30th Birthday party with a kids party theme! please help!!!!

tattybye

Hiya,

Im having my 30th birthday this year and cannot wait!
I would like a kids party theme.
I know i am having a bouncy castle and rodeo bull but cant think of other ideas past that!

Any ideas welcomed!

Thanks in advance

Emma

Dark_Star

Magician/entertainer

Games like pass the parcel/musical chairs etc

Jelly

Lashings of ginger beer

linzi_h

Sweet buffet would be a good addition too. If you're thinking of extras, you could have lots of different inflatables including the gladiator ones. Pass the parcel, musical statues and other kiddies games could be played too. Bet you can't wait!

lika_86

I had a kids birthday party for my 18th and it was amazing (and made a change from everyone getting lashed).

First of all, rope in a few people to organise games who don't mind not taking part (ie. a lot of party games require music - pass the parcel etc).

Buy a book of kids party games - you won't need anything fancy, although start saving newspapers, they can be used for a whole variety of games and pass the parcel layers!

Put on a buffet with all the old favourites, pink lemonade, cherryade, party rings, cocktail sausages, cheese and pineapple on sticks stuck into a foil covered potato....

If the venue has a freezer then jelly and ice cream is amazing (you can ball up ice cream in advance and put in fairy cake baking trays to keep them separate so it's just a case of quickly dishing up).

Make party bags for everyone to go home with.

Maybe get a cake with a picture of you as a kid on (supermarkets often offer this).

tattybye

Awesome ideas so far! Thankyou so so much!
Im so excited for it! And everyone so far has said its a fab idea,i just see it as reliving my youth! Ha!
Thanks again i am so putting the ideas above into practice!

Xx

CT19720

How about the 'large' games for the garden, like snakes and ladders, noughts and crosses, connect 4; twister?

We had these all at our wedding 5 1/2 years ago, and the adults after a few beers were up for playing this kind of games, that I had provided for the kids. Twister was at times was very funny.

Also recommend getting bottles of bubbles! not the little wedding kind of ones, but the cheap ones out of somewhere like tescos/poundland, and doing a sweet buffet.

mum2one

sounds amazing, - buffet wise def agree with the cheese/pineapple, sausage rolls etc, choc finger and those party rings biscuits.

Games agree twister would go down a treat, - if you do pass the parcel have a couple of parcels going round at the same time

What about a paddling pool with ducks and play hook the duck xx

browneyedbazzi

I'd try to turn the kids' games into more adult versions...like make pass the parcel into a drinking game with things like the pre-filled shots hidden between layers.

vikki_louise

I did a kids party for actual kids and had popping candy which all the parents in their 20/30s went mad for I would say jelly and icecream and also candyfloss machine! If it will be dusk or dark you can even make 'glowing' candyfloss

Fuzzy_Duck

Huge props to make you all feel like small kids?

dippydooda

Sweets-wise head to Poundland, at the moment they are selling retro sweeties-nerds, popping candy, gobstoppers, refreshers.