Christmas party, small house. Help!

[DCS]

I agreed to having a christmas party at home for ds, dd and their friends. Iv sent a group invite. If everyone comes I'm looking at about 12 kids, aged from about 2-6. My house is tiny. We have a small dog but alot of the kids are afraid of the dog, so I plan to let her stay upstairs, ( she is perfectly happy chilling on my bed, and will be let out regularly). I need ideas on what to do with the kids, in my tiny house. I'm assuming adults will stay too. I thought pass the parcel, musical statues, maybe do a craft or biscuit decorating? We have a ok sized garden with a trampoline, which I'm sure will keep them happy for a bit. I wanted to do something crafty, but nor sure what. Duration is about 3 hours. Will provide nibbles, and pizza. Should I get alcohol for the adults? We don't realy drink so not sure if I should.
Any other ideas totally welcome. Thanks in advance.

 

[Xpecta]

I would say that alcohol isn't necessary. Mainly because parents are there for the kids. I've seen a very fun game that I want to try. I'll find a picture of it and post it...

 

[Xpecta]

It's called "Punch a Gift" I did one like this on Halloween one year. A trick or treat. The kids LOVED it!!


https://i1135.photobucket.com/albums/m633/Xpecta/punch%20a%20present.jpg

 

[leoniebabey]

you could make a big bowl of reindeer food and let them scoop their own into bags to take home

 

[DCS]

I love the idea of the reindeer food, I could set that up in the garden as long as it's not raining. The punch a gift looks like fun, however with 15 kids ( I miss calculated the number of kids) it would need to be quite big so everyone gets a turn. So far I have, musical statues ( 10 minutes) bingo ( 10/20 minutes) pass the parcel ( 15ish minutes). Reindeer food, half hour for eating plus 20 minutes for decorate your own biscuits. I'm trying to find a couple simple craft that I can set up on the kitchen floor, so the kids can be divided between two rooms. If it's dry, I'm going to paint a background onto a huge sheet of paper and hang up on the wall outside for elf self-esteem, using the selfie kit I got from the card factory.

Party bags will contain, a christmas cupcake, Christmas pencil and erasers, a glow stick, reindeer food, I want to say a cone of snowman soup but I'm sure noone actually ever drinks it.

 

[Kate&Lucas]

That sounds like so much fun! I love kids parties
Lucas is the only child in our family so I'm making Christmas day super kid-ish to make up for it. We're having:
Pin the nose on Rudolph (Card Factory)
Christmas bingo (This printable)
Charades
Musical handbell crackers

Can't wait!

 

[embo216]

Firstly I'd cut that time frame right down, personally I think much more than 1.5 hours for kids and they get way overtired and cranky- 2 hours at a push. Pinterest is full of great christmas crafy ideas. Pin the tail on the reindeer? Decorating christmas biscuits? Pass the xmas parcel? x

 

[DCS]

Firstly I'd cut that time frame right down, personally I think much more than 1.5 hours for kids and they get way overtired and cranky- 2 hours at a push. Pinterest is full of great christmas crafy ideas. Pin the tail on the reindeer? Decorating christmas biscuits? Pass the xmas parcel? x

I did think this, but from past experience, people don't turn up at the time specified. Usually half hour later.

 

[marmaduke]

How about decorating christmas baubles for a craft, can't remember if its home bargains or the works but they sell packs of plain baubles that could be decorated using felt tips to save the mess of paint.
Also buy a few bags of chocolate coins and hide them all out in the garden for a christmas treasure hunt.
Morrisons have christmas paper chain kits for £1 & the works have a decorate your own christmas place mat pack https://www.theworks.co.uk/p/christmas-decorations/colour-your-own-christmas-placemats/5052089149823
Or just get pain A4 card and let them make christmas cards, it depends on your tolerance for mess. lol.
Maybe have a movie on the sky planner as a back up.

 

[Xpecta]

I love the idea of the reindeer food, I could set that up in the garden as long as it's not raining. The punch a gift looks like fun, however with 15 kids ( I miss calculated the number of kids) it would need to be quite big so everyone gets a turn. So far I have, musical statues ( 10 minutes) bingo ( 10/20 minutes) pass the parcel ( 15ish minutes). Reindeer food, half hour for eating plus 20 minutes for decorate your own biscuits. I'm trying to find a couple simple craft that I can set up on the kitchen floor, so the kids can be divided between two rooms. If it's dry, I'm going to paint a background onto a huge sheet of paper and hang up on the wall outside for elf self-esteem, using the selfie kit I got from the card factory.

Party bags will contain, a christmas cupcake, Christmas pencil and erasers, a glow stick, reindeer food, I want to say a cone of snowman soup but I'm sure noone actually ever drinks it.

When I did it for Halloween, I used Styrofoam cups and just put little trinkets in it from the dollar store.