So my 4 year old really wants a birthday party this year. We've never held one before preferring to wait until he actually wanted one.
I'm stressing about it already. He wants it at a trampoline park where we had previously attended his friend's party. I enquired about it today and for 15 kids, it will be over £200!! I had no idea that it would be that expensive. I guess I could book somewhere different but I'm not sure where. I'm not the sort of parent who wants to put on party games so want somewhere where they can be self entertaining with some food at the end. I hate soft play so I don't really want to do that.
The timing is also really awkward. DS's birthday is the 6th September so he will have left nursery but not quite have started at school (his first session is on the 8th), so we won't know most of his class so can't invite them but I'm worried that parents who I don't know might not want to bring their kids who attend his nursery if they are going to a different school and in all likelihood will not see DS again anyway. Arrgghh...if it had been last year, I could have just invited the nursery kids, if it was next year, 15 kids from his class. This year is so awkward!
If we send the invitations out and we don't get a good response, then presumably we will lose money given that we have to book for a certain amount of kids. I can't get numbers before booking the venue as a lot of the nursery kids parents' I don't know. Do people just book and hope most turn up?!!!
And what about party bags? What on earth do you put in them?! As you can see I am hopelessly inexperienced as a party organiser!!
I'm stressing about it already. He wants it at a trampoline park where we had previously attended his friend's party. I enquired about it today and for 15 kids, it will be over £200!! I had no idea that it would be that expensive. I guess I could book somewhere different but I'm not sure where. I'm not the sort of parent who wants to put on party games so want somewhere where they can be self entertaining with some food at the end. I hate soft play so I don't really want to do that.
The timing is also really awkward. DS's birthday is the 6th September so he will have left nursery but not quite have started at school (his first session is on the 8th), so we won't know most of his class so can't invite them but I'm worried that parents who I don't know might not want to bring their kids who attend his nursery if they are going to a different school and in all likelihood will not see DS again anyway. Arrgghh...if it had been last year, I could have just invited the nursery kids, if it was next year, 15 kids from his class. This year is so awkward!
If we send the invitations out and we don't get a good response, then presumably we will lose money given that we have to book for a certain amount of kids. I can't get numbers before booking the venue as a lot of the nursery kids parents' I don't know. Do people just book and hope most turn up?!!!
And what about party bags? What on earth do you put in them?! As you can see I am hopelessly inexperienced as a party organiser!!