Unfortunately despite it being well into
Spring Philippa's birthday was cold and wet, so plans of a relaxed
afternoon in the garden fell to the wayside and I needed to work out how
to occupy 11 children and their parents inside our not so big house.
Organised games are not so easy or fun for 3 year olds so I decided to make lots playdough,
clear out the play room and let them go crazy. While I think playdough
is great I very rarely let the kids play with it indoors as it makes
such a mess. So for the first time ever I made playdough
and boy was it fun and easy to make. I made 5 batches in 4 different
colours. One batch and a little of the first 4 batches we packaged up
into small plastic containers with a thank you note on top for the kids
as a take home gift.
The playdough was a big hit. I am very glad I spent the time cleaning out the playroom as it did get everywhere............
Little kids run out of fuel quickly so after a bit of playdough
play we had some afternoon tea. I have found fancy foods and too much
choice do not impress kids so they feasted on fairy bread, popcorn,
chips, pretzel sticks, fruit skewers, jelly and ice cream birthday cake,
fresh apple juice and water. For the adults we had flammkuechen and champagne.
After
snacks we played our one and only game. Philippa insisted on wanting
to have pass the parcel. I am not a big fan of this game as I find that
almost all kids find it quite tedious and the single random present at
the end just is not in the spirit of a party. So I changed it at bit.
Each layer had an animal card and the kids had to all pretend to be the
animal on the card. The idea was for the child that got the card to act
it out alone but all the kids really got into it and all wanted to act
each animal.
It was loads of fun for all. Even the adults joined in. The final
present was a value pack of mini smarties boxes for all the kids to
share.
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| Alligators |
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| Elephants |
Having
loads of wet weather in the weeks before I even had a go making a
piñata. Something I have wanted to have a go at in the past and will
definitely make again, it only took one afternoon to make using
cardboard and cereal packets from the recycling and crepe paper. I
really enjoyed making it and the kids loved it, particularly the older
(4-5 year old) boys! We were lucky enough to have the weather clear for
about 30 minutes. I
am
still not quite sure how we would have done the piñata indoors! The
piñata was a bit too strong so they all got 3 or 4 turns but the kids
seemed to enjoy bashing it more than eating the lollies that dropped
out, so it wasn't a bad thing. I took a few photos as I was making it
so will write up a how I made this pinata soon.
Hungry
again after some fresh air the kids sat down to finish the afternoon
tea snacks, plus some wackelpudding (jelly) and ice cream birthday cake.
So that was Philippa's 3rd birthday.
We even tried a family shot, yep they're far from perfect, but so are we..............
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| we tried ... |
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| a few times ... |
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| but just couldn't get it right |
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| kids! |
