As usual, we had three parties for her! Her birthdays have generally been like some kind of year end festival for us, with fringe activities and main events! This year the main event was an Outer Space themed Birthday Party for her at my place.
Theme was my choice - guess from next year, we need to consult with the birthday girl as to choice of theme!
The party was a hit - if I may say so myself.
House was a mess :-( - some things cannot be helped though.
I should definitely have more play dates though - no need to organise any thing in advance, just lay out the toys and we can have lots of fun! I have lego, puzzles, doll house, cooking toys, art and craft materials (that one can be planned and led for good effect and a good over all experience), figurines of land and sea animals, sorting toys, balls in a tent, bubbles - all immensely fun for children!
This party had a treasure hunt - Find the Missing Planets - a joint group effort where children has to locate planets and stars and stick them on a board. - now we have a beautiful display chart created by the children of the solar system! -my own brainwave, this one! very proud of it ;-) but initial idea to have treasure hunts was my mum's last year.
Then we had a space dance freeze game - played music from Enthiran and children danced - Shruthi is one super dancer! Akshaya is def interested in dance.
Then, pass the earth - just pass the parcel with the parcel being the earth!
Then, outer space craft - so simple and so fun! children coloured a rocket ship and planets and stars, cut them out and stuck them on to a black paper decorated with shiny stars - overall effect was beautiful! Saro helped write their names on top of the papers in silver which added a touch of glam - beautiful things they could each take home. - this was inspired from reading online.
Then, bubble play - hahah - the best, the simplest
Hit of the party - special appearance by Santa claus! It being christmas, my father dressed up as santa and gave presents and took pictures with the children. This was Kavitha's idea which I just followed up with - buying the costume and all.
At the end of every game, every child got a little something - either a chocolate or a jelly or a prize -nice! I enjoyed the party. Plannning only took a week this time, compared to last year where I spent like 3 weeks planning it.
In terms of spacey decoration - we had books on space displayed around the house, the play room had blue and black balloons and stickers of outer space. not much else really! the games were related to space though, to make up for the lack of decoration. oh, and the plates were all shimmery and metalic, to give a space like touch, blue and silver streamers for some effect (though that just made it look more christmassy then spacey!) and my invite was spacey too - had a tag line in an explosion =- "It's going to be outta this world!" - I hope it was for the kids!
Some ideas for future parties:
1. Dinosaur
2. Music
3. Characters (barney, little miss and mr men,)
4. Jungle animals again - or some other animals,
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