Help: 3rd birthday but more adult guests

[Jean]

Hi, I will be having 14 adults and 6 kids (1.5 to 12 yo) for a coming
birthday. What theme do you suggest? Am considering costume party but
not sure if all adults will turn up as requested. Any suggestion
welcome. Thanks!

[Rosalie B.]

x-no-archive:yes (Jean) wrote:

>Hi, I will be having 14 adults and 6 kids (1.5 to 12 yo) for a coming
>birthday. What theme do you suggest? Am considering costume party but
>not sure if all adults will turn up as requested. Any suggestion
>welcome. Thanks!

You know your adults better than I do.

If you are including yourselves in the adults, and if some of them are
grandparents or other relatives, then those adults might be more
willing to come in costume. And I'm assuming the 12 yo is an older
sibling of the birthday child, so may be willing to help out in that
way.

However, I would ditch the costume idea unless it is close to
Halloween or Mardi Gras or some local costume-type holiday that you
could hook onto like St. Patricks Day or Columbus Day.

I would limit the theme to the cake, favors and games. And make it
something that the birthday child is interested in whatever that is.

grandma Rosalie

[Penny Gaines]

Jean wrote in >:

> Hi, I will be having 14 adults and 6 kids (1.5 to 12 yo) for a coming
> birthday. What theme do you suggest? Am considering costume party but
> not sure if all adults will turn up as requested. Any suggestion
> welcome. Thanks!

I wouldn't have thought that adults would want to wear custumes to a
children's party. Something like "outrageous hats" might go down OK,
though.

--
Penny Gaines
UK mum to three

[Splanche]

>Hi, I will be having 14 adults and 6 kids (1.5 to 12 yo) for a coming
>birthday. What theme do you suggest? Am considering costume party but
>not sure if all adults will turn up as requested. Any suggestion
>welcome. Thanks!
>
>

Not sure what's available where you live, but we just had a 4yr birthday where
there were about 15 adults and 8 kids ranging 3yrs to 8yrs. For food, we did
deli stuff for the adults, and for the kids did mini bagel-dogs, mini pizza
bagels, and mini white castle burgers (all available at our local wholesale
club frozen.) Adults also chowed the kid food! After lunch & cake, we had a
local group called "Scales and Tails" come with bugs and turtles and lizards
and snakes. It seemed like every age group enjoyed it-- sort of a mini
zoo-mobile. Cost was not bad-- $125 for a 45-minute demo. It's a lot less
than I would have paid it I went to Chuck E Cheese or something like that.
- Blanche

[Nevermind]

Scott Lindstrom > wrote in message >...
> > Jean wrote in >:
> >>Hi, I will be having 14 adults and 6 kids (1.5 to 12 yo) for a coming
> >>birthday. What theme do you suggest? Am considering costume party but
> >>not sure if all adults will turn up as requested. Any suggestion
> >>welcome. Thanks!
> I'm thinking the whole party is too much for a 3-year-old.
> Or is it for the parents? My suggestion would be for 1-3 children
> of age 2-4, the closest friends of the child, for 1 or 1.5
> hours, with cake and ice cream and maybe a game. Then ship
> everyone home while the 3-yo naps.
>
> When the 3-yo is asleep, invite the adults over for a party
> that has nothing to do with children.

I'm not thinking of this as a "kid party" with a bunch of adults, but
as just a party to celebrate the kid's birthday. Most kids are used to
being at family get-togethers and the like where there are both kids
and adults, so I don't se why what the OP is suggesting should be
overwhelming. I didn't have those "kid parties" until my kids were 5
and 4. From 1 to 3, I simply had a big get-together of the people
important to our family in order to celebrate the birthday.

[Penny Gaines]

Scott Lindstrom wrote in >:

> I'm thinking the whole party is too much for a 3-year-old.
> Or is it for the parents? My suggestion would be for 1-3 children
> of age 2-4, the closest friends of the child, for 1 or 1.5
> hours, with cake and ice cream and maybe a game. Then ship
> everyone home while the 3-yo naps.
>
> When the 3-yo is asleep, invite the adults over for a party
> that has nothing to do with children.

It depends on whether the 3yo is used to this type of gathering.
I assumed it was a party for families - perhaps their cousins and
aunts and uncles.

Admittedly, it is not something I would have done for a 3yo, but
I did have similar parties for my 1yos.

--
Penny Gaines
UK mum to three

[Rosalie B.]

x-no-archive:yes Penny Gaines > wrote:

>Scott Lindstrom wrote in >:
>
>> I'm thinking the whole party is too much for a 3-year-old.
>> Or is it for the parents? My suggestion would be for 1-3 children
>> of age 2-4, the closest friends of the child, for 1 or 1.5
>> hours, with cake and ice cream and maybe a game. Then ship
>> everyone home while the 3-yo naps.
>>
>> When the 3-yo is asleep, invite the adults over for a party
>> that has nothing to do with children.
>
>It depends on whether the 3yo is used to this type of gathering.
>I assumed it was a party for families - perhaps their cousins and
>aunts and uncles.
>
>Admittedly, it is not something I would have done for a 3yo, but
>I did have similar parties for my 1yos.

I'm pretty sure it was when one of my grandsons was 3 or 4 that dd#2
had a combination party for her dh when he graduated from law school
and birthday party for him. It was a BIG party. It started in the
afternoon and she had a moon bounce for the various children and there
was play equipment, and water balloons and I was in charge of
supervising the pool. Then they had pizza and cake and the birthday
kid opened presents, and the kids part was more or less over and the
moon bounce was taken down.

More adults came - family, neighbors and work friends and they had a
bbq and more adult amusements. Some children were still there that
were relatives or children of the neighbors, and some of them went for
a sleepover next door.

So it was a party, and part of the party was a bday party. But other
than the fact that there was some stuff for the kids to do, and a cake
it wasn't a BIRTHDAY party - it was a party which happened around a
birthday.

It sounds as if the OP has a more focused bday party than that - more
of a BIRTHDAY party and less a family reunion kind of party
celebrating a birthday as part of it.

grandma Rosalie

[Pamiamm]

Hi,
I have seen this done by my neighbor each year. Their child (just
turned 4) picks a theme (this year it was Princess Aladden). The
parents just come to bring their kids and socialize as parents.
There are things for the kids to do outside--color, trampoline,
swimming pool filled with water balloons, etc. They just had those
large tubs with handles full of snacks, drinks, etc. Really, no theme
was needed for the parents--they just enjoyed socializing.

Warmly,
Pam
www.aiminghigher.com

(Jean) wrote in message >...
> Hi, I will be having 14 adults and 6 kids (1.5 to 12 yo) for a coming
> birthday. What theme do you suggest? Am considering costume party but
> not sure if all adults will turn up as requested. Any suggestion
> welcome. Thanks!