can make sausage rolls with any meat you want to add a few herbs and I doubt many kids would know the difference!!

Queenie - I love the idea of the sail boats.... :T

Good luck with all the boys...my Mum banned them from my parties from about the age of 6 I think....they were far too naughty :eek: !!!! Luckily I'm old enough to invite who I want now!!!

I really do think the party sounds fab....aren't bouncy castles only for 'grown-ups' anyway :rotfl: :rotfl:

This site might help

http://www.parsleysoup.co.uk/vegan_kids/party_food.htm

Sarahsaver · 3 May 2005 at 12:08PM

I should have added that also from a point of view of cleaning I am avoiding jelly and sausage rolls...flaky pastry AND jelly :rolleyes:

Queenie · 3 May 2005 at 12:17PM

Sarahsaver wrote:

I should have added that also from a point of view of cleaning I am avoiding jelly and sausage rolls...flaky pastry AND jelly :rolleyes:

:eek: No jelly?

No sausage rolls???

*sigh*

:think:

Oh no! I won't be able to gate crash your party after all, I have a prior engagement

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