TeamSAK places strong emphasis on birthdays. It should be the most exciting and special day - especially for the kids. We don't have big celebrations each year but every alternate year or so Kingsley can have a party. Last year it was a quite friendship afternoon with 5 close friends over to make healthy pizza watch a video then eat their gourmet delights. Low key, fun, quiet and relatively inexpensive. This year I have promised her a real party. So now the time has come to arrange the day.
Ahubby generously suggested hiring a gold class ( private - seating 18 to 24 people) cinema and arranging food to watch a film with friends. I enquired about a party booking at Luna Park , including an hour session on the ice rink followed by a feed in the historic tram room. My major concern was how I would be able to supervise the group if they were heading off in different directions on rides and the fact the location is a public venue so other members of the public would be there. My latest idea is the Brashes Soundhouse at the Arts Centre. It is a sound recording house, using 15 computerised consoles where you create and lay music backing tracks as well as voice tracks. It is run and supervised by music experts and at the end of the session all participants can get a CD copy of the output. There are also plenty of cafes in the area where you can arrange refreshments for the group after the activity. Kingsley and her friends are all going through the musical , singing, drama stage associated with 8-10 year old girls and this would be a great, semi educational and productive way to spend some time together celebrating Kingsley's birthday. To my knowledge it hasn't been done before by any of her peers.
To be honest Kingsley and I would be just as happy with an an old fashioned (in my day) party but we don't have a big enough yard to keep the kids occupied outside. Recent school related parties included : a mini bus picking up kids from the school, transporting them to Melb Cricket Ground to watch an Australian Football League game from a corporate box.
Will keep you posted with the organisational developments and final format selection.
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Crikey TeamSAK, so many choices. We have nothing like that available up here. I doubt even in townsville. I know that Adele's age group would love the CD option. Sing Star gets a real work out on sleepovers.
We are going through the samething. The cinema won. I get to supervise -from another row, of course....
Oh parties just give me a headache. Why can't they just get a piece of cake, a balloon and a bag of lollies full of additive to eat on the way home and cause havoc for their parents?
Maybe I'll try that.
M - cut out the middle-man...send the cake, the balloon and the bag of additives straight to each kid's house and by-pass the party part completely!
S - a family at school had a Brash's soundhouse party - said it was excellent.
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