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: 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: 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 [...]

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