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 [...]

Children’s Activity Parties: St.David’s Day (1 March)

St.David’s Day is this month’s activity party theme.  Kick things off with a craft activity.  Most children will like making their own Welsh flag as it is so visually interesting, with it’s bright red dragon.  You’ll need white, green and red card for this one.  You need to cut out a thin rectangle of white [...]

Children’s Activity Parties: Mardi Gras (Shrove Tuesday or Pancake Day)

This month’s children’s activity party has a fun Mardi Gras theme.  Mardi Gras is celebrated around the world from 6 January up until and including Shrove Tuesday, when there’s often a colourful carnival. The words ‘mardi gras’ mean ‘fat Tuesday’ and the principle is the same as the origins of our own Shrove Tuesday or [...]

Children’s Activity Parties: Burns Night

This is the first in a series of posts, that I will be running through the year. I thought it would be nice to try to find topical, fun activities for your children to take part in, enjoy and hopefully also have some notion of the festival, event or season behind it. I’m testing them [...]