Birthday Party Question/Idea

Posted by Vulnadia on Jan 08, 2011 at 12:16 PM so i've several ideas for my trio's 5th bday party...going off of last year when NOBODY showed up for their birthday party, not even family, I'm planning for the worst THIS year just in case the same thing happens...I do NOT want them feeling unloved & sad on their birthday again... at first I wanted my dear friend to do his wire sculpture activies for them-he is actually more fun & entertaining than any magician or clown anyone could imagine hiring for a party...my kids LOVE this guy...its a treat whenever he comes to visit & he always leaves them little wire people or animals or the like in his wake to play with...sometimes he hides them for them to find later among their toys, sometimes he has them help him make them & shows them what they are & ways they can be played with... but sadly, he has a HUGE art show in arizona coming up and I'm afraid he will be there instead of here for the big day... so now i'm kicking around the idea of having a mardi gras birthday party at the highland parade- i've several location ideas & would get there early enough to set up (I've friends living along the route in several places too) & I would have our wonderful rugrat's style playyard set up for the parade itself so the kids are all safe-its extra huge & has the extension added in to make it big enough for tiny people parties!!! we could have cake...& drinks & hang a happy birthday sign from the front of the playyard & tables...& we would have the entire parade as an activity...one location has LOTS of accessable parking within a block of it-but its near the beginning of the route...& its very close to home either way... but do you think parents would want to bring their othe r4/5yr olds to something like this? last year we did it at first baptist park-isolated, pleanty o parking, no outside bothers or worries about getting a space or anything, we had the whole thing to ourselves-but nobody showed up literally making it very sad & lonely for my kids... the idea is that if we had it at the parade if nobody showed up, it wouldnt show really & we could just share our bday cake & juice with the kids around us & make new friends for our birthday... but i just dont know-what do you think? is this a horrible idea or a fun nifty one? it's not going to happen every year that mardi gras falls this close to their actual birthday (its the weekend before they turn 5) - the other alternative is that I pack everyone up & haul them down to new orleans to see my best friend & her kids (havent seen her since i was 18 but we keep in touch online) & do things down there at the big BIG parades-Fat Tuesday would be hysterical & I'm not sure we have enough room in the van to bring back THAT much loot...we get astronomical amounts of it at our tiny parades just being triplets in a playyard...no idea what we'd do if we went down there & ended up with the same happenings... but i'm torn, i can invite the kids friends from school...& the cousins (but even the cousins didnt make it last year) or i can haul em down to nola & risk the family down there doing something similar... what do you think? am I a nut thinking of this or is it the idea of the century? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Community Theater, Stage Work, Haunted Attractions, Shocktale Terror Show,GLP, Gas Light Players, Renaissance Festivals, Writing, Directing,Acting, Sewing, Literature, Art & Music. Send to Friends Facebook Publish to a group