Cheapest kids party ever!

jaquivander

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Jaquivander has put together this great post on how to have a great, but cheap kids party. Please feel free to reply with your own suggestions

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For all you mums on a budget.......
Just wanted to share the theme I had for my daughter's birthday. It was a few years ago but my daughter's friends still talk about it...
I was really skint at the time so we had a "tramps Ball"

Hired the local church hall for next to nothing
Decorations.. nothing but newspaper banners and bows made from old carrier bags

Costumes dressing up in scruffy clothes and the parents of course were pretty relieved !
The main food was from the local chippy (who still used newspaper to wrap) they charged me about 50p for children size sausage & chips and wrapped them individually and even threw in a couple of bottles of ketchup

Pudding was "mud pie" (chocolate mousse with bits of brown sugar on top and some flies I made from fondant icing)
The cake was a dustbin shape (black icing)with sweeties dropping out of the "lid"
The kids HAD to eat with fingers (even the pudding & ketchup)

Games..
1) Pass the parcel in newspaper.
2) The kids made their own paper party hats from newspaper (of course any game with a small prize ensures total cooperation!)
3) Flap the fish (of course made out of newspaper)
4) bobbing for apples in a dustbin (very clean of course) followed immediately by...finding the jelly baby in the flour (no hands)
5) eating doughnuts from a washing line (no hands allowed)
6) Bin Bag fashion show...kids in teams with a roll of binbags & sellotape, each team had to make the best "clothes" and dress their chosen team-member model
7) Musical newspapers
8) ....and the very best , or so they thought..was a "burping contest" cheap fizzy pop (from nettos) and a microphone!!


Mums admitted to hating me for months having spent fortunes on hiring entertainers and still ending up with one or more kid crying or wrecking the joint (usually the birthday child of course)

For all you out there who will tell me it's not a healthy / green option...you're right :-) but it was great fun and hey...we recycled!
There were 70 children and I've never had so much fun !!
Hope it helps mums can't afford to match up to those "event" type childrens parties

Hope I've posted this properly, please forgive my ignorance if not...I'm trying

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sealady

jaquivander wrote: »

For all you mums on a budget.......
Just wanted to share the theme I had for my daughter's birthday. It was a few years ago but my daughter's friends still talk about it...
I was really skint at the time so we had a "tramps Ball"

Hired the local church hall for next to nothing
Decorations.. nothing but newspaper banners and bows made from old carrier bags

Costumes dressing up in scruffy clothes and the parents of course were pretty relieved !
The main food was from the local chippy (who still used newspaper to wrap) they charged me about 50p for children size sausage & chips and wrapped them individually and even threw in a couple of bottles of ketchup

Pudding was "mud pie" (chocolate mousse with bits of brown sugar on top and some flies I made from fondant icing)
The cake was a dustbin shape (black icing)with sweeties dropping out of the "lid"
The kids HAD to eat with fingers (even the pudding & ketchup)

Games..
1) Pass the parcel in newspaper.
2) The kids made their own paper party hats from newspaper (of course any game with a small prize ensures total cooperation!)
3) Flap the fish (of course made out of newspaper)
4) bobbing for apples in a dustbin (very clean of course) followed immediately by...finding the jelly baby in the flour (no hands)
5) eating doughnuts from a washing line (no hands allowed)
6) Bin Bag fashion show...kids in teams with a roll of binbags & sellotape, each team had to make the best "clothes" and dress their chosen team-member model
7) Musical newspapers
8) ....and the very best , or so they thought..was a "burping contest" cheap fizzy pop (from nettos) and a microphone!!


Mums admitted to hating me for months having spent fortunes on hiring entertainers and still ending up with one or more kid crying or wrecking the joint (usually the birthday child of course)

For all you out there who will tell me it's not a healthy / green option...you're right :-) but it was great fun and hey...we recycled!
There were 70 children and I've never had so much fun !!
Hope it helps mums can't afford to match up to those "event" type childrens parties

Hope I've posted this properly, please forgive my ignorance if not...I'm trying

Some fantastic idea's. I wonder if I can get away with that kind of party next year.

twinklyspecialkag

Wow....what a great idea!!! I think my 23yr old boyfriend & his friends would probally enjoy this as well lol. Would probally substitute the fizz for beer!!

jaquivander

great idea Twinkly....really made me laugh, hubby thought it would be a great money-making idea...an "event organiser" for stag nights....however, from what I've seen of guys out on the pop, wouldn't be much different, perhaps substitute kebab also for the sausage n chips?

twinklyspecialkag

:-) Maybe a kebab throwing contest?? or instead of pin the tale on the donkey, you could spin the bloke around, key in hand and get him to try and unlock a door??? If the "pop" had kicked in selotape could be used to attach the key to his hand!!

morganb

jaquivander wrote: »

For all you mums on a budget.......

What fantastic ideas, I'm going to pinch a lot of these ideas for DS1s bday next year. Thanks v. much

ousie

What a great idea - think it would work for a four year olds party?? -
It's worth a go

rosekitten

twinklyspecialkag wrote: »

Wow....what a great idea!!! I think my 23yr old boyfriend & his friends would probally enjoy this as well lol. Would probally substitute the fizz for beer!!

I went to a kids party one time and they
had made a large dice from cardboard
everyone had a go at throwing it and the
first to get a six had to dash over and
put on a hat,scarf,big coat and huge
gloves then sit down, pick up a knife and fork
and try to cut into a Mars bar and eat it,
in bite sized chunks,set out on a picnic table and chair.
While all this was going on everyone was
still throwing the dice and as soon
as the next 6 came up the person
dressed up had to take everything
off as fast as poss and sit with everyone
tossing the dice so the next person
take over,it took quite a while for them
to get through one Mars bar because
they were laughing so much.It ends
when they have finished the Mars bar.

On the face of it it does not sound like much of
a game but this was a boys party and having
watched this I realised the dads enjoyed
watching it and all wanted to have a go as well.
I was quite taken aback at how popular this was.

SazM030306

Oh I used to love playing that chocolate game at my parties as a kid! We had so much fun :-D We used to use a big bar of dairy milk, so harder to cut.

pinkpong

Ohh boy keep them comming.
My DD is having a party this saturday and the Mars bar sound great for it.
We`ve done lots of parties at home because my kids love them the best.
Some ideas if it helps anyone;

1)Treasure hunt - even if you have a small garden or house , lots of silly clues the more silly ( for boys) the better, buy some sweets, penciles rubbers, cheap usefull things and put them in a box hiding, once found they can take them home in a bag.
2)The penny shop - let every child collect 10 1p pieces scateered all over the house once they have 10 let them exchange them for 1p sweets ( buy a big bag of gummy sweets diffferent type) and put them in the party bag to take home.
3)Quiz find out what they are doing at school ( mine were doing Italy) base it around that so everyone will know something.
4)Hedgehogs younger children - big sheet of cloth ( sleeping bag) swith the music on after a while shout hedgeog, they have to go down on the floor and pretend to be sleeping then put the sheet over one person and the rest have to guess who is the hedgehog, if it is a lot of kids they wount be able to guess even if they know each other.
5)Art party girls - in cheap schop,buy cheap suncutchers, modeled faces etc.. they usualy come with the paint.
6)Wrapping the mummy - two rolls of toilet paper two teams quicker team wins , using the paper for weeks in bits afterwards.
7) Dressing up for younger ones and let them act for you award the best team.

cheeks

Thank you all so much, what fab ideas!:T DS's 6th birthday next month, so i will be using loads of your great ideas. Can't wait!!:beer:
What is 'flap the fish'? i've never heard of this game!