Dredging planning your kid’s birthday party? Here are 5 Tips for Planning A Kid’s Birthday Party (five years old and under)
I planned Potato’s 5th Birthday and I have definitely learned a lot. We hosted Potato’s birthday at Ferox Athletics a trampoline and ninja warrior-style space in Brooklyn, New York. For 2 hours of partying or really jumping for the kids and a total of 3hours in the space, it was worth it.
The theme of the party was monster trucks. This showed in the decorations, cake, party bags, and our family’s matching attire. The kids jumped their hearts out, barely wanted to eat pizza, and drank some of the water jugs we brought.
We spent about a month organizing the event with the location staff. Then decorations, gift party bags research and finally ordering everything (thank you Amazon). One trip to Costco. The night before we prep everything, including loading up the car. Still to arrive late to setup due to a missing phone.
Potato and his friends had fun. That’s the most important part. Here’s what I learned at the end of the day. Hopefully, these tips will do something for you as well!
5 Easy Tips for planning a kids birthday party
1. Find a venue that does it all if not most of what you need: Look for places that provide the location, food, decorations, setup, cleanup, music/DJ, and the works. Whatever you can worry about less will be great. If you do have to take on something, make sure you delegate to your family for help. Someone can get the cake!
2. Find an activity that your child loves and so will their friends: A lot of kid parties are not planned with the kid in mind. We think they would like anything but going based on their likes and personality would be nice. It’s the memories you want them to have. Potato loves ninja warriors so we found a place that let him be a ninja warrior for the day.
3. Keep the food options simple: Don’t give yourself a headache. Small children are basic eaters. Pizza, French fries, chicken tenders, chips, and cupcakes will do. No one remembers the food in these cases.
4. Give a goodie bag that sparks: JOY! Kids love goodie bags, even when the toys are simple. They love it. We put toy cars, sticky hands, fidget toys, stickers, swirled straws, and other Knick-knacks in the goodie bags. We even gave backpacks as the goodie bags and the kids ate it up!
5. Get a little something for the adults: I know the adults are there for the kids but they can enjoy themselves too. So get them a little something like sparkling water or even wine.
What do you think of these tips? Tell me what other tips are good for planning a small kid’s party?
-From Kiki
With Love 💛
