I have two children both with birthdays within the next month. I am a little bored of the ho hum it's been done birthday parties. So I am trying to make a list of all the ideas we can come up with for birthdays, so when it's that time again we can just look at a list and come up with something fun and different. Here's what I got so far...but I am hoping you can help me find some outta the ordinary ideas for my little ones. I will add your ideas as they come in!
Some ideas (some not so original):
Airport w/ Boarding Pass Invite
Backyard
Beach-boat to the Island
Bowling (Cosmic Bowling)
Build-A- Bear
Busch Gardens
Chick-Fil-A
Children’s Museum
Chuck E Cheese
Circus in back yard
Craft store
Croc Encounters
Dinosaur World
Florida Aquarium
Gameworks
Go Carting
Gymboree
ICE Sports Forum
Imax
Inflate World
Kids City
Laser Tag
Lowry Park Zoo
Mad Hatter Tea party w/Royal Summons Invite
MOSI
Movies
My Gym
Nail salon
Park/Playground
Pottery
Pump it Up
Putt Putt Golf
Red Barn Petting Farm
Roller Skating
Sleep over
Splash /Spray Park
Splitsville
Tea Party
Temple Terrace Rec. Center
YMCA
Dinosaur World-Plant City
Beach-boat to the Island is fun
Circus in your own back yard-if room
Sleep over with games and popcorn. This was my girls favorites. One year we bobbed for apples, made popcorn balls, glued and glittered pine cones for Christmas decorations. They loved it. We always had a different craft to work on. They prefered the sleep overs to any other Birthday party.
One of my faves that we've had was having the Croc Encounters people come and bring their animals - www.CrocEncounters.org. They were awesome, and kept all the kids (approx. 24 kids from 4-7 years old) completely engaged.
Bubble Parties
In my area, Southern California, there's a company that provides a bubble show where they put kids inside of bubbles and other cool stuff. And then they let the kids make their own bubbles and have at it! And they teach them how to make great bubbles, etc. It's not new to us anymore - we use them a bunch - but it is fun.
Try bestbubbleparties.com or google "bubble parties" in your area.
Try the craft stores. Sometimes they will do make a craft parties.
I don't know exactly where you live but last year we had my daughter's 4th birthday at the spray park in Oldsmar. We live in Lutz and it is about 25-30 minutes from us so it's not so bad. We had younger kids and older kids in the 6-7 year old range and they all had fun. We brought a pinata and outside activities including a bubble blower, face painting, sidewalk chalk and spin art. This year we had her party at Inflate World which is similar to Pump It Up. It is in Odessa off of SR 54 and a lot of fun. I have been to parties at Pump It Up and liked this place better.
wow you got a lot of free time...LOL! Thank you for the great list of references.
Temple Terrace Rec. Center allows parties in their gymnastics room. Reasonable prices, and their staff monitors the kids :)
My sister had a Mad Hatter Tea party at her house, where the little girls got to dress up in princess costumes and have tea and little desserts and cake. Her daughter was Alice, for the theme. The made foam tiarras and necklaces. It was fun. Instead of invites, you could send out a Royal Summons
how about going to the nail salon. some of them offer parties for little girls. it looks like you already have alot of great ideas.
