Children’s Activity Parties: Ice

A cold weather related party is perfect for the winter season.  You might want to consider asking your guests to dress in white or blue in honour of the party theme or come wearing scarves and hats. I’d suggest having some ice themed food for your guests.  You can make cucumber and apple icicles by [...]

Children’s Activity Parties: Snow

By it’s very nature, this party will have to be scheduled when there is snow to be had.  You’ll need a reasonable amount to be able to carry out some of the activities in this one. Sledge races are great fun.  There’s endless variations.  I suggest dividing the children into teams with a mix of [...]

Children’s Activity Parties: Thanksgiving

The fourth Thursday of November is the traditional time that Americans celebrate Thanksgiving (Canadians have their Thanksgiving in October).  It’s a time for celebrating the harvest and been thankful for the success of the first colony. Traditionally a roast turkey dinner is the centrepiece of the celebrations, but a pumpkin pie might be more fun [...]

Children’s Activity Parties: Halloween

A really important part of any Halloween party is dressing up and there are always lots of costumes to choose from in the shops.  There’s quite a range of themes: pumpkins, vampires, witches, etc.  So when you invite people make sure they know that it’s fancy dress. I love the traditional games like apple bobbing.  [...]

Children’s Activity Parties: Hedgerow Hunt

For this party you’ll probably need to use a park or local woods, but if you have a big productive garden that might work too. The first activity is a treasure hunt for autumnal natural items.  What you look for will depend on your venue (so have a look round in advance so that you [...]

Children’s Activity Parties: Highland Games

Highland Games are a traditional summer activity in Scotland and it can easily be adapted for children to enjoy.  This party is one that you need a bit of room for, so it’s probably one for bigger gardens or the local park. Tossing the caber is the archetypal Highland Games event and it’s fairly easily [...]

Children’s Activity Parties: Valentine’s Day

Get your Valentine’s day party started with a fun art activity.  Cut out some heart shapes pink and/or red card – it doesn’t matter what size they are and they don’t need to be exactly the same.  Use a hole punch to cut a single hole just below the dip of the heart.  Get each [...]

Children’s Activity Parties: Winter

The early part of the New Year can seem a little dull and a winter party is the ideal way to liven things up.  If it’s snowy, you can send the children out into the garden to make snowmen or have a snowball fight, but if it’s grey and damp or bright and frosty, then [...]

Children’s Activity Parties: Christmas

A children’s Christmas party can be great fun at this time of year and is a good way of filling the gap between schools finishing and Christmas proper starting. Christmas card making is always popular and with a little preparation you can make some really nice cards.  I always keep cards from last year to [...]

Children’s Activity Parties: Stirup Sunday

The last Sunday before  Advent is known as ‘Stir up Sunday’. It’s  become associated with making Christmas puddings and the end of November is a good time to make them, so that there’s enough time for the pudding to mature to full delicious flavour.  I make puddings each year at around this time, although rarely [...]

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