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 [...]

Children’s Activity Parties: Autumn

Much as I hate to feel the temperature cooling and the days shortening, I also love the colours, smells and crispness of autumn.  It’s a magical time for children too and they’ll enjoy exploring the season with these activities. For this autumn party, I’d suggest serving autumnal foods – nuts ,seeds and berries are what [...]

Children’s Activity Parties: Harvest

At this time of year it’s great to spend a little time reflecting on where our food comes from and enjoying the variety of good things available to us.  Children get very excited about helping cook or understanding where their foods come from.  I’ve collected together a few activities to form the basis of a [...]

Children’s Activity Parties: Garden Party

My best summer memories of childhood (and beyond) are of days spent outdoors enjoying great weather.  For this themed activity party get outside, if at all possible, either in the garden or in a park.  If the weather does turn against you, you could use picnic blankets and pop up tents in the living room [...]

Children’s Activity Parties:Bastille Day

Bastille Day is the French national holiday which is celebrated on 14 July each year. It celebrates the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille prison on 14 July 1789, which the French see as a symbol of the creation of their modern nation.  That’s the history out of the way, now let’s have some [...]

Children’s Activity Parties: Wimbledon

Summer and Wimbledon seem intrinsically linked to me and a Wimbledon party is a great way of celebrating the arrival of summer (and hopefully, summer weather!). For refreshments, serve strawberries with either cream or ice cream. How about this non-alcoholic Pimms and lemonade style drink? It’s probably more for adult tastes as it isn’t too [...]

Children’s Activity Party: Spring

Spring is well and truly here, so this month’s children’s activity party focuses on the season. The first activity is creating a spring picture, either separately or better still as a group exercise.  I sellotaped A4 sheets of paper together: 2 pale green for grass and 2 pale blue for sky.  Depending on the size [...]

Children’s Activity Parties: St.George’s Day (23 April)

St. George is the national saint of England and his day is 23 April, so a St.George’s Day party is this month’s activity party.  The theme is knights, princesses and dragons – there are few boys that don’t like playing knights and not that many girls that don’t like to dress up as princesses.  Fancy [...]

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